New Guare Play To Anchor Public’s 2008-09 Season
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“A Free Man of Color,” the first new play by John Guare in seven years, will anchor the 2008-09 season of the Public Theater, the organization announced Thursday. Directed by George C. Wolfe, the play, set in tense 1802 New Orleans, will star Mos Def and Jeffrey Wright. The actors previously worked with Mr. Wolfe in the 2002 production of Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Topdog/Underdog.”
The downtown season will open in October with Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s musical “Bounce,” directed by John Doyle. Later in the season, the Public will stage the world premiere of Christopher Durang’s “Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them.” Craig Lucas will work with director Bartlett Sher for a second time, on Mr. Lucas’s play “The Singing Forest.”
The theater also announced its 2009 Summerstage program, which will be led by Euripides’ “The Bacchae,” set to music by Philip Glass, and directed by JoAnne Akalaitis.
