Center Theatre Group to Host Productions of ‘1776,’ ‘Ain’t Too Proud,’ Cecily Strong Play in New Season
23.06.2022 - 23:37
/ variety.com
Wilson Chapman editorLos Angeles’ Center Theater Group will host two world premieres, a West Coast bow, a U.S. launch and several classics and modern hits for its 2022-23 season.The initial programming lineup for the next season of the theater group, which operates the Ahmanson and the Mark Taper Forum, was announced on Thursday by managing director and CEO Meghan Pressman, producing director Douglas C. Baker and associate artistic directors Luis Alfaro, Lindsay Allbaugh, Tyrone Davis, Neel Keller and Kelley Kirkpatrick.The Taper’s season will open with “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe,” a one-woman play written by Jane Wagner that originally starred Lily Tomlin in 1991.
The new production, which ran at the Shed in New York earlier this year, stars Cecily Strong and is directed by Leigh Silverman. It will run at the Taper from Sept. 21 to Oct.
23. The Taper will also feature the West Coast premiere of “Clyde’s,” the Tony-nominated play from Pulitzer-winner Lynn Nottage that premiered on Broadway last November. It will run from Nov.
15 to Dec. 18. From March 8 to April 9, the theater will feature a 30th anniversary production of “Twilight: Los Angeles,” Anna Deavere Smith’s one-woman play about the Los Angeles Riots that originally premiered at the Taper.
It will end the season with two world premieres: “A Transparent Musical,” a theatrical adaptation of the Amazon Prime series “Transparent,” and “Fake It Until You Make It,” a comedy from Indigenous playwright Larissa FastHorse. “A Transparent Musical” runs from May 20 to June 25 next year, while “Fake It Until You Make It” runs from Aug. 2 to Sept.
The website popstar.one is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can
send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.