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Touring Programs
TOURING WINTER 2010
RFK; The Journey to Justice |
PLAYING IN NEW YORK - SPRING 2010
A co-production of L.A. Theatre Works, New York Theatre Workshop and Affinity Collaborative Theater Previews Begin February 24, 2010 Tickets on sale January 29th, 2010
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Tour Dates & Venues Available Here Digital Press Kit Available Here “Ladies and Gentlemen - I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening. Because... I have some very sad news for all of you, and I think sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee. Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in.” --Robert F. Kennedy- April 4 1968, Indianapolis, IN The 60’s in America was a decade of heroes, violence, love, death, progress, and disappointment. What began in 1960 as a decade of hope with the election of John F. Kennedy, ended with America embroiled in an impossible war, her streets filled with riots, and the history changing loss of three important figures. It is a decade often studied, debated, celebrated, and mourned - even a half-century later. And now, as those who lived, governed, and shepherded change during the 60’s are passing, L.A. Theater Works presents a major new docudrama focused on Robert Kennedy’s personal and political journey. In June 1968, the assassination of senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy stunned the world. Kennedy’s death, coming so shortly after the assassination of his colleague Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and only five years after the death of Kennedy’s older brother John, left the nation – regardless of political convictions – uncertain of the future during the most tumultuous time in American history since the Civil War. The “RFK Project” chronicles his transformation from discomfort with and indifference towards the Civil Rights Movement to a champion and crusader. His story provides a compelling and dramatic illumination of this crucial decade, enabling a new generation to hear the words, feel the tension, and explore the issues that still resonate today. The relationship between Kennedy, King, and the movement was complicated. Despite beginnings anchored in mistrust, the relationship ultimately evolved as RFK’s voice became an important force in the fight for civil rights. Both King and Kennedy made strides for civil rights through different means and by very different paths – King with his powerful oratory and public leadership and Kennedy, initially, through quiet tactical maneuvers behind the closed doors of his brother’s White House. In L.A. Theatre Works’ new docudrama, the challenges, victories, Noted political correspondent Richard Reeves (Frontline, ABC News, PBS, The New York Times, Esquire) is serving as an advisor on the project. Biographer of the authoritative work on John F. Kennedy, President Kennedy: Profile of Power, his experience and research will provide historical perspective and context. The World Premiere is set for January, 2010 at the University of Notre Dame. The LA Theatre Works/RFK Project is a commission led by the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, Stanford Lively Arts at Stanford University, and the Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond.
REPRESENTATION: Baylin Artists Management Marc Baylin: mbaylin@baylinartists.com 196 W. Ashland Street, Suite 201, Doyleston, PA 18901 Phone: (267) 880-3750 Fax: (267) 880-3757 www.baylinartists.com
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Top Secret: Battle for the Pentagon Papers Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers is an inside look at The Washington Post’s decision to publish the top secret study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The subsequent trial tested the parameters of the First Amendment, pitting the public’s right to know against the government’s desire for secrecy. The epic legal battle between the government and the press went to the nation’s highest court - arguably the most important Supreme Court case ever on freedom of the press. The Washington Post Writes... “Top Secret”: Pentagon Papers, for Your Ears Only Publishing the Pentagon Papers was, of course, one of the great dramatic events in journalism. But can the tangled episode actually hold the stage? It will try to in radio-theater style -- actors holding scripts and working behind microphones -- when “Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers” plays at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland this Thursday and Friday. The radio troupe L.A. Theatre Works, which first produced the show for broadcast in 1991, is touring this lone theatrical effort by Geoffrey Cowan, a 65-year-old journalism professor who figured he knew a good drama when he taught one. “I’ve always loved dramas based on fact,” Cowan says from Harvard, where he is a fellow with the Kennedy School of Government. Cowan cites the transcript-driven “Are You Now or Have You Ever Been” (1972) and “In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer” (1964) as favorites, and says he could feel the same kind of intrigue and tension in a media law class he taught at UCLA each time he came to the issues surrounding The Washington Post's decision to publish the Pentagon Papers.
The Philadelphia Inquirer Writes... Set in 1971, current as latest news from Iraq Some historical plays are all about the past, but really good ones are just as much about now. Watching Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers, the lively L.A. Theatre Works production running this weekend at Annenberg Center’s Harold Prince Theatre, I was processing Vietnam - and thinking Iraq. Top Secret vigorously maintains that the American press is not just a prodder and inciter; it has a rigorous job to do in order for democracy to work. The play is about the Washington Post’s bold 1971 decision to print details from the purloined Pentagon Papers, but it resonates directly into this decade. Listen closely, and you hear Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction rearing their unfound warheads. Except for the now-dissolved Knight Ridder Washington bureau, widely acknowledged as the sole outfit skeptical about the Bush administration's prewar WMD line, where was media rigor?
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