Laurence Luckinbill Set For CLARENCE DARROW TONIGHT! June 19

Laurence Luckinbill, award-winning actor and Abingdon Theatre Company Honorary Board Member, will read his one-person show CLARENCE DARROW TONIGHT! at the June Havoc Theatre (312 West 36th Street) on June 19 at 7:00pm; all tickets are $25 and include a wine reception following
the reading. Proceeds benefit Abingdon's mission to develop and produce new plays by American Playwrights.

In 2002, Luckinbill opened the June Havoc Theatre in the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex portraying President Theodore Roosevelt in his one-man play, TEDDY TONIGHT!. In 2004, he returned to Abingdon's Dorothy Strelsin Theatre with HEMINGWAY, a solo play about the last
hours of Ernest Hemingway's life.

CLARENCE DARROW TONIGHT! was originally presented by Ensemble Theatre Company in 1999. The New York Times hailed Luckinbill's performance as "vivid and engrossing... he is outstanding." During his dramatic career in law, Darrow was a primary member of the American Civil Liberties
Union who fought for civil rights and decent working conditions and against the injustice of the death penalty. (He considered his greatest achievement saving 102 different clients from a death
sentence.) Darrow was immortalized in "Inherit the Wind" which dramatized he landmark 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial and his defense of schoolteacher John Scopes, who taught Darwin's Theory of Evolution to his class.

Laurence Luckinbill currently tours in solo performances portraying LynDon Johnson, Clarence Darrow, and Theodore Roosevelt. After graduating from the Drama Department in 1955, he earned his MFA in playwriting from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. A versatile actor, Luckinbill has won praise for his work on television, stage, and screen. He won the New York Critics Circle Award for his performance in THE MEMORY BANK and was nominated for a Tony for his
work in THE SHADOW BOX. His films include starring roles in "Such Good Friends," "Cocktail," and "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier." On television, he starred in his own ABC series, "The Delphi Bureau." As a writer, Luckinbill has contributed to The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and American Theatre Magazine. In 1993, he wrote and co-produced with his wife, Lucie Arnaz, "Lucy & Desi: A Home Movie," a two-hour television documentary that won an Emmy Award.
During the Kennedy Administration, he served in the US Foreign Service for two years, in Africa and Italy, as director, actor, and lecturer on American Theatre and Culture. In 2007, he was inducted into the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame.

Since 1993, Abingdon Theatre Company has developed and produced new plays by American Playwrights exclusively. Our actors, directors, designers, producers and dramaturgs have collaborated with more than 200 playwrights to develop original plays. Under the guidance of
Artistic Director Jan Buttram and Managing Director Samuel Bellinger, the company provides a safe home in which playwrights collaborate with other theatre artists and receive audience feedback through the utilization of a four-step development process: Page 2 Stage, Staged
Readings, and Workout Labs, which culminate in Studio and Mainstage Productions.

CLARENCE DARROW TONIGHT! runs June 19 at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex's June Havoc Theatre (312 West 36th Street) at 7:00pm. All tickets $25 (including post-show reception). For reservations, call 212-868-2055 or visit www.abingdontheatre.org.

For more information, visit www.abingdontheatre.org