LAByrinth Theater Company announces 2006-2007 Season
LAByrinth Theater Company has announced its 2006-07 season. The companies 15th anniversary season will once again be in residence at The Public Theater.
The season features two Off-Broadway productions, a special limited engagement, and two developmental productions. The season will also include LAB�s annual free play reading festival, The Barn Series.
In a joint statement, the companies Co-Artistic Directors Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz said �LAByrinth�s 15th anniversary season is poised to be our best yet. We are thrilled to continue our residency at The Public Theater. With these five productions, in addition to our Barn Series and special events, LAB is proud to celebrate 15 years of providing opportunities for talented theatre artists to develop new works.�
The season features:
Two world Premiere Off Broadway Productions:
- A Small, Melodramatic Story
Writter: Stephen Belber
Director: Lucie Tiberghien
Cast: Carlo Alban, Ron Cephas Jones, Chris McGarry and Portia
Synopsis: A woman named O falls in love with a cop named Perry. When O�s archivist friend, Keith, discovers secrets about Perry�s past, O is caught in a trap: How much does she want to know?
Date: Fall 2006 - Jack Goes Boating
Writter: Bob Glaudini
Director: Peter DuBois
Cast: This all LAByrinth Company ensemble features Beth Cole, Daphne Rubin-Vega, John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman
Synopsis: Swimming lessons. Cooking classes. A random subway attack. Confessions of betrayal. Cocaine paranoia. A best friend's meltdown. How much is too much for a date with someone you've just met?
Date: Winter 2007
Special Limited Engagement:
- This is Now!
Writter: Eric Bogosian
Musician/composer:Elliott Sharp
Cast: Eric Bogosian & Elliott Sharp
Synopsis: Bogosian supplies the words and Sharp provides the sounds in an eighty minute excursion rant/soundscape on the theme of �now.� Bogosian hits on smoking, sainthood and the CIA while Sharp trips out on guitar, sax, temple bells and cyber-sound.
Date: Winter 2007
Developmental Productions:
- intr�ngulis
Writter: Carlo Alban
Cast: Carlo Alban
Synopsis: Novelist, sniper, television personality, delinquent youth. Window washer, tourist, Beelzebub, idealist youth. Vigilante, rock star wannabe, minuteman, apolitical youth. Illegal immigrant. These are the people in your neighborhood. Carlo Alban will inhabit them all, taking the stage in his solo piece.
Date: Winter 2007 - Pretty Chin Up
Writter: Andrea Ciannavei
Synopsis: What's the difference between an overweight marketing executive who sells women�s lingerie and diet pills and the starving spokesmodel who peddles the goods for the camera? About 100 pounds.
Date: Spring 2007
The Barn Series:
The LAByrinth Theater Company will host its annual collection of staged readings from up-and-coming playwrights as well as established writers in December 2006. All readings are free and open to the public. Reservations are required.
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