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A&E Dispatch | Bartlett Sher to direct Wilson play in N.Y.
Intiman Theatre's Bartlett Sher has his next Lincoln Center Theater gig: directing one of August Wilson's Century Cycle plays, "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" in March 2009.
Seattle Times staff reporter
Bartlett Sher will direct a new production of August Wilson's Tony Award-winning play "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" for Lincoln Center Theater in New York City next year.
Sher, the artistic director at Seattle's Intiman Theatre, is also the resident director at the Lincoln Center Theater. There, his staging of the current Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" earned Sher his first Tony Award.
a 2008 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award.
His upcoming play, "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" is part of the late August Wilson's famed Century Cycle, depicting the African-American experience in each decade of the 20th Century. The play originally opened on Broadway in 1988, and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Play and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
Previews of "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" are scheduled to start March 19, 2009, with opening night on April 16, in a New York Broadway theater yet to be announced. At Intiman, Sher will next direct Shakespeare's "Othello" next summer.
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