Tampa's Gorilla Theatre opens its 2009-10 season with a ghost story, The Woman in Black, adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from a novel by Susan Hill, Oct. 15-Nov. 8.The season also includes Gorilla managing director Bridget Bean (left) reprising her 2006 performance in Shirley Valentine, Willy Russell's solo show about a Liverpool housewife on a Greek vacation, April 15-May 3.

Magali Naas will play Joan of Arc in The Lark, the Jean Anouilh classic, translated by Christopher Fry, March 11-April 4 (including two shows on Easter Sunday). The season also features the return of Christmas Trio, a 1988 play by Susan Hussey, the co-founder of Gorilla who died in February, Dec. 3-20; Adam Bock's The Drunken City, about three woman on a pre-wedding spree in New York, Jan. 14-Feb. 7; and the 10th annual Young Dramatists Project, spotlighting the work of teen playwrights, June 3-13.

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