Playwright M Sloth Levine attempts to fuse the tropes of the comic horror genre a la “Scooby Do” with a coming-of-age narrative built on an exploration of sexual identity.
Top theater company honors at the 40th Elliot Norton Awards Monday night went to the Front Porch Arts Collective, which collected 13 prizes, and the Huntington, which snagged 10. “K-I-S-S-I-N-G,” a co-production of the Huntington and Front Porch, was the most celebrated production, with eight awards.
Awards were presented last night to 34 outstanding actors, directors, designers, choreographers, musicians, and 5 visiting productions by the Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) at the 40th Anniversary Elliot Norton Awards ceremony, held at the Huntington Theatre in Boston.
The Lyric Stage Company and Actors’ Shakespeare Project stage productions where misunderstandings are a central theme, one examines a relationship under pressure and the other a hip-hop adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors.”