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En Garde Arts Launches Joan D. Firestone Fund for Mid-Career Theatre Artists

Longtime En Garde Arts Chairperson and board member Joan D. Firestone is being honored with the creation of a fund in her name. En Garde Arts has raised $100,000 through a group of generous donors. This is a five year endeavor and every year one theatre artist will receive an $18,000 award and will have full freedom with how to use the funds.
Storytelling Nonprofit The Moth Welcomes Lisa Stewart Hughes And Maybel Marte To Its Board

Global storytelling nonprofit The Moth announces the appointment of two new members of its Board of Trustees:  Entertainment and Technology Industry veteran Lisa Stewart Hughes and Financial Industry powerhouse Maybel Marte.
Storytelling Nonprofit The Moth Welcomes Gabrielle Glore And Chenjerai Kumanyika To Its Board

Global storytelling nonprofit The Moth announces the appointment of two new members of its Board of Trustees: multimedia storytelling and development executive Gabrielle Glore and Peabody Award-winning journalist and professor Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika. The two join current Moth Board members in advising and supporting the nonprofit's programming in the U.S. and around the globe.
Photo Coverage: Arrivals at Screening of Dramatists Guild Fund's THE LEGACY PROJECT VOLUME III

The Dramatists Guild Fund presented a screening of the third volume of The Legacy Project documentary series featuring a conversation with Alan Menken and Kristen Anderson-Lopez at The TimesCenter 242 West 41st Street on Saturday, December 3 at 6:00 PM, and BroadwayWorld was there to capture the arrivals of the artists and guests!
Encompass New Opera Theatre to Honor ANASTASIA Writing Team with Musical Salute

Encompass New Opera Theatre and Gala Honorary Chairs Zoe Caldwell, Sheldon Harnick, John Kander, and Maury Yeston will honor legendary songwriting team LYNN AHRENS and STEPHEN FLAHERTY and playwright TERRENCE MCNALLY (Ragtime, Chita Rivera: A Dancer's Life, A Man of No Importance, and their upcoming Broadway musical, Anastasia) with a star-studded musical salute on Sunday, October 23.
Second Event Launches CT Chapter of LPTW

The second of two launch events kicks off the state's Chapter of the League of Professional Theatre Women
League of Professional Theatre Women to Host President's Day Networking Event, 2/17

The League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW) is pleased to present Quarterly Networking Mondays, Presidents Day: Celebrating LPTW Presidents and Founders--The Ultimate Give and Get on Monday, February 17, 2014 at 6:00 pm at the TheaterLab, 357 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor. This historic event is an opportunity to network with like-minded colleagues and to learn from the seasoned theatre professionals who founded and served as President of LPTW. Tickets are FREE for members, $15 for non-members, available at http://LPTWNetworkingPresidentsDay.bpt.me or by calling: 1-800-838-3006 www.BrownPaperTickets.com
Photo Coverage: On the Red Carpet with Bernadette Peters, Stephen Sondheim & More at the 2013 Dramatists Guild Fund Gala

Last night, the Dramatists Guild Fund hosted their Annual Gala at the Edison Ballroom in New York. This year's event honored legendary playwrights, composers, and lyricists who have greatly impacted the American theater. BroadwayWorld was there for the special night and you can check out coverage from the star-studded red carpet below!
Photo Flash: The Dramatists Guild Fund Awards Linda Lavin and Lynn Nottage the Madge Evans-Sidney Kingsley Award

The Dramatists Guild Fund presented their Madge Evans and Sidney Kingsley Award to actress Linda Lavin and playwright Lynn Nottage this past Monday evening. The awards were presented by Dramatists Guild Fund Board Member Terrence McNally at an intimate salon with award-winning composer Charles Strouse. BroadwayWorld has a photo of the honorees below!
Chalfant, Graff, Sternhagen & More Lead 'Turning Points' Play Festival, 11/9

On November 9, The League of Professional Theatre Women will be present a New Play Festival on at the Cherry Lane Theatre in downtown Manhattan. The festival entitled 'Turning Points: Women Have Their Say' is designed to provide a forum for women in the arts to showcase their work.
Chalfant, Graff, Sternhagen & More Lead 'Turning Points' Play Festival, 11/9

On November 9, The League of Professional Theatre Women will be present a New Play Festival on at the Cherry Lane Theatre in downtown Manhattan. The festival entitled 'Turning Points: Women Have Their Say' is designed to provide a forum for women in the arts to showcase their work.
NYPL Women Designers for the Arts Exhibit Runs Through 5/2

Women Designing for Theater, Opera, and Dance Take Center Stage in Exhibition at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts! Everyone loves a backstage story, and none so much as the one about the brilliant but unsung talent who finally makes it into the spotlight. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the League of Professional Theatre Women bring that long-deserved moment to 140 of those stories in Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance . Featuring treasures from the Library's archives, Curtain Call is a multi-media exhibition crackling with creative verve and bursting at the seams with the dazzling works of the little-noted women without whose costume, set, and lighting designs and innovations the show could not have gone on in North America for the past hundred-plus years. This is the stuff that makes the audience gasp in awe. This is the opportunity to meet those responsible for taking our breath away.
Photo Coverage: Curtain Call: Women Designing for Live Performance

Curtain Call is a multi-media exhibition crackling with creative verve and bursting at the seams with the dazzling works of the little-noted women without whose costume, set, and lighting designs and innovations the show could not have gone on in North America for the past hundred-plus years. This is the stuff that makes the audience gasp in awe. This is the opportunity to meet those responsible for taking our breath away.
NYPL Shines Light on Female Theatrical Designers in New CURTAIN CALL Exhibit

Everyone loves a backstage story, and none so much as the one about the brilliant but unsung talent who finally makes it into the spotlight. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the League of Professional Theatre Women bring that long-deserved moment to 140 of those stories in Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance.

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