Photo Coverage: Lansbury in 'An Evening of Dorothy Parker'

Four-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury (Mame, Sweeney Todd, upcoming Deuce) headlined "This is on Me, An Evening of Dorothy Parker," a staged reading adapted by Tom Fontana to benefit The Acting Company, which took place on Sunday, November 5 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street).

Tony-winner Boyd Gaines (Contact, The Heidi Chronicles), Tony-winner Harriet Harris (Mame at the Kennedy Center, Thoroughly Modern Millie, "Desperate Housewives"), Lisa Banes (Arcadia, "Desperate Housewives") and Lynn Collins (The Women, The Merchant of Venice film) also starred in the reading.  Fontana (Emmy winning writer/producer of "Oz," "Homicide" and "St. Elsewhere") adapted the works of Dorothy Parker, and Warner Shook, former Artistic Director of the Intiman Theatre in Seattle, directed. A Gala Cast Supper followed for Benefactors and Patrons. The evening was made possible through the support of The Shubert Organization and Sony Corporation of America.

Starring as the famed poet, critic, short story writer and Algonquin Round Table wit, Lansbury (who chairs the Actors Advisory Board of the Acting Company) quipped, "I've been Mame Dennis, Mama Rose and Mrs. Lovett, why not Dorothy Parker."

Recipient of a Tony Honor for Excellence in Theater, Obie, Audelco and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards, The Acting Company has toured 125 productions across America and to nine foreign countries. Its renowned education programs – master classes, student matinees and weeklong Literacy Through Theater artistic residencies – reach 25,000 students a year, most in schools where little or no other arts education is available.

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Lynn Collins, Lisa Banes, Angela Lansbury, Harriet Harris and Boyd Gaines

Lynn Collins, Lisa Banes, Angela Lansbury, Harriet Harris and Boyd Gaines receive a standing ovation

Lisa Banes, Angela Lansbury and Harriet Harris

Bob Martin and Janet Martin at the after-party

Lynn Collins

Marian Seldes

Clive Davis escorts Lisa Banes to the after-party

Harriet Harris

Boyd Gaines and Harriet Harris

Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury

Lynn Collins and Angela Lansbury

Boyd Gaines, Lynn Collins, Angela Lansbury, Harriet Harris and Lisa Banes

Boyd Gaines, Lynn Collins, Angela Lansbury, Harriet Harris and Lisa Banes

Angela Lansbury, Gerald Schoenfeld and Barbara Walters

Marian Seldes and Angela Lansbury