Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’ Heads South Coast Rep Season : Stage: David Hare’s ‘The Secret Rapture’ will be given its West Coast premiere in Costa Mesa.

South Coast Repertory will continue its love affair with George Bernard Shaw in its 1990-91 season: “Man and Superman” will open on the company Mainstage Sept. 7 and will play through Oct. 11.

Other upcoming Mainstage productions announced this week are the West Coast premiere of David Hare’s “The Secret Rapture,” (Oct. 26-Nov. 26); George S. Kaufman’s and Moss Hart’s 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning “You Can’t Take It With You” (March 1-April 4), and the 11th annual production of “A Christmas Carol” on dates to be announced.

On the smaller Second Stage, SCR will present the Southern California premiere of Anthony Clarvoe’s “Pick Up Ax” (Sept. 21-Oct. 21) and the world premiere of Keith Reddin’s adaptation of Alexander Buravsky’s “The Russian Teacher” (dates to be announced).

For the remaining three slots on the Mainstage schedule, company artistic director Martin Benson and producing artistic director David Emmes are considering Alan Ayckbourn’s “Woman in Mind,” Henrik Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler,” “The Threepenny Opera” by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Mark Lee’s “Pirates” and “El Dorado” by Milcha Sanchez-Scott.

“Pirates” and “El Dorado,” given staged readings during SCR’s 1990 California Play Festival, would be world premieres.

Being considered to round out the five-play Second Stage season are Robert Daseler’s “An Office Romance” (which also was part of the California Play Festival), Edit Villarreal’s “My Visits With MGM (My Grandmother Marta)” and Donald Margulies’ “Sight Unseen,” an SCR commission. None has been produced before.

“Man and Superman,” to be directed by Benson, follows acclaimed SCR productions of Shaw’s “You Never Can Tell” in 1989 (the company is mounting the play this week at the Singapore Festival of Arts) and “Misalliance” in 1988. “Man and Superman,” first produced in 1905, is Shaw’s version of the Don Juan story.

“The Secret Rapture” is a study of two very different sisters in Thatcherite England. It premiered at Britain’s National Theater in 1988 and played Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theater last year, where an unfavorable New York Times review provoked Hare, who’d also directed it, to attack the critic in print, unleashing a minor controversy. Hare is the author of “Pravda,” “Plenty” and the writer/director of the film “Strapless.”

“Pick Up Ax,” a story of two computer whizzes who launch their own company, is the co-runner-up this year in the American Theatre Critics Assn. annual competition of best plays done outside New York. It had a NewSCRipt reading in October of 1989 and its world premiere last winter at San Francisco’s Eureka Theatre. Clarvoe has been commissioned to write a new play for SCR.

“The Russian Teacher” is a satiric comedy about perestroika by Buravsky, a once-banned Soviet playwright. Emmes saw the play in rehearsal last year in the Soviet Union and SCR commissioned an English adaptation by Reddin, author of “Nebraska” and “Highest Standard of Living.”