LAByrinth Theater Company's 15th anniversary 2006-2007 season will include two world premieres, a special limited engagement and two developmental productions.
In Fall of 2006, the company will present
A Small, Melodramatic Story by
Stephen Belber. The production, directed by Lucie Tiberghien, will feature Carlo Alban, Ron Cephas Jones, Chris McGarry and Portia. "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?" state press notes.
Philip Seymour Hoffman and
Daphne Rubin-Vega will lead the cast of
Jack Goes Boating, by Bob Glaudini, directed by
Peter Dubois. The cast will also feature Beth Cole and
John Ortiz; it will premiere in winter 2007 as a special limited engagement. "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?"
This Is Now, written and performed by
Eric Bogosian, will be a collaboration with Elliott Sharp. It will be seen in winter 2007 as a special limited engagement. "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."
The company will present several developmental productions including Carlo Alban's
intríngulis, directed by David Anzuelo. It will also be seen in winter of 2007. "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."
Andrea Ciannavei's
Pretty Chin Up, directed by Michele Chivu, will be presented in spring of 2007. "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."
With the Barn Series, LAByrinth Theater Company will host
its annual collection of staged readings from exciting up-and-coming
playwrights as well as established writers. All readings are free and
open to the public. Reservations are required. They will be presented in December of 2006.
LAByrinth Theater Company is led by Co-Artistic Directors
Philip Seymour Hoffman and
John Ortiz and Executive Director Steve Asher. In a joint statement, Hoffman and 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."
Founded in 1992, LAByrinth Theater Company has produced 42 new American plays including
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Our Lady of 121st Street, Jesus Hopped
The 'A' Train, and
In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings by Stephen Adly
Guirgis;
Guinea Pig Solo by Brett C. Leonard
; Dutch Heart of Man by
Robert Glaudini;
The Trail of Her Inner Thigh by Erin Cressida Wilson;
Stopless by David
Deblinger; Dreaming in Tongues by the LAByrinth
Ensemble;
Cutting Open Wings by Lidia Ramirez;
Queen Latina and Her
Power Posse Versus The Evils of Society (a musical comic book for the
stage) by David Anzuelo; and
Sailor's Song, Dirty Story, Where's My
Money?, and
A Winter Party by
John Patrick Shanley.
For information on how to purchase tickets or get a LABPASS season subscription, available this summer, please visit
www.labtheater.org and sign up for LAB's mailing list.
