Boston's leading professional theatre, now celebrating its 25th Anniversary Season, Huntington Theatre Company produces an exciting mix of contemporary and classic plays and musicals.

While maintaining its mainstage at the 890-seat Boston University Theatre in the Fenway, the Huntington expanded its operations in 2004 to include the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, housing the 370-seat Virginia Wimberly Theatre and the 200-seat Nancy and Edward Roberts Studio Theatre.
 
The Huntington has received three Tony Award nominations for productions transferred to Broadway and numerous Elliot Norton Awards for Outstanding Production. In 2003, the Huntington production of Frank McGuinness' Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, directed by Nicholas Martin, completed a New York run at Lincoln Center Theater where it received two Lucille Lortel Awards and a total of six nominations. In 2001, the Huntington production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, also directed by Nicholas Martin, enjoyed an acclaimed Broadway run and garnered a Tony nomination for Kate Burton in the title role. The Huntington has also reinvigorated classics by Shakespeare, Molière, Sheridan, Chekhov, Turgenev, Shaw, O'Neill, Hellman, Miller, Williams, Baldwin, and Hansberry, as well as musicals by Gilbert and Sullivan, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, and Stephen Sondheim

The Huntington has produced more than 50 New England, American, or world premieres, including the world premieres of Mauritius by Theresa Rebeck (2006), Sonia Flew by Huntington Playwriting Fellow Melinda Lopez (2004); The Blue Demon, written and directed by Darko Tresnjak, featuring music by Michael Friedman; and the musical Marty, by the creative team of Rupert Holmes (book), Charles Strouse (music), and Lee Adams (lyrics).  Other premieres include works by Tom Stoppard, Brian Friel, Jon Robin Baitz, Christopher Durang, Donald Margulies, Richard Nelson, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Horton Foote.

The Huntington's expanded efforts to develop new plays for the American theatre include the Breaking Ground Festival of new play readings and the Stanford Calderwood Fund for New American Plays, which allow the Huntington to commission new works from emerging and established writers. The two Calderwood Pavilion theatres serve as the home for the Huntington's new play development.

The Huntington provides professional training and experience to students in the Boston University School of Theatre. In addition, over the past two decades, the Huntington's nationally-recognized education programs have served more than 200,000 middle school and high school students, and its community outreach programs bring theatre each year to the Deaf and blind communities, the elderly, and other underserved populations in the Greater Boston area.