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Olympia Dukakis and Priscilla Lopez to Host A-T Children’s Project Benefit

Olympia Dukakis
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Olympia Dukakis
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis and Tony Award winner Priscilla Lopez will host An Intimate Theater Evening, to be held at The Clark Studio Theatre at Lincoln Center on January 19 at 8pm.

Performers will include In the Heights star Mandy Gonzalez, comedian David Birnbaum, Ron De Jesus Dance, singer/actors Leo Ash Evens, Mark Fisher and Devin Ilaw, and trombonist Todd Londagin and his band.

The event will benefit the A-T Children’s Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure for Ataxia-telangiectasia, or “A-T,” a progressive, degenerative disease that affects a variety of body systems.

Dukakis has appeared on Broadway in Rose, Social Security, and Who’s Who In Hell. She won the Academy Award for her work in Moonstruck, and her other film and television credits include Steel Magnolias, Mr. Holland’s Opus, and Tales of the City. Lopez won her Tony for A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine and received a Tony nomination for her work in the original cast of A Chorus Line. She is currently appearing in the Broadway production of In the Heights.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.atcp.org.