Actor Tommy Lee Jones '69 and actress Stockard Channing '65 will be featured in a benefit for The Poets' Theatre on Monday, Feb. 22, at the Loeb Drama Center at 8 p.m.

The benefit, . . . love, Chekhov, will be a staged reading of love letters exchanged between Anton Chekhov, the Russian playwright, and actress Olga Knipper, who subsequently became his wife. The letters were adapted for the stage by Dominick Jones. The letters were written when Chekhov, who died of tuberculosis shortly after his marriage, spent the winters in the warmth of the Crimea, while Knipper acted in his plays in the bitter cold of Moscow.

Tommy Lee Jones, an Academy Award and Emmy winner and a film, stage, and television actor, has been acting for three decades. Born in San Saba, Texas, he worked briefly with his father in the oil fields before attending Harvard University, where he graduated cum laude in 1969.

Stockard Channing, an Oscar and Tony nominee, is currently appearing in The Lion in Winter on Broadway. A stage, film, and television actress, she was recently seen in Practical Magic and Twilight.

Channing is currently working on The Red Door with Kiefer Sutherland and will be seen in the film Isn't She Great, to be released in the fall of 1999. Channing is a 1965 graduate of Radcliffe College.

Tickets for the performance at the Loeb Drama Center are $35 general admission; $15 for students; and $75 for a dessert and wine reception afterward to meet the performers. Tickets can be purchased by calling 267-5868 or are available at the door.