Beaty, Fabrique, Fisher, Shinn, Stritch, et al. Set for Hartford Stage Season

Hartford Stage has announced the company’s complete 2008-2009 season.

The company is about to present Tennessee Williams The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (May 15-June 15, starring Olympia Dukakis, Kevin Anderson, Curtis Billings, Maggie Lacey, Judith Anna Roberts, and Amanda Tudor.

This summer, Hartford Stage will present Elaine Stritch at Liberty (June 24-29), in which the star presents a no-holds barred look at her life and career; the biomusical Ella, with Tina Fabrique as singer Ella Fitzgerald (July 8-27); and Carrie Fisher in her autobiographical solo piece Wishful Drinking (August 6-17), directed by Tony Taccone.

Up next will be William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (August 28-October 5), directed by Lisa Peterson, the world premiere of Daniel Beaty’s Resurrection (October 16-November 16), directed by Oz Scott; Michael Wilson’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (November 28-December 28), Christopher Shinn’s two-hander Dying City (January 8-February 8), which was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize; a new stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird (February 19-April 5); Michael Frayn’s farce Noises Off (April 16-May 17), directed by Malcolm Morrison; and Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder’s Gee’s Bend (May 28-June 28).

For more information, visit www.hartfordstage.org.