BAM Announces 2010 Spring Season

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) has announced programming for its spring 2010 season.

As previously announced, the Bridge Project — a three-year series of co-productions by BAM, The Old Vic, and Neal Street Productions — will present a pairing of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and As You Like It, January 12-March 13. Both plays are directed by Sam Mendes, with the company including Ashlie Atkinson (Phoebe/Juno), Jenni Barber (Audrey/Iris), Michelle Beck (Celia/Ceres), Edward Bennett (Oliver/Ferdinand), Christian Camargo (Orlando/Ariel), Stephen Dillane (Jaques/Prospero), Alvin Epstein (Adam/Gonzalo), Jonathan Fried (Le Beau/Alonso), Richard Hansell (Amiens/Sebastian), Ron Cephas Jones (Charles the Wrestler/Caliban), Aaron Krohn (Silvius/Adrian), Anthony O’Donnell (Corin/Trinculo), Juliet Rylance (Rosalind/Miranda), Thomas Sadoski (Touchstone/Stephano), Michael Thomas (Dukes Frederick and Senior/Antonio), and Ross Waiton (Boatswain, Francisco, First Lord).

Alan Rickman will direct the Donmar Warehouse production of August Strindberg’s Creditors (April 16-May 16), in a new version by David Greig, and featuring the original London cast: Anna Chancellor, Tom Burke, and Owen Teale. Another theater highlight will be the Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg’s staging of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (April 7-11), directed by Lev Dodin, and performed in Russian with English titles.

Conductor William Christie will curate a 16-day Opera Festival in March featuring Les Arts Florissants in world premiere productions of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Charpentier’s Actéon, and the U.S. premiere of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen produced by Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opéra Comique, Théâtre de Caen, and BAM. The festival will also feature recitals, talks, chamber music performances, open rehearsal, and film.

Dance highlights will include the Mark Morris Dance Group (February 23-27), DanceAfrica 2010 (May 28-31), and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (June 10-19). Music events will include the Sounds Like Brooklyn Music Festival in February, Falla and Flamenco (April 17), and various Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD screenings.

For more information, visit www.bam.org.