Hartford Stage Adds Shaw’s Heartbreak House to Season
Replaces Saint Joan
Hartford,
CT – January 6, 2017 – Darko Tresnjak, Artistic Director, and
Michael Stotts, Managing Director, announced
today that George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak
House, with its particular relevance to today’s social climate, will
replace Saint Joan as the final play
of the 2016-17 season. Tresnjak will direct.
Heartbreak
House will play the exact same May 11 to June 11 schedule that
was originally assigned to Saint Joan. The
official opening date will be Friday, May 19.
Tresnjak said, “For me, Heartbreak
House is
George Bernard Shaw's most ambitious, most prophetic achievement. It is a comic
and caustic play about the venerable Captain Shotover, his daughters Hesione
and Ariadne, one liberal, the other conservative, and a household full of
bickering guests in a home that's like a ship - or a country - charting
uncertain waters. It takes place in England in 1914, but its themes and
concerns reach across the twentieth century well into our own age.”
Tresnjak
noted that he hopes to reschedule Saint
Joan for a later season.
Subscribers
will use their same tickets, originally issued for Saint Joan, for Heartbreak
House. Single-ticket buyers have several options, including exchanging
their tickets for any of our upcoming shows. For information, contact the Hartford
Stage box office at 860-527-5151 or visit www.hartfordstage.org.
HARTFORD STAGE
Now in our 53rd year, Hartford Stage is under the
leadership of Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak and Managing Director
Michael Stotts. One of the nation’s leading resident theatres, Hartford
Stage is known for producing innovative revivals of classics and provocative
new plays and musicals, including 73 world and American premieres, as well as
offering a distinguished education program, which reaches close to 20,000
students annually.
Since
Tresnjak’s appointment in 2011 the theatre has presented the world premieres of
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on Broadway, winner of four 2014
Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical by
Tresnjak; Rear Window with Kevin Bacon; the new musical Anastasia by Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens; Quiara
Alegría Hudes’ Water by the Spoonful, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize
for Drama; Breath & Imagination by Daniel Beaty; Big Dance Theatre’s
Man in a Case with Mikhail Baryshnikov; and Reverberation by
Matthew Lopez.
Hartford Stage has earned many of the nation’s most
prestigious awards, including the 1989 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional
Theatre. Other national honors include Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, OBIE,
and New York Critics Circle awards. Hartford Stage has produced nationally
renowned titles, including the New York transfers of Enchanted April; The
Orphans' Home Cycle; Resurrection (later retitled Through the Night);
The Carpetbagger's Children; and Tea at Five.
The
leading provider of theatre education programs in Connecticut, Hartford Stage’s
offerings include student matinees, in-school theatre residencies, teen
performance opportunities, theatre classes for students (ages 3-18) and adults,
afterschool programs and professional development courses.
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