Love Benefit, Feb. 13, Features Ally Sheedy & Short Plays by Female Playwrights

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.

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.