Goodman Announces New Stages Line-Up

Goodman Theatre has announced its line-up for the 2008 New Stages series of free readings of new American plays, to be presented September 12-21.

Works will include Pa’s Hat: A Liberian Legacy, by Cori Thomas, directed by Chuck Smith, about an elderly former ambassador and his daughter abducted by a child soldier in war-torn Liberia (September 12 at 7pm); Safe House, by Keith Josef Adkins, directed by Hallie Gordon, about a family of color who help help a young woman escape from slavery along the Underground Railroad (September 13 at 7pm); Household Spirits, by Mia McCullough, directed by Meghan Beals McCarthy, about the complicated nature of family and inheritance (September 14 at 7pm); Without, by Sean Graney, set in the back room of a space-themed bar (September 19 at 7pm); Marie Antoinette, by David Adjmi, directed by Jackson Gay, a satirical, irreverent portrait of the famous queen and her downfall (September 20 at 7pm); and The Long Red Road, by Brett C. Leonard, about the impact of addiction (September 21 at 7pm).