Love Benefit, Feb. 13, Features Ally Sheedy & Short Plays by Female Playwrights
By: BWW News Desk Feb. 03, 2006
Love,
a one-night only benefit performance that will feature readings of
short plays about love by some of today's hottest young women
playwrights, will be presented on February 13th at 7 PM at the Diane
von Furstenberg Theater (383 West 12th Street, between Washington
Street and West Street); it will be followed by an after-party.Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club, Hedwig and the Angry Inch) will be among the performers in the benefit. Hosted by Diane Von Furstenberg, Love will feature short plays by: Julia Jordan (the upcoming musical Ever After), Brooke Berman (Smashing, now being made
into a film produced by Natalie Portman), Cusi Cram
(All the Bad Things, currently at LAByrinth), Julia
Cho (The Architecture of Loss, NYTW), Jessica
Goldberg (Refuge, Hologram Theory), Bridget
Carpenter (TV's "Dead Like Me") and Adrienne Shelly
(Waitress, with Kerri Russell and Cheryl Hines). The
evening is directed by Abby Epstein (Until The
Violence Stops,
Sundance 2004 Premiere). The after-performance party will feature music
by DJ Mr.
Blue, open bar, food, and late-night VIP shopping at
the Diane Von Furstenberg store. The benefit's executive producers will
be Ray & Kit Sawyer, and Sasha Eden and Victoria Pettibone will
produce.
WET (Women's Expressive
Theater, Inc) was founded in 1999 by Sasha Eden and
Victoria Pettibone with a mission to produce work
that challenges female stereotypes. Their most
recent production was the world premiere of Big
Times. Other premiere productions include Julia
Jordan's St. Scarlet, Sheila Callaghan's Scab, Rona
Muro's Bold Girls and Joyce Carol Oates' I Stand
Before You Naked II. WET also recently produced
workshops of Lucy Thurber's Bottom of the World at
The Public, Tribeca Theater Festival and the Eugene
O'Neill Theater Center and a reading of Adrienne
Shelly's screenplay Waitress starring Gretchen
Mol, Paul Rudd, Amy Sedaris and Michael Cerveris.
One of the beneficiaries of the evening will be "WET's Risk Takers Film Series", an outreach program for adolescent girls. Recent guests include Academy Award-nominee Frances McDormand, Ally Sheedy and Kerry Washington.
Tickets are available at www.wetweb.org.
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