STAGE TUBE: LAByrinth's 'Celebrity Charades: Jackpot' Epi. 1

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell, Yul Vázquez and Producing Director Marieke Gaboury) enters the arena to crank up the stakes at the seventh annual benefit featuring Celebrity Charades: Jackpot on Monday December 7th. In this, the first of a series of videos, we learn how far the celebrities will go to get a leg up on the competition.

At the live event, watch four celebrity teams do battle in a fearsome and hilarious speed charades
competition with referee Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio, "Law & Order"). Players confirmed to participate to date (subject to continuing availability) include Ian Astbury (frontman, The Cult), Bob Balaban (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show), Bobby Cannavale ("Will & Grace," The Station Agent), Tom Colicchio ("Top Chef"), Billy Crudup (Almost Famous, The Coast Of Utopia), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt, Capote), John Ortiz (Public Enemies, Miami Vice), Julia Roberts (Duplicity, Erin Brockovich, Pretty Woman), Sam Rockwell(Frost/Nixon, Choke), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Sex and The City, Tony Award-Nominee for Rent, Anna In The Tropics), Julia Stiles (Oleanna, Mona Lisa's Smile) and Yul Vázquez ("Seinfeld", Che). More names added each week!

The 2009 Dave Hoghe Award will be presented to Time Warner Inc. in honor of its inspiring commitment to new work and its leadership support of LAByrinth Theater Company. Past recipients of this annual award have included Madonna, George C. Wolfe, Ira Pittelman,Daryl Roth and Bennington College and Carole Shorenstein Hays. For the latest information and to purchase tickets, go to www.labtheater.org or call (212) 513 1082. Tickets sales support the 2009/10 season of LAByrinth Theater Company