OLD GLOBE SCHEDULES FIVE PLAYS FOR WINTER

The Old Globe Theatre on Thursday announced a schedule of five little-known plays for its winter season ranging from a 1920s American comedy, to a play about contemporary blacks, to a world premiere about Puerto Ricans living in New York.

“Holiday,” the 1928 Philip Barry comedy about a socialite, her boyfriend and her father who disapproves of the young man, will open the season Dec. 10 on the Globe stage and run through Jan. 17.

Reuben Gonzalez’s drama, “The Boiler Room,” will open the season on the Carter Centre Stage Dec. 5 and play through Jan. 17. A story of the conflict between a Puerto Rican woman and her two headstrong children, “The Boiler Room” was presented in October’s Play Discovery Festival workshop by the Globe’s bilingual arm, Teatro Meta.

The Old Globe will import the Yale Repertory Theatre production of August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” Feb. 4 through March 13. Wilson is known for such plays about the contemporary black experience as “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Fences.”

The second Carter production will be “The Voice of the Prairie,” about radio storytelling in the Midwest. The West Coast premiere of the John Olive play will run Jan. 30 through March 13. The Globe has not announced the final play for the Carter stage.

Another West Coast premiere, Richard Harris’ “Stepping Out,” will play March 31 through May 8 on the main stage. The comedy is about a troupe of British performers in America.