San Diego’s Old Globe announces new season

The premiere of a new Twyla Tharp dance musical set to the songs of Bob Dylan will highlight San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre’s 2005-06 season.

The still-untitled show, scheduled for Feb. 2 through March 5, comes on the heels of “Movin’ Out,” Tharp’s similar project that employed Billy Joel songs.

The Old Globe will present Dakin Matthews’ “The Prince of L.A.” as the opening production in its smaller Cassius Carter Centre Stage, Sept. 29-Oct. 30. The verse drama, about a Los Angeles cardinal who’s building a new cathedral but becomes distracted by scandalous charges against two of his priests, was first produced by Matthews’ Andak Stage Company in North Hollywood last year and won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle award for outstanding new play. Matthews again will play the title role.

Also scheduled for the Old Globe, besides the previously announced premiere of “Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life,” are revivals of W. Somerset Maugham’s “The Constant Wife” and Richard Greenberg’s “The Violet Hour.”

The Cassius Carter season includes Harry Kondoleon’s “Christmas on Mars,” Joanna McClelland Glass’ “Trying” and Lee Blessing’s “A Body of Water.”

South Coast Repertory, whose dramaturge Jerry Patrch is en route to a new job as resident artistic director at the Old Globe, has announced several additions to its next season: revivals of Garson Kanin’s “Born Yesterday” and Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing” on the larger Segerstrom Stage and the premiere of Kirsten Greenidge’s “Bossa Nova” in April 2006 on the smaller Argyros Stage.