The Public Theater announces four key additions to its 2004-2005 season

Sun 10 Oct 2004 The Public Theater announces four key additions to its 2004-2005 season The Public Theater has announced four key additions to its 2004-2005 season of Power Plays. Power Plays offers a provocative combination of theatrical works that showcase political intrigue, villainy, clever manipulation, and outrageous wit, often befitting the times in which we live. The American premiere of Billy Porter�s GHETTO SUPERSTAR has been added to The Public�s 2004-2005 season. (February � March 2005) GHETTO SUPERSTAR is a spiritual, sexual, and musical odyssey in which the teachings of the Pentecostal church collide with the gospel according to Dreamgirls. In this production, Porter reveals with song his own take on what it means to be a man. Directed by Brad Rouse. Presented by The Public Theater in association with City Theatre, Pittsburgh. George C. Wolfe will direct THIS IS HOW IT GOES by Neil LaBute. (March 2005). Neil LaBute turns his savage observer�s eye to America�s race relations. An interracial love triangle in small town America sets off this fierce drama of manipulation, exploitation, infidelity, and passion. The author of The Shape of Things and In the Company of Men brings to The Public�s stage a fierce and passionate drama that is filled with twists and turns. Sam Rockwell will play Judas in the world premiere of THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. (February - March 2005) Presented by LAByrinth Theater Company in collaboration with The Public Theater, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a time-bending serio-comic drama in an imagined world between Heaven and Hell that re-examines the plight and fate of The New Testament�s most infamous and unexplained ultimate sinner. David Jones will direct THE CONTROVERSY by Jean-Claude Carri�re, translated by Richard Nelson. (February 2005). The Controversy brings to life the stunning real-life debates, whose effects are still felt today, of the Catholic Church in the 15th century, as it tried to determine whether or not natives an ocean away were indeed human. The Public Theater Company is located at 425 Lafayette Street, (between Astor Place & East 4th Street), NY 10003.