‘Matt & Ben’ Comedy Imagines the Creation of Good Will Hunting

‘Matt & Ben’ Comedy Imagines the Creation of Good Will Hunting

It’s been nearly 30 years since the release of 1997’s Good Will Hunting, the movie about a mathematical genius with a troubled past from South Boston that turned Matt Damon and Ben Affleck into famous actors and filmmakers. The film was a commercial and critical hit, and the history of how it was made became part of Hollywood folklore. That story, albeit a fictionalized take, is told in Matt & Ben, a comedic, two-woman show running at Santa Cruz…