Overview
- Produced by:
- LAByrinth Theater Company
- Dates:
- February 18 - February 23, 2025
- Intermission:
- No
- Theater:
- Showing in Theater
Show Info
Welcome to LAByrinth’s 25th annual Barn Series! The renowned free reading series is a festival of new plays, and a critical and exciting step in LAB’s development of new work. Many of LAByrinth’s world premieres have come from the Barn, giving audiences a sneak peek into the artistic process, and a chance to see plays before they’re the next hot ticket.
This reading series will be performed in-person.
LAByrinth Theater Company, founded in 1992 as The Latino Actors Base, was created to reflect a world where color is the norm and not the exception. From Our Lady of 121st Street to Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, LAByrinth has produced over 50 world premieres and developed over 250 new plays.
Read more at: www.labtheater.org
2025 Barn Series Schedule
BODEGUEROS
By Bobby Daniel Rodriguez
Directed by Javier Molina
Tuesday, February 18 at 7:15PM
The Hermanos Rivera Deli & Grocery has served its community for more than thirty years but when their landlord decides to sell, it forces the Bodega's owner and its regulars to reconcile the fact New York City is changing, along with their place in it.
THE STARTERS
By Laura Winters
Directed by David Zayas Jr.
Wednesday, February 19 at 7:15PM
Matt Shears is one of the oldest players in the NFL. His wife Emily wants him out of the league, now, but when Matt's plan to retire after a Super Bowl win gets derailed, he tries to convince her he should hold out for one more year.
IMPLICIT MEMORY SYSTEMS: A JUNGIAN FARCE
By David Deblinger
Directed by Dina Janis
Thursday, February 20 at 7:15PM
Morris is tired of being emotionally triggered by men, women and animals. He leaps into the dream world of his unconscious where he is joined by two shape shifting guides: his deceased MA and DA…hoping the journey can lead him up and out of who he was, and into a new experience of who he is becoming.
MY BODY SAYS NO
By Tomokoh Deblinger
Directed by Dina Janis
Friday, February 21 at 7:15PM
“Why do I suddenly get so wet, so often, now that I am in my late forties?” A middle-aged woman is awakened by unpredictable physical responses that lead her on a dangerous journey.
THE GERMAN
Written and directed by Lyle Kessler
Saturday, February 22 at 2:15PM
A man returns to the scene of the crime. A Jew and a German.
DON'T BELIEVE IN FAIRIES
By Elizabeth Narciso
Directed by John Gould Rubin
Saturday, February 22 at 7:15PM
In this retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream when Hermia is confronted with the choice to marry Demetrius, go to a nunnery, or die, this Hermia chooses death! But her father, Theseus, and the court aren't having it. Soooooo, lost in a nunnery with Thisbe, moonshine and a tree, Hermia fights her way back to life with poetry, love and maybe just a little magic.
NEW YORK "OH, THE NEED" TALKIN' DIARY
By Bob Glaudini
Directed by Lola Glaudini
Sunday, February 23 at 7:15PM
A comedy, six scenes and an epilogue. 4 friends. Upstate New York. Shifting status. Things aren’t what they seem.