| Plays in the House presents Shaw's Mrs. Warren’s Profession with Tony Award winners Tonya Pinkins & James Monroe Iglehart & more, to benefit the NAACP | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 03:58 pm EDT 06/15/20 | |
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| "Stars in The House" Hosts Seth Rudetsky & James Wesley Present "Plays in The House" Every Wednesday and Saturday Matinee as Part of its Regular Daily Live-Streamed Show Coming Up on Saturday June 20th at 2pm: Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession Starring Tonya Pinkins as Mrs. Warren, with Midori Francis, David Huynh, James Monroe Iglehart, Thom Sesma, and Raphael Nash Thompson, Narrated & Directed by David Staller A Benefit For the NAACP SiriusXM Broadway host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley present and host Plays in the House as part of its weekly lineup of Stars in the House, a daily online show at 2pm and 8pm ET. Plays in the House airs every Saturday and Wednesday matinee at 2pm until Broadway reopens. Each episode features actors doing live readings of classic, award-winning plays. These performances are all FREE. Saturday June 20th at 2pm will offer Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession starring Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins as Mrs. Warren, along with Midori Francis, David Huynh, Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart, Thom Sesma, and Raphael Nash Thompson, narrated and directed by David Staller, to benefit the NAACP. This marks the third collaboration with Staller and Gingold Theatrical Group, the previous being Arms and the Man and Candida. "The struggle for equal rights has always been the hot topic for Bernard Shaw," according to David Staller. "MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION (1895) was considered so incendiary in its time that it was banned for years in Britain and, when it finally debuted here in New York City, the entire cast was arrested on opening night. It's not the plot point of prostitution that offended the officials, but the notion that a woman would struggle to create a successful life for herself in spite of the constraints set against her by law and society, and thrive without apology. With this, our third free online presentation, we have a dream cast to bring you this highly entertaining story involving a mother and daughter who, for the first time, reveal their true self to each other. The issue of women's rights permeates all of Shaw's work and perhaps never, before or since, has the topic been more explosively examined." David Staller is the artistic director of New York's Gingold Theatrical Group, now in its 15th year, which produces full productions and the monthly series Project Shaw at Symphony Space. He oversees GTG's new play development workshops, seminars, symposiums, educational programs and acting classes. He has directed GTG's Off-Broadway productions of Caesar & Cleopatra, Heartbreak House, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, You Never Can Tell and Widowers' Houses, which were all filmed by the NY Library for Performing Arts archives. He has directed many plays and special events around the world and is frequently invited upon the international theatre and socio-political scene as a speaker about equal human rights and all things Shaw. GTG is the only group ever to present performances of all of Shaw's 65 plays. Their production of Shaw's The Devil's Disciple is still scheduled to run off-Broadway through October and November. Director/writer Peter Flynn (Smart Blonde, Rhapsody in Seth starring Seth Rudetsky) serves as the livestreaming director for this series. The producers also wish to thank Theatre Authority and Actors' Equity Association for their support. Stars in the House, which kicked off on March 16th is a daily series that features stars of stage and screen singing and performing live (from home!) to promote support for The Fund's services for those most vulnerable to the effects of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Since the first show, Stars in the House has raised more than $297,000 to benefit The Actors Fund. The Drama Desk just honored The Actors Fund, Seth Rudetsky, and James Wesley with a Special Award for "connecting the theatre community and lifting spirits during the coronavirus crisis through the ongoing Stars in the House series." In addition to its regular twice-a-day streaming and ability for viewers to watch it on their own time, Stars in the House, has now also teamed up with SiriusXM. SiriusXM will be the exclusive audio broadcasting partner delivering the show to listeners daily on Volume (channel 106) and On Broadway (channel 72). SiriusXM subscribers can catch Stars in the House weekday mornings at 9:00 a.m. ET on Volume channel 106, with favorite program excerpts airing throughout the day on SiriusXM's On Broadway channel 72. Listeners can also follow Seth on Seth Speaks and Seth's Big Fat Broadway, two regularly scheduled programs that air on SiriusXM's On Broadway channel. Stars in the House will air commercial-free on SiriusXM. The program is available to subscribers nationwide on SiriusXM radios, and those with streaming access can listen on demand on the SiriusXM app, and at home on a variety of connected devices. For more info to activate your streaming access or to sign up for a trial subscription, go towww.SiriusXM.com/AtHome With shutdowns on Broadway and in film and television, theater, concerts, dance, music and many other areas of entertainment, the need is great and growing. Since March 18th, The Actors Fund has provided over $1Million in emergency financial assistance to hundreds of people who work in performing arts and entertainment. This emergency financial assistance is helping those in financial crisis with assistance for basic living expenses such as essential medications to help prevent infections to pay for food or utilities and other needs. As the situation with Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to evolve, The Actors Fund has temporary transitioned to online and phone-based services, which remain available for everyone in the performing arts and entertainment community. These services include: Artists Health Insurance Resource Center, The Career Center, Housing Resources, Addiction & Recovery, HIV/AIDS and Senior Services, Counseling and Emergency Financial Assistance, as well as The Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The Actors Fund is a national human services organization that fosters stability and resiliency, and provides a safety net for performing arts and entertainment professionals over their lifespan. Through offices in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, The Fund serves everyone in film, theater, television, music, opera, radio and dance with programs including social services and emergency financial assistance, health care and insurance counseling, housing, and secondary employment and training services. To make a tax-deductible donation, visit www.actorsfund.org/Donate. Seth Rudetsky has been helping raise money for the Actors Fund since 2001 when he began his yearly concerts that included Dreamgirls with Audra McDonald, Heather Headley, Lillias White and Billy Porter, Funny Girl with Sutton Foster and Idina Menzel, Chess with Josh Groban and Adam Pascal and more. James Wesley and Seth have been married since 2012 and have been working together constantly on projects to raise money and awareness for a number of social justice organizations. In 2016, they formed their 501c3 called Your Kids, Our Kids with its initial mission being to directly help one of the most vulnerable populations in our society -- children -- through creative means. Voices for the Voiceless: Stars for Foster Kids is one of their yearly projects, raising millions for You Gotta Believe which helps find families for older foster youth. These concerts have starred celebs like Tina Fey, Rosie Perez and Chita Rivera. In June of 2016, they organized Broadway for Orlando in the wake of the massacre at the Pulse Nightclub. Uniting the Broadway community to sing "What the World Needs Now is Love" (in the style of "We Are the World"), the single featured over 50 Broadway stars like Bernadette Peters, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Sara Bareilles and charted on Billboard's Hot 100, selling over 50,000 copies and raising over $100,000 for the Orlando LGBT community. On January 20, 2017, they presented the first edition of Concert for America, which premiered at The Town Hall in NYC, raising money and awareness for civil rights organizations, as well as infusing Americans with hope and inspiration and the desire to become more active citizens. To date, there have been 13 editions performed around the country, including in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Atlanta. James and Seth are the proud recipients of the 2016 National Leadership Award from the LGBTQ Task Force for their work on Broadway for Orlando's What the World Needs Now is Love. In 2018, Seth and James also received the NYCLU Liberty Award for their contributions to the LGBT community. For more information, visit starsinthehouse.com. |
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