Portland Center Stage Season Boasts Sunset Boulevard, An Iliad, Futura and Opus | Playbill

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News Portland Center Stage Season Boasts Sunset Boulevard, An Iliad, Futura and Opus Portland Center Stage will produce Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard and An Iliad, a new work by Tony-winning actor Denis O'Hare and director Lisa Peterson, as part of its 2010-11 season.

Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton's musical adaptation of the Billy Wilder film noir, Sunset Boulevard will open the Main Stage season Sept. 14-Oct. 17. Chris Coleman will direct.

An Iliad, a one-actor retelling of Homer's classic, will run Sept. 28-Nov. 21. Co-creator O'Hare (Take Me Out), who will perform the piece for the Seattle Rep in April 2009, will not perform the Portland engagement. Performances run Sept. 28-Nov. 21 in Ellyn Bye Studio.

Phil Grecian's stage adaptation of the beloved film A Christmas Story will run on the Main Stage Nov. 21-Dec. 26, under the direction of Rose Riordan. The Ellyn Bye Studio will host David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries Nov. 30, 2010-Jan. 2, 2011.

Constance Congdon's adaptation of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid, directed by Chris Coleman, will run Jan. 11-Feb. 6, 2011, on the Main Stage.

Following will be the world premiere of Jordan Harrison's Futura, running Feb. 1-March 27, 2011, in the Ellyn Bye Studio. Kip Fagan will direct the love story about a rogue professor's quest to avenge her missing husband. Rose Riordan will direct Dale Wasserman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which runs Feb. 22-March 20, 2011, on the Main Stage. Michael Hollinger's Opus, directed by Brandon Fox, will follow April 12-May 8, 2011, in the Ellyn Bye Studio.

The final productions will be Itamar Moses' Love/Stories (or, But You'll Get Used to It), directed by Michelle Tattenbaum in the Ellyn Bye Studio April 26-June 19, 2011; and Randal Myler's Love, Janis, May 24-June 26, 2011, on the Main Stage.

For tickets visit PCS.org. Portland Center Stage performs at the Gerding Theater at the Armory, 128 NW Eleventh Avenue in Portland, OR.

 
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