LOS ANGELES -- Twilight's Last Gleaming, a world premiere comedy by satirist Harry Shearer, and Fixin' To Die: A Visit to the Mind of Lee Atwater, a solo performance piece by Robert Myers, will be linked together for an evening of provocative political theatre in the 2000-2001 season opener of L.A. Theatre Works' "The Play's the Thing" live radio theatre season. Performances take place Oct. 11, 12 & 15 and will be followed by a Q. & A. session with various members of the local political community.

Next on Theatre Works' schedule is Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers, starring Jena Malone and Ruby Dee. The dates are Nov. 15, 16, 17 & 19.

The original cast and director from Broadway's acclaimed Roundabout Theatre production star in The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash. Scott Ellis directs Jayne Atkinson, David Aaron Baker, Jerry Hardin, John Bedford Lloyd, Bernie McInerney and Randle Mell.

JoBeth Williams directs a star-studded cast (Julie Harris, Jamie Lee Curtis, Glenne Headley, Hector Elizondo, Shirley Knight, David Clennon and Scott Wolff) in Lillian Hellman's The Autumn Garden, Jan. 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14, 2001.

A distinguished British cast, including Alfred Molina, Paxton Whitehead, Rosalind Ayres, Douglas Weston, Serena Scott Thomas and Simon Templeton, will be featured in The Voysey Inheritance, Harley Granville Barker's gripping 1905 melodrama about money, power and the human heart. Jan. 31, Feb. 1, 2 & 4.Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers follows Feb. 14, 15, 16, 17 & 18, with Anthony La Paglia directing.

The final show of the season is the West Coast premiere of Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight, by Peter Ackerman. John Rando, who directed the New York premiere, directs Richard Kind, Megan Mullally and Alan Mandell. March 7, 8, 9 & 10.

All performances are at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd. For tickets and information call (310) 827-0889.

-- By Willard Manus
Southern California Correspondent