Industry NewsRattlestick to Give Terrence McNally's Unusual Acts of Devotion New York Premiere Benefit Reading
Brooks Ashmanskas, Nikki M. James, Lois Smith, and more will star in the Zachary Quinto-helmed event.
By
Leah Putnam
March 04, 2022
Brooks Ashmanskas, Nikki M. James, and Lois Smith
Off-Broadway's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced a benefit reading of Terrence McNally's Unusual Acts of Devotion, to be held at the Daryl Roth Theatre March 14.
The benefit will support Rattlestick's Artistic Home Campaign to renovate the historic theatre, including the installation of an ADA-accessible elevator, ADA-accessible bathrooms, expanded dressing rooms, new lobby, and more to make the theatre fully accessible.
Unusual Acts of Devotion has yet to be heard publicly in NYC. McNally's play about a group of neighbors celebrating on a Greenwich Village rooftop on a hot summer night was produced in California and Pennsylvania in 2008. The five-time Tony-winning playwright, who passed away last year, was a close collaborator with Rattlestick since its founding in 1994.
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