February 14, 2006
For Immediate Release
Contact: Adrian Bryan-Brown /
Juliana Hannett / Matt Ross
LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Philip Seymour
Hoffman and John
Ortiz and Executive Director Steve Asher) presents the second
developmental production of the 2005-06 season, ALL THE BAD THINGS
by Cusi Cram, directed by Paula Pizzi. ALL THE BAD THINGS
will begin performances tomorrow,Wednesday,
February 15th at the Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street) for 15
performances only through Sunday, March 5th.
ALL THE BAD THINGS is part of LAByrinth Theater Company’s
developmental theater program where new plays are presented as
works-in-progress in a
review-free environment. Through
this program, audience members are given the unique opportunity to be part of
the process of developing new plays.
Fernanda is having a bad day. A
very bad day. She lives with her ailing mother in a tiny apartment in the West
Village, her husband has braces and is unemployed, her brother-in-law has
suddenly converted to Mormonism, the creditors won’t stop calling AND she finds
out her rent stabilized apartment is about to be de-stabilized. Where can the
fragile, the artistic, the underemployed find refuge in a city that is no longer
kind to its eccentrics and Bohemians? Is Manhattan over? Are there sane
Mormons? ALL THE BAD
THINGS asks these questions and a few others, while searching for hope
in unexpected places.
The cast includes
Vanessa Aspillaga, Jennifer Lauren Grant, Peter Hirsch, Justin
Reinsilber, Alexa Scott-Flaherty, and Phyllis Somerville. The same cast read the play as part of
LAByrinth’s 2005 Barn Series Festival on December 6th and
8th at the Public Theater.
In addition to Pizzi, the
ALL THE BAD
THINGS creative
team includes Andromache Chalfant (Scenic Design), Sarah
Sidman (Lighting Design), Maggie Dick (Costume
Design), and Rob Kaplowitz (Composer and Sound
Design).
LAByrinth Theater Company
was founded in 1992 when thirteen actors joined forces to form a place to
work. The idea was to create a home where the group, for three hours each
week, could engage in a variety of theatrical exercises designed to push each
others’ limits and bind together into a tightly knit, uninhibited and
impassioned ensemble - one in which each member is given the opportunity and
support not only to act, but to write, direct, produce, sweep, paint, hang
lights, etcetera. The fact that the company now consists of 92 members
from a wide array of cultural perspectives did not occur through some political
design. It grew out of a shared artistic sensibility and a desire to
create personal work that reflects the community in which the company lives: New
York City. LAByrinth Theater Company has produced 41 new American
plays including The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Our Lady of 121st
Street, Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train, and In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings
by Stephen Adly Guirgis; Guinea Pig Solo by Brett C. Leonard; Dutch
Heart of Man by Robert Glaudini; The Trail of Her Inner Thigh by Erin
Cressida Wilson; Stopless by David Deblinger; Dreaming in Tongues
by the LAByrinth Ensemble; Cutting Open Wings by Lidia Ramirez; Queen
Latina and Her Power Posse Versus The Evils of Society (a musical comic book
for the stage) by David Anzuelo; and Sailor’s Song, Where’s My Money, A
Winter Party, and Dirty Story by John Patrick Shanley.
ALL THE BAD THINGS’
playing schedule will be Wednesday – Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm.
Tickets are available now by calling
Telecharge.com at 212-239-6200 or visiting www.telecharge.com. Tickets are also available in person at
The Public Theater box office, 425
Lafayette Street, NYC. The Public Theater box office is open
Sunday - Monday, 1-6pm and Tuesday-Saturday 1-7:30pm. For advance ordering privileges,
get a LABPASS™. Call 212
260-2400. Your $45 LABPASS™ gets you $15 admission to each production
during LAByrinth's 2005-2006 season. Without a LABPASS™, tickets are
$25.
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