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Michael Arden to Direct Merrily We Roll Along and The Pride

Arden’s latest productions will be seen on the West Coast.

Michael Arden will direct Merrily We Roll Along and The Pride at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
Michael Arden will direct Merrily We Roll Along and The Pride at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
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Outer Critics Circle Award-winning director Michael Arden (Spring Awakening) will stage Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along and Alexi Kaye Campbell's drama The Pride as part of the upcoming season at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills.

Merrily We Roll Along, with classic tunes including "Not a Day Goes By," "Old Friends," and "Opening Doors," will run from November 22-December 18. The Pride, which was first seen off-Broadway in 2010, will run from June 6-30, 2017. Arden directed Deaf West Theatre's production of Spring Awakening at the Wallis Annenberg Center in 2015 before it moved to Broadway.

The Wallis Annenberg Center season will include a new Deaf West Theatre production of Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo, directed by Coy Middlebrook (March 7-26); Kneehigh's 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo and Emma Rice (February 9-March 5); and Filter Theatre's Twelfth Night, directed by Sean Holmes (March 14-19).

Also on the lineup is Complicite and Simon McBurney's The Encounter (April 6-16), as well as Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne's Battlefield, based on Mahabharata and the play written by Jean-Claude Carrière (May 24-28). Hershey Felder's Tchaikovsky: A Play with Music, will run July 19-August 6 from under the direction of Trevor Hay.

For tickets to Merrily We Roll Along, click here.

For tickets to The Pride, click here.

For tickets to Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo, click here.

For tickets to 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, click here.

For tickets to Twelfth Night, click here.

For tickets to The Encounter, click here.

For tickets to Battlefield, click here.

For tickets to Tchaikovsky: A Play With Music, click here.

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The Pride

Closed: June 30, 2017

Merrily We Roll Along

Closed: December 18, 2016

Battlefield

Closed: May 28, 2017