Alex Newell & Cynthia Erivo Get AmplifiED! for Urban Arts Partnership’s 2018 Benefit Gala

On Monday, April 16, 2018, Mike Yard and Emmy Award-winning actor Rory Albanese will co-host the Urban Arts Partnership 2018 Benefit titled AmplifiED at the Ziegfeld Ballroom (141 West 54th Street). The event will raise money to help combat injustices found in public education. Performances will include headliners Alex Newell (Once on this Island) & Tony Award winner Cynthia Erivo  (The Color Purple) with UAP Artistic Board member Michael Kenneth Williams (Boardwalk Empire, The Wire) among the honorees. Marissa Shorenstein (President AT&T Northeast Region) & Niclas Nagler (UAP Board Member) will be honored, as well.rn

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“UAP is a leading non-profit education organization that uses arts-integrated education programs and works to improve the lives of students of 100 low-income schools across New York and Los Angeles.”

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rnAmong the special guests, Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple, OITNB), Darryl “D.M.C.” McDaniels of Run-D.M.C., Tracie Thoms (Falsettos, Rent), Jenna Ushkowitz (Waitress), Amir Arison (The Blacklist), Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), Cecily Strong (SNL), Jillian Jacobs, Diane Neal (Law and Order: SVU), Sadat X, & Geoffrey Arend.rn

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We Were There: Pipeline at Lincoln Center

rnWe real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. In 1960 Pulitzer Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks’ haunting crescendo from innocence to downfall, “We Real Cool,” was published by Harpers.

rnrnrnTickets begin at $750 & run upwards to $50,000 Table PackagesrnrnCocktails begin at 6 pm with dinner at 7 pm, & DJ Dance Set ending out the night.rnrnFor tickets and more information, visit UrbanArts.org