How I Learned To Drive at Stanford Calderwood Pavilion

How I Learned To Drive

Stanford Calderwood Pavilion
527 Tremont St. Boston

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and nominated for the 2022 Tony Award for Best Revival, How I Learned To Drive puts us behind the wheel of a '56 Chevy with our protagonist, Li'l Bit, as she looks back on her rocky journey from adolescence to adulthood. Fasten your seatbelts as she navigates dark family secrets, teenage growing pains, and her turbulent relationship with her Uncle Peck.

Presented by Actors' Shakespeare Project

Thru - Nov 25, 2023

Show Type: Comedy/Drama

Box Office: 617-933-8600

www.actorsshakespeareproject.org

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How I Learned To Drive Reviews

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The Boston Globe - Highly Recommended

"...Now at Actors’ Shakespeare Project in a riveting production directed by Elaine Vaan Hogue, Vogel’s drama focuses on a woman who tries, via a series of flashbacks, to process the sexual abuse she was subjected to by her uncle during her pre-adolescent and adolescent years."

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- Don Aucoin

New England Theater Mirror - Highly Recommended

"...Set in Maryland in the 1960s and ‘70s, the non-chronological scenes are narrated by Li’l Bit (the spectacular Jennifer Rohn), a woman now in her mid-30s who plumbs her memories of the sexual assault she endured beginning at age 11 and continuing until her 18th birthday. The abuse began as a driving lesson, and Vogel uses titles from a guide to a driving handbook as a device to link the nonlinear episodes."

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- Michael Hoban

Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended

"...Actors' Shakespeare Project's production of the 1998 Pulitzer-winning drama How I Learned to Drive takes its audience on a harrowing ride through the dark land of sexual abuse and incest illuminated by moments of honesty, humor, and humanity. Director Elaine Vaan Hogue keeps playwright Paula Vogel's best-known work moving through its complex and nuanced portrayal of Li'l Bit's (Jennifer Rohn) coming-of-age journey with her Uncle Peck (Dennis Trainor Jr) who teaches her to drive his 1956 Chevy while grooming her for sexual predation."

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- Lynne Weiss

Joyce's Choices - Highly Recommended

"...Actors’ Shakespeare Project production of HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE has earned a Boston Theater Critic’s Pick and rattled me to my core. This is one of the very best productions I have seen all year. Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play is brilliantly structured, slowly but surely gathering momentum as it takes us back to the specific moments in a young girl’s life that will change her forever. Elaine Vaan Hogue’s incisive direction and this incandescent cast instantly ushered me through a portal and into a world of memory, along with a road map through some of the thornier issues the flesh is heir to. I left the theater as if waking from a dream."

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- Joyce Kulhawik

How I Learned To Drive at Stanford Calderwood Pavilion