Edge Theater Hosts Bingo Benefit with Clarkson & Forte

Edge Theater artistic director Carolyn Cantor and producer David Korins have announced that Bingo Night 2007, a benefit for the theater company, will take place Monday, February 12 at 8pm at Epiphany Church, Second Avenue at 22 Street. This year's celebrity Bingo callers include Patricia Clarkson and Will Forte.

Bingo Night 2007 promises an evening of live entertainment, dazzling prizes, exciting celebrities, and good old-fashioned B-I-N-G-O. Bingo Night 2007 is Edge Theater's fourth annual fundraiser, the proceeds of which go directly to Edge's productions. This year's Bingo Night will help raise money for Edge Theater's next production, the world premiere of Adam Rapp's Essential Self-Defense, a co-production with Playwrights Horizons.

At Bingo Night 2007, guests get bingo cards at the door that let them play all night for an incredible selection of donated prize packages, including gifts from HBO, Bluefly.com, CLAY Spa, the Guggenheim, MoMA, Chelsea Piers, Chanterelle, La Petite Coquette, Satya Jewelry, Broadway shows, and more. Each round of bingo is called by a different team of celebrities. Bingo callers from previous years include Chris Noth, Rosario Dawson, Elizabeth Banks, Dylan Baker, and Anthony Rapp. In between rounds of bingo, music will be provided by Lucas Papaelias and Ray Rizzo.

Edge Theater was established in 2001 by director Carolyn Cantor and set designer David Korins to produce innovative, challenging work of exceptional quality and imagination with a particular emphasis on new plays. Edge strives to provide a dynamic engagement between theater artists and the community by producing and promoting plays that explore the boundaries of theatrical style and illuminate the human experience. Among its highest priorities is cultivating new and younger audiences for the theater and ensuring that anyone who wants to attend a production can afford to do so. Therefore, Edge has always offered discounted tickets to all students and audience members under age 25. Since its inception, Edge has produced six plays including two world premieres, three New York premieres and a new translation of a classic play. Edge received a 2006 Obie Award for Outstanding Emerging Theater Company and its productions have received a Henry Hewes Award from the American Theatre Wing for Outstanding Set Design as well as four Drama Desk nominations. Past productions include Living Room in Africa by Bathsheba Doran, Orange Flower Water by Craig Wright (two Drama Desk nominations), Now That's What I Call A Storm by Ann Marie Healy, Blackbird by Adam Rapp (two Drama Desk nominations), Stone Cold Dead Serious by Adam Rapp and Life is a Dream by Calderon de la Barca in a new translation by John Clifford.

Tickets to Bingo Night 2007, which begin at $50, may be purchased by phoning 212-868-4444 or visiting www.smarttix.com. Bingo Night 2007 takes place at Epiphany Church, Second Avenue at 22 Street. For more information, visit www.edgetheater.org.