Artistic director Kate Warner announced the season on Feb. 22.
The varied contemporary works on two stages include David Mamet's Boston Marriage; Theresa Rebeck's DollHouse; Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years; and the New England premiere of David Gow's Cherry Docs, a play about a Jewish lawyer and a hate crime against an immigrant.
Warner will direct the world premiere of afterlife, to feature Marianna Bassham, for a Jan. 16-Feb. 6, 2011, run at the Charles Mosesian Theater. According to New Rep, "An approaching storm forces a young married couple to come home to their empty beach house and batten down the hatches. When a giant wave comes crashing over them, they tumble into an alternate reality where both must confront the ghosts that haunt them and decide what their afterlife will be."
Here's New Repertory Theatre's 27th season at a glance:
Boston Marriage
A comedy by David Mamet
Directed by Kate Warner
Sept. 12-Oct.3
In the Charles Mosesian Theater Cherry Docs
A New England premiere by David Gow
Oct. 17-Nov. 7
In the Charles Mosesian Theater
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
A romantic comedy by Terrence McNally
Nov. 28-Dec. 19
In the Black Box Theater
afterlife: a ghost story
A world premiere by Steve Yockey
Directed by Kate Warner
Featuring Marianna Bassham
Jan. 16-Feb. 6, 2011
In the Charles Mosesian Theater
DollHouse
A drama by Theresa Rebeck
Directed by Bridget Kathleen O'Leary
Feb. 27-March 20, 2011
In the Charles Mosesian Theater
The Last Five Years
Book, music and lyrics by Jason Brown
March 27-April 17, 2011
In the Black Box Theater
Passing Strange
Book and lyrics by Stew
Music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald
Directed by Kate Warner
May 1-22, 2011
In the Charles Mosesian theater
New Repertory Theatre is in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA.
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