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theater Witches, wind your watches. Tickets go on sale June 6 at 6 a.m. for the Dec. 7-18 run of the road tour of the musical at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford. Tickets are $31.50 to $80.

Renewing and new subscribers will have a broom up, so to speak. In other ticket news: Between 20 and 25 seats at $25 each will be sold by lottery on the day of each performance. During the first week they will be the best available orchestra seats. The second (non-subscription) week of the run the lottery seats tickets will be in the first few rows. The 2005-06 season for Hartford Stage is complete.

The second slot of the season (and the last one to be announced) will be filled by the production of and Clea Under the Western now playing at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, staged by Michael Wilson artistic director of Hartford Stage. (The show was also featured in Hartford play reading series last fall.) The two-person show (with an on-stage country-western combo) is written by and stars David Cale the Obie Award-winning author who has written songs for such diverse artists as Elvis Costello Debbie Harry and The Jazz Passengers Music for the new show, which may play New York before the Hartford run, is by Jonathan Kreisberg and Cale. The piece is described as gentle and poignant new musical about a love forged between two lost souls. Once a popular country singer, Floyd Duffner is now washed up, living out of his car. Enter Clea, a young woman filled with hopes for stardom.

Despite a great difference in their ages, they inspire each other to try a new The Hartford Stage season opens with the premiere of David Grimm loose adaptation of Learned titled Learned Ladies of Park (Sept. 1 to Oct. 2), followed by and (Oct. 13 to Nov. 13), the nonsubscription presentation of Christmas (Nov.

23 to Dec. 24), Long Wharf production of Moon for the directed by Gordon Edelstein with Alyssa Bresnahan and Bill Raymond (Jan. 5 to Feb. 5), the revival of Lorraine Hansberry Raisin in the (Feb. 16 to March 19) and Tennessee Williams Lovely Sunday for Creve directed by Wilson (April 6 to May 7).

The season ends with a revival of Terrence McNally and Johnny in the Clair de staged by Jeremy Cohen Hartford associate artistic director (May 18 to June 18). Joining Sam Waterston in Long Wharf season-ender, Tom Stoppard are Tom Hewitt Rocky Horror and as Tristan Tzara, Don Stephenson (Leo Bloom in on Broadway and national tour) as James Joyce, Gregor Paslawsky (last seen at Long Wharf in and Guildenstern Are as Lenin, and Graeme Malcolm as Bennett. Also featured are Isabel Keating (recent Tony nominee as Judy Garland in Boy From Maggie Lacey and Cheryl Lynn Bowers The production is staged by Gregory Boyd, whodirected an earlier version of several summers back at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. The show runs from May 4 to June 5. Christopher Shinn the Wethersfield-raised playwright whose the recently played Playwrights Horizons and in California, received a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of playwriting.

Shinn, 29, began his career in his early 20s with the Hartford-set at the Royal Court Theatre in London, followed by productions in either London, New York (or both) of Coming and Do We Shinn, whose sole Connecticut production so far is presentation of several seasons back, has received grants from Residency Grant (Hartford Stage) and the Peter S. Reed Foundation. a member of New Dramatists, Usual Suspects and Vineyard Theatre Community of Artists. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. This Fellowship winners include 186 artists, scholars, and scientists selected from more than 3,000 applicants for awards totaling $7.1 million.

Awards average about $38,000. Says Shinn: am going to use the money to do site-specific research on religious fundamentalism and evangelical Christians in the southern United States and ultimately write a play about Short takes: A free discussion of April 23 at 2 p.m. at Hartford Stage will feature director Karin Coonrod David Scott Kastan aprofessor of at Columbia University and general editor of the Arden Shakespeare series, and Nabil Matar a professor of English at the Florida Institute of Technology and author of Turks and Long Wharf Theatre will host a poetry reading Monday at 7 p.m. There will be an open mic for anyone interested in reading his or her own work. Admission is $3 for Long Wharf Theatre subscribers and $5 for the general public.

There will be aspecial performance by Ian Charles Information: aliceanne.bridgers@longwharf.org or call 203-772-8234. A cast of 35 dancers and musicians from Royal University of Fine Arts will present of at Wesleyan Center for the Arts in Middletown Friday and Saturday at 8p.m. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the papers of Lloyd Richards theater pioneer and professor emeritus of the Yale School of Drama, where he was artistic director throughout the Witch watch: coming By FRANK RIZZO COURANT STAFF WRITER DAVID CALE and Faryl Millett in and Clea Under the Western at Hartford Stage Oct. 13 to Nov. 13.

Write to Frank Rizzo at the Courant, 285 Broad Hartford, CT 06115; e-mail: TICKER STAGE NOTES.