Krakowski, Barzee, Orfeh and More to Appear in Shanley's Love and Revenge, April 24

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz and Executive Director Steve Asher) will present a special one-night-only event created especially for LAByrinth by Tony Award and Pulitzer-Winning Playwright John Patrick Shanley. The event will take place Monday, April 24, 2006 at 8:00pm at The Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street).

"In Love and Revenge, Shanley wrestles the twin anacondas of Romance and Retribution to the ground with the assistance of world class singers and actors. Dramatic, comic and erotic explosions will litter the theater floor. Lots of music! Lots of theater!," state press notes.  All proceeds will benefit LAByrinth Theater Company.

Currently scheduled to appear are LAByrinth Company Members Ron Cephas Jones, Trevor Long, Chris McGarry, Portia, and David Zayas and special guest stars Anastasia Barzee, Paula Devicq, Jerry Dixon, Jane Krakowski, Maude Maggart, Christopher Meloni, Orfeh, and David St. Louis.

Shanley is the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning author of Doubt, currently on Broadway, for which he also won The Lucille Lortel Award and the Dramatist Guild's 2005 Hull-Warriner Award.  His new play Defiance is currently running off-Broadway at Manhattan Theater Club.  He is a Company Member of LAByrinth, where his plays Dirty Story, Where's My Money? and Sailor's Song premiered.  His other plays include Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, the dreamer examines his pillow, Italian American Reconciliation, Four Dogs and a Bone, Beggars in the House of Plenty, Psychopathia Sexualis and Cellini.  In the arena of screenwriting, he has eight movies to his credit, most recently "Live From Baghdad" for HBO, for which he received an Emmy nomination.  Other films include Five Corners (Special Jury Prize, Barcelona Film Festival), Alive and Joe Versus the Volcano, which he also directed.  For Moonstruck, he received both the Writers Guild of America Award and an Academy Award for best original screenplay.

"LAByrinth was founded in 1992 by a group of actors who wanted to create new plays that truly reflected their heritage and experiences.  The Company is an inclusive, multicultural ensemble whose work celebrates the diversity of its New York City home.  Under the leadership of Co-Artistic Directors John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman, LAByrinth has won multiple honors, awards and international acclaim and its plays have been published, translated and produced across the U.S. and abroad.  Now in its 14th Season, LAB has developed hundreds of plays and has staged 42 World Premiere productions here in New York City."

Priority tickets are $500 (includes VIP after party, priority seating, $450 tax-deductible) and regular tickets are $150 ($125 tax-deductible).  For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Veronica R. Bainbridge by phone at (212) 513-1082 or by email at veronica@labtheater.org.