'The Self-Tormentor' in Free Reading 3/17 at Cherry Lane

Theatre for a New Audience's Literary Supplement continues on Monday, March 17, at 7:30PM at The Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street, with a reading of The Self-Tormentor by the Roman playwright Terence (170-160 BCE) directed by the theatre's Associate Artistic Director, Arin Arbus.

The cast includes Cheryl Lynn Bowers, Arnie Burton, Joe Grifasi, John Lavelle, Peter Maloney, Melissa Miller and Myra Lucretia Taylor.

Admission is free and reservations are a must: 212-229-2819 ext. 10.

"The most neglected of Terence's six comedies, The Self-Tormentor is a fast-moving farce full of intrigues, schemes and deceptions.  Terence displays in his work an interest in taut dramatic structures and a fascination with moral and psychological problems that lends his comedies an unusual depth, as in this story of two neighbors of opposite temperaments and their contrasting troubles with their sons," describe press notes.

This is the second year for The Literary Supplement, produced by Associate Artistic Director, Arin Arbus, and curated by the Theatre's Literary Advisor, noted critic and translator Michael Feingold.  The playwrights, all of African origin, have been chosen to reflect varying aspects of Theatre for a New Audience's current season theme, "Africa, Europe, America: Exploring the Connections."

The final installment in Theatre for a New Audience Literary Supplement will be a reading of Wole Soyinka's The Swamp Dwellers directed by Robert O'Hara, on Monday, April 14.

Theatre for a New Audience's production of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, featuring Laila Robins and Marton Csokas in the title roles and directed by Darko Tresnjak, begins previews Saturday, March 22, at 7:30pm for an opening Thursday, April 3, at  6:30pm at The Duke on 42nd Street, 229 West 42nd Street.