Bob Balaban will direct the performances, which will run this week only, tomorrow through Sunday.
Michael Capasso will direct, with performances scheduled for February 2013 on Thursday evening, Feb. 7 at 7 30 p.m., Saturday evening, Feb. 9 at 8 p.m., Friday evening, Feb. 15 at 8 p.m., and Sunday afternoon, Feb. 17 at 4 p.m. Dicapo Opera Theatre's season continues with a classic of the 19th-century operatic repertoire, Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
André Previn, gnomish conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, will direct a performance of Arthur Honegger's huge dramatic oratorio Joan of Arc at the Stake.
"All the houses on the street are white and perfect, and the lawns are all green," said Gordon Ostrowski, who will direct a performance of the opera this afternoon at the Manhattan School of Music.
Next summer, no doubt, he will direct another concert performance of an opera with the student orchestra.
Irish actor and director Fiona Shaw is the festival's artist-in-residence, and she will direct the opening performance, present the US premiere of one of her works and lead panel discussions and a master class.
Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail ("In the Heights") will direct the play, which begins performances Nov. 12.
"But 'Kiss Me, Kate' is a silly, happy show — they all feel that," added Ms. Meryl, who will direct the Cole Porter classic through nine performances from July 15 to July 24 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.
Mr. Hoffman, who won the Oscar for best actor for his performance in "Capote," will direct "A Family for All Occasions," a new comedy by Bob Glaudini, in the spring of 2013 for LAByrinth, with which he has been associated since the mid 1990s.
The concert production — in which cast members have scripts in hand, and minimal props and costumes are used — will have five performances, Jan . 15 to 17 Philip William McKinley will direct.
