COLIN QUINN - THE NEW YORK STORY to Host Benefit Performance at Cherry Lane Theatre

Cherry Lane Theatre, where COLIN QUINN - THE NEW YORK STORY has been enjoying a sold-out run for the past several months, will present a special performance to benefit Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce St.) on Tuesday, January 26, it has been announced by Angelina Fiordellisi, the theater's Founding Artistic Director.

The benefit evening will begin with a cocktail reception at Sushi Samba (87 Seventh Ave. South) at 6 pm, followed by the performance at 7:45 at Cherry Lane Theatre. Benefit tickets range in price from $150 to $225 and $300. Among the special offers provided in the various ticket prices are cocktail reception, post-show talk back, premium seating, photo opportunity and autographed Playbill. Reservations at www.cherrylanetheatre.org

Written and performed by Collin Quinn, THE NEW YORK STORY is directed by Jerry Seinfeld. A critical and popular success Off-Broadway, COLLIN QUINN - THE NEW YORK STORY has been a New York Times and Time Out New York Critics Pick. The New York Post declared the play Mr. Quinn's "best work yet."

The production is scheduled to conclude this Off-Broadway engagement on January 31.

In COLIN QUINN - THE NEW YORK STORY, Mr. Quinn waxes nostalgic about his hometown NYC, from its beginnings as a Dutch outpost in colonial times to the hipsters of Williamsburg today. The show finds Mr. Quinn at his satirical best, taking aim at the prejudice, paranoias and peculiarities that make New York City the Crossroads of the World.

Quinn is a comedian, actor and writer, enduringly popular throughout his stint with SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. His solo stage works include LONG STORY SHORT, MY TWO CENTS and AN IRISH WAKE.

One of the most renowned theatres in the country, Cherry Lane Theatre has produced a large succession of plays by leading writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter. Under the artistic leadership of Angelina Fiordellisi since 1996, Cherry Lane remains devoted to developing and producing new works for the stage through its various programs including the award-winning Mentor Project, which each year pairs established playwrights with emerging writers for a season of dramaturgy, rehearsal, casting and production. Mentor Project returns this season for its 18th season with mentors Rajiv Joseph, Katori Hall and Sheila Callaghan, marking the first time in the program's history that formerly mentored playwrights return to Cherry Lane as mentors to other playwrights.

Photo by Mike Lavoie

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