Live Arts announces its 2010-2011 season

It was the first season announcement under the theater’s new executive director.

Live Arts announced its 2010-2011 season yesterday evening, its first such announcement under new executive director Matt Joslyn. Joslyn and creative director Satch Huizenga will open the theater’s stages to a range of plays that—unlike current season selections like Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Glengarry Glen Ross, and the Henry IV histories—haven’t proven a broader popular appeal.

However, many of the selections have been received with universal acclaim. The Drowsy Chaperone, a musical, won its share of Tony awards in ’06. Clybourne Park, a comedy, revisits the neighborhood that the Younger family moves to in Raisin in the Sun in the present, when white families return to gentrify the neighborhood. Teens will perform a 2006 adaptation of Lois Lowry’s young adult classic The Giver in February.

There will also be some uncertainty: April of next year will see a collaborative work between artist Rosamond Casey and director Fran Smith called Mapping the Dark: A Museum of Ambient Disorders, which Casey discussed in a recent Open Studio. In April the theater will introduce a festival of short original plays.

Here’s the full rundown.

  • The Dishwashers, by Morris Panych (directed by Amanda McRaven) opens October 15.
  • The Giver, by Eric Coble (directed by Will Rucker) opens February 10.
  • The Drowsy Chaperone, by Bob Martin and Don McKellar (directed by Ray Nedzel) opens December 9.
  • Clybourne Park, by Bruce Norris (directed by Satch Huizenga) opens March 4, 2011.
  • Mapping the Dark, a collaborative work directed by Fran Smith opens April 8.
  • Live Arts Shorts Festival opens April 29.
  • The Memory of Water, by Shelagh Stephenson (directed by Betsy Tucker) opens May 20.
  • Flight of the Lawnchair Man, by Peter Ullian opens July 22.

Anything you’re looking forward to?

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