Clybourne Park, His Girl Friday and More Set for Trinity Rep’s 2011-2012 Season

Trinity Repertory Theatre, in Providence, Rhode Island, has announced its 2011-2012 season, which will showcase a roster of plays that explore themes of truth and the nature of justice.

The season will opens with His Girl Friday (September 9-October 9), John Guare’s adaptation of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s The Front Page, to be directed by Trinity Rep’s artistic director, Curt Columbus. Next will be Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park (October 14-November 13), which spins the Chicago setting of A Raisin in the Sun into a new tale about race and real estate in America.

Columbus will also direct Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (February 3-March 4), which will be followed by Marc Camoletti’s comedic romp Boeing Boeing (April 13-May 13), about a 1960s who has a few too many stewardess fiancées to juggle.

The season will also feature a trio of world premieres under the collective title: Three by Three in Rep, running February 16-May 27. Works will include Sparrow Grass by Curt Columbus, directed by Brian McEleney, and inspired by Racine’s Phèdre; Love Alone by Deborah Salem Smith, in which a routine medical procedure goes tragically wrong; and The Mourners’ Bench, by George Brant, described as “a quietly intriguing interwoven tale of a moment of terrible loss that reaches beyond time.”

The theater will also present the holiday shows It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (December 9-31), by Joe Landry, directed by Tyler Dobrowsky; and its annual production of A Christmas Carol (November 18-December 30) by Charles Dickens, adapted by Adrian Hall and Richard Cumming.

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