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Apr. 17--Court Theatre's 2006-07, five-show season will begin Sept. 9 with a rare revival of the 1973 Broadway musical "Raisin," a songful take on Lorraine Hansberry's classic Chicago drama "A Raisin in the Sun."
Later in the fall (Nov. 11-Dec. 10), Court will present a further production of "Hotel Cassiopeia," the Charles L. Mee and Anne Bogart experimental collaboration about the life of artist Joseph Cornell. The SITI Company piece recently premiered to mixed reviews at the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival, but Bogart and Mee are expected to further refine the performance collage for the Court engagement.
Artistic director Charles Newell (who will direct "Raisin") also will helm a revival of Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Chicago from Jan. 11 to Feb. 11. The remainder of the season takes place at Court's traditional home on the University of Chicago campus in Hyde Park.
Next spring (May 3-June 3), Court audiences will see a further production, also under Newell's direction, of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" (recently revived in Chicago by the Remy Bumppo Theatre Company).
This year's Court season offers notably more opportunities for African-American artists than past years. The remaining title on the season is Pearl Cleage's oft-revived "Flyin' West" (March 8-April 8). It will be directed by Ron OJ Parson, who directed the hit production of August Wilson's "Fences" at Court this season.
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