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Alfred Molina and Steven Weber star in Lee Blessing’s
‘A Walk in the Woods’ for radio, online streaming

 

WHAT:
A Walk in the Woods — L.A. Theatre Works records Lee Blessing’s brilliant and witty play for radio broadcast and online streaming. Nearing the end of the Cold War, a pair of arms negotiators — a clever, cynical Russian (Alfred Molina) and an idealistic young American (Steven Weber) — meet in the woods outside Geneva to explore the obstacles their countries face on the path to peace. There, they debate politics, life and the future of the free world. Can personal bonds bridge political chasms? Winner of the prestigious American Theatre Critics/Steinberg New Play Award, and nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, Blessing’s dramatic comedy was inspired by historic conversations between negotiators Paul H. Nitze and Yuli A. Kvitsinsky, who left the official 1982 Geneva sessions for an unofficial “walk in the woods.” Cameron Watson directs for L.A. Theatre Works.

A talkback with playwright Lee Blessing and U.C.L.A. professor of political science Richard D. Anderson, Jr., a specialist on Soviet politics and foreign policy, will follow the Saturday matinee performance.

Each of the four performances at UCLA’s state-of-the-art James Bridges Theater will be recorded live in front of an audience for future radio broadcast, distribution on CD, digital download and online streaming. L.A. Theatre Works’ syndicated radio theater series broadcasts weekly on public radio stations across the U.S. (locally, in Southern California, on KPFK 90.7 FM); can be heard daily in China and around the world on the Radio Beijing Network; can be downloaded as a podcast via iTunes and NPR One; and can be streamed on demand at www.latw.org.

WHO:
• Written by Lee Blessing
• Directed by Cameron Watson
• Starring Alfred Molina and Steven Weber
• Produced by Susan Albert Loewenberg
• Presented by L.A. Theatre Works

WHEN:
• Friday, Jan. 25 at 8 p.m.
• Saturday, Jan. 26 at 3 p.m.*
• Saturday, Jan. 26 at 8 p.m.
• Sunday, Jan. 27 at 4 p.m.
* A talkback with playwright Lee Blessing and U.C.L.A. professor of political science Richard D. Anderson, Jr., a specialist on Soviet politics and foreign policy, will follow the Saturday matinee performance.

WHERE:
James Bridges Theater
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
235 Charles E. Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095
(enter UCLA from Hilgard just south of Sunset Blvd.; park in Lot 3 on the lower level)

HOW:
310-827-0889 or www.latw.org
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TICKETS:
$15-$65

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