Matthew Bretschneider

AEA•SAG•AFTRA

 

Common Ground Revisted, Courtesy of Huntington Theatre Company

Photo by T. Charles Erickson

Upcoming Projects

Clown & Physical Acting, Studio Playground, Boston Center for the Arts, June 26, 2023

It's a clown class! It's a physical acting class! Clown invites you to come as you are, shake off your social mask, and explore the health benefits of laughter through movement, performance, and playful improvisation. Each class includes a vocal and physical warm up, movement, games, and performance projects designed to elicit vocal and physical freedom. Our classes are for everyone: actors, movers, anyone with a desire to connect through laughter and playful improvisation. Let’s laugh, sing, and make a beautiful ruckus.

The Lehman Trilogy, Huntington Theatre Company, June 13 - July 16, 2023

Written by Stefano Massini and adapted into English by Ben Power, The Lehman Trilogy is an epic and timely story of family, ambition, and risk, sprawling across 163 years of history and shining a calculating spotlight on the spectacular rise and fall of Lehman Brothers, a family and a company that changed the world. Carey Perloff (Rock ‘n’ Roll and Mary Stuart at The Huntington, A Thousand Splendid Suns and many others at San Francisco’s ACT) will direct.

Performed entirely by three actors, the story follows the original three Lehman brothers, then their sons and grandsons, as they journey from rags to riches to ruin. In 1840s Alabama, a Bavarian immigrant dreams of a better life for his family. By the early 2000s, his descendants trigger unprecedented financial disaster. In a marvel of storytelling, this extraordinary piece of theatre is both an intimate saga about a family and a monumental exposé of unbridled capitalism.