South Coast Rep Season to Feature 5 World Premieres
New plays by Eliza Clark, Qui Nguyen, Sandra Tsing Loh and Bekah Brunstetter are on the slate, as is a return of Beth Henley’s Western tale ‘Abundance,’ which bowed at SCR in 1989.
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New plays by Eliza Clark, Qui Nguyen, Sandra Tsing Loh and Bekah Brunstetter are on the slate, as is a return of Beth Henley’s Western tale ‘Abundance,’ which bowed at SCR in 1989.
New productions of ‘Rent,’ ‘Dreamgirls’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’ vie with a newly constructed musical, ‘Empire.’
In addition to stagings of ‘Rear Window’ and ‘Anastasia,’ the theatre will produce a Christopher Shinn world premiere.
Along with plays by Sarah Ruhl, August Wilson, Howard Brenton, Ayad Akhtar and Elizabeth Irwin, MTC will premiere Rachel Bonds’s ‘Swimmers.’
Also offered will be ‘Mother Courage’ starring Tonya Pinkins and the seldom-seen ‘Nathan the Wise’ starring F. Murray Abraham.
The Kansas City theatre season will include a world premiere from William Missouri Downs, an NNPN rolling world premiere by Hilary Bettis and ‘Heathers the Musical.’
As they change out managing directors, the theatre plans stage versions of books by Jane Austen and Rona Jaffe, as well as Orson Welles’s take on ‘Moby-Dick.’
The slate includes shows from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Jason Robert Brown and Mitch Albom, and a world premiere from Travis G. Baker.
The slate ranges from Feydeau to Pirandello, Shakespeare to Shaw, plus Miller and a new adaptation of Anouilh’s ‘Antigone.’
The Off-Broadway theatre’s season will also include play direction from Susan Stroman and Rebecca Taichman.