The Lark Play Development Center Hosts Reading Of LOVE KILLS 7/30, 8/2

The Lark Play Development Center is proud to present two free staged readings of LOVE KILLS, book, music & lyrics by Kyle Jarrow, on Friday, July 30 at 4pm & Monday, August 2 at 7pm in the Lark Studio.

Hailed as, "An iconoclast," (The LA Times) and, "The kind of writer who likes to provoke people," (The New Yorker), OBIE Award winner Kyle Jarrow picks up where Duncan Shiek (his current collaborator) left off in focusing his work on a new generation. Jarrow says, "There's a younger audience that's eager for theater that speaks its own language. This generation-my generation-is attracted by work that packs a visceral punch, and at the same time intelligently and provocatively engages issues relevant to their lives. Issues such as love, violence, responsibility, and the generation gap. HEDWIG was a musical that did this. SPRING AWAKENING was another. My aspiration is for LOVE KILLS to appeal to this same audience."

Directed by Kent Paul with musical direction by Matt Hinkley, LOVE KILLS is set in a jail cell in 1958 Nebraska, and follows the true story of Charlie Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, two teenaged lovers whose weeklong murder spree inspired such films as Badlands and Natural Born Killers. Equal parts chilling and tender, LOVE KILLS explores the public's obsession with horror, holds up infatuation to stability, and asks how far you'll go for someone you love . . . all while accompanied by a pulse-racing rock set.

To RSVP and for more information: larktheatre.org or call 212.246.2676 ext.24. LOVE KILLS is supported in part by the National Fund for New Musicals, a program of National Alliance for Musical Theatre. For more information: namt.org.

A laboratory for new voices and new ideas, the LARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER provides playwrights with indispensable resources to develop their work. The Lark brings together actors, directors, playwrights and the community to allow writers to learn about their own work by seeing and hearing it, and by receiving feedback from a dedicated and supportive community. The company reaches into untapped local populations and across international boundaries to seek out and embrace unheard voices and diverse perspectives, celebrating differences in language and worldviews. The Lark also plays a leading role in advancing unknown writers and their works to audiences through carefully stewarded partnerships with a host of theaters, universities, community-based organizations, and NGOs, locally, nationally and globally. The Lark is led by Producing Director, John Clinton Eisner and Managing Director, Michael Robertson.

Kyle Jarrow is a writer and musician based in New York City. He writes for the stage as well as film and television, and he plays in the rock bands Super Mirage and The Fabulous Entourage. He won an OBIE Award for his play A VERY MERRY UNAUTHORIZED CHILDREN'S SCIENTOLOGY PAGEANT, which has subsequently been produced all over the country. Kyle's film ARMLESS (dir. Habib Azar), adapted from his play of the same name, was an official selection of Sundance Film Festival 2010. Other plays include TRIGGER, PRESIDENT HARDING IS A ROCK STAR, RIP ME OPEN (co-writer), HOSTAGE SONG (music & lyrics), GORILLA MAN (script available from Samuel French), and the upcoming WHISPER HOUSE (with Tony-winner Duncan Sheik, record now available from RCA/Victor). Kyle is a co-founder of the indie publishing company Awkward Press. He's a graduate of Yale University, where he majored in Religious Studies. More on Kyle at landoftrust.com.

 

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