The Guest At Central Park West at the Workshop Theatre

The WorkShop Theater Company presents The Guest At Central Park West, by Levy Lee Simon, starring John Marshall Jones, opening at the Workshop Theatre on 25 Feb 2008, following previews from 20 Feb and running through to 15 Mar 2008.

Actor John Marshall Jones is best known as the loving father, Floyd Henderson on Family Channel's 'Smart Guy'.

The Guest At Central Park West: African-American Professor Charles Watts (John Marshall Jones) is no longer safe in his own home. Every phone call is a potential death threat. Every stranger, a potential enemy. Still, tonight he is celebrating. After receiving the Nobel Prize for his pacifist book, The Eyes of Peace, Charles and his wife, Nina, are going forward with a dinner party in honor of Charles' achievement. The guests are white professors, Eric Engles and his wife Jennifer, whose marital tensions often eclipse the political tensions that mount during the evening. That is until an unexpected guest arrives at this Central Park West address - Terrence Barlow.

Terrence is a homeless drifter with a scintillating mind and a violent disposition. Still, Charles welcomes him with open arms to the dismay of his already fearful wife and friends. When Nina�s bi-racial daughter Lisa and her boyfriend the white dreadlocked thug rapper Seth arrive, the rage in Terrence leads to life or death proportions. Terrence exposes a different side of the peace loving Charles, and the future of all the guests will be forever altered by the man who was left behind.

Directed by Thomas Cote, The Guest At Central Park West features John Marshall Jones, Harvey Blanks, Curt Bouril, Jed Dickson, Erinn Holmes, Trish McCall and Tracy Newirth.

The creative team comprises Craig Napoliello (sets), Joanie Schumacher (costumes) and Evan Purcell (lighting).