Ahmanson Sets 2006-2007 Season

National touring productions of Doubt, The Light in the Piazza, Edward Scissorhands, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Twelve Angry Men, plus the world premiere of the musical Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, will be presented at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles during the 2006-2007 season.

John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt, with Tony Award winner Cherry Jones recreating her role as Sister Aloysius, will open the season with a September 22-October 29 run. Next up is the Adam Guettel-Craig Lucas musical The Light in the Piazza, directed by Bartlett Sher, October 31-December 10. It will be followed by Edward Scissorhands, Matthew Bourne’s adaptation of Tim Burton’s acclaimed film, December 12-31.

Scheduled to kick off 2007 is Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, with Tony Award winner Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner reprising their Broadway roles as George and Martha, February 6-March 18. That show will be followed by the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Twelve Angry Men, starring Richard Thomas and George Wendt, March 28-May 6. The last show of the season will be Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, written by Motown founder Berry Gordy and featuring a score of pop hits culled from that record company’s extensive catalogue. It will run June 25-August 12.

Subscriptions are available by calling 213-628-2772; individual tickets will go on sale to the public in September.