PHOTO FLASH: Cynthia Nixon and John Slattery in Kira Obolensky’s Hate Mail Reading

On Monday, December 6, Tony Award winner Cynthia Nixon and Emmy Award nominee John Slattery took part in a one-night only reading of Bill Corbett and Kira Obolensky’s Hate Mail on December 6 at New World Stages to 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.