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Dead Writers Theatre Collective to Present LOOS ENDS Benefit Reading, 7/10-11

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Dead Writers Theatre Collective shall present a benefit-staged reading of Brenda Kilianski's Loos Ends: A Hollywood Memoir directed by Charlie McGrath. Performances are Wednesday, July 10 & Thursday, July 11, 2013 @ 7:30pm at Stage 773 Cabaret, 1225 W. Belmont, Chicago, IL 60657. Tickets are $35.00 (501(c) (3) deduction letter will be presented to patron). To purchase tickets please visit http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/396817 or call (773) 350-8221.

Ms. Kilianski's touching comic memoir about the lifelong friendship of one of Hollywood's first screenwriters, Anita Loos and screen siren Paulette Goddard as they recount their career climb in the male dominated film industry spanning from 1914 to 1979. Wit rules as the two women, now in old age, look back on the ghosts and follies of their youth and what led to their big fallout as they wrap up the loose ends of their friendship.

Characters include: Charlie Chaplain, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith, George Cukor, David O'Selznick, Eric Maria Remarque and George Gershwin among others. Please visit www.DeadWriters.net for more information and "Like" them on Facebook.

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