Michael Grandage will join with Mark Brokaw for special program and reception about theater and directing
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
31 West 52nd St.
Monday, February 13, $20, 6:00
212-682-6110
www.stgeorgessociety.org
The BritArts Committee, the Drama Desk, and the St. George’s Society, which is dedicated to helping elderly and disabled New Yorkers of British descent, are teaming up for a special presentation on Monday night, February 13, featuring theater veterans Mark Brokaw and Michael Grandage. Brokaw, the artistic director of the Yale Institute for Music Theatre and winner of Drama Desk, Obie, and Lucille Lortel Awards, has directed such productions as How I Learned to Drive for the Vineyard, The Glass Menagerie for Steppenwolf, The Constant Wife for the Roundabout, and Cry-Baby on Broadway; he is currently preparing Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella for its first-ever run on the Great White Way. CBE Grandage, the president of the Central School of Speech and Drama of London University who has collected Drama Desk, Tony, Olivier, and Critics Circle prizes, has directed King Lear at BAM, Twelfth Night at the Sheffield, Red on Broadway, and After Miss Julie, Caligula, and many more at London’s Donmar Warehouse, where he served as longtime artistic director; he is helming the new production of Evita, which opens March 12 with Elena Roger, Ricky Martin, and Michael Cerveris. Elysa Gardner and CBE Gavin Henderson will introduce Brokaw and Grandage, who will discuss their careers and the state of the theater, followed by a reception with wine and light fare; advance reservations are required.