L.A. Theatre Works

LA Theatre Works June - July 2010 Schedule

6/19/2010: Shadowlands by William Nicholson. Starring Harriet Harris and Martin Jarvis.
William Nicholsons Tony nominated stage adaptation of his award-winning BBC Teleplay relates the story of shy Oxford don and childrens author C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Gresham. SHADOWLANDS shows how love, and the risk of loss, transformed this great mans relationships, even with God.
6/26/2010: Moving Bodies by Arthur Giron. Starring Alfred Molina. 

Moving Bodies is a chronicle of the brilliant life of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Richard Feynman. From his role in the development of the atomic bomb to his controversial testimony at the investigation of the Challenger disaster, Feynman casts a long shadow across the worlds of physics and mathematics. Through playwright Arthur Giron's eyes, we see how Feynman became one of the most important scientists of our time.
7/3/2010: Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons. Starring Tom Virtue, John Heard, & others.
A new edition of this timely docudrama about The Washington Posts decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a secret study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The subsequent trial tested the parameters of the First Amendment, pitting the publics right to know against the governments desire for secrecy.
7/10/2010: Frozen by Bryony Lavery. Starring Jeffrey Donovan,
Rosalind Ayres, and Laila Robins.
One evening ten-year old Rhona goes missing. As her mother retreats into a state of frozen hope, a psychologist studies the brain of a serial killer to find out if what he does is pure evilor simply beyond his control. Drawn together by horrific circumstances, these three embark on a long, dark journey that ends in the discovery of a common humanity.
7/17/2010: The School for Husbands & The Imaginary Cuckold by Molière. Starring Brian Bedford and Olivia Williams.
7/24/2010: Going to St. Ives by Lee Blessing. Starring L. Scott Caldwell and Caroline
Goodall.
This compelling drama tells the story of the dignified mother of a ruthless Central African dictator who travels to England seeking surgery for her failing eyes by an eminent ophthalmologist. But her real motive triggers a profound moral dilemma and a bloody chain reaction of events with personal and political reverberations.
