MENTOR, BETWEEN YOU, ME & THE LAMPSHADE Featured in Barn Reading Series

LAByrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell, Yul Vázquez and Managing Director, Danny Feldman), Off-Broadway's home of exhilarating and incendiary theater, has announced the next two readings for its ongoing Barn Series.

The critical second step in Labyrinth's unique play development process, the Barn Series focuses on the special relationship between artist and audience by giving writers the opportunity to refine their work through multiple readings in front of diverse audiences, and by giving those audiences a rare chance to actively participate in the creation of new theater. Plays featured at the Barn Series have gone onto stages across the city, the country, and the world, all carrying the distinct imprint of the Barn Series audiences that helped them take shape at their most raw and dynamic incarnations.

The Barn Series will continue throughout Labyrinth's 2011/12 Season at the Bank Street Theater (155 Bank Street). All are welcome. Admission is free. Advanced reservations can be made only by LABPASS Members, though seating will be on first-come, first-served basis for the general public. Patrons are advised to arrive at the theater at least one half-hour before each reading is scheduled to begin.

The schedule of the upcoming plays of the series is listed below. Complete casting will be announced at a later date.

BARN SERIES SCHEDULE

Mentor
By Webb Wilcoxen
Directed by Jill DeArmon
Featuring Florencia Lozano & Nyambi Nyambi

January 28 & 29
8:00 p.m.

Between You, Me & The Lampshade
By Raúl Castillo
Directed by Felix Solis
Featuring David Anzuelo, Audrey Esparza, Lyle Friedman, Alex Flores & Daphne Rubin-Vega

February 2 & 3
8:00 p.m.

LAByrinth Theater Company offers an opportunity for theater patrons to become part of one of New York's most exciting theater companies with our LABPASS Membership. For just $35, LABPASS Members enjoy a host of exclusive benefits including steep discounts and pre-sale opportunities for all productions,

advanced reservation privileges to our free Barn Series readings, Members only workshop performances of new plays, as well as invitations to special Member events throughout the year.

LAByrinth Theater Company (Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell, Yul Vázquez, Artistic Directors; Danny Feldman, Managing Director) has redefined the landscape of New York City theater through their productions of incendiary and vital new works. Founded in 1992 by a group of Latino actors who wanted to push their artistic limits and tell new, more inclusive stories that expanded the boundaries of mainstream theater, Labyrinth has grown into a nationally renowned company of actors, directors, playwrights and designers from a wide array of cultural perspectives. Over the past 19 years, Labyrinth has developed hundreds of original works and premiered 55 new American plays here in New York including Guinea Pig Solo, Jack Goes Boating, Jesus Hopped The A Train, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Our Lady of 121st Street, Sailor's Song, Sistah Supreme, and recently, on Broadway, The Motherf**ker With The Hat.

For additional information, or to order a LABPASS Membership, please visit the website at www.labtheater.org