Brenneman, Clayburgh, Mason, Taylor, et al. Set for LATW Season
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Amy Brenneman, Jill Clayburgh, Marsha Mason, and Lili Taylor are among the many stars set to participate in “Voices from the Edge,” L.A. Theatre Works’ 2006-2007 season at the Skirball Cultural Center. The plays are recorded live and subsequently broadcast as part of LATW’s nationally syndicated radio theater series, The Play’s the Thing. For reservations or more information, phone 310-827-0889 or go to www.latw.org. Following is the season schedule; one additional play, to be performed July 11-15, is yet to be announced.
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OCTOBER 11-15:
Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright
Emmy Award nominees Gregory Itzin and Amy Brenneman star in the West Coast premiere of this play about one of the great architects of the modern era, by Jeffrey Hatcher and Eric Simonson (who also directs).
NOVEMBER 8-12:
Jesus Hopped the “A” Train
The Los Angeles premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ intense, uniquely humorous take on life behind bars. The play explores the validity of one prisoner’s supposed salvation after he has committed a string of brutal murders, and questions the difference between true faith and self-serving uses of religion.
DECEMBER 13-17:
Mary Stuart
Rosalind Ayres directs the American premiere of Peter Oswald’s new translation of Frederick von Schiller’s classic play about the rivalry between Queen. Elizabeth I and her Catholic cousin, Mary Stuart.
JANUARY 17-21:
Two Cities, Two Voices
This unusual double bill comprises Roger Guenveur Smith’s edgy, funny The Watts Towers Project, about Simon Rodia, an Italian immigrant who spent 33 years building the towers and then walked away from them; and Adriana Sevan’s Taking Flight, a humorous and touching tale of friendship tested by the tragedy of 9/11.
FEBRUARY 7-11:
The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife
Marsha Mason, Tony Roberts, and Jobeth Williams star in Charles Busch’s stylish and clever comedy about a middle-aged doctor’s wife struggling with a mid-life crisis of Medea-like proportions.
MARCH 14-18:
The Ruby Sunrise
Lili Taylor, Adam Arkin, and Tony Award winner Harriet Sansom Harris star in the West Coast premiere of Rinne Groff’s award-winning play. The first act concerns Ruby, who — in 1927 — struggles to realize her dream of inventing and perfecting the first all-electrical television system. In the second act, set in the 1950s, her daughter faces similar battles of will and crises of faith as she works to get Ruby’s story told on network television.
APRIL 11-15:
The Man Who Had All The Luck
Arthur Miller’s first Broadway play concerns David Beeves, a good-looking and successful young man who worries that his persistent good fortune will run out.
MAY 16-20:
The Busy World is Hushed
Jill Clayburgh and other members of the original New York cast will reprise their roles for L.A. Theatre Works’ West Coast premiere of Keith Bunin’s play about a widowed Episcopal minister who is hoping to translate a long-lost gospel but is challenged by her scholarly assistant and her wayward, gay son.
JUNE 13-17:
Sonia Flew
Hector Elizondo and Philip Casnoff are featured in Melinda Lopez’s play about a Cuban immigrant in Mineappolis who struggles with her own childhood memory of escaping the Cuban revolution when her only son enlists in the military following 9/11.
