Tickets are now on sale for all productions in the 2011-2012 season at Hartford Stage, including the first production of the new season, Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" which starts on September 1 and runs through September 25, 2011.
Gordon Edelstein, the artistic director of New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre, will direct the production, which marks the first time that the play has ever been presented at Hartford Stage. According to the theater, "Arthur Miller's gripping drama of a community stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations." The play won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1953.
That will be followed by "Water by the Spoonful," by Quiara Alegria Hudes, who received a Tony Award for writing the book for the hit musical, "In the Heights." In this new work, as described by Hartford Stage, "Elliot has returned from Iraq to Philadelphia and is struggling to find his place in the world again and put aside the demons that haunt him. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts forge an unbreakable bond of support and love. The boundaries of love, family and community are stretched across, time, generations and cyberspace as birth families splinter and online families collide." The production runs from October 20 through November 13. Davis McCallum directs.
The Stage Company's annual holiday production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," as adapted and originally directed by former artistic director Michael Wilson, will run from November 25 to December 30. Maxwell Williams will direct.
The high-flying, Tony Award-winning comedy "Boeing-Boeing" that had London and Broadway audiences airborne with laughter will take off from January 12 to February 5, 2012. Written by Marc Camoletti and translated by Beverly Cross and Francis Evans, the play focuses on Bernard, a successful American architect living in a posh Paris apartment, who has been deftly juggling three fiancées who are all flight attendants. But, this supersonic lifestyle hits turbulence when his old college friend visits and each of his three fiancées change their flight schedules. Maxwell Williams is scheduled to direct.
Up next will be Matthew Lopez's "The Whipping Man," which enjoyed a sold out run at the Manhattan Theater Club last winter. Running from February 23 through March 18 and directed by Hana S. Sharif, the play takes place in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, with three men at a crossroads—a Jewish Confederate soldier who has returned from battle, and two former slaves, who were raised as Jews in his household. As the three men reunite to celebrate Passover, they uncover a tangle of secrets that might cost each man his freedom.
John van Druten's comedy "Bell Book and Candle" runs from April 5-29 in a production directed by Hartford Stage's new artistic director Darko Tresnjak, who directed a well-received production of this play back in 2007 at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre. A co-production with Long Wharf Theatre, the play tells the story of a smart and sultry witch who decides to cast a love spell on her upstairs neighbor which has unexpected consequences for all involved.
The season will conclude will one more play, scheduled for May 10 to June 3, to be selected by Tresnjak.
For information and to purchase tickets, visit the Hartford Stage website or call 860.527.5151.
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