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.