Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On Thursday March 25, The Huntington held a virtual press announcement to speak on the renovation of The New Huntington, a storied venue with a bold vision.
The Huntington is embracing dramatic change. Our storied venue stands in the heart of our city at the gateway to the Avenue of the Arts, an historic cultural corridor through Boston that links Symphony Hall, the New England Conservatory, MassArt, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the nearby Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. We are expanding our presence at this geographic crossroads where the arts intersect with the diverse neighborhoods of Back Bay, the South End, Roxbury, Mission Hill, and the Fenway, becoming a vibrant communal space for all who live, work, and visit here.
The scale of our ambition extends well beyond our audience of theatre lovers to embrace all who want to see Boston thrive creatively through the arts, business, education, and nonprofit sectors. Our renovated and new public spaces and programs will increase our impact for generations to come.
This is why we have embarked upon a significant cultural campaign that will serve the entire Boston region, the Commonwealth and our nation. In achieving our goal, we will grow the number of our theatrical productions, increase signature partnerships, contribute to Boston’s cultural ecosystem and amplify educational offerings, as well as safeguard our commitment to the community for years to come.
For more information, visit: huntingtontheatre.org/about/the-new-huntington
On Thursday March 25, The Huntington held a virtual press announcement to speak on the renovation of The New Huntington, a storied venue with a bold vision.
The Huntington is embracing dramatic change. Our storied venue stands in the heart of our city at the gateway to the Avenue of the Arts, an historic cultural corridor through Boston that links Symphony Hall, the New England Conservatory, MassArt, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the nearby Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. We are expanding our presence at this geographic crossroads where the arts intersect with the diverse neighborhoods of Back Bay, the South End, Roxbury, Mission Hill, and the Fenway, becoming a vibrant communal space for all who live, work, and visit here.
The scale of our ambition extends well beyond our audience of theatre lovers to embrace all who want to see Boston thrive creatively through the arts, business, education, and nonprofit sectors. Our renovated and new public spaces and programs will increase our impact for generations to come.
This is why we have embarked upon a significant cultural campaign that will serve the entire Boston region, the Commonwealth and our nation. In achieving our goal, we will grow the number of our theatrical productions, increase signature partnerships, contribute to Boston’s cultural ecosystem and amplify educational offerings, as well as safeguard our commitment to the community for years to come.
For more information, visit: huntingtontheatre.org/about/the-new-huntington









![Humanities Forum | The Bluest Eye
Moderated by
Sandy Alexandre, (Dramaturg) is an associate professor at MIT. Books: Properties of Violence. Articles: “[The] things what happened with our family’: Property & Inheritance in August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson” (Writing Award for Outstanding Article), “Just Feathers: Righting Wrongs with Georgia Douglas Johnson’s Plumes,” “Lovesick in the Time of Smallpox: Romancing the State of Nature in Toni Morrisons A MERCY,” “From the Same Tree: Balancing Gender Through Shared Iconography in Beloved.” Book Chapters: “Adoption and Persuasion: Raising and Reckoning with Beloved,” “Ways of Absence; Or, The Unbearable Heft of Being Materialized.” Education: BA English, Dartmouth College; MA and PhD American Literature, University of Virginia.
Featuring
Soyica Diggs Colbert is the Idol Family Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts at Georgetown University.
Colbert’s most recent book, Radical Vision, a “loving, lavishly detailed” (New York Times) and captivating portrait of Lorraine Hansberry’s life, art, and political activism—one of O Magazines best books of April 2021 is also described as A devoted and deeply felt account of the development of an artist’s mind, according to Dave Itzkoff, New York Times Book Review. In this acclaimed biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Colbert narrates a life at the intersection of art and politics, arguing that for Hansberry the theater operated as a rehearsal room for her political and intellectual work.
She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a residency at the Schomburg Center, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Stanford University, Mellon Foundation, and the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University. Colbert has also lectured nationally and internationally at universities, high schools, and middles schools as well as for civic and arts organizations.
Colbert’s writing has been featured in the Washington Post, Public Books, Metrograph and American Theatre. She have been interviewed on NPR and commented for the New York Times, USA Today, CNN, and the Washington Post.
She is an Associate Director at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. In addition to Radical Vision, Colbert is the author of Bodies: Theory for Theatre Studies, Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics, and The African American Theatrical Body. Colbert co-edited Race and Performance After Repetition and The Psychic Hold of Slavery. Most recently, she served as a Creative Content Producer for The Public Theatre’s audio play, shadow/land. Her research interests span the 19th-21st centuries, from Harriet Tubman to Beyoncé, and from poetics to performance. Humanities Forum | The Bluest Eye](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RBFwOuWZWWk/mqdefault.jpg)
