GHETTO KLOWN to Appear on GOOD DAY NY, et al. 2/21

John Leguizamo's GHETTO KLOWN begins performances this Monday, February 21st at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street) and is in the news. John will be a guest on National Public Radio's popular and oddly informative news quiz, Wait! Wait! Don't Tell Me! this weekend, featured in The New York Daily News on Sunday, in Crain's New York and on Good Day New York on Monday.

W!W!DTM! airs on Saturday from 11 AM -Noon on 820 AM and 93.9 FM in New York City, and on Sunday from 4-5 PM on 93.9 FM. Check www.npr.org for other cities.

The New York Daily News will feature John this Sunday in a visit to his childhood neighborhood in Jackson Heights, Queens.

Good Day New York airs on Channel 5 in New York from 6-10 AM.

Crain's New York will feature John on Monday.

Opening night is Tuesday, March 22nd opening. GHETTO KLOWN will play a 12-week engagement; it marks John's fifth one-man play and his third on Broadway. Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens makes his Broadway directorial debut with the show. Conceived and performed by Emmy and Obie Award winner John Leguizamo, GHETTO KLOWN is presented by Westbeth Entertainment, Daveed D. Frazier and Nelle Nugent.

GHETTO KLOWN is the next chapter in John Leguizamo's hugely popular personal and professional story. It follows in the unabashed, uncensored, and uninhibited tradition of his Mambo Mouth, Spic-O-Rama, Freak, and Sexaholix...a Love Story. In Leguizamo's trademark style, the piece explodes with energy, leading audiences on a fever-pitch adventure and heating up the stage with vivid accounts of where he's been and the colorful characters who have populated his life. Leguizamo takes audiences from his adolescent memories in Queens to the early days of his acting career during the outrageous 80s avant-garde theatre scene, and on to the sets of major motion pictures and his roles opposite some of Hollywood's biggest stars.

Leguizamo explains, "GHETTO KLOWN is all the things I say to my therapist and my manager, but would NEVER want the general public to know. It's cheaper than a lawsuit and I get to take a bow at the end. It's like Wikileaks but with no international manhunt. Yet."

GHETTO KLOWN was showcased in earlier incarnations in cities including Philadelphia, New Haven, Santa Fe, Louisville, La Jolla, Berkeley, Toronto, and at Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival.