If 50 is old, Seattle Repertory Theatre isn’t showing its age. The upcoming 2012–13 season will be Seattle Rep’s 50th, and to make sure it’s a celebration worth noting, the theatre has announced a wide-ranging lineup. Not only does the season feature works by theatrical institutions David Mamet and Tennessee Williams and the previously announced touring production of War Horse, but the season kicks off with the world premiere of Pullman Porter Blues by Seattle’s own Cheryl L. West (Before It Hits Home).

Here’s the full lineup, which begins in September.

Pullman Porter Blues
Sept 27–Oct 28
By Cheryl L. West
Midwest blues tunes played by a live band lay the backdrop for the story about three generations of African American porters on a train headed from Chicago to New Orleans one night in 1937.

The Glass Menagerie
Oct 19–Dec 21
By Tennessee Williams
Originally slated for the 2011–12 season before postponement, this classic American drama explores an aging Southern belle who longs for her youth and wants to provide her children with the comforts she once had.

Inspecting Carol
Nov 23–Dec 23
By Daniel Sullivan and the Seattle Repertory Theatre Resident Company
This comedy about a haphazard production of A Christmas Carol by a hapless theater troupe returns for its fourth staging at Seattle Rep since 1991.

American Buffalo
Jan 11–Feb 3, 2013
By David Mamet
Wilson Milam, who directed Seattle Rep’s 2010 production of Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, directs this story about three men planning to steal valuable coin and the problems that arise.

Photograph 51
Feb 1–Mar 3, 2013
By Anna Ziegler
Ziegler explores the struggles of a woman in the male-dominated scientific field in this biographical play about Rosalind Franklin, who helped discover the double helix mechanism of DNA.

War Horse
Feb 13–24, 2013
Based on the book “War Horse” by Michael Morpurgo, adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford
in association with Handspring Puppet Company
The touring production of 2011’s Tony Winner for Best Play (which spawned the Oscar-nominated Spielberg film), comes to the Paramount Theatre as a joint presentation by Seattle Rep and Seattle Theatre Group. Dazzling puppetry brings to life this tale of a boy and his horse on the Western Front.

Good People
Mar 8–31, 2013
By David Lindsay-Abaire
Class distinctions are at the core of this Tony-nominated play about a struggling single mother who reconnects with an wealthy ex-boyfriend.

Boeing-Boeing
Apr 19–May 19, 2013
By Marc Camoletti, adapted by Beverley Cross
Set in the 1960s, this French farce finds a bachelor, who carefully juggles three stewardess fiancees, in hot water when a faster Boeing jet changes the women’s work schedules and all three show up at the same time.

Seattle Rep season tickets ($98–$472) are now on sale at seattlerep.org.