Following its hit run last year starring Adam Driver, Kenneth Lonergan's Hold on to Me Darling is coming back to New York again. Academy Award winner Matt Damon and Emmy winner Alec Baldwin will lead the cast of a charity reading of the play, to benefit Center At West Park and the preservation of the landmark West Park Presbyterian Church. The event will take place October 27 at 7 PM at 263 West 86th Street in New York's Upper West Side.

The reading will also include J. Smith-Cameron, Gretchen Mol, Lucas Hedges, Peter Friedman, and Charles Everett. The reading will be directed by Neil Pepe, who helmed the work’s world premiere in 2016 (starring Timothy Olyphant) and the 2024 remount.

Hold on to Me Darling follows a country musician who, after the death of his beloved mother, is inspired to throw away his fame for a simpler life—only to realize that is more challenging than expected.

Center at West Park is a community center and theatre is currently in residency at St. Paul and St. Andrew’s Church at 86th Street and West End Avenue, where it continues its programming. The Center vacated its original home, landmarked West-Park Presbyterian Church, a building that's over 140 years old, after the building’s owners filed a hardship application with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) seeking to remove the site’s landmark status, so that it can be knocked down to make way for a high rise. The Center is currently in the midst of a campaign to save the church. 

Visit CenteratWestPark.org.