Old Globe Theatre’s Summer Fare

The Old Globe Theatre will spice up a six-play summer season heavy on the classics with one current Broadway hit and one world premiere.

“Driving Miss Daisy,” Alfred Uhry’s 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winner about an elderly Jewish woman from the South and her black chauffeur, is the Broadway baby that will play at the Old Globe mainstage Aug. 31-Oct. 8. The new play is “Breaking Legs,” Tom Dulack’s comedy about a playwright whose work is being underwritten by characters with questionable connections. It will show at the Cassius Carter Centre Stage Sept. 6-Oct. 22.

“Driving Miss Daisy” will have its Los Angeles premiere April 5-May 14 at the Henry Fonda Theatre, with Julie Harris in the lead role. Sada Thompson, an Old Globe associate artist who won a Tony for her portrayal of the four women in “Twigs,” will play Daisy at the Old Globe.

The classics, too, might take on a new twist with John Hirsch, the director of last year’s “Coriolanus,” a stirring reimagining of William Shakespeare’s tragedy in the wake of Contragate. Hirsch is now tackling Shakespeare’s dark comedy, “Measure for Measure,” the story of a sister who pleads for her brother’s life and her chastity, which a duke demands in exchange for his mercy. It will be seen on the main stage June 29-Aug. 6.

Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” will be produced at the Cassius Carter Centre Stage July 5-Aug. 20, followed by “Breaking Legs,” Sept. 6-Oct. 22. The Globe will present Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s “The School for Scandal,” an 18th-Century comedy of manners, June 23-July 30, and its sixth production of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” will be staged Aug. 25-Oct. 1, both at the outdoor, 612-seat Lowell Davies Festival Theatre.