Broadway Goes 'Urban' For Urban Stages' Outreach Benefit, 12/13; Features Kitt, Sheik & More

For one festive night only, Sunday, December 13 at 9:30pm, Broadway will come to Urban Stages to ring in the season with special arrangements of your favorite holiday tunes. The starry lineup of performers lending their talents to benefit Urban Stages' Outreach Program include Adam Chanler-Berat (Next to Normal), Jenn Colella (High Fidelity), Lilli Cooper (Spring Awakening), Jerry Dixon (Once on this Island), Matt Doyle (Bye Bye Birdie), Emma Hunton (Spring Awakening), Morgan Karr (Spring Awakening), Kacie Sheik (Hair) and Tony Winner Tom Kitt (Next to Normal).

The evening of holiday cheer will be directed by Laura Pietropinto (Next to Normal) with musical direction by Julie McBride. The event is being produced by jokr productions (Joey Oliva & Katie Riegel) for Urban Stages. Urban Stages is located at 259 West 30th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues.

All tickets are $25 and available now online at smarttix.com or here. The ticket price includes one complimentary drink and attendees are also encouraged to bring along a toy to donate to Toys for Tots. All proceeds from the concert directly support Urban Stages Outreach Program.  For more information visit www.urbanstages.org.

Urban Stages is an award-winning, not-for-profit Off-Broadway Theatre Company founded in 1984 by current Artistic Director Frances Hill. Over the past 24 years, Urban Stages has produced over 70 productions (mostly world premieres) including Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Eisa Davis' BULRUSHER (2007), two Drama Desk nominations, an Outer Critic's Circle Award, an Obie nomination, and eight Audelco nominations. Our productions of MEN ON THE VERGE OF A HISPANIC BREAKDOWN, by Guillermo Reyes, and MINOR DEMONS, by Bruce Graham subsequently moved to commercial theatres. CHILI QUEEN, a play by newscaster Jim Lehrer, transferred to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (1989).

The majority of works developed at Urban Stages have had further productions commercially, regionally, and abroad. Numerous projects developed at Urban Stages have been adapted into film and television projects, including Scar, by Murray Mednick, Conversations with the Goddesses, by Agapi Stassinopoulos, and Cotton Mary, by Alexandra Viets.