Coyote StageWorks Presents Free Performance of Laurence Luckinbill's CLARENCE DARROW TONIGHT! Today

"CLARENCE DARROW TONIGHT!", starring renowned actor and Emmy Award winner, Laurence Luckinbill, is set to be the first presentation in Coyote StageWorks' new free community outreach series, "Play Dates". Luckinbill, who has written and performed in a number of solo plays about such notables as LynDon Johnson, Teddy Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway, will read CLARENCE DARROW TONIGHT! at the Annenberg Theater today, March 10, 2013 at 2pm.

Laurence Luckinbill's award nominations include a Drama Desk, an Emmy, and a Tony for CLARENCE DARROW TONIGHT!, LYNDON, and THE SHADOW BOX respectively. His numerous other film and theatre appearances include THE BOYS IN THE BAND (play and film), STAR TREK V- THE FINAL FRONTIER, SUCH GOOD FRIENDS, COCKTAIL, CABARET and THE PROMISE.

Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer and civil libertarian. He was born in rural Ohio in 1857 to an ardent abolitionist father and a women's sufferage advocate mother. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1878, and through the course of his career, managed to become a central figure in many of the most important legal battles of the time. He was notably an agnostic, an evolutionist, a supporter of the American labor movement, and an early champion of civil rights. He was also a fierce ligitator and a famed orator, both inside the court and outside of it. Known by some as The Great Satan, by some as an agitator, and by most as The Defender of the Damned, Darrow spent a lifetime fighting for underdogs - people who were abused by the system, had no rights, were desperately poor, and who, Darrow believed, through no fault of their own, were victims of the capitalist system.

"We are thrilled to be launching our new "Play Dates" series with a performance of this caliber," said Chuck Yates, Coyote StageWorks Artistic Director. "PLAY DATES has been a dream of ours since we first conceived Coyote StageWorks, and it has been made possible through an agreement between Coyote StageWorks, the Annenberg Theater and the Palm Springs Art Museum."

CLARENCE DARROW TONIGHT! will be performed atThe Annenberg Theatre? on Sunday, 2pm. Admission is free and tickets are on a first come, first served basis. For more information call 760-325-4490 or visit www.CoyoteStageWorks.Org