Kirk Douglas Theater Sets 2005-2006 Season

Works by Nilo Cruz, Thomas Gibbons, and Roger Guenvuer Smith will be part of the 2005-2006 season at the Kirk Douglas Theater in Los Angeles. It is the second season for the Kirk Douglas — which is part of Center Theatre Group along with the Ahmanson and the Mark Taper Forum — and the first overseen by Michael Ritchie, CTG’s new artistic director.

The season begins with the “new vaudeville” show All Wear Bowlers, created and performed by Trey Lyford and Geoff Sobelle. The show’s recent New York engagement earned a 2005 Drama Desk nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience. It will run September 23-October 28.

Up next is A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Nilo Cruz, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Anna in the Tropics. The play, adapted from a story by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, takes place in small Caribbean town where the title character lands after falling from the sky. Performances are November 13-December 18.

Thomas Gibbons’ Permanent Collection, a regional theater favorite about an African-American businessman who shakes up the art museum where he becomes president, will play January 8-February 12. It will be followed by the comic drama The Stones by Tom Lycos and Stefo Nantsou.The play is inspired by a real event in Australia in 1994 in which two teenage boys killed a passing motorist by tossing stones off a freeway overpass. It runs March 8-April 9.

The season continues with Solomania, a group of solo shows including Adrian Sevana’s Taking Flight, which takes place in the aftermath of September 11, and Roger Guenveur Smith’s The Watts Tower Project. The series runs April 26-June 11. Concluding the season is Pyrenees, a new play about a man who seems to have forgotten his identity, by the critically acclaimed Scottish playwright David Grieg. It runs July 2-August 6.

Tickets for the 2005-2006 season are only available now by subscription. Call 213-628-2772 for more information.