Globe Announces Winter Lineup

A new revival of Gabriel Garcia Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” by director Gerald Freedman and “Up in Saratoga,” a new play being adapted from a 19th-Century farce by playwright Terrence McNally, will kick off the Old Globe’s expanded seven-play, winter season.

McNally is the hot young author of “Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune,” now a big Off-Broadway hit. Freedman, now directing Kevin Kline and Blythe Danner in the New York Shakespeare Festival’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” will be co-producing “Blood Wedding” with the Old Globe and his own theater, the Great Lakes Theatre Company.

Martha Clarke’s “Garden of Earthly Delights,” a combination of dance, theater and music based on the Hieronymous Bosch triptych “The Fall of Mankind,” will be offered as an alternative to “Blood Wedding” for subscribers. An as-yet unnamed musical will be the fourth offering on the Globe main stage.

Only two of the three plays to be shown in the Cassius Carter Centre stage have been announced: “Alfred Stieglitz Loves O’Keefe” and “A . . . My Name Is Alice.”

“Alfred Stieglitz Loves O’Keefe,” a new play by Lanie Robertson, was plucked from the Old Globe’s Play Discovery Program. That’s the same place that the Old Globe

found “Strange Snow,” their first production by playwright Stephen Metcalfe, now an Associate Artist of the theater.

“Strange Snow” is now being made into a movie, “Jacknife,” starring Robert de Niro and Ed Harris.

“Alfred Stieglitz Loves O’Keefe” is a two-character piece based on the love affair between the famous photographer and painter.

“A . . . My Name is Alice” is the West Coast premiere of a musical revue dealing with a modern woman’s concerns. It was co-written by film director Joan Micklin Silver and Julianne Boyd, who directed “Tea” for the Old Globe last season.

“Up in Saratoga,” which the Globe commissioned McNally to adapt from Bronson Howard’s “Saratoga,” represents an experiment that may portend more such projects in the future for the Old Globe, according to Tom Hall, managing director of the theater.

“There’s a storehouse of work that’s been dormant for many years,” said Hall. “A lot of plays which were written some centuries ago are no longer being produced simply because they’re being antiquated.

“If it’s all working the way we think it will then we see it as a long-term commitment by the theater to pair the classics with the newest hottest playwrights. It’s an obvious choice. We get to see some of the work that’s a little dusty around the edges and bring it back to the stage in a contemporary way.”