The Triumph of Love
March 7 – April 6, 2025
Written by Marivaux
Translated by Stephen Wadsworth
Directed by Loretta Greco
The Huntington Theatre
264 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115
Approximate run time: 2 hours and 30 minutes with one intermission.
Notable Dates:
Opening Night: 3/12 at 7 pm
Synopsis:
Love takes center stage in this uproarious classic French comedy by 18th century playwright Pierre Carlet de Marivaux. A clever princess is smitten at first sight – but to win her prince, she must woo him in disguise. Mistaken identities, hilarious complications and deeply felt desire collide head on with Rationalist Philosophy – and surprising romantic entanglements ensue! Artistic Director Loretta Greco stages Stephen Wadsworth’s magnificent adaptation which inspired a passion for Marivaux in America anew.
Cast & Crew:
Allison Altman
Léonide
Allison Altman
Allison Altman (she/her) Broadway: Birthday Candles. Off Broadway: Mother, Daughter, Sisterwife (St. Ann’s Warehouse); Personal History Vol. I-V (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Travis & the Terpsichorean (Ars Nova).
Avanthika Srinivasan
Corine
Avanthika Srinivasan
Avanthika Srinivasan (she/her) Off Broadway: Elyria (Atlantic Theatre Company); Candida (Gingold Theatrical Group); Queen (NAATCO/Long Wharf Theater). Regional: Arms and the Man, Testmatch (A.C.T.’s Strand Theater); The Fit (San Francisco Playhouse); Three Sisters (A.C.T. Conservatory).
Vincent Randazzo
Harlequin
Vincent Randazzo
Vincent Randazzo (he/him) Regional: The Servant of Two Masters (Lanes Coven Theatre); Survival of the Unfit (Great Barrington Public Theatre); Crime & Punishment, As You Like It (The Old Globe); Vanity Fair (ACT & STC; Helen Hayes win); A Walk on the Moon, Hamlet, A Christmas Carol (A.C.T.); Washed Up on the Potomac (San Francisco Playhouse); Orson Welles/Shylock: A Docu-Fantasy Radio Play (Franklin Stage Company, Montreal Fringe, Toronto Fringe); The Stranger Things Experience: NYC (Mycotoo).
Patrick Kerr
Dimas
Patrick Kerr
Patrick Kerr (he/him) Broadway: Travesties, You Can’t Take It with You, The Ritz. Tours: My Fair Lady, The Lion King. Off Broadway: Playwrights Horizons, New York Theater Workshop, B.A.M., Minetta Lane. Regional: ART, The Guthrie, Geffen Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Yale Rep, Old Globe, Berkeley Rep, South Coast Rep.
Rob B. Kellogg
Agis
Rob B. Kellogg
Rob B. Kellogg (he/him) Off Broadway: Romeo and Juliet (NAATCO). Regional: Berkeley Rep, McCarter Theatre, Two River Theater, Northern Stage, Powerhouse Theater. Film: The Bride (2025), No Later Light. TV: Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, Uncoupled, FBI, Power Book III: Raising Kanan. Education: BFA (Boston University). robkellogg.com
Marianna Bassham
Léontine
Marianna Bassham
Marianna Bassham (she/her) is a Boston-based actor/teacher/director. At The Huntington she has performed in Nassim, The Band’s Visit (co-produced with SpeakEasy Stage), Hurricane Diane, Sweat, Common Ground Revisited, Romeo and Juliet, Yerma, I Was Most Alive with You (in a role she reprised at Playwrights Horizons), Becoming Cuba, Our Town, and The Luck of the Irish.
Nael Nacer
Hermocrate
Nael Nacer
Nael Nacer (he/him) The Huntington: Nassim, Leopoldstadt, Prayer for the French Republic, Romeo and Juliet, A Doll’s House, Bedroom Farce, Come Back, Little Sheba, Awake and Sing!, The Seagull, Our Town. Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic (Manhattan Theatre Club).
Morgan Rose Ford
U/S Léonide, Corine
Morgan Rose Ford
Morgan Rose Ford (she/her) Regional: As You Like It (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival); Twelfth Night (Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival); Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, The Importance of Being Earnest, Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet (American Shakespeare Center); Adelinda (ASC/Hedgepig Ensemble); Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet (Boston Theater Company); Snowgirl (Nora Theatre Company); Stick Fly (Hibernian Hall).
