Wilson Chapman editorLos Angeles’ Center Theater Group will host two world premieres, a West Coast bow, a U.S. launch and several classics and modern hits for its 2022-23 season.The initial programming lineup for the next season of the theater group, which operates the Ahmanson and the Mark Taper Forum, was announced on Thursday by managing director and CEO Meghan Pressman, producing director Douglas C.
Baker and associate artistic directors Luis Alfaro, Lindsay Allbaugh, Tyrone Davis, Neel Keller and Kelley Kirkpatrick.The Taper’s season will open with “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe,” a one-woman play written by Jane Wagner that originally starred Lily Tomlin in 1991.
The new production, which ran at the Shed in New York earlier this year, stars Cecily Strong and is directed by Leigh Silverman.
It will run at the Taper from Sept. 21 to Oct. 23. The Taper will also feature the West Coast premiere of “Clyde’s,” the Tony-nominated play from Pulitzer-winner Lynn Nottage that premiered on Broadway last November.
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