USNews.com reports that Amanda Seyfried (Les Miserables) will join Melanie Griffith, Uzo Aduba (Godspell), Peter Dinklage, Nina Dobrev and Pablo Schreiber next month in the 14th annual benefit "The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway." The event features over a dozen actors, six writers and six directors who create six original short plays over the course of one day.
About THE 24 HOUR COMPANY:
The 24 Hour Plays® is a long-running institution in New York and international theater, but its work is always fresh and new. Inspired by Scott McCloud's 24 Hour Comics, creator
Tina Fallon intended The 24 Hour Plays® to be a one-time-only event when it debuted on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1995. Eighteen years and thousands of plays and musicals later, The
24 Hour Company produces theses time limited events, including "The 24 Hour Musicals", on Broadway and in cities all over the world. In New York, London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Florence, Dublin, and Athens, theater icons and newcomers alike regularly participate in what insiders call "the 2-4."
Through collaborations with organizations like London's The Old Vic,, The Del Sole Foundation, Dublin Youth Theater and Urban Arts Partnership, The
24 Hour Company also produces celebrity benefits that have raised millions of dollars for a variety of worthy causes. In 1997, The
24 Hour Company began licensing its trademark The 24 Hour Plays® along with the process, production handbook and other materials to select charitable and educational groups. Licensed affiliates have produced their own versions of it in regional and professional theaters, colleges, and universities just about everywhere you can find a curtain and a stage.
The
24 Hour Company's "The 24 Hour Musicals" were launched at Joe's Pub in 2009, and recently enjoyed their first international production at The Old Vic in London. 24 x 24: The 24 Hour Plays Anthology was published by Playscripts, Inc. in 2009. In 2013, the documentary One Night Stand about the 24 Hour Musicals - featuring
Jesse Tyler Ferguson,
Rachel Dratch,
Richard Kind and
Cheyenne Jackson - premiered on hundreds of screens nationwide.
For more information visit: http://www.24hourplays.com
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