Springsteen to Perform at Shrine Benefit Show : Concert: The acoustic date with Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt will aid the Christic Institute. It will mark the Boss’ return to the stage after two years.

Bruce Springsteen will make his first formal concert appearance since the 1988 Amnesty International world tour when he joins Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne in a benefit concert Nov. 16 at Shrine Auditorium.

Tickets for the acoustic show are priced at $25, $50 and $100 and will go on sale Sunday. The $50 and $100 tickets will be available only by credit card phone order through TeleTron, starting at 10 a.m. The $25 tickets will be sold through Ticketron outlets--with numbered wristbands distributed randomly to ticket buyers at each location beginning at 8 a.m. that day. Those with wristbands may purchase tickets at 10 a.m. No one will be allowed to line up at Ticketron locations before 7 a.m. There will be a limit of four tickets per person.

The 8 p.m. performance at the 6,200-capacity auditorium is designed to raise funds for the Christic Institute, a nonprofit, Washington-based interfaith watchdog group set up to monitor law and public policy.

The Rev. William Davis, the group’s West Coast director, said the concert will help finance the institute’s 1986 lawsuit, dubbed La Penca, which alleges that U.S. government officials sanctioned illegal arms and drug trafficking to finance private covert operations during the Iran-Contra affair. The case is on appeal in the 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta.

“The thing that really excites me about Bruce, Bonnie and Jackson getting involved is that the concert will give more visibility to the battle against covert operations,” said Davis, whose office is in Los Angeles.

Browne and Raitt’s involvement with the institute founders dates back 13 years to their participation in benefit concerts to finance a lawsuit on behalf of Karen Silkwood against the Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corp. Springsteen’s affiliation with the group began six months ago when Browne introduced him to Daniel Sheehan, co-founder and chief legal counsel for the Christic Institute.

Springsteen has been in Los Angeles for several months working on his new album, which will be released next year. The album’s sound is described as “full-scale rock ‘n’ roll,” not acoustic, a spokeswoman for Springsteen said.