Huntington Theatre faces uncertainty as BU plans sale of building

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http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-dance/2015/10/07/severing-with-huntington-theatre-puts-theater-building-for-sale/2AiFmwXIGKHq55YeR7PP8J/story.html



Huntington Theatre Company artistic director Peter DuBois, left, and managing director Michael Maso in front of the BU Theatre.

Huntington Theatre faces uncertainty as BU plans sale of building
By Don Aucoin Globe Staff
October 07, 2015

After 33 years, Boston University and the Huntington Theatre Company are parting ways, and the university is putting the BU Theatre up for sale, effective immediately.

For the highly regarded Huntington, which just two years ago won a Tony Award for regional theater, the dissolution of the partnership with BU ushers in a period of uncertainty.

For the wider theater community, it is the third bombshell in the past month, following the announcement that CitiBank Inc. will end its sponsorship of the Citi Performing Arts Center and news that downtown’s Colonial Theatre will go dark for at least a year of renovations, with its future very much up in the air.

Though the Huntington and BU framed their split as amicable, the university had rejected an offer by the Huntington to buy the BU Theatre and two adjoining BU-owned buildings, after protracted negotiations.

[merrily]

1. Too bad. Anything I saw produced by Huntington was excellent.