New York Playwrights Lab Announces Series of Readings Jan. 19 - 23

The New York Playwrights Lab - the 35 year-old organization founded keep established playwrights writing for the theatre - will offer a sample of its members' newest works in a series of free readings at 6:00 PM January 19-23 at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City. Featuring brand new plays by Lab founder and artistic director Israel Horovitz, Lynn Nottage, David Bar Katz, Stephen Adly Guirgis and Richard Vetere and , and a collection of plays by current members titled Foodies, you won't want to miss this opportunity to witness theatre from a unique perspective.

New York Playwrights Lab Readings of New Plays
January 19-23, 2009
Cherry Lane Theatre,
38 Commerce Street, New York NY, 10014.

Admission is free. To reserve tickets please contact:
NYPlaywrights@aol.com or (212) 989-2020

Schedule of Readings
Mon., Jan 19th:
6pm Israel Horovitz's "The P Word"
8pm "Foodies"*

Tues., Jan 20th:
6pm Stephen Adly Guirgis's "The Motherf**ker With the Hat"
8pm "Foodies"*

Wed., Jan 21st:
6pm David Bar Katz's "What A Way To Go"
8pm "Foodies"*

Thurs., Jan 22nd
6pm Lynn Nottage's "New Play"
8pm "Foodies"*

Fri., Jan 23rd:
6pm Richard Vetere's "Lady Macbeth's Lover"
8pm "Foodies"*

*Ten short plays about Foodies by Richard Vetere, Daniel Reitz, Neena Beber, Ellen Melaver, Michael Hollinger, Israel Horovitz, Richard Wesley, Nicole Burdette, Jonathan Marc Sherman,
Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, David Bar Katz ...

The NY Playwrights Lab was founded 35 years ago by playwright Israel Horovitz, who has been the Lab's Artistic Director since its inception. An ever-changing group of established American playwrights, the 2009 Lab membership includes Neena Beber, Ellen Melaver, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Sarah Ruhl, Peter Parnell, Richard Vetere, Daniel Reitz, Nicole Burdette, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Tanya Barfield, Lynn Nottage, Israel Horovitz, Matthew Weiss, Michael Hollinger, Richard Wesley and Brett C. Leonard.

The mission of the New York Playwrights Lab is to encourage established American playwrights to continue writing for theatre.