Cynthia Nixon, John Slattery to Star in Hate Mail Benefit Reading

John Slattery will join the previously reported Cynthia Nixon in a one-night only reading of Bill Corbett and Kira Obolensky’s Hate Mail on December 6 at New World Stages, beginning at 7pm. Michael Mastro will direct the performance, which will benefit Opening Act, a nonprofit that provides free after-school theater programs to New York City’s most under-served public high schools.

The play is an epistolary romance that follows the comedic correspondence of spoiled rich kid Preston and angst-filled artist Dahlia as they sway from hate to love, and then back again.

Nixon won a Tony Award for her performance in Rabbit Hole. Among her other Broadway credits are The Women, Indiscretions, The Heidi Chronicles, Hurlyburly, The Real Thing and The Philadelphia Story. The actress is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Miranda in Sex and the City, both on television and in its film incarnations.

Slattery is a three-time Emmy Award nominee for his role as Roger Sterling on AMC’s Mad Men. He starred opposite Nixon in Broadway’s Rabbit Hole, and his many other stage credits include Betrayal, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, and Three Days of Rain.

Tickets start at $100. For further information, visit: www.openingactnewyork.org.