The Butterfly Effect
An All-Star Gala Benefiting the Jeffrey Hartgraves Cancer Fund
- When
- Sun Apr 20, 2008
- Where
- Theatre Rhinoceros
- Time
- 7:30pm - 9pm
- Cost
- $25
- Tags
- Theater, Plays, City Events, Galas, Gay, Gay Theater, Gay Benefit, Gay Community
Description
Well-known Bay Area talents Veronica Klaus, Matthew Martin, Connie Champagne, Leigh Crow, Trauma Flintstone and other San Francisco stage luminaries will gather on Sunday, April 20 at 7:30 pm on Theatre Rhinoceros’ main stage for The Butterfly Effect: An All-Star Gala Benefiting the Jeffrey Hartgraves Cancer Fund.Frequent Hartgraves collaborators Leon Acord and P.A. Cooley will host the evening, in collaboration with Theatre Rhino. A Silent Auction will be included as part of the evening’s festivities.
Jeffrey Hartgraves, a deeply valued veteran of Bay Area theatre as a playwright, director, and actor, was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2005. Following a year of remission -- during which he wrote and starred in his critically acclaimed “very nearly solo show” Shark Bites at The Rhino and published a collection of essays entitled Bone Matters – Hartgraves is now back on another round of painful chemotherapy, making it difficult to make ends meet.
Acord is also co-producing the evening. Acord and Hartgraves co-produced and co-starred in 2002’s hit Carved in Stone at Eureka Theatre, among many other collaborations, before Acord moved to LA in 2004.
“Jeffrey has given me the greatest moments of my stage career. I’m really thrilled to repay him for his generosity, inspiration and friendship.”
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