PENNY PENNIWORTH Benefit Performance Set for TADA! Theater

Critically acclaimed PENNY PENNIWORTH: A Story of Great Good Fortune is upping the ante this Leap Year with a special performance benefiting the Drama Desk-Nominated, Emerging Artists Theatre's New Work Series.

With two successful Off-Broadway runs in 2010 and 2012, award-winning playwright Chris Weikel's comedy garnered rave reviews and played to packed houses. Directed by Mark Finley (Street Theater, The Secretaries for TOSOS) PENNY PENNIWORTH returns to TADA Theater with the original company of the Off-Broadway production.

Proceeds will support Emerging Artists' New Work Series, a three-week developmental intensive that provides artists of different disciplines the opportunity to present a "work in progress" with audience feedback. Works developed in the series have gone on to successful runs at FringeNYC, Edinburgh Fringe, NYMF, and Off-Broadway shows. The next New Work Series is scheduled for February 29th - March 20th and will take place at TADA! Theater.

PENNY PENNIWORTH is Charles Dickens' "lost" epic- as mounted by a short-staffed theatre troupe with Royal Shakespeare Company aspirations. Set in Victorian England, it tells the story of young Penny Penniworth whose childhood love is driven out of town after nearly killing a wealthy businessman. Soon, Penny finds herself penniless, left alone to make her way through a convoluted maze of strange relationships, anonymous benefactors and ultimate justice.

The 70-minute farce features Christopher Borg, Jamie Heinlein, Lee Kaplan, and Ellen Reilly.

Performance takes place at TADA! Theater, 15 West 28th Street, 2nd Floor (Between Broadway & 5th Avenue). Tickets are $75.00 which includes a post-show mingle with the cast, hors d'oeuvres and a special "Penny" cocktail. Tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2491752.