Kirk Douglas Theatre to Do 'A Raisin in the Sun' and 'The Night Watcher'

The Center Theatre Group announced its 2011/2012 season for the Kirk Douglas Theatre on Tuesday. It featured a slate of four plays and two DouglasPlus offerings of plays in development.

The four plays include Charlayne Woodard's one-woman play, The Night Watcher, about her life as aunt, godmother and friend to the children of other people, and a remounting of Ebony Repertory Theatre's production of the Lorraine Hansberry play A Raisin in the Sun, directed again by actress Phylicia Rashad, who won a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway revival in 2004.

The Night Watcher will run Nov. 17 through Dec. 18, with A Raisin in the Sun running from Jan. 19 through Feb. 19, 2012. They will be followed by American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, a resident alien's fantastic take on American history, which runs March 9 through April 1; and The Convert, which runs from April 17 to May 13 and is about a young South African woman caught between her identity as a tribes woman and her conversion to Christianity.

The season starts on Sept. 17 with a reading of The Behavior of Broadus, a new musical about the father of modern behaviorism and advertising John Broadus Watson, by the theater group Burglars of Hamm as part of the DouglasPlus program, which focuses on works in development.

Season tickets only are available now by calling 213-972-4444 or visiting the theater's website.