Harold Clurman Lab Theater to Open West Coast Premiere of LONG WAY GO DOWN, 5/17

The Art of Acting Studio's professional company, The Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company, presents the West Coast Premiere of Long Way Go Down by Zayd Dorhn. Directed by Don K. Williams (Off-Broadway Lebensraum, Turn of the Screw, Look Back in Anger, Libidoff), Long Way Go Down will play May 17^th - June 7, 2013. Performances will be on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8PM, with one matinee performance on Sunday, May 19, 2013.

Zayd is the son of the former Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Mr. Ayers, now an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, became a lightning rod for opponents of the candidate Barack Obama in 2008 because the two men were acquaintances and neighbors in Chicago. Mr. Dohrn's work has been performed in New York City at The Public Theater, in Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston.

In the shifting sands of the Desert Southwest, an imaginary line carved out by generals, politicians, settlers and presidents separates Mexico and the United States. The people on either side of this line are tightly bound together, but in Arizona and California, the gates to a better life are all slammed shut. For Nini and Violetta, two illegals desperate for a new beginning, the only way through is an expensive and dangerous journey in the bottom of a semi-truck piloted by a cagey and hawkish smuggler who expects payment on the other side- be it by money or blood. Zayd Dohrn's fast paced, brutal, and hyper-realistic dialogue fuels a story of four people from two Americas, each hell-bent on finding a better life, and willing to cross any border to do it.

Long Way Go Down by Zayd Dohrn, directed by Don K. Williams, will play for 12 performances, May 17 - June 7, 2013. For more information, visit: www.artofactingstudio.com.

The Art of Acting Studio is a nonprofit acting school in Los Angeles. It is the official west coast branch of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting New York City. The Studio's mission is to create an environment with the purpose of nurturing theatre artists who value humanity, their own and others, as their first and most precious priority while providing art and education to the greater community.