Broadway-Bound Clybourne Park, Red, et al. Set for Mark Taper Forum’s 2012 Season

Center Theatre Group has announced the 2012 season for the Mark Taper Forum.

The year at the Taper will begin with Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park, a look at the racial and socioeconomic changes in a Chicago neighborhood over the course of 50 years. Pam MacKinnon will direct the production, which will run January 25 – February 26. According to a theater spokesperson, Lincoln Center Theater, Scott Rudin, Stuart Thompson and Center Theatre Group are planning to bring the production to Broadway in the spring pending the availability of a theater.

Also on the schedule for the Taper is a revival of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (March 14 – April 22), which be directed by Michael Arabian and star Barry McGovern and Alan Mandell. In addition, Graciela Daniele will direct a new musical from Michael John LaChiusa, Los Otros (May 23 – July 1), which examines the lives and experiences of Mexican-American immigrant workers.

The Taper season will continue John Logan’s Tony Award-winning Red (August 1 – September 9). Alfred Molina will reprise his portrayal of painter Mark Rothko in this bio-drama that will be directed by Michael Grandage, who won a Tony Award for staging the piece on Broadway.

Also on tap are David Mamet’s look an unpopular president’s final days in office, November (September 28 – November 4), and Jon Robin Batiz’s examination of a wealthy family as it confronts its secrets, Other Desert Cities (November 20 – December 30), to be directed by Joe Mantello.

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