L.A. Theatre Works Records Sam Shepard’s Buried Child

Buried Child – Tracy Letts and Amy Madigan head the cast when L.A. Theatre Works records Sam Shepard's darkly comic family drama. Probing deep into the disintegration of the American Dream, Buried Child became an instant classic and was the recipient of the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979. When Vince brings his girlfriend Shelly home to meet his family, it's a curious homecoming for the son nobody seems to remember. Violence is never far from the surface as his unexpected return uncovers a deep, dark secret that triggers catastrophe. All performances will be recorded to air on L.A. Theatre Works' syndicated radio theater series, which broadcasts weekly on public radio stations nationwide and can be streamed on demand at www.latw.org.

WHO:

Written by Sam Shepard
Directed by Peter Levin
Starring John Getz (The Social Network); Tracy Letts (Steppenwolf Theatre Co.'s Broadway-bound Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, playwright August: Osage County); Amy Madigan (Gone, Baby, Gone directed by Ben Affleck, ABC's Grey's Anatomy); Robert Parsons (LATW's national tour of The Rivalry); Jeff Perry (ABC's Grey's Anatomy, upcoming CBS series, Scandal); and Madeline Zima (Showtime's Californication, NBC's Heroes)
Produced by Susan A. Loewenberg

WHEN:
Thursday, December 8 @ 8 pm
Friday, December 9 @ 8 pm
Saturday, December 10 @ 3 pm & 8 pm
Sunday, December 11 @ 2 pm & 7 pm

WHERE:
James Bridges Theater
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
235 Charles E. Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095
(enter UCLA from Hilgard just south of Sunset Blvd.; park in Lot 3 on the lower level)

HOW:
310-827-0889 or www.latw.org
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TICKETS:
$15- $49

OTHER:
L.A. Theatre Works' radio theater series can be streamed on demand at www.latw.org. L.A. Theatre Works can also be heard on the following stations (check local listings for broadcast times): 89.7 WGBH, Boston; 91.5 FM WBEZ, Chicago; 94.9 KUOW, Seattle; 94.1 KPFA, Berkeley; 91.1 KRCB, North Bay (San Francisco); and in over 100 markets nationwide.