Stage Version of Morrison's Bluest Eye to Play in CT

Variety reports that Lydia Diamond's adaptation of Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye, will be the first co-production between New Haven's Long Wharf Theater and Hartford Stage. The show premiered as part of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater Company's Young Adult Series in 2005.

Since its initial run, The Bluest Eye has seen productions in Washington, D.C., Chapel Hill, N.C., and at New York's New Victory Theater. The Connecticut production, to be directed by Long Wharf Associate Director Eric Tong, will begin at Hartford in February and transfer to New Haven in March.

Diamond's other plays include Gift Horse, Stage Black, Stick Fly and Voyeurs de Venus.  Morrison is the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Song of Solomon, Jazz, Sula and other novels.