Photo Flash: Theatre East Honors Richard Mawe with 2017 Laurette Taylor Award
Theatre East honored Richard Mawe with the 2017 Laurette Taylor Award on Monday, May 15th in New York City. Richard Mawe, an ardent supporter of the arts, served for decades as a teacher and Board President at HB Studio where he studied with Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen. Scroll down for photos from the celebration!
Theatre East to Honor Richard Mawe with Laurette Taylor Award
Theatre East Board of Directors presents Richard Mawe with the 2017 Laurette Taylor Award on Monday, May 15th at Cafe Tallulah, 240 Columbus Ave, in the Upper West Side. The benefit starts at 7pm with an exclusive cocktail reception. Tickets start at $100. The evening will include tributes, cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, entertainment, and an auction.
Rachel York, Estelle Parsons, et al. Win 2011 IRNE Awards
The Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE), a panel of critics from media outlets around the state of Massachusetts, have announced the winners for the 2011 IRNE Awards honoring the best of the 2010 Theatre Season. A list of the nominees and winners is below.
'Trying:' How to Succeed in Aging
'Trying' hits the trifecta with excellent writing, acting, and directing as it examines the final days of an aging jurist working with his determined young secretary in Georgetown, Washington, DC from 1967 to 1968
EYE OF GOD Previews 10/2 At The Kirk Theatre
Theatre East presents 'Eye Of God' by Tim Blake Nelson (Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and Independent Spirit Award Nominee), Off Broadway at The Kirk Theatre (Theatre Row), 410 West 42nd Street, NYC.
EYE OF GOD Previews 10/2 At The Kirk Theatre
Theatre East presents 'Eye Of God' by Tim Blake Nelson (Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and Independent Spirit Award Nominee), Off Broadway at The Kirk Theatre (Theatre Row), 410 West 42nd Street, NYC.
Albee, Prince, Pierce and MORE to Honor Hagen and Berghof at NYPL
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center has acquired the papers of renowned performers and acting teachers Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof. The collection consists of thousands of pages of unpublished correspondence, diaries, scripts and manuscripts, photographs, clippings and other documentation relating to the dynamic theatrical careers of both Hagen and Berghof. This collection of professional and personal papers, spanning nearly 100 years of theater history, is being made public for the first time. To celebrate the bequest, the Library is planning a series of eight free public programs featuring many close friends and colleagues of Ms. Hagen and Mr. Berghof's including such figures as Harold Prince, Edward Albee, David Hyde Pierce and Eli Wallach. Programs take place in the Bruno Walter Auditorium in The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center located at 111 Amsterdam Avenue (between 64th and 65th streets). Admission to all programs is free and first come, first served. For information, please call (212) 642-0142 or visit www.nypl.org/lpaprograms. Programs are curated by Alan Pally, Manager of Public Programs at the Library for the Performing Arts.
'Harvest' Grows Off-Bway by Alchemy Theatre Co, Begins 11/30
The Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan, Inc presents Harvest by David Wright Crawford, off-Broadway at The Beckett (Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street). Judson Jones and Benard Cummings will direct. Previews begin on November 30 and the opening will be Tuesday, December 4 at 8PM.
