Exclusive: Neil Labute will premiere three new one-act plays Off Broadway in January as the St. Louis Actors’ Studio returns to New York for its fourth theater festival named for the Reasons to Be Pretty playwright.
Labute himself will direct the world premiere of one of the plays: Unlikely Japan, starring Billions actress Gia Crovatin. The other two plays, written by Labute, are the world premiere of Great Negro Works of Art, directed by John Pierson and starring KeiLyn Durrell; and, in its New York premiere, The Fourth Reich, directed by Pierson and starring Eric Dean White.
Performances of the one-acts begin January 10, 2019, at Off Broadway’s The Davenport Theatre, with opening night set for January 14. The festival engagement runs through January 27.
The New York staging marks the fourth incarnation here of the Labute New Theater Festival, a project of the St. Louis Actors’ Studio...
Labute himself will direct the world premiere of one of the plays: Unlikely Japan, starring Billions actress Gia Crovatin. The other two plays, written by Labute, are the world premiere of Great Negro Works of Art, directed by John Pierson and starring KeiLyn Durrell; and, in its New York premiere, The Fourth Reich, directed by Pierson and starring Eric Dean White.
Performances of the one-acts begin January 10, 2019, at Off Broadway’s The Davenport Theatre, with opening night set for January 14. The festival engagement runs through January 27.
The New York staging marks the fourth incarnation here of the Labute New Theater Festival, a project of the St. Louis Actors’ Studio...
- 11/29/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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