Stewart's Live Girls Runs Off-Broadway 10/23-11/26

Urban Stages has announced that Victoria Stewart's Live Girls will be the first production of their 2006-2007 season. The show will be directed by Lou Jacob.

Previews will begin on Monday, October 23rd toward an opening Wednesday, October 25th. The show will run through Sunday, November 26th.

"Sex and performance art collide in Live Girls, a play about an Anna Deveare Smith-like performance artist who interviews a porn star for a piece on social injustice. As expectations are challenged and the interview turns increasingly personal, 'reality based' theatre icon Sarah finds herself asking a new question: What is real and what is performance?," state press notes.

Playwright Victoria Stewart has received the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, the Norman Felton and Jerome Fellowship as well as residencies at Ucross/Sundance, Hedgebrook, and the Donmar Warehouse. Her play Hardball was presented by the Summer Play Festival in New York.

Director, Lou Jacob, is returning to Urban Stages, having directed their production of Coyote on a Fence. Recently, Lou directed Sam Shepard's The God of Hell, starring Tim Roth, Randy Quaid, J. Smith-Cameron and Frank Wood.

The cast of Live Girls includes Pamela Hart, Suli Holum and Jenny Maguire.

Live Girls play Sundays through Wednesdays at 8 PM and Wednesday matinees at 3 PM. There is no performance on Wednesday, November 22nd).

Tickets are $20, and may be purchased by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444, or online at www.urbanstages.org. Urban Stages is located at 259 West 30th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues.