Pryce, Atkins, Redgrave & More Featured in ATW Seminars

The American Theatre Wing will offer two new "Working in the Theatre" seminars this month.  The seminars will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue), and both will begin at noon.

The first, on April 21st, will focus on The Drowsy Chaperone, the new Broadway musical starring Sutton Foster. Currently in previews, the show opens on May 1st. Taking part in the seminar, which will be moderated by ATW excutive director Howard Sherman, will be performers Edward Hibbert and Beth Leavel, as well as bookwriters Bob Martin and Dan McKellar, composing team Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and producers Kevin McCollum and Roy Miller.

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Eileen Atkins (Doubt), Jonathan Pryce (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Lynn Redgrave (The Importance of Being Earnest at BAM) and Zoe Wanamaker (Awake and Sing!) will be featured in the seminar "Actors on Performance" on April 28th. That seminar will be moderated by Ted Chapin, writer and the president of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization.

The American Theatre Wing is a not–for–profit service organization dedicated to education and excellence in the theatre. Sondra Gilman is the Chairman and Douglas Leeds is the President. In addition to creating and awarding the Antoinette Perry Tony Awards, ATW's programs include the long–running "Working in the Theatre" seminars, broadcast in New York on CUNY-TV; a grants and scholarship program, awarding more than 50 grants annually to New York not-for-profit theatre companies and theatre students; "Downstage Center," a weekly theatrical interview show on XM Satellite Radio; and SpringboardNYC, a two-week, college-to-career arts "boot camp". All of ATW's seminars and interviews are available, for free, from the company's website — www.americantheatrewing.org.

Admission is $10, but is free to ATW members. Tickets, which are first-come, first-serve, are distributed to those with reservations beginning at 11 AM. Call 212-817-8215 for reservations or for more information.