Single tickets going on sale at McCarter Theatre

   Single tickets for McCarter Theatre Center’s 2002-2003 season go on sale on Monday beginning at 9 a.m. through the McCarter Theatre Box Office. Orders online begin earlier — tomorrow at 9 a.m. at www.mccarter.org.
   McCarter has added several new events to its season schedule, including a solo concert appearance by alternative-rock icon Ben Folds on Oct. 13; Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Shawn Colvin in an acoustic solo concert on Oct. 28; British folk-rocker Richard Thompson on Oct. 29; Nickel Creek, the award-winning trio of bluegrass innovators, on Nov. 19, and superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma on Jan. 24, 2003.
   Other highlights of the fall season include jazz great Dave Brubeck and his quartet; sitar virtuosa Anoushka Shankar; Barbara Cook, "First Lady of the musical stage," in "Mostly Sondheim;" the legendary Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha with the Tokyo String Quartet, and internationally-renowned solo pianist George Winston.
   Single tickets are also available for McCarter’s 2002-2003 Theater Series, which opens with Joe Orton’s black comedy Loot, Sept. 8 through Sept. 29.
   In October, the 2002-2003 Theatre Series continues with the world premiere of Crowns, based on the best-selling book Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats. Adapted and directed by Regina Taylor, with choreography by Ronald K. Brown, Crowns runs from Oct. 15 through Nov. 3.
   Celebrate the holiday season with McCarter’s critically acclaimed production of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, Dec. 9 through Dec. 29.
   For more information on McCarter Theatre’s 2002-2003 season, call the McCarter Theatre box office at (609) 258-ARTS (2787) or visit www.mccarter.org.