First plays by Arthur Miller and Wendy Wasserstein, a comedy by Steve Martin, the classics "Little Women" and "Inherit the Wind," and the world premiere of "Beat Box Bard" will headline Cornell University's 2006-07 Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts season.

The season will open in September with Miller's "All My Sons," a World War II drama about greed, guilt and the American dream. Broadway, television and film actor Peter Michael Goetz will guest star. (Schwartz Center productions feature Equity actors alongside Cornell undergraduates and graduate students.)

In October, Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" will bring Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein together to debate art and physics in a bar in 1904 Paris. The holiday season will ring in with "Little Women," adapted from the literary classic by Louisa May Alcott.

The world premiere of "Beat Box Bard" in early 2007 gives Shakespeare a contemporary spin, with vocal percussionists and selections from the bard's sonnets and soliloquies.

The Schwartz Center will pay tribute to the life and work of American playwright Wendy Wasserstein with a production of "Uncommon Women and Others" in February. The play shows five women of "uncommon" potential flashing back to relive their college years and assess whether they had met their youthful goals and expectations. Wasserstein, a Pulitzer Prize winner for her play "The Heidi Chronicles," died Jan. 30 of lymphoma. She was appointed in 2005 as the President's Council of Cornell Women Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large. The main-stage season concludes in late April and early May with "Inherit the Wind" by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Darwinian evolution remains a hot topic of debate today, as it was during the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" that inspired the Tony Award-winning courtroom drama.

Season subscriptions for all six performances begin at $40. Subscribers before March 31 will be eligible to win one of 150 Schwartz Center duffel bags. Season subscription forms are available at the Schwartz Center or by phone (607) 254-ARTS or at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/theatrearts.