For Immediate Release

Onstage at Theatre Three: The LaVidas’ Landlord

Theatre Three is proud to present the world premiere of The LaVidas’ Landlord by Lawrence Weinstein as the fifth production in the 2007-2008 Theatre Too Season. The LaVidas’ Landlord begins on Friday, March 14, 2008 and will close on Sunday, March 30, 2008. “All the houses I own are two in number: that in which live and this one. This one, this investment, only goes to show that I’m American, eager to better my lot, just like you.” Al Mann is very excited to finally have a new tenant for his rental property. This incredibly idealistic English teacher tries to creatively and politely communicate with Carlos LaVida, his El Salvadoran tenant, as well as welcome him to the United States. The relationship of renter and tenant is played out through a series of letters, with each man trying to navigate cultural differences and complicated personal histories. As Al Mann’s life spirals out of control, both landlord and tenant suffer unimaginable consequences. About the Playwright: Lawrence Weinstein Lawrence Weinstein has written several full-length plays. One, New Curtains for Macbeth, was produced in 2003 by the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, and was named a finalist at the International Playwriting Festival in the UK. His current project, a musical about a young singer who develops vocal hysteria when her mother dies, is collaboration with his New York-based singer/songwriter son Noam Weinstein. From 1973 to 1983, Weinstein taught at Harvard University, where he co-founded Harvard's Writing Center. Since 1983, he has been a member of the English Department at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts. In 2001, the National Council of Teachers of English published his Writing at the Threshold, a book on writing instruction at the high school and college levels that has remained an NCTE bestseller. This spring, he is on tour with his first trade book, Grammar for the Soul, which addresses the unusual question, "How does a person's grammar affect his well-being?" As part of that tour, in fact, he is giving talks at several bookstores in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area. His inspiration for The LaVidas’ Landlord is very simple: “I once knew an El Salvadoran refugee and his landlord. They had no real issues with each other beyond proper disposal of the trash, and yet there was something about their different life-circumstances...and about how wildly they differed as personalities...that set the whole imaginary story going in my head.” Mr. Weinstein is in town for the opening of Theatre Three’s production of The LaVidas’ Landlord and is available for interviews. Please contact Kimberly Richard at 214-871-3300, option #2 or Kimberly@theatre3dallas.com for interview opportunities.

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