‘Legs’ Premiere to Help Launch Old Globe Season

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 main stage 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 up at the Cassius Carter Centre Stage Sept. 6-Oct. 22.

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

John Hirsch, the director of last year’s “Coriolanus,” will now tackle 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.