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News Laughed Lasts: Beane's Critical Hit Little Dog Extends Off-Broadway Douglas Carter Beane latest comedy The Little Dog Laughed starring Johnny Galecki, Neal Huff, Zoe Lister-Jones and Julie White extends its world premiere Off-Broadway four more weeks.

Scott Ellis (Twelve Angry Men) directs the new work from playwright Beane (As Bees in Honey Drown) which began performances Dec. 13 and opened Jan. 9 to positive critical response. The work originally slated for a run through Jan. 29 now plays through Feb 26.

The Little Dog Laughed satirizes the world of tabloid gossip, Hollywood and celebrities in a story that centers around a Hollywood agent, her very up-and-coming boy-toy client, a sexy young drifter and his girlfriend.

"It's sort of the last taboo - which movie stars are gay? Because everyone sort of knows it, but no one talks about it," Beane explains about his latest work. "The last time I was in L.A. I mentioned this play to a movie producer. I said 'it's about a closeted movie star' and [the producer] literally gasped as if I said it was about a mass murderer. He said 'Oh no, oh no - don't say that - don't talk about that.'"

The cast of The Little Dog Laughed will feature Johnny Galecki ("Happy Endings," "The Opposite of Sex," "Roseanne"), Neal Huff (Take Me Out, The Foreigner), Zoe Lister-Jones (Codependence: A One Woman Show) and Julie White (Bad Dates, Fiction).

Beane has also penned the plays Music From a Sparkling Planet, The Country Club, Advice From a Caterpillar, White Lies and Devil May Care as well as the screenplay for "To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar." A founding member and Artistic Director of the Drama Dept., he also recently wrote the book for the Off-Broadway musical The Big Time. Ellis directed last season's Broadway staging of Twelve Angry Men. Other credits include That Championship Season (at Second Stage Theatre, the company’s first show in its current home), The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Rainmaker, 1776, She Loves Me, A Month in the Country and Steel Pier. He is also set to helm the upcoming Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Entertaining Mr. Sloane with Alec Baldwin, Chris Carmack, Richard Easton and Lisa Emery.

The design team for The Little Dog Laughed will feature Allen Moyer (set) Jeff Mahshie (costumes), Donald Holder (lighting) and Lewis Flinn (sound).

Tickets to The Little Dog Laughed at Second Stage, 307 West 43rd Street (just off Eighth Ave.), are available by calling (212) 246-4422 or (800) 766-6048 or online at www.SecondStageTheatre.com.

 
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