Park Square Theatre, which has become one of the busiest companies in the Twin Cities since opening a second stage in 2014, has announced a 2016-17 season with 13 productions slated.
The season opens Sept. 9-Oct. 2 with "The Liar," adapted by David Ives from a 17th century comedy by French playwright Pierre Corneille. Ives is best known these days for the Broadway hit "Venus in Fur." Doug Scholz-Carlson will direct.
Joel Sass will direct Will Eno's "The Realistic Joneses," running Sept. 23-Oct. 16 on the company's second stage, the Boss thrust. The subject is suburban couples, something Sass did great things with in a 2014 production of "Detroit" at the Jungle Theater.
"The House on Mango Street," an adaptation of Sandra Cisneros's coming-of-age story that opened the Boss thrust in November 2014, returns on Park Square's proscenium stage Oct. 21-22.
Warren Bowles will direct "A Raisin in the Sun" Oct. 28-Nov. 20 on the Boss thrust. Lorraine Hansberry's play about a black family searching for its American dream has become a well-deserved classic.
"The Soul of Gershwin: The Journey of an American Klezmer," last done in 2011, returns to the proscenium stage Dec. 2-24.
Sandbox Theatre, one of Park Square's partner companies, produces a world premiere with "Big Money" on the Boss thrust Jan. 12-28, 2017. The work is inspired by Michael Larson, who won $110,000 on a game show and lost it all within two years.
"Flower Drum Song" will be a coproduction with Mu Performing Arts, Jan. 20-Feb. 19, 2017, on the proscenium. Mu produced this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical in 2009. It will be directed by Randy Reyes, who starred in that production and is now Mu's artistic director.
