Tuesday 29 June 1999
By eBroadcast Staff and agencies.

'This petal has how many calories?'

Now that Calista Flockhart is a filthy rich celebrity, she can do pretty much whatever she wants in the off season. Given her theater background, it shouldn't surprise anyone that she headed back to her old digs this summer to do the off-broadway play Bash.

The play, which opened Thursday, is reportedly a series of three one-act monologues by Neil LaBute, the writer-director of In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors. Paul Rudd (The Object of My Affection, Clueless), Ron Eldard (Men Behaving Badly), and Flockhart appear alongside LaBute in contrasting monologues.

Although the critics haven't exactly been raving about the material, they have been quite vocal in their praise of the actor's performances -- especially Flockhart's. The play will run at Manhattan's Douglas Fairbanks Theater, through July 14. Flockhart has also appeared in the Broadway productions of The Three Sisters and The Glass Menagerie.