Hartford’s TheaterWorks Announces 2008-2009 Season

TheaterWorks, in downtown Hartford, has announced the lineup for its 2008-2009 season, which will begin with Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer, November 7-December 21. Set on Christmas Eve, the play concerns four Irish blokes who converge in a dingy Dublin basement for what they hope will be a festive evening of whiskey and poker. When a mysterious stranger arrives, the stakes of the game are raised frighteningly high.

Next up will be Theresa Rebeck’s Mauritius, January 23-March 8, in which two sisters are locked in a battle of wills over their recently deceased mother’s book of valuable stamps. It will be followed by Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone, April 3-May 10, which concerns a woman who answers a dead man’s ringing cell phone and gets caught up in the complicated personal life of the late owner.

David Lindsay-Abaire’s Wonder of the World will play June 5-July 19, following a woman who discovers the dirty secret hiding in her husband’s sweater drawer, and resolves to leave him and do all the things she hasn’t accomplished in life. The season will conclude with Stephen Karam’s Speech & Debate, August 14- September 27, about three teenagers wrestling with sex, lies, and YouTube videos.

For more information, visit www.theaterworkshartford.org.