The 10th Annual 24 Hour Plays Hits Broadway

The 10th Annual 24 Hour Plays takes place at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre. The one-night-only event features plays that are written, rehearsed and performed all within a 24-hour period. Proceeds from the evening will benefit Urban Arts Partnership.
 

Actors scheduled to appear include Leslie Bibb (Iron Man), Claire Danes (Pygmalion, TV’s Temple Grandin), Guillermo Diaz (Weeds), Rachel Dratch (Saturday Night Live), America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), Gaby Hoffman (Life During Wartime), Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker), Christopher Meloni (Law and Order: SVU), Diane Neal (Law and Order: SVU), Rosie Perez (The Ritz), Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer), Sarah Silverman (The Sarah Silverman Program), Fisher Stevens (producer of The Cove), Julia Stiles (Oleanna), Tracie Thoms (Rent, TV’s Cold Case), Michael Kenneth Williams (Boardwalk Empire), Alicia Witt (Friday Night Lights) and Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings). They will appear in works written by Kristoffer Diaz (Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity), Mike Doughty (singer/songwriter,Sad Man, Happy Man), Rajiv Joseph (Pulitzer Prize finalist for Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo), Lynn Nottage (Pulitzer Prize winner forRuined), Theresa Rebeck (The Understudy, Mauritius) and musical guest M. Ward.