Goodman Theatre Completes 2009-2010 Season

Chicago’s Goodman Theatre has announced a revised lineup for its 2009-2010 season.

The Albert Hall will host Henry Wishcamper’s production of the musical Animal Crackers, with a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind and a score by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby; its annual production of A Christmas Carol; Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy starring in a double bill of Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie, to be directed by Tony winner Robert Falls, and Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, to be directed by Jennifer Tarver; Rebecca Gilman’s new play A True History of the Johnstown Flood; Tracey Scott Wilson’s The Good Negro, about the leaders of the American civil rights movement, and Karen Zacharias’ The Sins of Sor Juana, about the legendary Mexican female poet Juana Ines de la Cruz, to be directed by Henry Godinez.

The Owen Theatre will now start off with Dael Oerlandersmith’s Stoop Stories, followed by; the world premiere of Alan Gross’ High Holidays, about a Jewish family in the Chicago suburbs in the 1960s; and the world premiere of Brett C.Leonard’s The Long Red Road, about a man trying to forget his role in a tragic accident, to be directed by Academy Award winner and theater star Philip Seymour Hoffman.

For tickets and information, call 312-443-3800 or visit www.goodmantheatre.org.