Photo Coverage: Tyne Daly, Julie Halston, and More at Primary Stages' Annual Gala

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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.

Jamie deRoy

Ted Snowdon

Tyne Daly

Ted Snowdon, Tyne Daly and Jamie deRoy

Ted Snowdon, Tyne Daly and Jamie deRoy

Tamara Tunie

Julie White

Julie Halston

Julie White, Jamie deRoy and Julie Halston

Danny Whitman and Tom Viola

A.R. Gurney

Jamie deRoy and David Ives

Penny Fuller, Ted Snowdon and Randy Graff

Randy Graff, Ted Snowdon and Tamara Tunie