Labyrinth Theater Company’s Annual Gala Celebrity Charades 2012 Delayed
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
L A B Y R I N T H T H E A T E R C O M P A N Y’S
ANNUAL GALA
CELEBRITY CHARADES 2012
DELAYED DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY
LABYRINTH’S FEARSOME AND HILARIOUS
SPEED CHARADES COMPETITION
TO BE RESCHEDULED
New York, NY (November 2, 2012) – Labyrinth Theater Company (Co-Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O’Donnell, Yul Vázquez and Managing Director, Danny Feldman), the award-winning, downtown ensemble, announced today its annual signature benefit Celebrity Charades 2012 will be postponed due the lingering effects of Hurricane Sandy. A new date has not yet been selected but is expected to be announced in the coming days. Labyrinth Theater Company’s annual star-studded fundraising event remains one of the most popular ‘happenings’ of the year in New York City and was originally scheduled for Monday, November 5th at Capitale.
Past Celebrity Charades players have included Bob Balaban, Bobby Cannavale Billy Crudup, Edie Falco, Woody Harrelson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianna Marguiles, Edward Norton, John Ortiz, Julia Roberts, Chris Rock, Sam Rockwell, Cynthia Rowley, David Schwimmer, Kristen Wiig, Robin Williams, and more.
The audience of Celebrity Charades is an eclectic mix of artists, old-school New Yorkers, urban professionals and media and entertainment tastemakers. Memorable themes in recent years have included a pep rally; a knockout in a boxing ring; a Battle of Good and Evil; a rock Charades cranked up all the way; and 2009’s no-limit Charades jackpot.
Celebrity Charades is sponsored by Time Warner, Raymond Weil Timepieces, BNY Mellon Wealth Management, Mondrian Soho, and Patrón Spirits.
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Labyrinth Theater Company (Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell, Yul Vázquez, Artistic Directors; Danny Feldman, Managing Director) is a diverse, award-winning ensemble of artists who have changed the face of American theater through groundbreaking productions of provocative new plays. Founded in 1992 by a group of actors who wanted to push their artistic limits and tell new, more inclusive stories that expanded the boundaries of mainstream theater, Labyrinth has grown into a nationally renowned company of actors, directors, playwrights and designers from a wide array of cultural perspectives. Over the past 20 years, Labyrinth has developed hundreds of original works and premiered 57 new American plays here in New York including Guinea Pig Solo, Jack Goes Boating, Jesus Hopped The A Train, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Our Lady of 121st Street, Sailor’s Song, Sistah Supreme, and the Company’s multi-Tony nominated Broadway debut, The Motherf**ker With The Hat.
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