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Arizona Theatre Company's 2008-09 season includes a world premiere, an old musical and an American classic.

Plays the company will produce in the next season include:

● "The Lady With All the Answers," David Rambo's piece based on the letters of and actual events from the late advice columnist Ann Landers.

● "Hair," the "tribal-love musical" by James Rado and Gerome Ragni, with music by Galt MacDermot. The 1968 rock musical is getting a new staging by the Public Theatre of New York City this summer, and by Arizona Theatre Company next season.

● "A Raisin in the Sun," Lorraine Hansberry's classic about a black family in search of the American dream in the face of overwhelming discrimination. This is part of ATC's "America Plays! Celebrating Great American Stories" initiative.

● "Somebody/Nobody," by Jane Martin, a comedy stripped from today's headlines. This production, a world premiere, is a take on Hollywood, fame and the TMZ.

● "Beethoven, As I Knew Him," is a return engagement by Hershey Felder, who did this season's one-man show, "George Gershwin Alone."

That leaves one slot that has yet to be announced.

In addition, ATC will present Shakespeare's "Henry V," a touring production by the Guthrie Theatre and The Acting Company. That production will be here for a weeklong run in the spring of 2009 and is not part of ATC's regular season.

David Ira Goldstein, ATC's artistic director, said "Hair" was an easy choice.

"It's one of those musicals that if you are between 50 and 70, it was part of your life," he said, adding that many under 50 know the musical, too. It features songs such as the title tune, "Hair," "Age of Aquarius," and "Good Morning Starshine," and gained notoriety when it was first staged in '68 for its raucous, often irreverent score and the brief nude scene it contained.

"Raisin" is the second American classic play in ATC's planned series of five classics in five years. "To Kill A Mockingbird," which ATC opens in previews Saturday, is the first.

"The play is the examination of the American dream and what that means to people," said Goldstein.

Directing will be Lou Bellamy, who directed ATC's last-season stunner, "Jitney."

Jon Jory, who adapted and directed ATC's 2005 production of "Pride and Prejudice," will direct Jane Martin's comedy, "Somebody/Nobody" (no one knows anyone who has ever met Martin, and many swear it's an alias for Jory, who won't say a word about whether or not that is true).

"It's very funny and incredibly contemporary," said Goldstein. "It's a play about a somebody who wants to be a nobody, and a nobody who wants to be somebody."

The "Beethoven" piece is Hershey's last in his trilogy about great American composers.

"It'll be a combination of wonderful acting and storytelling with some of the greatest music ever written," said Goldstein.

ATC season tickets are available now, though current subscribers, who should get their renewal notices by mid-March, have priority over seat selection. Season tickets for all six plays are $99-$294, with discounts and various packages available.

Season subscribers also have priority for tickets to "Henry V."

ATC has not yet announced when single tickets will be available.