Tickets to all Shows for the Hartford Stage 2015/16 Season on Sale July 13
By: Sally Henry Fuller Jul. 04, 2015
Tickets to all shows for the Hartford Stage 2015/16 Season, including the world premieres of Rear Window and the new musical Anastasia, will go on sale July 13 by phone at 860-527-5151 or online at www.hartfordstage.org.
Please note that due to construction there is not a physical box office available for in-person ticket purchases until after Labor Day.
The season begins with the world premiere of An Opening in Time by Connecticut playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Christopher Shinn, directed by Oliver Butler, from September 17 to October 11, and the world premiere of Rear Window, adapted for the stage by Keith Reddin, based on the short story "Rear Window" by Cornell Woolrich, directed by Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak, from October 22 to November 15.
Starting Thanksgiving weekend, the theatre will present the 18th annual production of A Christmas Carol-A Ghost Story of Christmas, adapted and originally directed by Michael Wilson, directed by Maxwell Williams, from November 27 to December 27.
After the holidays, the season continues with The Body of an American, a bold, radically theatrical and poetic true story by Dan O'Brien, directed by Jo Bonney, from January 7 to 31, 2016; Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, directed by Tresnjak, from February 11 to March 20, 2016; and Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Emily Mann, adapted from the best-selling book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth, directed by Jade King Carroll, from March 31 to April 24, 2016.
The Body of an American is a co-production with Primary Stages in New York, and Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years is a co-production with Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven.
The season concludes with the world premiere of a new musical: Anastasia, book by Terrence McNally (Ragtime, Kiss of the Spider Woman); music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Once on this Island); inspired by the Twentieth Century Fox Motion Pictures; directed by Tresnjak, from May 12 to June 12.
TICKET INFORMATION
Individual tickets to all performances start at $25. Subscriptions to the six-play MainStage Season start at $125, a substantial savings over the cost of individual tickets. Order online at www.hartfordstage.org/subscribe or call the Box Office at 860-527-5151.
Group seats are available now for all shows via www.hartfordstage.org/group-sales or Theresa MacNaughton at (860) 520-7114.
HARTFORD STAGE
Entering our 52nd year this fall, Hartford Stage is one of the nation's leading resident theatres, known for producing innovative revivals of classics and provocative new plays and musicals, including 68 world and American premieres, as well as offering a distinguished education program, which reaches more than 20,000 students annually.
In 2011, Darko Tresnjak became only the fifth artistic director to lead Hartford Stage. Since then the theatre has presented the world premieres of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on Broadway, winner of four 2014 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical by Darko; Quiara Alegría Hudes' Water by the Spoonful, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Breath & Imagination by Daniel Beaty; Reverberation by Matthew Lopez; and Big Dance Theatre's Man in a Case with Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Hartford Stage, under the leadership of Managing Director Michael Stotts, has earned many of the nation's most prestigious awards, including its first Tony Award in 1988 for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Other national honors include Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, OBIE, and New York Critics Circle awards. Hartford Stage has produced nationally renowned titles, including the New York transfers of Enchanted April; The Orphans' Home Cycle; Resurrection (later retitled Through the Night); The Carpetbagger's Children; and Tea at Five.
Hartford Stage 2015/16 Season
World Premiere
September 17 - October 11
By Christopher ShinnDirected by Oliver Butler
A World Premiere by the author of Dying City.
Anne, a retired schoolteacher, moves back to the suburban town in central Connecticut which she left years before. She finds a number of things have changed. Dunkin' Donuts franchises are everywhere; the local high school is putting on a production of Rent; and a long-lost friendship suddenly reappears in a new guise. A subtle and moving play about finding connections in a shifting world.
World Premiere
October 22 - November 15
Adapted for the Stage by Keith ReddinBased upon the Story "Rear Window" by Cornell WoolrichDirected by Darko Tresnjak
Murder is in the eye of the beholder.
A sweltering New York summer. A man confined to his wheelchair spends hour after hour watching his neighbors. Is he imagining things, or has he witnessed a murder? A thrilling adaptation of the classic crime story-"Rear Window" by Cornell Woolrich-that inspired the Alfred Hitchcock film. Keith Reddin's plays include Frame 312, Life and Limb and Rum and Coke.
January 7 - January 31
By Dan O'BrienDirected by Jo Bonney
"If you do this, I will own you forever."
Canadian photojournalist Paul Watson is haunted by the words he heard a dead soldier say as he took the photo that would win him the Pulitzer Prize and reshape American foreign policy. Playwright Dan O'Brien, struggling with ghosts of his own, reaches out to Watson, and the two forge a friendship as they reckon with the traumas that have shaped their lives. The Body of an American is a bold, radically theatrical and poetic true story that ranges from Afghanistan and Iraq to the Canadian High Arctic. The Winner of the inaugural Edward Kennedy Prize, the Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play, and the PEN Award for Drama.
The Body of An American is a co-production with Primary Stages.
February 11 - March 20
By William ShakespeareDirected by Darko Tresnjak
"A plague on both your houses!"
Director Darko Tresnjak follows up his spectacular production of Hamlet with Shakespeare's most popular play. The intense feud between the Montague and Capulet families devastates the city of Verona and foreshadows tragic consequences for young Romeo and Juliet. Revenge, passion and a secret marriage lead the world's most famous star-crossed lovers to a harrowing end.
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
March 31 - April 24
By Emily MannAdapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill HearthDirected by Jade King Carroll
103-year-old Sadie Delany and 101-year-old Bessie Delany were the daughters of a former slave, grew up in the Jim Crow South, lived in Harlem during its renaissance, and had professional careers as a teacher and a dentist, respectively. While they make dinner to remember their father's birthday, the two sisters tell us the story of the last century, as they lived it. History at its most immediate, and poignant. "The most provocative and entertaining family play to reach Broadway in a long time," said The New York Times.
Having Our Say is a co-production with Long Wharf Theatre.
A New Musical
May 12 - June 12
Book by Terrence McNallyMusic by Stephen FlahertyLyrics by Lynn AhrensInspired by the Twentieth Century Fox Motion PicturesDirected by Darko Tresnjak
From Darko Tresnjak-2014 Tony Award winner for Best Director of a Musical for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder-and the Tony Award-winning writers of the Broadway classic Ragtime, the new musical Anastasia is the romantic and rousing story of one brave young woman attempting to discover the mystery of her past while finding a place for herself in the rapidly changing world of a new century. With a rich and sweeping musical score that evokes the opulence of Russian aristocracy and the energy of Paris street life, Anastasia is the ultimate journey of a woman caught between the pull of the past and the promise of the future.
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