Off-Broadway's LAByrinth Theater Company will present The Worst of Bogosian: Solos, Speeches & Rants circa 1980 to 2000, a four-performance special event written and performed by Eric Bogosian. The show will be presented on June 12-14 at the Public Theater's Martinson Hall, with all proceeds benefitting the LAByrinth company. The Worst of Bogosian will replace the previously scheduled This Is Now! collaboration between Bogosian and composer Elliott Sharp, which has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts.
Bogosian will perform monologues from his repertory of Obie Award-winning solos, including Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, Drinking in America, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead and FunHouse, which he first premiered on the same stage at the Public Theater in 1983. This will be Bogosian's first solo performance in New York since Wake Up and Smell the Coffee in 2000 at the Jane Street Theater. His most recent performance was in June 2006 at the Act Alone Theatrefestival in Isafjordur, Iceland.
Bogosian's play Talk Radio is currently being presented on Broadway in a production starring Liev Schreiber as Barry Champlain. Bogosian wrote and starred in the original Public Theater production and the subsequent film version directed by Oliver Stone. His plays include subUrbia restaged this past fall at Second Stage Theater in a production directed by his wife and frequent collaborator, Jo Bonney, Humpty Dumpty, Red Angel, Griller and 1+1. Bogosian is also the author of two novels, Mall and Wasted Beauty. As an actor, he currently stars in the television drama Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Captain Danny Ross.
