Paul Rudd to Host Our Time Theatre Company Benefit, 6/12

Our Time Theatre Company, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing an artistic home for young people who stutter, will hold its Fourth Annual Benefit Gala and continue its tradition of honoring a person who has been an inspiration to those with this affliction.

The benefit will take place on Monday, June 12, 2006, with an all-star performance at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at 7PM. Celebrities will perform original work written by and with the young people who stutter in Our Time. The show will be followed by a sit-down dinner at 8:30PM at The Rosenthal Pavilion at New York University.

This year's Our Time Award will be presented to Bob Love, former Chicago Bull and a legend in the world of basketball. The evening will be hosted by Paul Rudd, who is currently on Broadway in Three Days of Rain, and who has appeared in plays such as Bash and The Shape of Things, as well as in films such as The Forty Year-Old Virgin, Clueless, and The Cider House Rules.

The 2006 Honorary Chairs are Tony Award winners John Lithgow, Phylicia Rashad, and Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei. Performers include: the casts of STOMP and the Tony Award winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Anthony Rapp and Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent), Matthew Modine (Married to the Mob), Chris Noth and Evan Handler ("Sex and the City"), Ken Roberson (the choreographer of the Tony Award winning musical Avenue Q), Mary Testa (See What I Wanna See), Tiffany McElroy (WB 11 Morning News), Ed Sherin (Former Executive Producer and Director of "Law and Order"), and Tony Award winner B.D. Wong (M. Butterfly, "Law and Order").

Both the The Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and the Rosenthal Pavilion are housed in NYU's Kimmel Center (566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South). Tickets for performance only are $100. Individual Tickets for dinner and performance are $300/$750. Tables for dinner (which include the performance) are $10,000/$25,000/$50,000. For tickets and information, please call (212) 414-9696, or visit www.ourtimetheatre.org.

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