huntington theatre company

In “The Lehman Trilogy,” currently on stage at The Huntington Theatre, three Jewish brothers leave their home country, Bavaria, to make a better life in America. Their tale becomes a parable of ambition run amok.

“Joy and Pandemic,” playing at The Huntington, centers on the 1918 flu pandemic, but it feels intimately familiar. Playwright Taylor Mac began this concept well before COVID-19 turned the world upside down, but the performance has only become more relevant in its wake.

The Huntington has a long history with playwright August Wilson, so it’s fitting that after a two-and-a-half-year closure and restoration, the company’s newly renovated historic theater on Huntington Avenue reopens  Oct. 14 with Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” running through Nov. 13.

Sing Street” is tapping, swishing and singing its way onto The Huntington stage August 26 through October 2. The lively musical, set in Dublin in the 1980s, tells a coming-of-age love story through danceable music that references the sounds of beloved ’80s bands such as Depeche Mode, Duran Duran and The Cure.