Janeane Garafolo, Cynthia Nixon, Rosie O’Donnell, Chloe Sevigny Set for New Group’s Women Behind Bars Reading
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The New Group will present a one-night-only benefit reading of the play Women Behind Bars by Tom Eyen at 7pm on Monday, May 7 at the Acorn Theatre. It will be directed by Scott Elliott.
The play is set on New Year’s Eve 1952 in The Women’s House of Detention in Greenwich Village. When the innocent and lovely Mary-Eleanor is framed by her husband and put away, her arrival in the house of detention sparks rivalries that build to increasingly dangerous — not to say unspeakable and hilarious — conflicts among her fellow prisoners and the sadistic Matron.
The cast will feature Charles Busch (The Matron), Janeane Garofalo (Louise), Nancy Giles (Jo-Jo), Josh Hamilton (the men), Natasha Lyonne (Cheri), Cynthia Nixon (Blanche), Rosie O’Donnell (Gloria), Rosie Perez (Guadalupe), Rhea Perlman (Granny, The Warden), Chloë Sevigny (Mary-Eleanor), and Jennifer Tilly (Ada).
For tickets and information, email Brandon Suisse at brandon@thenewgroup.org.
