Guthrie announces first season under new leader

The Guthrie Theater on Wednesday released details of its first season under a new artistic director.

Joseph Haj, who takes over from Joe Dowling July 1, will make his Guthrie directorial debut with Shakespeare's "Pericles." He will also direct the summer musical, Rogers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific."

Haj developed the season with Dowling. It includes a production of Harper Lee's classic novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," which will launch as the much-anticipated sequel to the book is published.

Other shows include the internationally acclaimed "The Events," by David Grieg, inspired by the 2011 mass murder in Norway; a staging of the Marx Brothers' classic, "The Cocoanuts," and Tom Stoppard's "The Real Inspector Hound" in repertory with Richard Brinsley Sheridan's "The Critic."

The season also includes such classics as "Trouble in Mind" and "Harvey," along with the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Disgraced" by Ayad Akhtar.