DCT SUMMER BENEFIT SOIREE 2008:
Stage, Television & Film Stars
Ron Cephas Jones (Gem of the Ocean, A Raisin in the Sun) and
Michael McGlone (Brothers McMullen, The Kill Point)
Join The Wire's Melanie Nicholls-King in
Cassandra Medley's NOON DAY SUN
at Diverse City Theater's Benefit Tonight at 6:30PM

Co-starring Diverse City Theater's Natasha Marco, Randy Falcon,
Andrew Eisenman and Penelope Darcel

Ron Cephas Jones


Melanie Nicholls-King


Michael McGlone


Natasha Marco


Randy Falcon

Diverse City Theater announces that excerpts from its August 2008 Mainstage production of NEA-honoree and recipient of AUDELCO August Wilson Award Cassandra Medley's provocative play, NOON DAY SUN, will be presented at Diverse City Theater Company's Summer Benefit Soiree tonight at 6:30PM at The Helen Mills Event Space & Theatre located at 137 West 26th Street.

The excerpt presentation will feature stage, film and television stars Ron Cephas Jones (Gem of the Ocean, A Raisin in the Sun), Melanie Nicholls-King (HBO's The Wire), Michael McGlone (Brothers McMullen, The Kill Point), and Diverse City Theater's Natasha Marco, Rando Falcon, Andrew Eisenman and Penelope Darcel.

ABOUT NOON DAY SUN: Wendy, whose secret birth name is “Zena,” is a negro-identified woman who is passing for white.  Suddenly, on a “white hot day in August,” she crosses paths with her black husband from the past.

NOON DAY SUN is Diverse City Theater's August Mainstage Production at Theatre Row's The Beckett Theatre from August 11 to August 31, 2008. Read more ...

As previously announced, a host of Broadway stars headline "An Evening of Music Celebrating Diversity in the Theater" as part of the evening's event including Norm Lewis, Rona Figueroa, Jose Llana, Nikki Renee Daniels, Angel Desai, Julie Danao Salkin, Perry Ojeda, among others. Read more ...

Diverse City Theater's "Summer Benefit Soiree 2008" is sponsored by Martha Clara Vineyards, Bailey's, Tanqueray, Ciroc Vodka, Smirnoff, Crown Royal, Nuvo, Disney, Bailey Banks & Biddle, Le Vin, Caress, Robbins Wolfe Catering, Buttercup Bake Shop and Interep.

About Diverse City Theater Company

Diverse City Theater Co. Inc., is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization-run by artist playwrights, directors and actors - that focuses on promoting diversity and multiculturalism in the theater arts. Its mission is to commission, develop and produce powerful and though-provoking original plays that explore and examine diversity issues in our national culture, create multiculturally fluent theater audiences and advocate the non-traditional casting of actors.

Formed in 2003, Diverse City Theater Co., Inc. is based in New York City. For more information, visit the organization's website at www.diversecitytheater.org.