‘Random Women’ Premiere Set for 12th ART Season

The world premiere of “Six Random Women,” by Carolyn Carpenter, and the Orange County premieres of recent works by Athol Fugard, John Patrick Shanley and Edward Albee will highlight Alternative Repertory Theatre’s 1999-2000 season.

Carpenter is associate producer for the 12-year-old ART troupe, which gave a reading of “Six Random Women” in 1997. It will be staged Nov. 20-Dec. 11. The season opens Sept. 25 with Albee’s 1991 drama, “Three Tall Women,” about death and disillusionment, which runs through Nov. 6.

After Carpenter’s play, ART will stage Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” (Jan. 22-March 4) and Fugard’s “Valley Song,” his first post-apartheid work, which premiered at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre in 1996 and was staged again the next year at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.

Shanley’s 1995 comedy about psychology and sexuality, “Psychopathia Sexualis,” closes the season May 13-June 24.

ART’s millennium season will be its first full season in its new facilities in downtown Santa Ana’s Artists Village. The troupe got off to a late start because of construction delays on its new theater.

Season tickets cost $50-$106. ART producer Gary Christensen said subscription sales are up almost 60% over the same period last year. Information: (714) 836-7929.