MTC Winter Benefit with Foster, Hyde-Pierce on Jan.28

Manhattan Theatre Club will present its annual Winter Benefit, "An Intimate Night," an evening of cocktails and dinner followed by a special one-night-only cabaret-style show on Monday, January 28, 2008 at the Rainbow Room (30 Rockefeller Plaza, 65th Floor).

"An Intimate Night" will feature Tony Award-winner Sutton Foster, Tony and Emmy Award-winner David Hyde Pierce, and the husband-and-wife team of Broadway performer Jessica Molaskey and jazz guitarist and vocalist John Pizzarelli.  The evening will be directed by Tony Award-winner Rob Ashford.

The evening begins with a 7PM cocktail reception, followed by dinner at 8pm and the show at 9:15PM.  All monies raised from this annual event will benefit MTC's extensive educational outreach programs, as well as its artistic development program. MTC Board members Bethany Millard and Fiona Kirk are the Co-chairs.

Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, Manhattan Theatre Club has grown in three decades from a prolific Off-Off Broadway showcase into one of the country's most acclaimed theatre organizations. MTC develops and presents works of the highest quality by both established and emerging American and international playwrights. Significant productions include Craig Lucas' Reckless, David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof; Charles Busch's The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning Love! Valour! Compassion!;  the Fats Waller musical Ain't Misbehavin'; Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning Crimes of the Heart; August Wilson's The Piano Lesson and Seven Guitars and the Pulitzer Prize-winning production of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt.  During the 2007-08 season, Tony Award-winning director Daniel Sullivan is serving as MTC's Acting Artistic Director.

Individual tickets for MTC's Winter Benefit, including cocktails, dinner and the show are available for $2,500 and $1,500.  Tables of ten are also available for $25,000, $20,000, and $15,000.  For more information, call (212) 399-3000, ext. 4146.