Meet the Director
MARY
ZIMMERMAN is the creator of KC Rep's smash hit Metamorphoses. She is the recipient of a 1998
MacArthur Fellowship for her original production of The Arabian Nights. She also won the 2002
Tony Award for best direction and 10 Joseph Jefferson Awards, including ones for best production and
best direction. She is the Manilow Resident Director of Goodman Theatre, a member of the Lookingglass
Theatre Company of Chicago, an artistic associate of Seattle Repertory Theatre, and a professor of performance
studies at Northwestern University.
Works which she has adapted and directed include Mirror of the Invisible World and Silk at the Goodman Theatre; The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci at the Goodman, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and Seattle Repertory; The Odyssey at the Goodman, Lookingglass, McCarter Theatre and Seattle Repertory; Arabian Nights at Lookingglass, MTC and BAM; Journey To The West at the Goodman, Huntington Theatre and Berkeley Repertory; Metamorphoses at Lookingglass, Seattle Repertory, Berkeley Repertory, Mark Taper Forum and Second Stage; Secret in the Wings at Lookingglass, McCarter and Berkeley Repertory; and Eleven Rooms of Proust at Lookingglass and About Face.
The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights Calendar
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| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 8:00PM | 31 8:00PM |
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| 1 7:00PM | 2 | 3 7:00PM | 4 7:00PM | 5 7:00PM | 6 8:00PM | 7 2:00PM 8:00PM |
| 8 2:00PM 7:00PM | 9 | 10 7:00PM | 11 7:00PM | 12 7:00PM | 13 8:00PM | 14 2:00PM 8:00PM |
| 15 2:00PM | 16 | 17 7:00PM | 18 2:00PM 7:00PM | 19 7:00PM | 20 8:00PM | 21 3:00PM 8:00PM |
| 22 2:00PM | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |
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Spencer Theatre
Jan. 30-Feb. 22, 2009
Written by Mary Zimmerman
Directed by Mary Zimmerman
A Co-Production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre
From the Creator of the Smash Hit Metamorphoses
From the creator of the Broadway and Kansas City smash Metamorphoses comes this glorious and extraordinary retelling of one of the greatest epics of world literature. Zimmerman’s stunning theatrical event is a series of stories brilliantly woven by the beautiful princess Scheherezade — one story a night, for 1001 nights, to save her own life. As long as she can keep the king entertained with her magical stories of beauty, honor, love, and the search for wisdom, he will spare her. With Zimmerman’s famed fusion of gorgeous music, inventive staging, and highly theatrical storytelling, The Arabian Nights gives us an exhilarating view of the lush, rich legacy of the place we now know as Iraq. Creator/director Mary Zimmerman is the recipient of a 1998 MacArthur ”Genius” Grant, the 2002 Tony Award for Best Director and ten Joseph Jefferson Awards. "If you want theatre at its most unpretentiously poetic, most fetchingly stylish, as humane as it is elegant, I commend to you The Arabian Nights." --New York Magazine
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