Trinity Rep's 2018-19 Season Single Tickets Go On Sale August 14

Trinity Rep announces tickets to its 2018-19 Season will go on sale tomorrow, August 14, 2018, beginning at 10:00 am. Tickets start at $25 and will be available for purchase by phone at (401) 351-4242, online at www.trinityrep.com, or in person at the theater's box office at 201 Washington Street, Providence. The 2018-19 Season is one of the largest the company has ever produced and one of the most diverse.

The season begins with a new adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Kate Hamill. This playful and comedic adaptation of Austen's much-beloved novel runs October 4 - November 4, 2018. The play premiered in 2017 and has quickly become one of the most popular new plays for regional theaters around the country. The adaptation remains true to Austen's story while infusing a new sense of hilarity and effervescence and will be directed by Birgitta Victorson, a 2007 graduate of the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA program in Directing. This show is sponsored by Navigant Credit Union.

Following the start of the New Year, the company will introduce audiences to Marcus Gardley's black odyssey, in its East Coast premiere from January 3 - February 3, 2019. The play is an epic and glorious reimagining of Homer's classic poem that combines Greek mythology and African-American history of the last fifty years. This show is sponsored by Cornish and Associates.

Audiences will then be treated to a masterful production of Macbeth, directed by Curt Columbus, who has long had this play on his short list of plays to direct and produce. Shakespeare's legendary tragedy is a stunning examination of power, ambition, murder, and madness, with fascinating contemporary relevance. This production will run January 31 through March 3, 2019. This show is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The company will then pivot to an exciting world premiere by Lauren Yee, which runs March 14 - April 14, 2019. Like the recent hit Into the Breeches!, Yee's new play The Song of the Summer was commissioned by Trinity Rep and written for the company's resident actors. Yee was the winner of the National Arts Club's 2017 Kesselring Prize and was awarded the 2018-19 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts. In addition, she was a finalist for the 2018 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama and the 2018 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her play introduces us to a pop icon who abandons his concert tour to return to his hometown where he will make discoveries that change his career and life.

The season continues with the popular and award-winning musical Little Shop of Horrors, which runs April 11 through May 12, 2019, and will be directed by Trinity Rep's Associate Artistic Director Tyler Dobrowsky. The musical was written by the legendary duo of Howard Ashman (book and lyrics) and Alan Menken (music) and served as the basis for the 1986 film adaptation. In the sci-fi inspired cult favorite, a strange and unusual plant seems like just the thing to save a struggling Skid Row flower shop, but things get complicated and messy when the plant turns out to feed only on blood.

The season will close with José Rivera's Marisol, which runs May 16 - June 16, 2019. The Obie Award-winning play was first produced in 1992. Its themes remain relevant to contemporary audiences trying to make sense of a world they don't recognize. The fantastical and surreal story centers on Marisol Perez's attempt to find hope among the ruins when she wakes up one day to find her reality displaced by the effect of a war between God and the angels.

Tickets to New England's favorite holiday tradition, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, are currently on sale and already breaking record numbers. This year's production, directed by Mark Valdez, will run November 8 - December 30, 2018 with Stephen Thorne in the role of miserable businessman Ebenezer Scrooge. This show is sponsored by Cardi's Mattresses and Furniture and Amica Insurance. Tickets for An Iliad are on sale only to subscribers until October 1, 2018. An Iliad is sponsored by Cornish and Associates.

Trinity Rep's 2018-19 Season is sponsored by Ocean State Job Lot and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

Rhode Island's Tony Award-winning theater, Trinity Rep has created unparalleled professional theater for and with its community since its founding in 1963. Trinity Rep strives to facilitate human connection and has been a driving force behind the creativity that fuels and defines the region for more than 50 years.

Trinity Rep is committed to reinventing the public square and inspiring dialogue by creating emotionally-stimulating live productions that range from classical to contemporary and innovative education programs for all ages and abilities. Its annual production of A Christmas Carol has brought families together for 41 years and made memories for over a million audience members.

Subscriptions for the 2018-19 Season are now on sale. The season includes Pride & Prejudice by Kate Hamill, black odyssey by Marcus Gardley, a special limited-engagement of An Iliad by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare, Macbeth by William Shakespeare, The Song of Summer by Lauren Yee, Little Shop of Horrors with book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken, and José Rivera's Marisol.

For more information on our 2018-19 Season, call the box office at (401) 351-4242 or visit Trinity Rep's website at www.TrinityRep.com.

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