C. Leonard News

Artistic Director Robert Falls announced today the final production of Goodman Theatre's 2009/2010 season-The Good Negro, Tracey Scott Wilson's 'thunderous...stunning' (Variety) new play, comes to Chicago fresh from its off-Broadway run at The Public Theater. Resident Director Chuck Smith, who previously collaborated with Wilson on the Goodman's 2004/2005 Chicago-premiere production of The Story, will direct The Good Negro in the Albert Theatre in Spring 2010.

Following the Gypsy Rock Opera fusion of Viva Patshiva, the chairs will be cleared and the Metrofolk Band will take the stage to teach and play traditional Hungarian Gypsy folk dance and music.

Following the Gypsy Rock Opera fusion of Viva Patshiva, the chairs will be cleared and the Metrofolk Band will take the stage to teach and play traditional Hungarian Gypsy folk dance and music.

Artistic Director Robert Falls proudly announces a diverse line-up-from musical hilarity and classic yarns, to memory pieces and family dramas, to stories with ethnic roots that reflect today's world-in Goodman Theatre's new 2009/2010 season.

Long Live The Party! Drink and Dance, Gypsy Style! 'Bacchanalian gypsy sounds pulse at the heart, but these folks are clearly caught up in punk, ska, jazz and seedy cabaret, all elements of which they knit into a convincingly schizophrenic whole. Patshiva's main weapon is a trio of singers who are all extreme personalities, inflated egos that deliver in-character with complete conviction.' - Martin Longley, Spannered.org

Long Live The Party! Drink and Dance, Gypsy Style! 'Bacchanalian gypsy sounds pulse at the heart, but these folks are clearly caught up in punk, ska, jazz and seedy cabaret, all elements of which they knit into a convincingly schizophrenic whole. Patshiva's main weapon is a trio of singers who are all extreme personalities, inflated egos that deliver in-character with complete conviction.' - Martin Longley, Spannered.org

The New York Playwrights Lab - the 35 year-old organization founded keep established playwrights writing for the theatre - will offer a sample of its members' newest works in a series of free readings at 6:00 PM January 19-23 at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City.

The New York Playwrights Lab - the 35 year-old organization founded keep established playwrights writing for the theatre - will offer a sample of its members' newest works in a series of free readings at 6:00 PM January 19-23 at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City.

LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Co-Artistic Director; John Gould Rubin, Co- Artistic & Executive Director) opens its alternative festival of free staged readings, Live Nude Plays (November 16-19, 2008).

LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Co-Artistic Director; John Gould Rubin, Co- Artistic & Executive Director) opens its alternative festival of free staged readings, Live Nude Plays (November 16 ? 19, 2008).

On Monday, February 18 LAByrinth Theater Company, in residence at The Public Theater, officially opened the second production of their 2007-2008 season: the world premiere of UNCONDITIONAL by Brett C. Leonard with direction of Mark Wing-Davey. The After Party was held in Colors Restaurant

LAByrinth Theater Company, in residence at The Public Theater, presents the second production of their 2007-2008 season: the world premiere of UNCONDITIONAL by Brett C. Leonard with direction of Mark Wing-Davey; Opening Night is Monday, February 18.

LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Co-Artistic Director; John Gould Rubin, Co-Artistic Director & Executive Director), in residence at The Public Theater, has announced the addition of extra performances to the limited engagement of the second production of their 2007-2008 season: the world premiere of UNCONDITIONAL by Brett C. Leonard now extended through Sunday, March 9, 2008.

Theatre producer Daryl Roth has announced this year's recipient of the 2008 Creative Spirit Award: LAByrinth Theater Company member Brett C. Leonard.

LAByrinth Theater Company has announced final casting for the second production of their 2007-2008 world premiere of UNCONDITIONAL by Brett C. Leonard.

LAByrinth Theater Company, in residence at The Public Theater, has announced dates and partial casting for the second production of their 2007-2008 season: the world premiere of UNCONDITIONAL by Brett C. Leonard with direction by Mark Wing-Davey. Preview performances begin Thursday, February 7, 2008 at The Public Theater for a limited engagement through Sunday, March 2, 2008. Opening night is set for Monday, February 18, 2008 at 7PM.

LAByrinth Theater Company, in its fifth season of residency at The Public Theater, has announced the lineup for two development festivals of free staged-readings!

Just as the one time of year when taking candy from strangers and dressing up in strange costumes is overlooked as run-of-the-mill, LAByrinth Theater Company gets ready for its annual charity showdown - 'Celebrity Chrades'. The Battle of Good vs. Evil event taking place on Monday, October 29th at St. Paul's Hall is SOLD OUT with a limited number of standing room tickets available at the door for $125 per person and will be accommodated on a space-available basis only.

LAByrinth Theater Company has annoucned that LABPASS® for the 2006-07 season is now onsale

Playwright Eric Bogosian as well as actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Daphne Rubin-Vega will be part of LAByrinth Theater Company's next season