Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lindsay Mendez and More Set for THE 52ND STREET PROJECT, 5/7

Like Clockwork: The 52nd Street Project's Party Time Benefit is set for this Monday, May 7, hosted by Tony Award nominee Bobby Cannavale at Ars Nova. The benefit will feature songs with lyrics by Project kids, set to music and performed by professional artists.

Uzo Aduba, Telly Leung, Arthur Lewis, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lindsay Mendez, Jessica Molaskey & John Pizzarelli, Matt Saldivar, Chris Sullivan will perform; tickets are $300 and $600. Tables of ten are available for $6,000, $12,000, $18,000 and $25,000.

For further information, visit 52project.org. Contributions are tax deductible except for $150 per ticket. All ticket orders will be held at the door.

The 52nd Street Project (The Project) was founded in 1981 by actor/playwright and 1994 MacArthur Fellow Willie Reale in response to a deepening need to improve the quality of life for New York's inner-city children. Reale, an actor, playwright, and company member of the Ensemble Studio Theater (EST), used his company privileges to reach out to the children of the neighborhood by creating theatrical endeavors specifically for them. This was done with the cooperation and support of EST and its across-the-street-neighbor, the Police Athletic League's Duncan Center. The Project is now an independent not-for-profit organization that creates over eighty new plays and serves over 130 children every year.

The 52nd Street Project has been a place where many preeminent theater-makers have volunteered their efforts to mentor kids from Hell's Kitchen. To name just a few: Billy Crudup, Peter Dinklage, Edie Falco, Nancy Giles, James McDaniel, Frances McDormand, Cynthia Nixon, Oliver Platt, Martha Plimpton and Lili Taylor.

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