Elizabeth Kramer

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Actors Theatre of Louisville announced its upcoming season Tuesday. Here is the 2017-18 lineup:

“Angels in America: Parts One and Two” | Aug. 29 to Oct 15: Actors Theatre Associate Artistic Director Meredith McDonough directs Tony Kushner’s epic drama in two parts – Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part Two: Perestroika, which will run in rotating repertory. The play, which premiered on Broadway 24 years ago, tells the story of a man struggling with AIDS who is visited by an angel and in its telling, weaves in social and historical forces showing the an unseen but connective tissue of humanity.

“Dracula” | Sept. 6 to Nov. 2: Bram Stoker's story of a blood-thirsty monster adapted by William McNulty. An Actors Theatre Halloween tradition.

A production, to be announced, will take the stage in November.

“A Christmas Carol” | Nov. 21 to Dec. 23: An Actors Theatre holiday tradition in this Charles Dickens’ story adapted by Barbara Fields.

“The Santaland Diaries” | Dec. 1 to 23: Nathan Keepers gives audiences his version of David Sedaris’s irreverent Christmas adventure adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello and directed by Meredith McDonough in the Victor Jory Theatre.

“Little Bunny Foo Foo” by Anne Washburn | Jan. 9 to Feb. 4: Artistic Director Les Waters brings this play for families to life with original music by Dave Malloy, the same songwriter who wrote the music and libretto for the musical “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,” which opened on Broadway last November. Washburn, who also wrote the wildly popularly and hilarious “Mr. Burns-a Post Electric Play,” wrote this children’s play nearly a decade ago but never had a full production of it until now. With Waters, she has a stalwart collaborator with whom she has worked on other plays off-Broadway including last year’s acclaimed production of "10 Out Of 12,” “The Small” in 2010 and “Apparition” in 2005.

“Skeleton Crew” by Dominque Morisseau | Jan. 24 to Feb. 11: This beautifully written drama traces the shifting bonds and power dynamics within a makeshift family of workers in the heart of Detroit’s struggling auto industry during the 2008 recession. The director will be announced. (In 2013, Morisseau starred in Katori Hall’s “The Mountaintop” at Actors Theatre. Her play “Detroit '67” was slated to run at the theater last season but was abruptly canceled after the unexpected death of a cast member.)

41st Humana Festival of New American Plays | Feb. 28 to April 8: Most of the selections for the festival with new work by some of the American’s most talented playwrights will be announced in the fall.

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SEASON: August 2017-April 2018

WHERE: Actors Theatre of Louisville, 316 W. Main St.

INFORMATION: (502) 584-1265; actorstheatre.org.

Reach reporter Elizabeth Kramer at (502) 582-4682 and ekramer@courier-journal.com. Follow her on Twitter @arts_bureau and on Facebook at Elizabeth Kramer - Arts Writer.