Joanna Strapp
U/S Léontine
Joanna Strapp
Joanna Strapp (she/her) Regional: Blithe Spirit, Fallen Angels (North Coast Rep); Steel Magnolias, The Pursuit of Happiness, Billy and Ray, Love Loss and What I Wore (Laguna Playhouse); Noises Off! (The Rubicon); Sherlock’s Last Case (Gulfshore Playhouse); Holmes and Watson, The Illustrious Invalid (Kinetic Theatre); I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, Mary’s Wedding (Colony Theatre); Trying (Indian Wells Theatre); Reborning (The Fountain); The Curious Incident… (Greenway Court Theatre); Ensemble Member of The Antaeus Company in Los Angeles (The Seagull, Cloud 9, The Liar, Peace in Our Time, etc).
Nick Sulfaro
U/S Harlequin, Agis
Nick Sulfaro
Nick Sulfaro (he/him) The Huntington: Common Ground Revisited, Witch, Sunday in the Park with George, A Little Night Music. Regional: New Rep; Greater Boston Stage Company; The Nora at Central Square Theatre; Wheelock Family Theatre; the Boston cast of Sheer Madness.
Lewis D. Wheeler
U/S Dimas, Hemocrate
Lewis D. Wheeler
Lewis D. Wheeler (he/him) The Huntington: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Butley. Regional: No Man’s Land (ART); Cost of Living, Pass Over (SpeakEasy Stage), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (New Rep); Noises Off (Lyric Stage); also, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co, Nora Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Greater Boston Stage Co, five seasons at Gloucester Stage, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre (WHAT), Cape Rep, Underground Railway, Wheelock Family Theatre, Publick Theatre, Vineyard Playhouse, founding member of Harbor Stage.
Loretta Greco
Director
Loretta Greco
Loretta Greco (she/her) is The Huntington’s Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director. Her extensive national directing credits include The Triumph of Love, Prayer for the French Republic, and Taylor Mac’s world premiere of Joy and Pandemic for The Huntington, the premieres of runboyrun and A Park in Our House at New York Theatre Workshop, The Story, Lackawanna Blues, and Two Sisters and a Piano at The Public Theater, Sweat, The Realistic Joneses, Speed-the-Plow, and Blackbird at American Conservatory Theater, and productions for California Shakespeare, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Long Wharf, La Jolla Playhouse, and Williamstown Theatre Festival, among others.
Stephen Wadsworth
Translator
Stephen Wadsworth
Stephen Wadsworth Stephen Wadsworth’s translations and productions of plays by Marivaux introduced the playwright to American theater audiences in the 1990s. For his work on Marivaux and Molière, he was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France. His productions of Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Molière, Marivaux, Goldoni, Beaumarchais, Strindberg, Shaw, Wilde, and Coward have established him as a master of classical style, but he has also directed world premieres of plays by authors as diverse as Anna Deavere Smith, Beth Henley and Ken Ludwig.
Pierre de Marivaux
Playwright
Pierre de Marivaux
Pierre de Marivaux was born on February 4, 1688 in Paris, France. A French dramatist, novelist, and journalist, his comedies became, after those of Molière, the most frequently performed in French theatre. He died February 12, 1763 in Paris.
Lydia Cochran
Assistant Director
Lydia Cochran
Lydia Cochran (she/her) was the Literary Resident at Milwaukee Repertory Theater for the 21/22 Season, where her credits include dramaturgy for Steel Magnolias, Toni Stone, New Age, and Titanic: the Musical. She is in her second season as Co-Artistic Director at Studio Theatre Worcester, where she directed the musical Mad Ones, and has multiple credits in dramaturgy and producing. Education: B.A. in Theater Arts and History (Carleton College).
Junghyun Georgia Lee
Scenic and Costume Designer
Junghyun Georgia Lee
Junghyun Georgia Lee (she/her) The Huntington: The Heart Sellers, Tiger Style!, Smart People, Sweat. Off Broadway: New York Theatre Workshop, Audible Theatre, Atlantic Theatre, Public Theatre, Soho Rep, Ma-Yi, NAATCO.
Tom Watson
Hair, Wig, and Makeup Designer
Tom Watson
Tom Watson (he/him) The Huntington: Leopoldstadt. Broadway: over 100 productions including Harmony, Spamalot (2023), Wicked, Rock of Ages, The King & I , Fiddler on the Roof, Oslo, Falsettos, The Little Foxes, Junk, My Fair Lady, King Kong, All My Sons, Plaza Suite, The Coast of Utopia. Originally from Northern Ireland, Tom headed the wig and makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera for 17 years.
