QUICK TAKES - Jan. 28, 2009

“Creditors,” a world premiere play adapted and staged by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright (“I Am My Own Wife”), and “The Big Time,” a world premiere musical by Douglas Carter Beane (“The Little Dog Laughed,” “Xanadu”), will be part of the 2009-10 season at the La Jolla Playhouse.

Based on the August Strindberg play of the same name, “Creditors” is about two men at a seaside resort who strike up a seemingly innocent conversation that leads to a web of intrigue, suspicion and revenge. It was commissioned by the playhouse.

Beane’s musical “The Big Time” revolves around two down-on-their-luck lounge singers on a cruise ship, hoping for a final chance at success. Then the ship is taken hostage by terrorists.

Also on the roster is the world premiere of “Restoration,” a play by Claudia Shear, who wrote and starred in 2001’s “Dirty Blonde” on Broadway; the West Coast premiere of Terrence McNally’s “Unusual Acts of Devotion”; and the revival of the 1982 musical “Herringbone,” starring B.D. Wong and directed by Roger Rees.