The Alliance Theatre's "Taste of the Season" event promoting its 2011-12 slate will feature an especially notable special guest May 24-25: Stephen King, whose musical with John Mellencamp, "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County," will receive its world premiere at the Midtown theater next spring.

King will speak live at the Alliance on May 24 and via video on May 25. The event is by invitation only, but the Alliance will extend an invite to anyone purchasing season subscriptions (starting at $80) by May 19.

Also appearing at the promotional event will be Tovah Feldshuh, Broadway star of "Golda’s Balcony"; Atlanta playwright Janece Shaffer ("Broke"); and Alliance artist-in- dialogue Pearl Cleage.

The King-Mellencamp collaboration, with musical direction by renowned producer T-Bone Burnett ("O Brother, Where Art Thou?"), will close the Alliance main stage season. Alliance artistic director Susan V. Booth will direct. The run will be April 4–May 13, 2012.

The Alliance describes "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County" as a "Southern Gothic musical fraught with mystery, tragedy and ghosts of the past."

Information: 404-733-5000.

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