Los Angeles Revival of Arthur Kopit's ROAD TO NIRVANA Announced

The Harold Clurman Lab Theater is proud to announce its next production, Road to Nirvana, by Arthur Kopit. Kopit's hilarious and irreverent comedy asks how far people will go in pursuit of fame and fortune. The play runs fromSeptember 15 to October 15, 2016. Managing Artistic Director Don K. Williams will direct. Williams recently directed the Harold Clurman Lab Theater's Ovation-nominated productions of Lebensraum and Long Way Go Down.

All shows will offer a "pay what you can" ticket structure in an effort to make theater-going accessible to patrons of all income levels.

Artistic Director Tom Oppenheim on the production: "Harold Clurman said that comedy serves to make people laugh so that when their mouths are open you can pour the truth in. Road to Nirvana is a romp that speaks to a uniquely American phenomenon, a love of money. In Don K. Williams's capable hands, Road to Nirvana will certainly pack a wallop."

The Lab Theater's most recent work in Los Angeles includes the Ovation-Recommended and Ovation-Nominated run of Lebensraum by Israel Horovitz, the Ovation-nominated run of Long Way Go Down by Zayd Dohrn, and the powerful Talking to Terrorists by Robin Soans. In New York, the Harold Clurman Lab Theater recently presented the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award winning one-man show Mercy Killers by Michael Milligan and the off-Broadway production of Israel Horovitz's Lebensraum.

Synopsis:

Two ex-movie moguls on the skids reunite to coproduce the big one - an autobiographical screenplay by the world's hottest female rock star. She will even star as herself - if she can find producers willing to meet her extraordinary terms.

Road to Nirvana

By Arthur Kopit

Directed by Don K. Williams

12 Performances, September 15 - October 15, 2016.

Tickets $20 in advance, 'Pay what you can' at the door.

For more information, please visit: www.artofactingstudio.com.

Performance Schedule:

Open: Thursday, September 15th - 8PM

Friday September 16th - 8PM

Saturday, September 17th - 8PM

Sunday, September 18th -7PM

Friday, September 23rd - 8PM

Saturday, September 24th - 8PM

Sunday, September 25th - 7PM

Saturday, October 1 - 8PM

Sunday, October 2 - 7PM

Saturday, October 8 - 8PM

Sunday, October 9 - 7PM

Close: Saturday, October 15 - *PM

The Art of Acting Studio is located at 1017 North Orange Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90038. The Stella Adler Studio of Acting is located at 31 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001.

THE Harold Clurman LABORATORY THEATER COMPANY is the Stella Adler Studio of Acting's/Art of Acting Studio's professional theater company. The Lab aims to produce socially relevant theater committed to the standards and ideals set out by Stella Adler, Harold Clurman and the Group Theater. The mission of the Lab is to provide the community, through theater and discussion, with a place of exploration and experimentation of what it means be a human being. Select production history: Talking to Terrorists, Mercy Killers by Michael Milligan (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013, Fringe First Award), Lebensraum by Israel Horovitz (off-Broadway, Ovation-Nominated in Los Angeles), Long Way Go Down by Zayd Dohrn (West Coast premiere, Ovation Award Nominee), Our Town by Thornton Wilder, What Shall I Give My Children? by Don K. Williams (world premiere).