{"id":288955,"date":"2026-09-18T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288955\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:30:08","slug":"lola-tung-will-lead-one-night-only-benefit-reading-of-sanctuary-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288955\/","title":{"rendered":"Lola Tung Will Lead One-Night-Only Benefit Reading of Sanctuary City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/lola-tung\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lola Tung<\/a> (The Summer I Turned Pretty,\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/hadestownwalter-kerr-theatre-2018-2019\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hadestown<\/a>)\u00a0will return to the stage for a one-night-only reading of\u00a0Sanctuary City\u00a0benefiting\u00a0RAICES, a non-profit organization for migrant justice. The reading will be held at New York\u00a0Theatre Workshop October 9.<\/p>\n<p>Tung will star opposite <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/daniel-bravo-hernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Bravo Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> (<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/romeo-and-juliet-broadway-circle-in-the-square-theatre-2024\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Romeo and Juliet<\/a>).\u00a0Caitlin Sullivan will direct the special performance of Pulitzer Prize winner <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/martyna-majok\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martyna Majok<\/a>\u2019s acclaimed play.\u00a0Sanctuary City\u00a0takes place in a post-9\/11 Newark, New Jersey, following two teenagers who were brought to the United States as children. When G becomes naturalized, she and B hatch a plan to marry so that he may legally remain in the country. But as time hurtles on and complications mount, the young friends find that this act challenges and fractures the closest relationship either has ever had.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m beyond thrilled to be sharing Sanctuary City in NYC again, home to so many souls who daily live the experiences of these characters\u2014and far, far beyond,\u201d said Martyna Majok in a statement. \u201cI&#8217;m exceedingly proud to be coming together in support and admiration of RAICES, one of our most vital national organizations, fighting for the American ideals of life, liberty, and justice for all by defending immigrants\u2019 rights. Their work is essential always, but especially at this crucial time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytw.org\/show\/sanctuary-city-benefit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NYTW.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lola Tung (The Summer I Turned Pretty,\u00a0Hadestown)\u00a0will return to the stage for a one-night-only reading of\u00a0Sanctuary City\u00a0benefiting\u00a0RAICES, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-288955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}