Shinn's DYING CITY to Receive LA Premiere at Neighborhood Playhouse 11/18

Obie Winner, Christopher Shinn's searing drama, DYING CITY will receive its premiere Los Angeles performance, Tuesday, November 18th as part of the Neighborhood Playhouse's Fall Play Reading Festival.

Broadway veteran, Craig D'Amico returns to the Playhouse to direct the one night only performance.

A 2007 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama. DYING CITY recounts a 21st century tale of loss and how two very different people handle their grief. Kelly, a year after her husband's death in Iraq, must confront his identical twin brother who arrives at her apartment unannounced.  A powerful thriller about the human spirit, the unforeseen, and those left behind.

One of the most critically acclaimed productions of the 2007 New York Theatrical Season, New York Times Critic Ben Brantley wrote in his review for the New York Times:

"Anyone who doubts that Mr. Shinn is among the most provocative and probing of American playwrights today need only experience the creepy, sophisticated welding of form and content that is DYING CITY. He hooks you with tantalizing exposition—and the lure of a wham-bang solution—and then leaves you alone with your racing mind in a forest of ambiguities. On one level DYING CITY is as satisfyingly spooky, crisp and corny as an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. But in answering the plot's whodunit-type questions, it spawns a wriggling host of other, deeper questions that stay with you into the night…Unlike so many contemporary plays DYING CITY raises obvious, important issues in any-thing but obvious ways."

The staged reading will be held Tuesday, November 18th at 7:00 PM at the David Fairchild Studios: 501 South Catalina. Redondo Beach, CA 90277.  The performance is free of charge but seating is strictly limited. Reservations can be obtained by emailing: playreadings@neighborhoodplayhouse.net

For more information on the Neighborhood Playhouse visit www.neighborhoodplayhouse.net.

Photo of Christopher Shinn by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.