Photo Coverage: Inside the 2012 Primary Stages Gala

Primary Stages last night held their annual Gala on Wednesday at The Edison Ballroom (240 W. 47th Street). The event, which honored Tony Award winner Tyne Daly (Master Class, Rabbit Hole, Gypsy), and producers and Primary Stages Board members Jamie deRoy and Ted Snowdon, featured performances by Tony Award nominee Tom Wopat (Sondheim on Sondheim, A Catered Affair), actor/director/producer Tamara Tunie ("Law & Order: SVU," "As The World Turns"), Lewis Cleale (The Book of Mormon, Spamalot, Call Me Madam), and Garrett Sorenson (Master Class).

BroadwayWorld was there for the event and we bring you coverage from inside the event below!

Primary Stages created the Commitment to New Plays Award to spotlight individuals who have made it a major focus of their careers to champion new plays and new playwrights. Since its inception, Primary Stages has honored such luminaries of the American theater as Terrence McNally, Stephen Sondheim, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Harvey Fierstein, and A.R. Gurney, among others.

Primary Stages is an Off-Broadway theater company dedicated to inspiring, supporting, and sharing the art of playwriting. We operate on the strongly held belief that the future of American theater relies on nurturing playwrights and giving them the artistic support needed to create new work. Since our founding in 1984, we have produced more than 100 new plays, including Kate Fodor's Rx; Charles Busch's Olive and the Bitter Herbs; A.R. Gurney's Black Tie; Horton Foote's Harrison, TX and Dividing the Estate (two Tony Award® nominations); Brooke Berman's Hunting and Gathering; Terrence McNally's Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams (starring Nathan Lane and Marian Seldes) and The Stendhal Syndrome (featuring Isabella Rossellini and Richard Thomas); Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter's In the Continuum (which went on to tour the U.S., Africa and Scotland); David Ives' All in the Timing; and Conor McPherson's St. Nicholas (which marked the playwright's U.S. debut). Primary Stages was honored with the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work, which encompasses much more than the plays we produce for the stage. Primary Stages supports playwrights and develops new works through commissions, workshops, readings, and our education and training programs: The Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, the Marvin and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts, and the Fordham University/Primary Stages MFA in Playwriting. Through these programs, Primary Stages advocates for our artists, helping them make important-and often transformative-connections within the theater community.

Photo Credit: Stephen Sorokoff

Primary Stages Gala 2012

Edison Ballroom

Jamie deRoy & Book by Aaronel deRoy Gruber

Jamie deRoy & E Da Sorokoff

Ted Snowdon, Tyne Daly, Jamie deRoy, Casey Childs, Andrew Leynse

Joseph Benincasa, Loni Ackerman Kennedy

Susan James & Carol Lamberg

Jamie deRoy, Remmel Dickinson, Pam Laudenslager

Tamara Tunie & Gregory Generet

Andrew Leynse

Elliot Fox

Tamara Tunie, Jamie deRoy, Gregory Generet

Barry Kleinbort, Jamie deRoy, Penny Fuller

Randy Graff

C. Hugh Hildesley

Primary Stages Gala 2012

Auction

Ted Snowdon

Daryl Roth, Jamie deRoy Troy Heiden

Julie Halston

Tyne Daly

Michael Alden & Tracy Aron

Jamie deRoy & Julie Halson

Jamie deRoy

Ta'u Pupu'a

Auction

Tom Viola

Michelle Bossy,Ted Snowdon,Jamie deRoy, Duffy Violante

Jamie deRoy & Tyne Daly

Terry deRoy Gruber & Jamie deRoy

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