Blue Nights, A Reading By Vanessa Redgrave To Raise Funds For Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids And Cathedral Community Cares

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    When:
    November 17, 2014 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
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    Where:
    The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
    1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10025
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    Blue Nights, A Reading By Vanessa Redgrave

    At The Cathedral Of St. John The Divine

    Monday, November 17

    Special Performance Of Joan Didion’s Acclaimed Memoir

    To Raise Funds For

    Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids And

    Cathedral Community Cares

    Monday, November 17, 2014
    8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

    Blue Nights

    Tony Award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave will perform a staged reading from Blue Nights, the acclaimed sequel to The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, at a special benefit reading at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street), Manhattan, on Monday, November 17 at 8:00 PM.

    Joining Ms. Redgrave at the benefit will be guest artist Jimmy Owens, 2012 NEA Jazz Master and leader of Jimmy Owens Plus, on the trumpet-flugelhorn.

    Funds raised by the dramatic reading will benefit programs run by the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Cathedral Community Cares.

    General Admission, Preferred General Admission, and Premium tickets range from $40-$175 and can be purchased at http://www.stjohndivine.org/visit/calendar/events/events/12632/blue-nights or by calling (866) 811-4111. Patron seats are available by calling (212) 316-7449. Contributors at the Patron level receive a Blue Nights commemorative poster signed by Ms. Redgrave and Ms. Didion and sponsorship listing in the playbill.