Goodman Theatre Announces 2007-2008 Season

A festival devoted to work of playwright Horton Foote and the new musical The Boys Are Coming Home, based on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, are among the highlights of the Goodman Theatre’s 2007-2008 season.

The Foote festival, to take place next Spring, will include a full production of his classic play The Trip to Bountiful, directed by Harris Yulin, who performed similar duties for the play’s 2005 production at the Signature Theater Company in New York.

First seen at Northwestern University, The Boys Are Coming Home re-sets the Bard’s comedy to Connecticut in the period after World War II. The show has a score by Leslie Arden and a book by Rebecca Gilman; the production will be directed by David Petrarca. Performances are scheduled to start in June 2008.

The Goodman will also present Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play: A Cycle, directed by Mark Wing-Davey; Eduardo Machado’s The Cook, the 30th anniversary production of its adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol; Conor McPherson’s Broadway hit Shining City, once again directed by Tony Award winner Robert Falls; and Ifa Bayeza’s The Ballad of Emmet Till, based on the 1955 lynching of the 14-year-old boy, directed by Kate Whoriskey. The season will conclude in August 2008 with the Latino Theatre Festival, curated by artistic associate Henry Godinez.

For more information, call 312-443-3800 or visit www.goodmantheatre.org.