THE MET THEATRE in association with JOHN DENSMORE and WINSHIP COOK presents

This is one block east of Western Ave. and a few steps south of Santa Monica Blvd.
There is free, stacked, attended parking 1 block east of the venue on Santa
Monica Blvd. in the Earl Scheib lot.

WHEN: Previews Thursday, April 6. Opens Friday, April 7, 2006, runs through
Sunday, May 14. Thurs.-Sat. at 8, Sun. at 3.

ADMISSION: $20 general; $15 for seniors and members of performing arts
unions; $10 for students.

RESERVATIONS AND INFORMATION: (323) 957-1152.

WEBSITE: www.theMETtheatre.com

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Roger Sizemore seems to have it all.  He is in control of a large mega-corporation and has vast wealth and holdings. He has powerful friends in Washington, D.C., and is being rumored to be the next Secretary of the Treasury.   Roger's expansive appetites extend beyond money and power.   While meeting with his aide de camp and the candidate for an important position in the corporation, Roger summons a couple of high-end call girls.  Things get desperately out of hand, and Roger is faced with the prospect of his empire crashing down around his ears as he is confronted with potential ruin, a menacing pimp, jail time, and worse.   Despite what you have just read, nothing is obvious, and nothing is what it seems.

You won't easily predict the outcome of this tense, darkly comic story of greed, license, and unbridled desires in the upper echelons of the
corporate world.

Samuel Warren Joseph is the playwright of "Window of Opportunity'" His previous credits include the film "Off Your Rocker" (starring Milton
Berle and Red Buttons) and animation shows including "Batman", "Duck Tales", "Transformers" and other shows.  He is currently a member of Actors Studio West Playwrights/Directors Unit.

Billy Hayes directs.  He is the author and real-life subject of the book about his experience in a Turkish prison, "Midnight Express", made into
an Academy Award ® winning film in 1978.   He penned a sequel, "Midnight Return", for which he is co-producing a filmed version, "Escape".   He has amassed an impressive array of directing credits for award-winning shows, including "Cock and Bull Story", "The Last Pad", "Washington Square Moves", "Break of Day", and an all-female version of "The Cage".   He is also an actor, and a member of the Actors Studio West Playwright/Director Unit.

John Densmore produces.  Achieving early fame as a member of The Doors, he has been inducted into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.  He produced the play "Rounds", which won the NAACP Theatre Award.   He wrote and performed in two solo shows, "Skins" in L.A. and La Mama NYC AND "Riders on the Storm" at the MET, based on his New York Times best-selling autobiography.  Also at the MET, he
appeared in a Sam Shepard piece with Ed Harris.  He won the L.A. Theatre Award for music for "Methusalem", directed by Tim Robbins.

Winship Cook produces.  Active in film, she co-executive produced "The Family Plan", a Hallmark Channel Valentine's Day Special starring
Tori Spelling and Jordan Bridges.  As Vice President of Development and Producer for the Edward S. Feldman Company, her films included "102 Dalmatians" (starring Glenn Close and Gerard Depardieu) and "K-19: The Widowmaker" (starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson).

Her most recent live theatre credits include producing the critically acclaimed one-man play "The Awful Grace of God: A Portrait of Robert F.
Kennedy" at the Court Theatre and then moving to off-Broadway as "RFK" for a 4 month limited run at The Culture Project @ 45 Bleeker.

Portraying Roger is Matthew Kimbrough, whose major local credits include "To Kill A Mockingbird'" (La Mirada), "The Threepenny Opera" (Broadway Reprise), and "The Kentucky Cycle" (Mark Taper Forum).  Also in the cast are Phil Proctor , of the legendary Firesign Theatre; Ty Granderson Jones, currently recurring on the hit TV series 'Everybody Hates Chris' ; Randy Irwin; Hollace Starr; and Roxana Brusso.

Set design: Jeff Robinson.   Lighting design: D. Martyn Bookwalter, Emmy award winning set and lighting designer for "MADtv".   He is also the recipient of the 2001 Angstrom Lighting Lifetime Achievement Award from the L.A. Drama Critics Circle along with four Drama Critics Circle Awards, and 25 Drama-Logue Awards. Casting director: Jill Charlotte Thomas.
 

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