Daniel Breaker Hosts and Perform at Play Company's CABARET GOURMET Tonight

CABARET GOURMET -- the Obie Award-winning Play Company's annual benefit that combines gourmet foods from top NYC restaurants with an evening of first-rate entertainment -- will be presented this year tonight, April 22, 2013 at 7:00 pm at the American Airlines Theater Penthouse (227 W. 42 St.) with the Tony Award-nominated actor Daniel Breaker (PASSING STRANGE) featured as the event's host and performer.

Now in its 10th year, CABARET GOURMET benefits The Play Company's productions and artistic programs.

Restaurants with tasting tables at CABARET GOURMET include Amali, Gramercy Tavern, Market Table, Mehtaphor, Swine, La Silhouette, Kyotofu and Valrhona Chocolate, along with fine wines and spirits by Tuthilltown Spirits, Del Maguey and Red Tail Ridge Winery.

The evening will also include a silent auction with opportunities to bid on backstage passes to top Broadway shows; exclusive dining, cooking and spa experiences; along with exclusive Fashion Week packages and more.

Daniel Breaker is a Tony Award nominee and 2008 Theatre World Award winner for the musical PASSING STRANGE; Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominee for SHREK THE MUSICAL; most recently starred in the Broadway comedy THE PERFORMERS. Other Broadway credits: WELL, CYMBELINE; Off-Broadway: BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK (Audelco nominee), PASSING STRANGE (Audelco and Obie Awards, Drama League Award nominee), FABULATION.

Members of the benefit committee for CABARET GOURMET are Eric Case and Christina McNamara, Trip Cullman, Warren Fraser, Marianne and Steve Mills, Kyra Tirana Barry and Dave Barry, Adam Zeller and Ryan Kroft.

Tickets start at $150. For information contact: Sarah Frazier, The Play Company's director of development at 212 398-2977 or email sfrazier@playco.org.

An Off-Broadway company dedicated to advancing an international view of contemporary playwriting, The Play Company most recently presented the hit play WORKING ON A SPECIAL DAY with Por Piedad Teatro. Previous productions include the OBIE Award-winning U.S. premiere of Jonas Hassen Khemiri's play INVASION!, and the New York premiere of Marius von Mayenburg's THE UGLY ONE. Linking NYC artists and audiences to a whole world of plays, and placing American work in a global context, The Play Company produces unusual, ambitious work that reflects and responds to the issues and events that shape our time.

Other past productions include: the world premieres of the American plays EDGEWISE by Eliza Clark, SMASHING by Brooke Berman and HIGH DIVE by Leslie Ayvazian; the U.S. premieres of Toshiki Okada's ENJOY (Japan); Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's MADE IN POLAND (Poland); Robert Farquhar's BAD JAZZ (England), Simon Farquhar's RAINBOW KISS (Scotland), Vijay Tendulkar's SAKHARAM BINDER (India); Yoji Sakate's THE ATTIC (Japan); and The Presnyakov Brothers' TERRORISM (Russia); and the New York premieres of Lloyd Suh's AMERICAN HWANGAP (U.S.) and Roland Schimmelpfennig's ARABIAN NIGHT (Germany). PlayCo received a 2007 Obie Award for its "unique contribution to the theatre community" and was recently honored to receive a 2012 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing. The Play Company is under the guidance of Kate Loewald, Founding Producer, and Lauren Weigel, Executive Producer.

In May-June 2013, The Play Company will present the New York premiere of THE GOLDEN DRAGON by Roland Schimmelpfennig, one of Europe's most produced playwrights, directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar (THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES.)

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

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