Laura Benanti, Stockard Channing to Star in Collected Stories Reading

Tony Award winners Laura Benanti and Stockard Channing will star in a reading of Donald Margulies’ Collected Stories, to be presented at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Monday, May 7 at 7pm. Michael Mastro will direct this benefit event for Opening Act.

The play chronicles the relationship between a renowned New York author and her protégé.

Benanti won the Tony for Gypsy, and was Tony-nominated for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Her additional Broadway credits include Into the Woods, Nine, and Swing! Her television credits include The Playboy Club and Law & Order: SVU.

Channing is currently starring on Broadway in Other Desert Cities. She won a Tony Award for Joe Egg, and received additional Tony nominations for Pal Joey, The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun and The Lion in Winter. She won Emmy Awards for The West Wing and The Matthew Shepard Story, and was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe when she recreated her role in the film version of Six Degrees of Separation.

Opening Act is a unique nonprofit that brings free, long-term theater programming to ten of New York City’s most under-served public high schools.

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