McCarter Theatre Announces 2006-2007 Season

Works by Harold Pinter, Brian Friel, Emily Mann, and August Wilson will be part of the 2006-2007 season at The McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey.

The season will begin a revival of Pinter’s dark comedy The Birthday Party, directed by Emily Mann (September 8-October 15) and a revival of Friel’s Translations, directed by Tony Award winner Garry Hynes (October 8-October 29). The latter play is being produced in conjunction with celebrations marking the launch of the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Collection of Irish Theater at the Princeton University Library.

In 2007, the McCarter will present Lookingglass Alice, David Caitlin’s family-friendly take on Alice in Wonderland (January 9-28), followed by August Wilson’s final play Radio Golf, directed by Kenny Leon (March 18-April 8) — which is expected on Broadway sometime next year. The season will end with Emily Mann’s Mrs. Packard, about a women unfairly locked in an insane asylum by her husband. It will play May 4-June 10, and then move to the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

The McCarter’s cabaret series will feature appearances by Mary Cleere Haran (October 21), Karen Mason (December 16), Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley (January 27), and Barbara Cook (April 21). Other events of note include a production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Yeomen of the Guard (February 3), Tony Award winner Savion Glover (February 13), and Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight (May 18).

For more information, call 609-258-2787 or visit www.mccarter.org.