Angels Gate Culminates it's
2007 Play Reading Series with Worth,
a New Play By Corey Madden

On Saturday April 14, Angels Gate Cultural Center will present the third of four events in its 2007 performing arts series, and its final play reading this spring.

Corey Madden's Worth is an acerbic look at the pull of money in the world of art. In this play, Ms. Madden examines the overheated art world, and the effects of a commodity culture on love, family and art. A noteworthy cast of nine will be led by the internationally-known director Stephen Wadsworth.

Worth will be presented in Gallery A of Angels Gate Cultural Center at 2pm on Saturday April 14. Admission is $10; students, seniors and members are admitted on a two for one basis.

Anyone who's been to the first two Angels Gate readings knows to expect a thought-provoking play read by accomplished actors. Worth will not disappoint: confirmed actors include Margaret Welsh (Jake in Progress), Suzanne Cryer (Desperate Housewives), Nicholas Hormann (Medium), Bruce Turk (ER), Chris Payne Gilbert (10 Items or Less), and Mary Lou Rosato (Titus).

An informal theme of integrity has emerged throughout the 2007 series of plays. All three works this season deal with the idea of personal honor, of the challenges encountered when trying to live an upright life. Jessica Goldberg's characters attempted to live a life shaped by the ideals of the sixties in the first play, Get What You Want. In Better Angels, the second play, Wayne Peter Liebman's Lincoln faced the challenges of political integrity. Corey Madden's Worth paints a vivid picture of the intertwined, and morally challenged, lives of 8 contemporary Los Angelinos caught up in the demise of an American corporation.

Saturday, April 14, 2pm
Worth
by Corey Madden
directed by Stephen Wadsworth

Play reading will be in Gallery A, Angels Gate Cultural Center
3601 South Gaffey Street, San Pedro, CA 90731

Tickets: $10. Members, students and seniors: $5. No reservations accepted. Free parking.

About Playwright Corey Madden
Corey Madden is a director, producer and playwright. Currently she is the Producing Director of Performing for Los Angeles Youth at Center Theatre Group, LA and also served as that theatre's Associate Artistic Director from 1991-2005. She was on the artistic staff of Actors Theatre of Louisville, has directed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and the New York Shakespeare Festival and taught at UCLA and California Institute of the Arts.


About Director Stephen Wadsworth
Internationally-renowned director Stephen Wadsworth has directed major works at theaters and opera houses all over the world. His credits include Fraulein Else at La Jolla Playhouse, a trilogy of plays by Marivaux: The Triumph of Love, Changes of Heart, and The Game of Love and Chance at the McCarter Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Rep and the Huntington Theatre; Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband at Berkeley Rep and Seattle Rep; and Six Degrees of Separation at Dallas Theatre Centre. His work in opera encompasses directing at such venues as La Scala, Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, New York City Opera, Seattle Opera, and the Los Angeles Opera.

The Cast of Worth
Anyone who's been to the first two Angels Gate readings knows to expect a thought-provoking play read by accomplished actors. Worth will not disappoint.

Matt McGrath will read the role of Jeffrey Skillet. Matt appeared off-Broadway in the Jane Street Theatre's production of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" as Hedwig, and as the Emcee on Broadway in "Cabaret" at Studio 54.

Suzanne Cryer (best known for her role as "Ashley" on the ABC sitcom Two Guys and a Girl) and Sarah Rafferty (who premiered the role of "Joan" in Jessica Goldberg's "Get What You Need" at Vassar College in 2005) will read the battling friends Ani and Gemma.

Bruce Turk, well known to local audiences from his many roles at the Old Globe Theater, Nicholas Hormann, familiar from many television appearances, and the legendary Mary Lou Rosato round out the cast of corporate strivers.

Tymberlee Chanel and Chris Payne Gilbert play the young lovers, and Laurel Ollstein, herself a noted Los Angeles playwright, will read stage directions.


For more information, please contact:

Angels Gate Cultural Center
3601 South Gaffey Street, San Pedro, California 90731
Phone: 310-519-0936, Fax: 310-519-8698