Dreyfuss, Giamatti, Harris, Molina, Ruffalo, Stoltz, et al. Set for LATW Season

L.A. Theatre Works has announced the 2008-2009 season of its The Play’s The Thing series of staged readings, which are recorded for later radio broadcast. All shows take place at the Skirball Cultural Center.

The season will kick off with David Strathairn and Paul Giamatti in Norman Corwin’s political drama The Rivalry (October 15-19), followed by Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing (November 12-16), and the U.S. premiere of two pieces Beloved Clara and Odyssey of Love (December 3-7), featuring pianist Lucy Parnham and actors Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis.

In 2009, LATW will present Lonne Elder III’s Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (January 14-18), followed by Eric Stoltz, Waleed F. Zuaiter and Sevaan Greene in George Packer’s Betrayed (February 18-22); Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton, and Missy Yager in Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth (March 18-22); Alfred Molina and Brian Cox in Yazmin Reza’s Art (April 15-19); a double bill of War of the Worlds and The Lost World (May 13-17); Neil Patrick Harris, Hamish Linklater, and Emily Bergl in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (June 17-21); and RIchard Dreyfuss, Hector Elizondo, and Amy Pietz in Friedrich Durrenmatt’s The Physicists (July 8-12).

For more information, call 310-827-0889 or visit www.latw.org.