Monday, November 22, 2010

THE BARN SERIES AT LABYRINTH THEATER COMPANY

It's time again for a series of free readings written, acted, and directed by some of New York (and the world's) best.

The LAByrinth Theater Company presents The Barn Series. Here's a list of the plays with their descriptions and reading dates.

The plays are FREE, but THEY SELL OUT! Well, they don't "sell" but you know what I mean. So, come early, or sign up as a LAByrinth LABpass member.

Tickets for all readings in the Barn Series are FREE to the public. No reservations necessary. Free tickets will be distributed an hour before curtain on a first come, first served basis.

LABpass Members can make advance reservations as a benefit of their membership. If you are a LABpass member, please call 212.513.1080 to make your reservation. For information on becoming a member:

http://www.labtheater.org/tickets/labpass.html


THE BARN SERIES
AT THE CHERRY PIT

CHANNEL
by John Jiler
Directed by Brian Roff*
Nov 29 & Dec 9 at 8pm

The illness of a child hurls together a rough-hewn white actor
and an elegant black doctor….with violent, awakening results.

Featuring Charles Goforth*, Ron Cephas Jones*


MARCY COMES HOME
by Adam Bock
Directed by Trip Cullman
Nov 30 at 8pm

When you drive out of town, but then come back on the
Greyhound bus - well, that can be hard.

Featuring Vanessa Aspillaga*, Quincy Tyler Bernstine*, Zack Booth,
Ari Graynor, Jason Butler Harner, Linda Larkin, Maulik Pancholy


IF YOU LOVE ME
by Lyle Kessler
Directed by Lola Glaudini*
Dec 1 & 2 at 8pm

Extremism in the name of love.

Featuring Sam Rockwell*, Elizabeth Rodriguez*, Yul Vazquez*


YOU ARE HERE
by Melissa Ross*
Directed by Mimi O’Donnell*
Dec 3 & 10 at 8pm

In You Are Here, six New Yorkers befriend and brutalize each other in a desperate attempt to control their out of control lives. As they stumble through the dive bars, cramped apartments and cut-throat boardrooms of a ruthless city, they wrestle with the reality of rapidly approaching middle age while still struggling to hold on to their disappearing youth.

Featuring Alexander Alioto, Max Casella, Michael Chernus, Sarah Nina Hayon*, Jennifer Mudge, Amanda Perez


THE BENDS
by Megan Mostyn-Brown*
Directed by Josh Hecht
Dec 4 & 5 at 8pm

When an alcohol fueled reunion between former college friends treads dangerous territory, everyone is forced to ask can we ever out run who we were? or is the past always there to haunt us?

Featuring Jeff Biehl, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Michael Gladis, Sarah Nina Hayon*, Greg Keller, Alexa Scott-Flaherty*


OH, THE POWER
by David Bar Katz*
Directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman*
Dec 7 & 8 at 8pm

Ten years after they were forced to disband, a group of superheroes gather for cocktails in a finished basement in the suburbs to try to unravel the mysteries of their final mission.

Featuring Tina Benko, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Jeffrey Horwitz,
Joseph Parks, Ed Vassallo*, Yul Vazquez*


RIVERS OF JANUARY
by Ben Snyder
Directed by Stephen Adly Guirgis*
Dec 11 at 7pm & 9pm

Rio de Janeiro. New Year’s Eve. Three old friends struggle to make peace with the past, get a grasp on the present, and avert a tragic future.


HEAL ME TELEVISION

by Martha Wollner*
Directed by Kevin Geer*
Dec 12 at 7pm & Dec 21 at 8pm

1959. Small town, South. Lawerence Welk's on TV; home made ice cream with your peach cake; communion at home when you' re too sick for church; and a lynchin' just down the road. For goodness sake, don't just stand there gawking! Come on in!

Featuring Elizabeth Canavan*, Scout Cook, Andrea Haring*, Scott Hudson*, Russell G. Jones*, Florencia Lozano*, Kelley Rae O’Donnell*, Richard Petrocelli*, Yolonda Ross*, Finnerty Steeves, Sidney Williams*


THE WALKING GAME
by Daniel Harnett*
Directed by Padraic Lillis*
Dec 13 at 7pm & 9pm

A young man is having trouble holding on to reality and the room he's checked into - in this new musical one act.

Featuring Scout Cook, Kevin Geer*, Charles Goforth*, Marshall Sharer*


UTILITIES
by Jonathan Marc Sherman
Directed by David Bar Katz*
Dec 14 & 15 at 8pm

You should know how to break up with a friend.
You should know what your childhood idols are really like.
You should know what your partner is really feeling.
Shouldn't you? A story about how then became now.

Featuring Didi O’Connell*, Annie Parisse, Yul Vazquez*


NEW SHORT PLAYS
by Israel Horovitz
Directed by Israel Horovitz and Scott Illingworth
Dec 16 & 18 at 8pm

Israel Horovitz's New Shorts include
Just The Way You Are
...(an intervention from hell),
Inconsolable
...(on suicide),
The Vote In Orange
...(on the night France elected a Fascist candidate for the presidency),
Beirut Rocks
...(on the radicalization of an American Arab),
What Strong Fences Make
...(on the radicalization of an Israeli Jew).

Featuring Scout Cook, Jeremy Sisto, Francisco Solorzano


A FAMILY FOR ALL OCCASIONS
by Bob Glaudini*
Directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman*
Dec 17 &19 at 8pm

A father without skills, nor the ability to show his feelings, attempts to navigate the demands of a wife with a temper, a wayward daughter, who brings a man home to live,and a son so bright he has trouble communicating.

Featuring Lex Friedman, Craig “muMs” Grant*, Didi O’Connell*,
Charlie Saxton, David Strathairn


THEY KILLED BOO BOO?
by Maggie Bofill*
Directed by Jill DeArmon*
Dec 17 & 18 at 11pm

Sisters, Men, Wolves and Song....and Boo Boo. This is the story of…

Featuring Carlo Alban*, Raul Castillo*, Adam Cohen, Salvatore Inzerillo*,
Angela Lewis*, Paula Pizzi*, Yolonda Ross*


UNTITLED
by Stephen Adly Guirgis*
Dec 20 at 7pm & 9pm



*denotes LAByrinth Company member


All readings take place at THE CHERRY PIT: 155 Bank Street

LABYRINTH HOME
http://www.labtheater.org/

THE BARN SERIES CALENDAR
http://www.labtheater.org/onstage/barnseriescalendar.html

THE LABYRINTH LABpass
http://www.labtheater.org/tickets/labpass.html

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