Kirk Douglas Season Features Julie White and 'Bengal Tiger'

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, a play set against the backdrop of the war in Iraq by Rajiv Joseph, will have its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theater in the 2008-09 season running May 17 through June 7, 2009.  Moises Kaufman will direct.

Joseph's credits include "Huck & Holden" produced at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York and at the Black Dahlia Theater in Los Angeles. His "All This Intimacy" premiered in 2006 at Second Stage in New York, and this summer, Second Stage will preem his "Animal Out of Paper." He is the 2008 recipient of the Vineyard Theater's Paula Vogel Playwriting Award.

The Douglas season opens with This Beautiful City, a play with music concerning the evangelical Christian movement, that will run Sept. 28-Oct. 26. Written by Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis, with music and lyrics by Michael Friedman ("Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson"), "City" is co-produced with New York's Vineyard Theater.

Julie White will reprise her Tony Award-winning performance in Douglas Carter Beane's The Little Dog Laughed, which runs Nov. 23 through Dec. 21.

Danny Hoch's latest solo performance, Taking Over, a study of the effects of gentrification, will be presented Jan. 23 through Feb. 22. Tony Taccone, artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theater, where Taking Over had its world premiere earlier this year, will direct.

Heddatron, Elizabeth Meriwether's deconstruction of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, featuring actors and robots, will have its West Coast premiere July 12-Aug. 2, 2009.   Alex Timbers, who helmed Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson this year, will direct.  The play was first presented at the Here Arts Center in New York in February 2006 by the avant-garde troupe Les Freres Corbusier.  And for more from James Sims visit www.simsscoop.com.

Photo of Julie White in The Little Dog Laughed by Joan Marcus.

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