Who: Estelle Parsons, Actors Studio members
What: Seventy-fifth anniversary celebration
Where: The Actors Studio, 432 West Forty-Fourth St. between Ninth & Tenth Aves.
When: April 20-22, free with RSVP
Why: In March 2017, legendary Oscar and Obie winner and five-time Tony nominee Estelle Parsons directed Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at LaMama, featuring members of the Actors Studio. As part of its ongoing seventy-fifth anniversary celebration, the influential studio is now presenting “Directed by Estelle Parsons,” in which the ninety-five-year-old Parsons will direct productions of Maria Irene Fornés’s The Danube on April 20 and 21 at 7:00, the first two acts of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya on April 22 at 2:00, and the new Re-Entry on April 22 at 7:00. Co-associate artistic director of the Actors Studio and the mastermind behind the Theater and Climate Change Series, Parsons won her Oscar for Bonnie and Clyde, made her Broadway debut in 1955 in Happy Hunting, has appeared in such other shows as The Seven Descents of Myrtle, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Miss Margarida’s Way, and Morning’s at Seven, and has directed such other plays as Guirgis’s Our Lady of 121st St., Oedipus, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, As You Like It, Salome, and Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo. Seating is free and extremely limited, so reserve your spot now.