Oscar Winner Philip Seymour Hoffman to Star Off-Broadway as Part of LAByrinth 2006-2007 Season

Recent Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman will return to the stage in Bob Glaudini's Jack Goes Boating, a 2006-2007 season offering from the LAByrinth Theater Company, for which Hoffman serves as co-artistic director with John Ortiz another Jack Goes Boating cast member. The company will also present a Stephen Belber world premiere play and This is Now, written and performed by Eric Bogosian, as part of its season at the Public Theater.

Jack Goes Boating asks the question: How much is too much for a date with someone you've just met? Swimming lessons, cooking classes, a random subway attack, confessions of betrayal, cocaine paranoia and a best friend's meltdown will all be discussed in the play. The show, which marks the first time in LAByrinth history Hoffman and Ortiz will share the stage, will also feature Beth Cole, Ortiz and two-time Tony nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega. It is scheduled to start performances in the winter.

Before Jack Goes Boating, LAByrinth will present Belber's A Small, Melodramatic Story. In the show, a woman named O falls in love with a cop named Perry. When O's archivist friend, Keith, discovers secrets about Perry's past, O is caught in a trap: How much does she want to know? Directed by Lucie Tiberghien, LAByrinth Company Members Carlo Alban, Ron Cephas Jones, Chris McGarry and Portia will reprise the roles they created at a previous reading on the play. The show will be staged at the Public this coming fall.

This is Now!, which will have a limited engagement in the winter, is the result of a collaboration between actor/author Eric Bogosian and musician/composer Elliott Sharp. Bogosian supplies the words and Sharp provides the sounds in an eighty minute excursion rant on the theme of 'now.'

The LAByrinth will also present developmental productions of Carlo Alban's Intringulis and Andrea Ciannavei's Pretty Chin Up and a series of free readings as part of its 2006-2007 season.