Following their current season which has included the sold out critical and box-office hits Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov and David Ives' The School for Lies, Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, has announced details for their upcoming 2011-12 season, the esteemed Off-Broadway downtown theater company's 45th.
The new season continues CSC's commitment to world-class classical theatre with three extraordinary mainstage productions, including the culmination of its Chekhov Cycle on November 9th with the tragicomic masterpiece The Cherry Orchard, starring CSC veterans John Turturro and Academy Award-winner Dianne Wiest, directed by Andrei Belgrader. The Cherry Orchard will play a limited engagement through December 18.In February, CSC veteran and Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham will star in Bertolt Brecht's masterpiece Galileo, taking on one of the great roles in the modern repertory, directed by Brian Kulick. Galileo will play a limited engagement from February 1 to March 11.Now in its 44th year as one of New York's most exciting theatres, Classic Stage Company is the award-winning Off-Broadway theatre committed to re-imagining the classical repertory for a contemporary American audience. Led by Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, two of CSC's shows this season, Chekhov's Three Sisters and David Ives' The School for Lies, made the Critic's Choice lists for The New York Times, Time Out New York, New York Magazine, and The Village Voice. CSC also received two Obie Awards, for Best Director (Austin Pendleton in Three Sisters) and Best Actor (Hamish Linklater for The School for Lies), along with Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations for Best Revival (Three Sisters). The 2010-2011 Season also marked CSC's first collaboration with nationally-acclaimed playwright Sarah Ruhl, with the New York premiere of her adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando. 2011 also ushered in the first professional production of the recently rediscovered Double Falsehood, now believed to be an adaptation of a long-lost Shakespeare play. This singular event also led to a series of panel discussions with the leading scholars in Shakespeare studies, including the legendary Harold Bloom (Yale University), David Kastan (co-editor of the Arden Shakespeare) and Gary Taylor (co-editor of the Oxford Shakespeare). CSC's current season concludes with Unnatural Acts: Harvard's Secret Court of 1920, a devised work based on true events that was developed by CSC's Associate Artistic Director Tony Speciale.
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