The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) has announced programming for its spring 2010 season.

As previously announced, the Bridge Project — a three-year series of co-productions by BAM, The Old Vic, and Neal Street Productions — will present a pairing of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and As You Like It, January 12-March 13. Both plays are directed by Sam Mendes, with the company including Ashlie Atkinson (Phoebe/Juno), Jenni Barber (Audrey/Iris), Michelle Beck (Celia/Ceres), Edward Bennett (Oliver/Ferdinand), Christian Camargo (Orlando/Ariel), Stephen Dillane (Jaques/Prospero), Alvin Epstein (Adam/Gonzalo), Jonathan Fried (Le Beau/Alonso), Richard Hansell (Amiens/Sebastian), Ron Cephas Jones (Charles the Wrestler/Caliban), Aaron Krohn (Silvius/Adrian), Anthony O’Donnell (Corin/Trinculo), Juliet Rylance (Rosalind/Miranda), Thomas Sadoski (Touchstone/Stephano), Michael Thomas (Dukes Frederick and Senior/Antonio), and Ross Waiton (Boatswain, Francisco, First Lord).

Alan Rickman will direct the Donmar Warehouse production of August Strindberg’s Creditors (April 16-May 16), in a new version by David Greig, and featuring the original London cast: Anna Chancellor, Tom Burke, and Owen Teale. Another theater highlight will be the Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg’s staging of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (April 7-11), directed by Lev Dodin, and performed in Russian with English titles.

Conductor William Christie will curate a 16-day Opera Festival in March featuring Les Arts Florissants in world premiere productions of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Charpentier’s Actéon, and the U.S. premiere of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen produced by Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opéra Comique, Théâtre de Caen, and BAM. The festival will also feature recitals, talks, chamber music performances, open rehearsal, and film.

Dance highlights will include the Mark Morris Dance Group (February 23-27), DanceAfrica 2010 (May 28-31), and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (June 10-19). Music events will include the Sounds Like Brooklyn Music Festival in February, Falla and Flamenco (April 17), and various Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD screenings.

For more information, visit www.bam.org.

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Rickman’s ‘Creditors’ billed for Brooklyn

Alan Rickman’s Donmar Warehouse production of August Strindberg’s “Creditors” will see a New York run as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2010 spring season.

First staged in London in October 2008, David Greig’s adaptation of the 1888 drama of marital bitterness and betrayal starred Anna Chancellor, Tom Burke and Owen Teale, all of whom will reunite for the Gotham engagement.

The play runs April 16-May 16 at BAM’s Harvey Theater. Director Rickman will give an Artist Talk on April 27.

Also on the BAM docket for spring is a return of the Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg with Lev Dodin’s production of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,” running April 7-10.

In addition to the previously announced Shakespeare double of “As You Like It” and “The Tempest,” from the Bridge Project, BAM’s season also features dance engagements from the Mark Morris and Alvin Ailey companies. Conductor William Christie curates a 16-day Opera Festival that includes stagings of Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” and “The Fairy Queen.”

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