Cast Announced for 'Little Flower of East Orange' by Guirgis; Hoffman Directs

LAByrinth Theater Company and The Public Theatre join forces again to reunite the powerhouse writer/director team behind The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train. Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis and Director Philip Seymour Hoffman will partner again on the world premiere of The Little Flower of East Orange, an inter-generational ghost story set in an upper Manhattan charity hospital.

The Little Flower of East Orange will begin previews on Tuesday, March 18 and run through Sunday, April 20 with an official press opening on Sunday, April 6 at 7 PM.  Tickets go on-sale on Sunday, February 17.

The cast for The Little Flower of East Orange will include Ellen Burstyn, Elizabeth Canavan, Liza Colón-Zayas, Arthur French, Gillian Jacobs, Ajay Naidu, Michael Shannon, Sidney Williams, and David Zayas.

The Little Flower of East Orange will feature sets by Narelle Sissons; costumes by Mimi O'Donnell; lights by Japhy Weideman; and sound design by David Van Tieghem.

Stephen Adly Guirgis (Playwright) has been a LAByrinth Company Member since 1994. His plays have been produced on five continents and throughout the United States. They include Our Lady of 121st Street (10 best plays of 2003; Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Best Play Nominations), Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train (Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award, Detroit Free Press Best Play of the Year, as well as a Laurence Olivier Nomination for Best New Play), In Arabia We'd All Be Kings (10 Best of '99, Time Out New York), and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, produced by LAByrinth in collaboration with The Public Theater in 2005. All four plays were originally produced by LAByrinth and directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Philip Seymour Hoffman (Director) has been a LAByrinth Company Member since 1995 and Co-Artistic Director. He recently directed Andrew Upton's play Riflemind at Australia's Sydney Theatre Company. Other directing credits include In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings and Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train by Stephen Adly Guirgis with LAByrinth. In 2001, he directed Rebecca Gilman's The Glory of Living at MCC Theater. Most recently he directed LAByrinth's Off-Broadway commercial production of Stephen Adly Guirgis's Our Lady of 121st Street at the Union Square Theater. As an actor, his stage credits include: Jack Goes Boating (LAByrinth at The Public), Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Seagull (The New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre). His film credits include: Capote, Charlie Wilson's War, The Savages, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Along Came Polly, Cold Mountain, The Party's Over, Owning Mahowny, Love Liza, Punch-Drunk Love, 25th Hour, Red Dragon, Almost Famous, State and Main, Flawless, Magnolia, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Boogie Nights, Happiness, Patch Adams, The Big Lebowski, Twister, Scent of a Woman, Nobody's Fool, and Empire Falls on HBO. He has recently completed production on Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche as well as the film version of Doubt, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley.

The Little Flower of East Orange will begin previews on Tuesday, March 18 and run through Sunday, April 20 with an official press opening on Sunday, April 6 at 7 PM.  The performance schedule is Tuesdays at 7 PM; Wednesdays thru Fridays at 8 PM; Saturdays at 2 PM and 8 PM; and Sundays at 2 PM and 7 PM.  There is no matinee performance on Saturday, March 22.  There will be post-show discussions on Tuesday, April 8 and Tuesday, April 15.

The Public Theater is located at 425 Lafayette Street.  Tickets are $50 and go on-sale on Sunday, February 17.  Student tickets are available in advance, at the box office only, for $25 (1 per ID).  There are a limited number of Rush Tickets sold an hour before curtain at every performance available to the general public (Two per person, $20 each, cash only).

To purchase tickets, please call (212) 967-7555 or visit www.publictheater.org.

Philip Seymour Hoffman (photo by Walter McBride / Retna Ltd)

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