Arkansas Repertory Theatre announces 2017-2018 season
Katherine Stewart
Central Arkansas

The Arkansas Repertory Theatre, the state’s largest non-profit professional theatre company, has announced their 2017-2018 lineup. This will be their 42nd season and their first fully under new Producing Artistic Director John Miller-Stephany, who in a statement said the season might be “more varied than ever before,” a notion that fits with the Rep’s mission of presenting a diverse body of theatrical work that highlights the human journey.

The season opens August 25 with The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, adapted by Rebecca Gilman from the novel of the same name by Carson McCullers and directed by Miller-Stephany himself. The haunting Southern story of a handful of eccentric misfits who seek kinship with a deaf-mute in a Georgia mill town, the play was named by Time magazine among the top 10 of 2009.

Next up is The School for Lies…