By Sheila Barth

 

BOX INFO: Joe Montello directs the Roundabout Theatre Company, in association with the Seattle Repertory Theatre, national touring company production of Stephen Karam’s dramatic one-act, 100-minute play, appearing through March 25: Tuesday,Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 2,7:30 p.m; Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday, 2,8 p.m.; Sunday, 1 p.m., at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre Boston, 265 Tremont St., Boston. Tickets start at $25. 

 

Renowned playwright-screenwriter Stephen Karam’s dramatic, multi-Tony Award-winning play, “The Humans,“ appearing at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre in Boston this week, is labeled “a new American classic”. However, nothing earth-shattering occurs in it. But there’s a simmering, dark undercurrent that keeps audiences alert. Besides winning six Tony Awards, the off-Broadway production won an Obie Award in 2016, among others. Directed by award-winning Joe Mantello, this US National Touring cast that started at the Seattle Repertory Theatre is terrific.

 

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