Public Theater 2004-2005 Season

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Innovative…Daring…Unexpected…Exciting…

Nowhere else can you experience a season of Power Plays! Its passion, intrigue and much more as The Public Theater presents its 2004-2005 Season featuring such extraordinary artists as Judith Ivey, Peter Dinklage, Margaret Whitton, Richard Nelson, Stephen Adly Guirgis and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and many more.

The 2004 – 2005 Season

Richard III, by William Shakespeare, directed by Peter Dubois
September 21 – October 24, 2004
Shakespeare’s excitingly powerful tale of a warrior who will stop at nothing to gain the throne of England. Featuring Peter Dinklage of last year’s acclaimed film The Station Agent.

Dirty Tricks, by John Jeter, directed by Margaret Whitton
October 5 – November 14, 2004
The outrageous “Mouth of the South,” Martha Mitchell, relives how she brought down the Nixon administration in a fascinating one-woman show. Featuring 2-time Tony Award winner Judith Ivey.

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman
A production by the LAByrinth Theater in collaboration with the Public Theater
Winter 2005
LAByrinth Theater’s time-bending, serio-comic drama in an imagined world between Heaven and Hell re-examines the plight and fate of the New Testament’s most infamous and unexplained sinner.

This Is How It Goes, by Neil LaBute
Spring 2005
A new tale of manipulation, exploitation, race relations and infidelity comes to life as the conventional love-triangle becomes shockingly skewed in Neil LaBute’s latest work.

The Controversy, by Jean-Claude Carriere, English Version by Richard Nelson
Spring 2005
Experience the shocking real-life debates, whose effects are still felt today, as the Catholic Church attempts to determine whether or not natives an ocean away are indeed human.

Plus one more production to be announced. Season subject to change.

Show Details

Dates: Opening Night: September 21, 2004 Final Performance: June 1, 2005