Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky is a fast-paced, hilarious and ultimately loving look inside show business, set just before and immediately after a Broadway bound play meets its first audience.
This is an LA Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Ian Barford, Patrick Clear, Shannon Cochran, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, Matt DeCaro, Kevin Gudahl, Deirdre Lovejoy, Mariann Mayberry, Phyllis Newman, and Steve Pickering.
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Moss Hart (1904–1961) began his career as a playwright in 1925 and achieved his first major success in the 1930 collaboration with George S. Kaufman titled Once in a Lifetime. With Kaufman he also wrote such American classics as The Man Who Came to Dinner and You Can’t Take It with You, winner of the 1937 Pulitzer Prize. Hart also gained universal recognition for his award-winning direction of many shows, including My Fair Lady and Camelot.
Shannon Cochran is an actress and director, whose work includes the First National Tour of the Pulitzer Prize–winning play August: Osage County, a film opposite Kathleen Turner called The Perfect Family, and Last Days, a radio play for the BBC. She has performed and directed with LA Theatre Works, an organization producing radio plays for NPR, for fifteen years.
Mariann Mayberry, an ensemble member with Steppenwolf since 1993, received Joseph Jefferson nominations for her work in the company’s Time of My Life and Hysteria. Her work at Steppenwolf also includes such productions as Good People, August: Osage County, Slavs!, The Libertine, and The Pain and the Itch. Mariann has performed in Tony-winning director Mary Zimmerman’s national stagings of Metamorphoses, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, The Odyssey, and Argonautika.