Lost Souls Meet in Lanford Wilson's Award-Winning Play The Hot L Baltimore
Las Vegas Little Theatre (Las Vegas, NV)
Winner of the New York Drama Circle Award, the Obie Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award, Lanford Wilson's The Hot L Baltimore brings compassion and humor to its study of lost souls trapped by society's inexorable decay. The play centers on a rundown hotel and its residents, ranging from young to old, defiant to resigned, who interact with each other during the course of one day.
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- "Mr. Wilson is both funny and sad about today, and the combination is an unbeatable winner." —New York Times
- "…a warm, intelligent, wonderful evening in the theater." —Village Voice
- "…as good as you will find in the modern American theater…Wilson's writing is simply superb, a triumph of inspiration and craftsmanship." —Women's Wear Daily
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The scene is the lobby of a rundown hotel so seedy that it has lost the "e" from its marquee. As the action unfolds, the residents, ranging from young to old, from the defiant to the resigned, meet and interact with each other during the course of one day. In the resulting mosaic, each character emerges clearly and perceptively defined, and the sum total of what they are—or wish they were—becomes a poignant, powerful call to America to recover lost values and to restore itself in its own and the world's eyes.
Winner of the New York Drama Circle Award, the Obie Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award, The Hot L Baltimore—a brilliant Off-Broadway success by an outstanding playwright—brings compassion, humor and arresting theatricality to its imaginative, touching study of lost souls trapped by society's inexorable decay.
By Lanford Wilson
Las Vegas Little Theatre
Las Vegas Little Theatre, an amateur theatre company founded in 1978 by Jack Bell and Jack Nickolson, is Southern Nevada's oldest community theatre. It launched performances in a converted storefront with an initial seating capacity of 48. Their mission has always been to increase the awareness of theatre arts in Southern Nevada, provide quality productions, and to offer educational, hands-on opportunities in all facets of theatre production.
