Tony Winning Playwright Eve Ensler to Discuss Book IN THE BODY OF THE WORLD at Benaroaya, 5/18

Eve Ensler, activist, Tony Award-winning playwright and bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues, discusses her new book In the Body of the World - recounting her harrowing experience with cancer - and her ongoing commitment to protect the female body from violence. Her new book will be released on April 30, 2013.

This one-of-a kind event is unlike her other bookstore appearances. This is a longer more intimate discussion with one of the world's most influential women. She will touch upon the many milestones and triumphs in her remarkable life and discuss how we might better protect and value the female body. She will take questions from the audience and sign her books in the lobby after the event.

Tickets to An Evening with Eve Ensler are on sale now www.benaroyahall.org.

Exiled from her body at a very early age when she was molested by her father, Eve Ensler has devoted her life's work to protecting the female body from violence. Her new book In The Body of the World recounts her seven months of cancer treatment and confronting her own body in crisis. She is sustained by her promise to help build and attend the opening ceremony of the City of Joy, a sanctuary from violence and rape for the women of the Congo. This is an inspiring and radical examination of cancer and an extraordinary life.

Together Northwest Associated Arts (NWAA), Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest (PPGNW) and The Stranger present An Evening with Eve Ensler. Tickets are $24-$500 and available through the Benaroya Hall Box Office, at 206.215.4747 or online at www.benaroyahall.org. $100 tickets include premium seating in rows 4-12 of the side orchestra ($48 of your ticket is a tax-deductible contribution to PPGNW).

Private Pre Show Reception Package $500: includes a seat in the front two rows, an autographed copy of her new book In the Body of the World, FREE event parking in the Benaroya Hall garage, and admittance to a private reception with Ms, Ensler just prior to her talk ($400 of your ticket is a tax-deductible contribution to PPGNW). $250: includes premium seating in rows 3-10 of the center orchestra, a copy of her new book, Free parking and admittance to the private pre-show reception with Ms. Ensler ($166 of your ticket is a tax deductible contribution to PPGNW).

Donations from An Evening with Eve Ensler will help Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest (PPGNW) achieve its mission of supporting the lifelong sexual health of women and men and to foster a community where every child is a wanted child. PPGNW achieves its mission by focusing on three areas: affordable and quality health care; accurate, age appropriate and comprehensive sex education; and advocacy to protect the fundamental right to decide freely if and when to have a child.

Tony Award-winning playwright, performer, and activist, is the author of The Vagina Monologues, which has been translated into over 48 languages, performed in over 140 countries, including sold-out runs at both Off-Broadway's Westside Theater and on London's West End (2002 Olivier Award nomination, Best Entertainment), and has run for 10 years in Mexico City and Paris. Her experience performing The Vagina Monologues inspired her to create V-Day, a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls which raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of her award-winning play The Vagina Monologues and other artistic works. In 2011, over 5,600 V-Day benefits took place. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $90 million and educated millions. Eve Ensler has devoted her life to stopping violence, envisioning a planet in which women and girls will be free to thrive, rather than merely survive. V-Day's newest campaign, ONE BILLION RISING launched in February 2012, and culminated in a day of action on V-Day's 15th anniversary, February 14th, 2013 when V-Day activists all over the world STRIKE, DANCE, and RISE to end violence against women and girls.