John Doyle, John Guare, Danai Gurira et al. Set for McCarter Theatre’s 2011-2012 Season

The McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, has announced its 2011-2012 theater season, which will kick off with Tony Award winner John Doyle’s production of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s Ten Cents a Dance (September 9-October 9), a co-production with Williamstown Theatre Festival, that will feature the cast doubling as the orchestra.

The season will continue with Marina Carr’s world premiere adaptation of Phaedra (October 18-November 6), based on the classic myth. McCarter’s artistic director, Emily Mann, will helm the production.

Mann will also direct actress and playwright Danai Gurira’s new play, The Convert (January 13-February 12), set amid the colonial scramble for southern Africa in 1895. It tells the tale of Jekesai, a young girl who escapes from a forced marriage by becoming the newest convert of a well-meaning black catechist for the Catholic Church.

Next up will be Tom Stoppard’s classic comedy Travesties (March 13-April 1), directed by Sam Buntrock. The wildest revolutionary minds of the 20th century come alive in this romantic and achingly funny modern masterpiece.

The season will conclude with the world premiere of John Guare’s darkly comic tale, Are You There, McPhee? (May 4-June 3). Trapped in a house with a mysterious past, Edmund Gowery knows the only way to escape is to change his life — he just doesn’t know how.

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