Works by Jonathan Larson, Tarell Alvin McCraney et al. Set for About Face’s 2011-2012 Season

About Face Theatre has announced its 2011-2012 season, which will be performed at various venues in the Chicago area.

The season will open in the fall with The Kid Thing, by Sarah Gubbins. In it, two lesbian couples who have been close friends for years get together for a dinner party, and the unexpected news of an impending pregnancy rocks their relationships and their understanding of the world. Joanie Schultz will direct this co-production with Chicago Dramatists, which will be performed at the latter company’s home space.

Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Run, Mourner, Run will be presented in the winter. An adaptation of a short story in Randall Kenan’s award-winning collection Let The Dead Bury Their Dead, the piece references African-American storytelling, gospel revivals, Greek tragedy and blues.

In the spring, About Face Theatre will team with American Theater Company to present Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent, about a group of Bohemian artists struggle to find life, love and art in a brutal economy and the height of the AIDS crisis. The production will be co-directed by the company’s respective artistic directors, Bonnie Metzger and PJ Paparelli, and presented at the American Theater Company space.

In the summer, About Face Youth Theatre will present What’s the T? Examing the “T” in LGBTQ, directed by Sara Kerastas and exploring and celebrating trans identity.

Exact dates and performance venues for Run, Mourner, Run and What’s the T? will be announced at a later date.

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