Joyce Van Patten To Appear in Peccadillo Reading 7/25

The Plays-You-Should-Know-And-Probably-Don't Reading Series presents Joyce Van Patten reads the role of Mrs. Fischer in George Kelly's classic comedy of manners The Show Off

Directed by Dan Wackerman
July 25th, 2011, at 4pm
Theatre at St. Clement's
423 W. 46th Street
Between 9th & 10th Avenues
ADMISSION IS FREE
wine and cheese reception follows immediately
RESERVATIONS
212.633.6533

A richly comic caricature of the bluff and bragging of American business life by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, George Kelly. The struggles of Aubrey Piper to satisfy his enormous egotism and at the same time preserve his self-respect constitute one of the best comedies of the 1920s.

George Kelly (1887 -1974) was an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor and the uncle of legendary film star, Grace Kelly. He began his career in vaudeville as an actor and sketch writer and later became best known for his satiric comedies, including The Torch-Bearers (1922), The Show-Off (1924) and Craig's Wife (1925) for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Joyce Van Patten has appeared numerous times on Broadway (The People in the Picture, Brighton Beach Memoirs), on television (Desperate Housewives, Oz, The Sopranos) and in movies (Grown Ups, St. Elmo's Fire, Bad News Bears). Other cast members include: Lori Gardner (Inventing Avi, The Deep Throat Sex Scandal), Scott Evans (Room Service) and Mairin Lee (In the Next Room or the vibrator play, Wilma Theater).

For over 15 years, The Peccadillo Theater Company has been producing revivals of classic American plays such as Counsellor-at-Law by Elmer Rice (OBIE and Lucille Lortel Awards), Room Service by John Murray and Allen Boretz and The Ladies of the Corridor by Dorothy Parker and Arnaud d'Usseau. Most recently, Peccadillo has produced the first New York City revivals of Lillian Hellman's, Another Part of the Forest and the Schwartz/ Fields musical, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Occasionally, Peccadillo also produces original material such as Zero Hour (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance) and the MAC Award nominated The Talk of the Town, which ran for over a year in the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel and has toured nationally.