With generous sponsorship from Tony Award-winning producer Merrie L. Davis and writer/producer Elizabeth Coplan, Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents its first live gala since 2019, the 2024 TRU Love Benefit: Passion…Pass It On!, on Sunday, November 17, 2024, from 1pm to 5pm ET at Green Room 42, 570 10th Avenue (at 42nd Street), NYC. Limited remaining tickets start at $165 and can be purchased at https://truonline.org/events/tru-love-benefit-passion.

Join TRU for a celebration of theater now and tomorrow, featuring a VIP cocktail hour with hors d’oeuvres stations, a 3-course luncheon, performances celebrating two women who have enriched our theater community and inspired a generation of new theater lovers, and a video remembrance of a dear TRU friend. Joining the star-studded cast are Jana Robbins (Gypsy, Tale of the Allergst’s Wife, Romance Romance), Haley Swindal (Chicago, Jeckyll and Hyde, Sistas: The Musical) and Allyson Tucker (Ragtime, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Man of La Mancha, Anything Goes, Follies). They join Broadway star and Tony nominee Norm Lewis (Side Show, Les Miserables, The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess, Phantom of the Opera, Chicken and Biscuits), pop legend Nona Hendryx of Labelle (“Lady Marmalade,” “I Sweat (Going through the Motions)”), writer, actor, producer Jordan E. Cooper(Tony nominee and Obie winner for Ain’t No Mo’, Emmy-nominee for The Ms. Pat Show), NY1’s Frank DiLella, Lauren A. Marchand (2023 Roger Rees Awards Emerging Artist and 2023 Jimmy Awards Winner) and Isaiah Baston (2024 Roger Rees Awards Outstanding Performer Winner). Co-hosts for the event will be theater journalist and host of the Theatre World Awards Peter Filichia; and actress, activist, and educator Dominique Sharpton, with special appearance by legendary theater, television, and film star Joe Morton. Jonathan S. Cerullo will direct, with Lulu Picart as music director and Jim Semmelman as stage manager.