Mint Theater Awarded $100,000 Grant

The 2007 Tony Randall Grant, a $100,000 grant, will go the The Mint Theater Company to help fund the organization's upcoming production of Leo Tolstoy's little-seen tragedy The Power of Darkness. 

"Other grants from the Tony Randall Theatrical Fund will go to the Red Bull Theater, which gets $10,000 for a fall production of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II, and $2,500 each for outdoor classics presenter Gorilla Repertory Company and downtown troupe Target Margin Theater," according to Variety. 

A committee of theater pros including Jed Bernstein, Michael Cerveris, Jack Klugman, Cherry Jones and Marian Seldes choose The Mint Theater Company for the grant, which was selected from more than 45 proposals.  

Randall's widow, Heather, who administers the fund, said of the 15-year-old Mint, "It's a theater company that has been around long enough to show staying power, and they've really put the work in to grow."

Written in 1886, Darkness centers on a group of impoverished peasants.

Last year the fund's inaugural grant went to New York Theater Workshop, which used the money to produce Martha Clarke's KAOS in the fall.