Half of the works on Indiana Repertory Theatre's schedule next season are unpublished and have a hot-off-the-presses air about them, but some of the same pieces are adaptations of familiar classics.

"The whole idea of adapted material has become a kind of signpost to me in the season," said Janet Allen, IRT's artistic director. "It was just coincidental at first, and I actually sort of leaned into the idea after while."

Sources for the adaptations include range from a movie, to a Sherlock Holmes mystery, a 19th-century Russian novel and a coffee table book.

Unpublished works in IRT's 2008-09 lineup include a one-man show based on the movie "It's a Wonderful Life;" "Crime and Punishment," after the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel; "The Ladies Man," patterned after a French farce by Georges Feydeau; and "Interpreting William," IRT resident playwright James Still's new drama about William Conner, the controversial founder of Central Indiana's own "living history museum."

Here's the complete lineup:

Mainstage

--Sept. 16 to Oct. 11: "Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure," Steven Dietz's adaptation of an 1899 play by William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle. A synthesis of two stories, the play pits Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, against the diabolical Professor Moriarty.

-- Nov. 3 to Dec. 28: IRT's 13th annual production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," adapted by former IRT artistic director Tom Haas. Priscilla Lindsay will direct.

--Jan. 21 to Feb. 21: "To Kill a Mockingbird," adapted by Christopher Sergel, based on the Harper Lee novel. Lindsay will direct.

--March 3 to 22: "Interpreting William," James Still's new play in which a 21st-century Colorado professor visits Conner Prairie in Central Indiana in an effort to finish a book about William Conner, the controversial 19th-century pioneer and businessman.

--April 7 to May 2: "Crowns," Regina Taylor's portrait of black history and identity, with a focus on church women and their hats, based on a coffee table book by Michael Cunningham.

--May 12 to 31: "The Ladies Man," a French comic farce by Georges Feydeau.

Upper Stage

--Oct. 8 to Nov. 9: "Macbeth," one of a series of 90-minute Shakespearean adaptations at IRT. Janet Allen will direct.

--Nov. 25 to Jan 4, 2009: "This Wonderful Life," a one-man show based on the 1946 movie "It's a Wonderful Life" starring Jimmy Stewart. Written by film critic Steve Murray, it was commissioned by Portland Center Stage in Oregon.

--Feb. 10 to March 8: "Crime and Punishment," Dostoevsky's novel adapted as a 90-minute play for three actors.

--April 21 to May 17: "Rabbit Hole" by David Lindsay-Abaire. Still will direct will direct this contemporary drama about a wealthy family coping with the death of a young boy.