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Programming has been announced for the The Broad Stage’s 2011-2012 season.
Stage and screen star Neil Patrick Harris will direct The Menier Chocolate Factory’s The Expert at the Card Table (July 13-August 7), written and performed by sleight-of-hand master Guy Hollingworth. This adaptation of a notorious, anonymously penned 1902 book tells the tale of two boys whose childhood love of card tricks turns in adulthood into a deadly game of trickery and deceit.
Anna Deavere Smith performs her latest solo show, Let Me Down Easy (July 22-31), directed by Leonard Foglia, and constructed from verbatim interview transcripts that examine the ‘fragility and resilience of the human body.”
Violinist Tim Fain and composer Phillip Glass will present the West Coast premiere of their multi-media collaboration, Portals (October 9), based partly on Leonard Cohen’s poetry collection, Book of Longing, with film by Kate Hackett, and video choreography by Benjamin Millepied.
Oscar winner Helen Hunt will star as the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (January 13-February 12), directed by David Cromer. The Broad Stage itself will be physically transformed, allowing for only 325 seats, to bring Grover’s Corners, the play’s every town U.S.A., truly home.
Pianist Eteri Andjaparidze and theater lighting designer Jennifer Tipton present the West coast premiere of their Spectral Scriabin (March 17), which explores the legacy of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin.
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Anna Sinyakina headline Baryshnikov Arts Center’s and Dmitry Krymov Laboratory’s In Paris (April 12-22), adapted from Ivan Bunin, and also featuring Maxim Maminov, Maria Gulik, and ensemble.
Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell (March 10 and 11) will present a program borrowing from the musical theater songbook. Tony winning composer Jason Robert Brown and his band the Caucasian Rhythm & Brass Kings perform with special guest, Tony winner Anika Noni Rose (March 31), featuring tunes from Brown’s many shows including Parade, 13, and Songs for a New World.
Theater-related highlights will also include a concert by opera baritone Simon Keenlyside
(October 29); Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s production of The Comedy of Errors (November 12-27); and Impro Theatre’s Jane Austen Unscripted (December 3-18).
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