Bogosian, Hoffman, Ortiz, Rubin-Vega, et al. Set for LAByrinth 2006-2007 Season

The LAByrinth Theatre Company has chosen five plays to be presented during its 15th Anniversary Season, which will be held at the Public Theatre. Specific dates for each show will be announced at a later time.

The company’s three mainstage productions, to be presented during Fall 2006 and Winter 2007, will be Stephen Belber’s mystery A Small Melodramatic Story, directed by Lucie Tiberghien and starring company members Carlo Alban, Ron Cephas Jones, Chris McGarry, and Portia; Bob Glaudini’s Jack Goes Boating, directed by Peter duBois and starring Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, and Daphne Rubin-Vega; and This Is Now, an 80-minute collaboration between actor/writer Eric Bogosian and musican Elliott Sharp.

LAByrinth will also offer two developmental productions: Carlo Alban’s multi-character solo show Intriguis and Andrea Ciannavei’s Pretty Chin Up, which examines the differences (or lack thereof) between an overweight marketing executive who sells women’s lingerie and diet pills and the starving spokesmodel who peddles the goods for the camera. In addition, the company will once again put on its annual Barn Festival of free staged readings of new plays.

For more information, visit www.labtheater.org.