South Coast bill includes Friedkin

William Friedkin, the Academy Award-winning movie director and also director of the L.A. Opera’s “Ariadne auf Naxos” last year, will stage Tracy Letts’ “The Man From Nebraska,” a 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist, at South Coast Repertory’s Argyros Stage next season.

Also announced on a partial list of South Coast’s 2005-06 season are Brecht’s “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,” which will open the Segerstrom Stage season on Sept. 9, directed by Kate Whoriskey, and the American premiere of Terry Johnson’s “Hitchcock Blonde” on Feb. 10. Martin Benson’s staging of the American premiere of Joe Penhall’s “Dumb Show” will open the Argyros season on Sept. 30.

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Don Shirley