A.R.T. Opens 2026-27 Season With 'Rhinoceros' Starring 3 Emmy Winners
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Updated · Harvard Gazette · Aug 17
A.R.T. Opens 2026-27 Season With 'Rhinoceros' Starring 3 Emmy Winners
1 articles · Updated · Harvard Gazette · Aug 17
Summary
Friday marks the opening of American Repertory Theater’s new season with Diane Paulus’s staging of Eugène Ionesco’s 1959 absurdist play “Rhinoceros,” running through Sept. 27.
Paul Giamatti, Tatiana Maslany and John Turturro lead the production, built on Derek Prouse’s English translation and centered on a town whose residents transform into rhinoceroses one by one.
Turturro, who plays Berenger, and Maslany, who plays Daisy, said the play’s conflict between conformity and individuality feels newly relevant, while Giamatti tied its questions of humanity to social media and artificial intelligence.
Paulus said Ionesco’s metaphor drew on fascism, Stalinism and political conformity, and called the production her last directing project at the Loeb Drama Center before A.R.T. moves to the Goel Center in Allston.