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Bobby Cannavale, Johnny Galecki, Josh Hamilton, Julia Stiles Join Neil LaBute’s Filthy Talk for Troubled Times

Julia Stiles
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Julia Stiles
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Bobby Cannavale, Johnny Galecki, Josh Hamilton, and Julia Stiles will join the previously announced Alice Eve, Justin Long, and T.R. Knight in Neil LaBute’s all new ‘shorts’ series, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times: Scenes of Intolerance, a benefit for MCC Theater, where LaBute is Playwright-in-Residence. LaBute will direct the performances, which will take place at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, on June 3, 4, and 5 at 7pm.

According to press notes, “Sex, sexism, bigotry and even “Frank f—-n’ Sinatra” are all given the one-two punch in this finely fused attack on the degraded rubble we sometimes call American culture.”

Proceeds will support MCC Theater’s Playwrights’ Coalition program, free PlayLab reading series and literary development activities.

As previously reported, another LaBute play The Break of Noon, directed by Jo Bonney, will open MCC’s 25th Anniversary Season this fall. The playwright’s other credits include reasons to be pretty, Fat Pig, and The Shape of Things.

For more information, visit www.mcctheater.org.