Best evidence that short people do have a reason to live
Unless you're measuring his laugh, Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Nicholas Martin is not a big
guy. After one year on the job, however, he has made a big difference in the Huntington's national profile.
This fall he landed its co-production (with Williamstown Theatre Festival and Bay Street Theatre) of Hedda
Gabler, which he directed on Broadway. On the home front, he has brought an offbeat, upbeat energy to the
once-staid Huntington, which is currently presenting Martin's Obie Award-winning staging of Christopher
Durang's outrageous black comedy Betty's Summer Vacation, a romp on the New Jersey shore featuring sun,
surf, sex, and a serial killer toting a severed head. And if the stuffier subscribers don't run him out
of town on a rail, the diminutive Martin returns to the director's chair in May, with Irish dramatist
Frank McGuinness's profound antiwar drama Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme.
The Huntington Theatre Company, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston, (617) 266-0800.
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