The Castle will hold a benefit performance on behalf of the Fortune Society on 29 Apr

On Tuesday, 29 Apr 2008 the Fortune Society will host a benefit featuring a special performance of The Castle, a vividly honest account of how four New Yorkers came to be involved in crime and their transition from prison to society.

The play is now enjoying a limited Off-Broadway professional engagement at the New World Stages Theater. The event will be held at the theater with a reception beginning at 6pm, and the performance beginning at 7pm

The Castle, conceived by David Rothenberg and written in collaboration with Vilma Ortiz Donovan, Kenneth Harrington, Angel Ramos and Casimiro Torres, currently in previews, opens at New World Stages / Stage Five on 27 Apr, running through to 18 May 2008.

The Castle is the residential facility run by The Fortune Society for ex-convicts re-entering society. In the play four formerly incarcerated people tell their stories from childhood to prison to redemption.

Directed by David Rothenberg, the company of The Castle (all of whom tell their own real-life stories) includes Vilma Ortiz Donovan, Kenneth Harrigan, Angel Ramos and Casimiro Torres.

A portion of each performance revenue goes to The Fortune Society, a not-for-profit, community-based organization dedicated to educating the public about prisons, criminal justice issues, and the root causes of crime. Staffed primarily by ex-prisoners, the organization helps former inmates and at-risk youth break the cycle of crime and incarceration through a broad range of services.