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Donmar Warehouse Season to Include New Production of Parade

Rob Ashford
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)
Rob Ashford
(© Joseph Marzullo/Retna)

The Donmar Warehouse will present a new production of the Tony Award-winning musical Parade, directed by Rob Ashford, beginning September 14.
No casting has been announced.

Featuring a book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Alfred Uhry and a score by Jason Robert Brown, Parade is based on the true story of Leo Frank, an Atlanta factory owner who was wrongly accused of killing one of his workers. The show marks the directorial debut of the Tony Award-winning choreographer of Thoroughly Modern Millie. The original 1998 Broadway production of Parade was directed by Harold Prince and starred Brent Carver and Carolee Carmello.

The Donmar season will also feature Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman in a new translation by Allan Baker, a revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, and an evening of three one-acts entitled Absurdia, which features Michael Frayn’s new play The Crimson Hotel and two works by N.F. Simpson, A Resounding Tinkle and Gladly Otherwise. The theater’s current attraction is Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman starring Tony winner Ian McDiarmid.

For more information, visit www.donmarwarehouse.com.