COMING SOON FOR 2005-06.Byline: - Evan Henerson In the smaller, more daring theater: a trio of world premieres, a David Mamet courtroom farce, a new offering from the Latino comedy trio Culture Clash and Annette Bening doing her best to enliven Chekhovian malaise. In the larger house, the one known for touring Broadway musicals: a New York-bound Oscar Wilde classic, an avant-garde Robert Wilson/Tom Waits/William S. Burroughs fusion, a new musical with ``drowsy'' in the title and the return of Dame Edna and the buff male swans of Matthew Bourne's ``Swan Lake.'' Perhaps this is not your grandfather's season at Center Theatre Group's Mark Taper Forum The Mark Taper Forum is a small thrust stage with 745 seats at the Los Angeles Music Center built by Welton Beckett and Associates. It has presented innovative plays since 1967. The world premiere of Angels In America was produced here. and Ahmanson Theatre. The 2005-06 season was announced by new artistic director Michael Ritchie this week. ``I kind of started from scratch. There are no rules for what should be or not be,'' says Ritchie, who will reveal the '05-'06 season for the Kirk Douglas Theatre The Kirk Douglas Theatre is located in Culver City, California and in 2004, was acquired by the famed Center Theatre Group. The theatre is the most intimate of the groups 3 stages and seats 317 patrons at max occupancy. in late May. ``This is the season I would want to see, presuming I have fairly wide- ranging tastes. I thought this would be the best palette for any audience to choose from.'' Ritchie said he wants a cross-pollination between the two theaters. And as for the recent dearth of plays that have already had productions in New York, that was a function of necessity, since not many hot plays have been coming out of New York or are touring at present. ``My real hope is to have a lot more fluidity between the three theaters, and not overly define the spaces by what's possible in them,'' says Ritchie. ``So there will be some shows you wouldn't normally expect you'd see in the Ahmanson, and I think the same holds true for the Taper.'' The Taper opens in October with the Mamet play. ``Romance'' (Oct. 9 to Nov. 13). Directed by Neil Pepe, it's a remount re·mount tr.v. re·mount·ed, re·mount·ing, re·mounts 1. To mount again. 2. To supply with a fresh horse. n. A fresh horse. Noun 1. of New York's Atlantic Theatre Company production. In the cerebral courtroom farce envisioned by Mamet (``Glengarry Glen Ross,'' ``American Buffalo''), prosecutor, defendant, drug-addled judge and bailiff bailiff Officer of some U.S. courts whose duties include keeping order in the courtroom and guarding prisoners or jurors in deliberation. In medieval Europe, it was a title of some dignity and power, denoting a manorial superintendent or royal agent who collected fines and all become part of the author's jabs at justice, sexual politics and religious prejudice. ``Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates,'' (Dec. 11 to Jan. 22, 2006). Robert Schenkkan, a Pulitzer Prize winner for ``The Kentucky Cycle,'' sends the famed American pioneer duo into a panoply pan·o·ply n. pl. pan·o·plies 1. A splendid or striking array: a panoply of colorful flags. See Synonyms at display. 2. of historic American conflicts. ``The Cherry Orchard'' (Feb. 12 to March 19). The three-time Oscar nominee Bening stars as the deluded Madame Ranyevskaya, attempting to cling to her land, in the Chekhov work directed by Sean Mathias. ``iWitness'' (April 9 to May 27). Joshua Sobol's play is based on the life of Franz Jaegerstatter, an Austrian farmer executed in Berlin for refusing to wear a Nazi uniform and serve in the army of the Third Reich. Former Classic Stage Company artistic director Barry Edelstein directs the American premiere. ``Without Walls'' (June 11 to July 16). Alfred Uhry, author of ``Driving Miss Daisy Driving Miss Daisy is a 1987 play by Alfred Uhry about the relationship of an elderly Southern Jewish lady shares with her African-American chauffeur, Hoke Colburn, over the span of several decades. ,'' offers the world premiere of this play that centers on the bond between a drama teacher and a pair of acting students at a Manhattan high school Manhattan High School is a public high school (grades 9-12) in Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas. It is part of Kansas Unified School District #383. The school is divided into two campuses. in 1977. The season concludes with ``Water & Power'' (Aug. 6 to Sept. 17) from Richard Montoya with Culture Clash. A Latino father, an employee of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States, serving 3.9 million residents in 2006. It was founded in 1902 to deliver water and electricity supplies to residents and businesses in Los Angeles. , nicknames his twin sons Water and Power. One grows up to be a politician, the other an LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. lieutenant. The Ahmanson opens in September. ``Dead End'' (Sept. 7 to Oct. 6). It's a revival of Sidney Kingsley's 1935 play about the gangs of Dead End Kids in Depression-era Manhattan. Ritchie previously produced the play in 1997 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. ``The Drowsy Chaperone'' (Nov. 18 to Dec. 24), with music by Greg Morrison and lyrics by Lisa Lambert, involves a musical-theater fanatic who dreams himself into a 1928 musical. The musical previously was a hit at the Toronto Fringe Theatre Festival in 1999 and heads to Broadway after its run here. ``The Importance of Being Earnest'' (Jan. 22, 2006, to March 5). Witticisms abound in a Broadway-bound revival of Wilde's comedy of manners comedy of manners Witty, ironic form of drama that satirizes the manners and fashions of a particular social class or set. Comedies of manners were usually written by sophisticated authors for members of their own social class, and they typically are concerned with social . ``The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets'' (April 26 to June 11). A musical fable brings together the talents of Waits, Burroughs and director Robert Wilson. Loosely based on a German folktale folktale, general term for any of numerous varieties of traditional narrative. The telling of stories appears to be a cultural universal, common to primitive and complex societies alike. , the story follows a young clerk who strikes a deal with the devil A deal with the Devil, pact with the Devil, or Faustian bargain is a cultural motif widespread wherever the Devil is vividly present, most familiar in the legend of Faust and the figure of Mephistopheles, but elemental to many Christian folktales. to marry a woodsman's daughter. The English-language production of ``The Black Rider'' has played London, San Francisco and Sydney, Australia. The Ahmanson also will offer limited runs of ``Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake'' (March 8-19) and ``Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance!'' (March 28 to April 9). One more title, for the summer of 2006, is to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. . CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) ``Dead End,'' playing at the Ahmanson Theatre from Sept. 7 to Oct. 6, tells a story of juvenile gangs in 1930s New York. (2) ``Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake'' is scheduled for a brief run at the Ahmanson early next year, March 8-19. |
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