TOMORROW Extends Through May 5 at Skylight Theatre Complex

Now at the forefront of play development and producing new works, three award-winning theaters have joined forces for the first time. The beneficies are Los Angeles theatre audiences able to see this World Premiere staging of Donald Freed's new play, Tomorrow. Damian Cruden (Artistic Director from England's York Royal Theatre) directs a stellar cast, which includes Salome Jens, Kevin Quinn, and Jenn Robbins. Tomorrow runs at the Skylight Theatre Complex through May 5, 2013.

A young star, a great American actress, Lady Macbeth and the final chapter. In preparation for a major New York/London production, a brilliant and ambitious young actress has petitioned Abigail Booth, the legendary hundred-year old doyen of the American Theatre, to coach her for the part. But, by week's end, a life-changing secret has taken priority.

Freed is an award-winning playwright whose critically acclaimed Broadway play Inquest (The United States v. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg), was a decades-long collaboration with Harold Pinter in the United Kingdom and America. He achieved residency at York Theatre Royal, North Yorkshire, UK and was awarded a Fellowship at theRockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy. His play Devils Advocate opened at The Mercury Theatre in the U.K., moved to the Edinburgh Festival, and won the PEN Prize for Drama. Mr. Freed has conducted a renowned series of seminars for developing playwrights at London's Old Vic, and his works have frequently been performed at The Mercury Theatre in Colchester. He is currently a playwright in residence at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Edgar Rice Burrows Tarzana Clubhouse. LA Times coverage of The Country Girl, moved to the Coronet, Guy & Dean Stockwell involved. Secret Honor, and Robert Altman made the film.

Harold Pinter claimed, "Donald Freed is a writer of blazing imagination, courage, and insight. His work is a unique and fearless marriage of politics and art."

TOMORROW runs Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm through May 5, 2013. The Skylight Theatre Complex is located at 1816 1/2 N. Vermont, LA. Tickets are ($17.50 and up). Reservations: 702-582-8587) or online at http://www.ktcla.com.

"Tomorrow is a play for today. A passionate defense for our need to tell and hear the stories that define us and our world, both as individuals and as a community. The Booth family is real, and mythical. Their story reaches back to the birth of the nation but they too have lost their way in the United States of Amnesia." - Damian Cruden, Director

DAMIAN CRUDEN (Director) has been the Artistic Director of York Theatre Royale in England, approximately the size of the Center Theatre Group, for the past fifteen years. Selected directing credits include The Railway Children, which won the 2011 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment, The Guinea Pig Club, The York Mystery Plays 2012, 40 Years On, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Wind in the Willows, The White Crow (Eichmann in Jerusalem); Death of a Salesman, Patient No. 1, Enjoy, The Hare and the Tortoise (in York and Japan), Broken Glass, East Is East, Hay Fever, Macbeth, A Cloud in Trousers, Noises Off, Little Shop of Horrors, Othello, Closer, The Turn of the Screw, Bedevilled, Kafka's Dick, Man of the Moment, Piaf, Dead Funny, and Educating Rita. Damian has co-directed the last 15 York Theatre Royal Pantos with Berwick Kaler.

"It was on one of those hungry walks about town that I saw Salome [Jens]. The first exposure was probably The Disenchanted, but my creative captivity began when I saw The Balcony, which I was drawn to by the playwright, but I was kept there by the vision that she projected-a vision that was not merely hair and skin and legs-all of which could keep a person transfixed-but by talent and intellect and an acute vision that she had trained on so many layers of that play" - Tennessee Williams

Salome Jens (Abigail Booth) has had a distinguished career ranging from Broadway to film and television, with famed roles in Genet's, The Balcony, Arthur Miller's After The Fall, O'Neill's Moon For The Misbegotten, and On Golden Pond. She has acted in Donald Freed's White Crow and How Shall We Be Saved. Selected film and television credits include John Frankenheimer's Seconds, as well as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and 2011's The Green Lantern. Solome is currently Associate Visiting Professor at UCLA and Associate Artistic Director at The Actors Studio.

JENN ROBBINS (Laura Keating) recently had her play The Smoking Boy produced at the 2012 Edingurgh Festival. In Los Angeles, she has been seen as "Eleanor of Aquitaine" in the West Coast Premiere of Becoming Eleanor, "Becca" in Rabbit Hole, "June" in Fifth Of July, "Sybil" in Private Lives, and as "Catherine Sloper" in The Heiress.

KEVIN QUINN (James Booth) is a noted actor whose critically acclaimed stage work includes the roles of Frank Hunter in the multi-award winning production of The Browning Version and Gerry/Ayrens in Concealing Judy Holiday at Pacific Resident Theatre. Selected Film and Television credits include featured roles in The Green Mile, Raines, Disturbia, and The Longer Day of Happiness.

PRODUCTION TEAM

SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY offers playwrights a home for their new work. The 2011 and 2012 production seasons featured the world premieres of nine INKubator projects, with four more world premieres scheduled for 2013.ROGUE MACHINE presents plays that are new to Los Angeles. In 5 years the company has won more than 50 awards, including the 2011 Polly Warfield Award for Excellent Season in Small to MidSize Theater, funded by the Nederland Organization, BEST PRODUCTION Awards (two consecutive years) from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, Ovation, and Garland and 7 LA Weekly Awards. YORK THEATRE ROYAL has been producing great drama in York, England for over 250 years and is one of Great Britain's leading producing theatres. Each year it welcomes over 200,000 people to a wide variety of performance including The Railway Children, winning a prestigious Olivier Award earlier this year.

Sets and Costumes by Stephanie Kerley Schwartz, Lighting Design by Jeff McLaughlin, and Sound Design by Christopher Moscatiello.

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