Christopher Akerlind
Lighting Designer
Christopher Akerlind
Christopher Akerlind (he/him) The Huntington: Prayer for the French Republic, Indecent, Tartuffe, Sunday in the Park with George, All My Sons, Shining city, Well, The Young Man from Atlanta, Seven Guitars, The Piano Lesson. Broadway: Rocky The Musical, Sting’s The Last Ship, Indecent, Talk Radio, Shining City, Awake and Sing, Well, Rabbit Hole, A Touch of the Poet, In My Life, The Light in the Piazza, Reckless, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Seven Guitars, The Piano Lesson, and more.
Fan Zhang
Composer and Sound Designer
Fan Zhang
Fan Zhang (she/her) The Huntington: Prayer for the French Republic, Joy and Pandemic. Off Broadway: Good Bones, Jordans (Public Theater); What Became of Us, The Far Country, Paris (Atlantic Theater Company); At the Wedding (Lincoln Center); Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage); This Land Was Made (Vineyard Theater); Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Second Stage & WP); Pumpgirl (Irish Rep); Suicide Forest (Ma-Yi); Behind the Sheet (Ensemble Studio); On That Day in Amsterdam (59 E59).
Judith Chaffee
Commedia dell'arte and Period Movement Consultant
Judith Chaffee
Judith Chaffee (she/her) The Huntington: The Game of Love and Chance. Off Broadway (acting): Good (TriBeCa Festival / Potomac Theatre Festival). Regional: Good (New Rep). She also was Head of Movement for the BU School of Theatre and the Opera Institute. She co-edited The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte with Olly Crick and has two CDs on Period Styles through Insight Media, edited by Joel Asher.
Jesse Hinson
Fight and Intimacy Coordinator
Jesse Hinson
Jesse Hinson (he/him) is a Boston-based violence designer, intimacy choreographer, actor, and educator. The Huntington: The Grove, Leopoldstadt, Fat Ham. Regional: Pru Payne, Cost of Living, Casa Valentina (SpeakEasy Stage); Rx Machina (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); The Minutes (Umbrella Arts). Anna Christie, The Little Foxes (Lyric Stage Company); Bud, Not Buddy (Wheelock Family Theater).
Lee Nishri-Howitt
Voice and Dialect Coach
Lee Nishri-Howitt
Lee Nishri-Howitt (he/him) The Huntington: Leopoldstadt, The Band’s Visit, Prayer for the French Republic, The Lehman Trilogy, Romeo and Juliet, The Art of Burning. Regional: Once, Allegiance (SpeakEasy Stage); The Book of Will, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Lyric Stage); Oliver!, Hair, Trayf (New Rep); Little Women, James and the Giant Peach (Wheelock Family Theatre); All is Calm (Greater Boston Stage Company).
Janet Foster, CSA
NY Casting Director
Janet Foster, CSA
Janet Foster, CSA has been casting for over 35 years. At The Huntington, she recently worked on The Grove, Sojourners, Leopoldstadt, Toni Stone, and The Band’s Visit. Eight years at American Conservatory Theater included working with directors Carey Perloff, Mark Lamos, Mark Rucker, Annie Kaufmann, Loretta Greco, and many more.
Deirdre Benson
Production Stage Manager
Deirdre Benson
Ashley Pitchford
Stage Manager
Ashley Pitchford
Ashley Pitchford (she/her) The Huntington: Leopoldstadt, John Proctor is the Villain, The Heart Sellers, Fat Ham, Joy and Pandemic, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Our Daughters, Like Pillars, Teenage Dick, Witch, We All Fall Down, Man in the Ring.
Jake Tolentino
Emerging Artist Observer
Jake Tolentino
Jake Tolentino Regional: S P A C E (Assistant Director, Central Square Theater); walkOver (Director, Frigid New York’s Queerly Festival); Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, Julius Caesar (Assistant Director, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). University: Antony & Cleopatra!, A Midsummer Night’s Dream! (Director, emShakes Theatre Co.). Jake graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Theatre.
Special Events:
Coolidge Corner Stage & Screen: The Rules of the Game
Monday, March 3rd, 2025 at 7 pm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre
Featuring a post-screening discussion with guests of the Huntington’s production of The Triumph of Love.
