Artistic director Tazewell Thompson will stage the summer 2008 production, in which Rashad (A Raisin in the Sun) will play Princess Kosmonopolis. A spokesperson for the theatre called the report premature and would not confirm Rashad's participation.
The 2008 Westport season will also reportedly include:
A play to be announced for February, directed by Westport artistic director emeritus Joanne Woodward. Westport would not confirm this.
Jon Maran's three-character 2005 play about a young Orthodox Jewish wife, A Strange and Separate People, directed by Thompson, in April.
Craig Wright's The Pavilion, directed by associate artistic director Chad Rabinovitz, in June.
Westport playwright-in-residence David Wiltse's office-set farce Scramble!, directed by Florida Stage's Louis Tyrrell, who helmed the play in Manalapan, FL, in 2006-07 when it was called Hatchetman. Wesport would not confirm Tyrrell's participation.
John Steinbeck's durable Of Mice and Men, directed by Anne Keefe in October.
Thompson's adaptation of A Christmas Carol in December.
A May production to be announced. For more information about the resident professional theatre in Westport, CT, visit WestportCountryPlayhouse.org.
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Wiltse's new play, Sedition, is currently at Westport (to Aug. 18), to be followed by a new Sondheim revue, Being Alive!, Billy Porter's new African-American take on the songs of Stephen Sondheim — with chunks of Shakespeare poetry. It will play Aug. 24-Sept. 9.
