Allison Janney, Loretta Devine, Barrett Foa & More to Take Part in 32nd Annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event

Susan Anton, Barrett Foa, Loretta Devine, Allison Janney and Andrea Marcovicci are among the galaxy of Broadway, Film, and Television stars lending their talents to the 32nd annual Southland Theatre Artists Goodwill Event (STAGE), Sondheim No. 5, with two performances on Saturday, June 18th at the beautiful Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. David Galligan directs with Michael Orland as Music Director. Performances will be at 2:00pm and 8:00pm.

Also performing in Sondheim No. 5 will be Cortes Alexander, Alexandra Billings, Mary Jo Catlett, James Clark, Carole Cook, Davis Gaines, Jason Graae, Alvin Ing, Branden James, Jean Louisa Kelly, Vicki Lewis, MaryJo Mundy, Madison Claire Parks, Bruce Vilanch and Lisa Vroman.

This will be the fifth STAGE presentation of music by Steven Sondheim, one of Broadway's most iconic and beloved composers. Sondheim has a five-decade canon of contributions to musical theatre and film that have resulted in an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (including a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), a Pulitzer Prize, eight Grammy Awards, a Kennedy Center Honor and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. In recent years his Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Into the Woods were made into successful feature films.

Begun in 1984, STAGE is the longest-running annual HIV/AIDS fundraiser in the world. To date, STAGE has raised more than $5 million for HIV/AIDS organizations in the Southland. Co-created by Michael Kearns, the late James Carroll Pickett, David Galligan and Susan Obrow, STAGE continues to be a vital and essential fundraiser more than three decades later. David Galligan has staged and directed all 32 productions.

Funds raised through S.T.A.G.E. support a variety of AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) programs, including its Vance North Necessities of Life Program food pantries; freestanding and mobile dental clinics; in-home health care ; housing assistance; HIV prevention and testing efforts; and a range of other services on which thousands of Angelenos affected by HIV/AIDS depend. S.T.A.G.E. is among the most enduring and valuable sources of private support for the organization 's HIV/AIDS care, prevention, and advocacy work. Please visit www.apla.org and www.aplahw.org to learn more.

Additional casting to be announced.

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