Jean Renoir’s scathing critique of corrupt French society, cloaked in a comedy of manners. At la Colinière, the deceptively idyllic country estate of a wealthy Parisian aristocrat, a selection of society’s finest gather for a rural sojourn and shooting party. Over the course of the weekend, they reveal themselves to be absurdly cruel and vapid.
This special screening of The Rules of the Game coincides with our production of The Triumph of Love, running March 7 through April 6 at The Huntington Theatre.
From the translator Stephen Wadsworth:
“Loretta Greco was a key collaborator on the first production of this translation, when she was staff producer at McCarter Theater. Her razor-sharp eye and keen ear brought her deep into the work on the script itself, as well as on the staging. I can’t wait to see what she does with this play at The Huntington.”
From Artistic Director Loretta Greco:
“I am thrilled to bring Stephen’s intoxicating adaptation of Marivaux’s 18th century play to life here at the Huntington. Full of playful deception, romance, hilarity and hope, The Triumph of Love is a surprising, deeply moving and modern examination of our ability to grow over time. That this play which premiered in 1732 feels so alive today owes much to the singular passion of Stephen Wadsworth and this definitive adaptation.”
DISCOUNT TICKETS
The Huntington offers many different affiliation and aged-based discounts off our ticket prices. Discounts can be applied online, in person, or over the phone. Patrons who purchase discounted tickets must pick up their tickets and provide proof of ID or eligibility at ticketing services before the show. All discounts are subject to availability.
Access Tickets
Patrons who are Deaf and/or blind/low-vision and their guests can purchase tickets to designated ASL-Interpreted, Audio Described, or Open Captioned performances for $20 each.
- Use code ACCESSOC to unlock tickets for Open Captioned performances.
- Use code ACCESSASL to unlock tickets for ASL-Interpreted performances.
- Use code ACCESSAD to unlock tickets for Audio Described performances.
View all Access Performance dates
Active US Military
$25 tickets are available to all performances for Active US Military and their immediate family. Use promo code MILITARY to access US Military pricing. Valid ID required.
Group sales
Groups can save up to 20% off ticket prices for most productions. Student group pricing available. Learn more about group rates.
Huntington Community Membership Initiative (HCMI)
$20 tickets are available to all performances for participants in the Huntington Community Membership Initiative. Use your exclusive HCMI promo code tied to your organization to redeem. Learn more about our Huntington Community Membership Initiative.
HYPE discounts
$40 tickets are available any time for patrons age 40 years and younger as part of our HYPE program (Huntington Young Patron Events). Valid ID required. Tickets are subject to availability and some zone restrictions may apply. Use promo code DISCOUNT to access HYPE (40 Below) pricing. Input code DISCOUNT before seat selection. Promo will apply at checkout. Learn more about HYPE.
Limited Pay-What-You-Wish
At The Huntington, we believe price shouldn’t be a barrier for folks to enjoy world-class theatre. Because of this, we have a limited number of Pay-What-You-Wish tickets available for all Huntington performances for those who need them. Pay-What-You-Wish is not available online. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit Ticketing Services in person at either box office location or call us at 617-266-0800.
Student discounts
$25 tickets are available to all performances for full-time students. Use promo code DISCOUNT to access Student pricing. Valid ID required.
$29 Tickets
In addition to our age and affiliation-based discounts, a limited number of unrestricted $29 tickets are available at each performance.
HOW TO USE DISCOUNT CODES
Enter your promo code into the top right corner of your screen next to “View Cart”. Available discounts will apply automatically after entering the promo code.
For questions about promo codes, please contact our ticketing team by emailing tickets@huntingtontheatre.org or calling 617-266-0800.
The Huntington acknowledges that our physical spaces stand on the occupied homeland of the Massachusett people. We’d like to begin by acknowledging the Massachusett Tribe from whom the Colony, Province and Commonwealth of Massachusetts have taken their name. We’d like to pay respect to the ancestral bloodline of the Massachusett Tribe and their descendants who still inhabit the land to this day. We honor and respect the many native peoples who are connected to this land, past, present and future, including the Nipmuc and Wampanoag peoples.
This land acknowledgement was created by staff of The Huntington with input from the council of The Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag. To learn more about the tribe or to donate in support of their current programs, visit their website www.massachusetttribe.org