Ben’s Lighthouse has announced its next benefit event, “An Evening of Music and Song” featuring Molly Ringwald.

The actor, writer and musician will be in Newtown on Saturday, November 11, when she will join the local performers on stage at Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street.

Ringwald will be joined by Francine Wheeler and Jim Allen & Friends.

Long before she became known as a Golden Globe-nominated actress, Ringwald was singing.

She started performing with her pianist father and his Fulton Street Jazz Band when she was three and has never stopped. In 2013, Concord released her debut jazz album, Except Sometimes.

Ringwald has performed at the legendary Manhattan nightclub Birdland, and has performed with her band in over 250 concerts in seven countries.

She is also the author of the national bestsellers, Getting the Pretty Back and When It Happens to You: A Novel in Stories. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Parade, Salon, Esquire, The Guardian, and The New York Times Book Review, among others.

Her most recent New Yorker essay, “What About the Breakfast Club?” revisits the movies of her youth in the age of #MeToo.

Of course she may be best known for her roles in 1980s films including The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink and Sixteen Candles, as well as continued film and television work. Her first television role, at age 13, was on The Facts of Life.

She has remained active, performing on stage and screen, with recent roles in Netflix’s The Kissing Booth, starring in the breakout hit “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” on ABC Family, the series “Raising Expectations,” appearances on “Odd Mom Out,” and a recurring role as Mary Andrews in the hit CW series “Riverdale.”

Tickets are $75 for the November show at Edmond Town Hall, or $500 VIP, which includes the show and a post-show champagne reception with Ringwald.

Tickets are on sale now, through benslighthouse.org.