A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classic repertory theatre company, is thrilled to announce its 2019-2020 season with the theme, THEY PLAYED WITH FIRE. A Noise Within's current season subscribers and donors were invited to hear the news first at an exclusive event held last night on A Noise Within's Redmond Stage. Season passholders and new subscribers will have the opportunity to access priority seating beginning today. Single tickets will go on sale to the public on Tuesday, June 11.
"A Noise Within's 2019-2020 season embraces the incandescent power of change," said ANW Producing Artistic Directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott. "Our upcoming titles are peopled with formidable characters - torches in hand - willing to either burn down the house or build a mansion of possibility." A Noise Within's fiery new season begins this summer with the California premiere of Nick Dear's adaptation of the chilling fable by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (August 11 - September 8, 2019). Frankenstein will be directed by guest director Michael Michetti, who also directed the critically acclaimed adaptation of Oscar Wilde's shocking and provoking novella, A Picture of Dorian Gray, for ANW's 2018-2019 season. Following Frankenstein, A Noise Within will produce Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean (September 22 - November 16, 2019), chronologically the first in Wilson's celebrated American Century Cycle. The production will be directed by guest director Gregg T. Daniel, who previously directed ANW's Ovation Award-nominated production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. From one Pulitzer Prize winner to the next, Gem of the Ocean will run in rotating repertory with Sam Shepard's powerful Pulitzer Prize-winning 1978 play, Buried Child (October 13 - November 23, 2019), directed by ANW Producing Artistic Director Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, who recently directed the LA Times Critic's Choice, Argonautika (closes May 5). Concluding 2019, holiday favorite Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (December 4 - 23, 2019) adapted for the stage by ANW Producing Artistic Director Geoff Elliott and directed by Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, will return for its eighth year.Videos