Theatre In The Park announces 2012-2013 season

Right out of the gate in September, the season begins with "Next to Normal." This is the Triangle premiere of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, featuring a dynamic contemporary score by Tom Kitt. The story of a family wrestling with the ups and downs of mental illness takes you on a wrenching, emotional ride far more uncomfortable than your typical musical. Theatre In The Park follows this powerful show with their annual holiday classic, "A Christmas Carol," which actually IS a happy, feel-good musical.

"The Pillowman" by Martin McDonagh is their first production of 2013. It tells the tale of Katurian, a fiction writer living in a police state. He is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of bizarre murders in his town. The classic tale of life imitating art… or is it?

I know we’re a year away from the next show in their line-up, but I’m marking my calendar now. In April 2013, Ira David Wood III will take the stage as the larger-than-life fictional icon, Atticus Finch, in Harper Lee’s "To Kill a Mockingbird."

The season closes with the dark comedy, "Fuddy Meers" by David Lindsay-Abaire. It’s the story of an amnesiac, Claire, who awakens each morning as a blank slate on which her husband and teenage son must imprint the facts of her life. One morning, Claire is abducted. The audience views the ensuing mayhem through the kaleidoscope of Claire's world.