Ari Edelson News

After over thirty-five years in the theatre business, leading Off-Broadway company the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater has closed. The owners of the Bouwerie Lane Theater, home of the Jean Cocteau since 1974, had recently doubled the theater's rent. There is no word yet on who will be the next tenant to occupy the space.

The Play Company will host a post-show talkback with Michael Zielenziger, author of Shutting Out the Sun - How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation (Doubleday, 2006), as part of its New Work/ New World Series.