Celebration Theatre Presents TRANSITIONS, Today

Celebration Theatre presents as part of its New Works Reading Series, TRANSITIONS, written by John Anastasi and directed by Jeffrey Passero. TRANSITIONS will perform one night only, Tuesday, October 18 at the West Hollywood City Chambers, 625 N. San Vicente Blvd. in West Hollywood.

Danya and Addison are a caring, intelligent lesbian couple. They have professional careers, a beautiful home, a baby on the way and a unshakable passion for each other. But one of them has a lifelong secret that threatens to destroy all they hold dear. Transitions is the story of a committed couple facing the life-altering choices the modern world offers and examines what happens when one person's sense of self is pitted against one's commitment to another.

JOHN ANASTASI (Playwright) Works written for the stage include In My Father's Eyes, a play with music, produced at The Forum Theatre (New Jersey) and the historic Mishler Theatre (Altoona, PA). The play was selected as an alternate at the New York Fringe Fesitval, Summer 2003. Other works include: Stolen Lives (Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row, The Mishler Theatre), Pied a Terre (Off-Broadway, Kirk Theatre at Theatre Row, Cork Theatre in Ireland, Shanghai Grand Theatre in China, published by Samuel French), I Forgive You Ronald Reagan (Beckett Theatre in Manhattan, published by Dramatic Publishing of Chicago. The playwright is an active member of the Dramatist Guild of America Inc.

Jeffrey Passero (Director) has a successful feature film casting career of over 60 movies, including "Poison Ivy" with Drew Barrymore, Nic Cage's "Sonny" starring James Franco, "Fly Paper" starring Lucy Liu (co-producer), and "The Sasquatch Gang" with Justin Long and produced by Kevin Spacey's Trigger Street Films. Passero also produced "Power 98" with Eric Roberts for HBO and "Debating Robert Lee" with Kaley Cuoco and Beau Bridges. He began his career as an actor at NYC's Roundabout Theatre and at HB Studios under Larry Moss and Terry Schreiber. He and his wife, Amy, are co-producers of "It Shoulda Been You," the new musical by David Hyde Pierce and starring Tyne Daly on Broadway. He also wrote and stars in "Casting Aspersions," about his life as a casting director.

The cast of TRANSITIONS will feature: Johanna Watts, Robyn Cohen, Eve Gordon, and Channing Chase.

TRANSITIONS will perform one night only, Tuesday, October 18 at the West Hollywood City Chambers, 625 N. San Vicente Blvd. in West Hollywood.

Admission is free... with donations gratefully accepted.

Celebrating New Works is produced by Celebration Theatre's Literary Director Nathan Frizzell; Co-Producer is Associate Literary Director Chrisanne Eastwood.

Celebration Theatre is headed by its Co-Artistic Directors Michael Matthews and Michael A. Shepperd, along with its Executive Director Michael C. Kricfalusi.