Ruhl and 'Clean House' Cast Set for 11/15 'Platform' Talk

On Wednesday, Nov. 15, at 6:00 pm, there will be a "Platform Series" pre-performance talk with the award-winning playwright, Sarah Ruhl, whose play The Clean House, recently opened to critical acclaim at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. 

Members of the cast – Vanessa Aspillaga (Anna in the Tropics, Missionaries), Blair Brown (Copenhagen, Cabaret), Jill Clayburgh (Barefoot in the Park, A Naked Girl on the Appian Way), John Dossett (Mamma Mia, The Constant Wife) and Concetta Tomei (The Normal Heart, The Elephant Man-- will join the playwright in a discussion of her work.

Ruhl was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.  She also won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Clean House, which premiered at New Haven's Yale Repertory Theatre before being produced at theaters across the country.  Her other plays include Melancholy Play, Eurydice, and Late: A Cowboy Song and Passion Play.  This Lincoln Center Theater's production marks the playwright's New York debut.

Platform Series events take place between the matinee and evening shows on Wednesdays, from 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm, in the lobby of the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65th Street).   Admission is free and open to all; however, seating in the lobby is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis only, beginning at 5:30 pm.

Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series was introduced in the summer of 1998.  Transcripts of the previous talks are available on-line at www.lct.org.