LPTW Announces Schedule of Winter 2011 Public Events

On Monday, January 24th at 6pm producer/director Rick McKay, the award-winning filmmaker responsible for the "Broadway: The Golden Age" films, will interview Tony Award-winning actress Elizabeth Ashley at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (65th Street and Amsterdam Avenue). In addition to multiple film and television roles, Ms. Ashley is known for her Tony-nominated stage performances as Corie in the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963) and, later, for her defiantly sexual Maggie in a successful Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1974). She received a Tony Award for her performance in George Abbott's Take Her, She's Mine.

Admission to the Oral History interview is free; LPTW members may reserve seats by emailing history@theatrewomen.org or by phone at 888-297-3117. Seating for the general public is first come, first served. Past Oral History Projects have featured interviews with Kathleen Turner, Carole Shelley, Marge Champion, Frances Sternhagen, Mary Rodgers, Susan Hilferty, Jennifer Von Mayrhauser, Elaine Stritch, Betty Comden, Estelle Parsons, Zoe Caldwell, Jane Alexander, Ruby Dee and Kitty Carlisle Hart. The ongoing Edith Meiser Oral History Project chronicles and documents the contributions of significant theatre women in many fields. Interviews with such outstanding women are videotaped and housed in the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. This project is made possible by a generous grant from the Edith Meiser Foundation.

FEBRUARY 10th LEADERSHIP LUNCHEON
WITH Arielle Tepper MADOVER

The League of Professional Theatre Women is pleased to announce that producer Arielle Tepper Madover, whose productions have garnered 76 Tony and 35 Olivier Award nominations, will be the keynote speaker at the LPTW's annual Leadership Luncheon. Her talk will focus on producing new works for the New York theatre, and the Summer Play Festival. Tickets to the February 10, 2011 event, which will be held from noon - 2pm at Sardi's restaurant, are $60 for LPTW members and $65 for non-members. Tickets are available by phone at 1-800-838-3006 (Event code: 141504) or online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/141504. Attendance is limited so please purchase your tickets as soon as possible.

2011 LPTW NEW PLAY FESTIVAL - MARCH 7th
CELEBRATES SWAN DAY AT NEW WORLD STAGES
The LPTW will celebrate SWAN Day with their annual New Play Festival, to take place at New World Stages on March 7, 2011. The 11 playwrights whose original short works have been selected for the 2011 New Play Festival are: Kitty Chen, Glenda Frank, Leah Kornfeld Friedman, Fengar Gael, Elizabeth Hess, Andrea Lepcio, Robin Rice Lichtig, Susan Merson, Robin Rothstein, Deborah Savadge and Laura Shamas. Support Women Artists Now Day/SWAN Day (www.SwanDay.org) is an annual celebration of the diversity, beauty and power of women's creativity. Further details to be announced.

ABOUT THE LPTW
In the early 1980's several professional theatre women emerged from a meeting of The American Theatre Conference (ACT) in San Diego dismayed by the lack of opportunities for women in the theatre, especially in the commercial New York Theatre World. These commercial artists assembled a 10-woman steering committee, comprised of professional designers, directors, managers, producers, and press agents, which in 1982 became the first Board of Trustees of the League of Professional Theatre Women. Incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1986, today the League boasts a national and international membership numbering in the hundreds, comprised of both established professionals and those just starting out in their theatrical careers. The League's original goals were, as they remain today, to promote women in all areas of professional theatre, to create industry-related opportunities for women, and to provide an ongoing forum for ideas, methods, and issues of concern to the theatrical community and its audiences. These goals are accomplished through the offering of seminars, educational programs, social events, awards and festivals. These, as well as various League publications, continue to serve as links between professionals in every variety of theatrical pursuit.

 

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