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Manhattan Theatre Club Celebrates its 25th Anniversary Season Over the past 25 years, under the dynamic leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, Manhattan Theatre Club has grown from a prolific showcase into one of the country's most respected theatre organizations, originating, producing and distributing some of the finest works in American Theatre. Manhattan Theatre Club productions have been critically acclaimed across the country and around the world. Two seasons ago Terrence McNally's Love! Valour! Compassion! won two Tony Awards including Best Play and last season August Wilson's Seven Guitars was a Tony Award. Other significant productions include Stephen Sondheim's Putting It Together, the Broadway production of A Small Family Business; Broadway and Off-Broadway transfers of After Play, Lips Together Teeth Apart, Sight Unseen, Mass Appeal, Loot and Sylvia; the Tony Award-winning Ain't Misbehavin'; and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Crimes of the Heart and The Piano Lesson. MTC's many laurels include five Tony Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, as well as Drama Desk, Drama Critics Circle, Obie, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards. MTC has been awarded a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Achievement, a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Contribution, an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, and a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Achievement. Manhattan Theatre Club is concerned not only with the dramatic product presented on its stage, but also with the creative process. Playwrights, directors, actors and designers are attracted to MTC for its belief in an extended, collective effort to enrich and give life to a playwright's work. That is why actors such as Adam Arkin, Christine Baranski, Stockard Channing, Richard Greenberg, Nathan Lane, Bernadette Peters, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dianne Wiest, Sam Waterston; playwrights such as Alan Ayckbourn, Athol Fugard, A. R. Gurney, Beth Henley, Donald Margulies, Terrence McNally and John Patrick Shanley; and directors such as Martin Charnin, Richard Maltby, Jr., Joe Mantello, and John Tillinger return to MTC time and time again. With s subscriber base of over 19,000, MTC produces four plays each season in its 299-seat Stage I theatre and other theatres in the city, presenting works by new and established playwrights. In addition, for plays are performed in the 150-seat Stage II theatre, which provides a much needed alternate space for the development and nurturing of plays and playwrights of promise. Since its inception in 1970, Manhattan Theatre Club has also presented its acclaimed Writers in Performance series, a major forum for readings, performances and lectures by eminent writers and artists. Past participants have included such renowned artists as Isabel Allende, Seamus Heaney, William Kennedy, and Toni Morrison, in Addition to readings by young writers of merit. In addition to MTC's comprehensive Education Program reaches over 3,000 school children in the metropolitan area annually and seeks to have an impact on the future theatre-going community by helping students experience theatre with greater understanding and thereby increasing their interest in attending live theatre. Recently, MTC has renewed its commitment to the development of new American musicals by creating a Musical Theatre Program. The goals of the Program are to discover and nurture new musical theatre artists and to create an environment conducive to the development of new work. Through a series of presentations, readings, and workshops, the Program has identified a number of new musicals which should be gracing MTC's stages in the near future. Looking forward to the 21st century, Manhattan Theatre Club will continue to encourage, nurture, and develop important plays and playwrights, offering the public intelligent theatre of distinction. Manhattan Theatre Club's Board of Directors 1996-97 Lynne Meadow ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Michael Coles CHAIRMAN Limited Partner, Goldman, Sachs & Co. Stephen R. Wilson TREASURER, GALA CO-CHAIR REAL ESTATE CO-CHAIR Executive Vice President Chief Financial Officer Reader's Digest Association, Inc. Barry Grove EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Francis J. Morison CHAIRMAN, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Partner, Davis, Polk & Wardwell W. Loeber Landau SECRETARY Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell Sylvia Ablon Christine Baranski Actor Joanna Barsh Director McKinsey & Company John Lee Beatty Scenic Designer John M. Clarke Vice President, Law NYNEX Stephen Collins Actor David R Drobis Chairman & CEO Ketchum Public Relations Barbara Fife Director, Executive Programs & Internships Baruch College James T. Flynn FINANCE CHAIRMAN Gay Goldman PATRONS CHAIRMAN President, GG Productions, Inc. John O. Hatab AUDIT CHAIRMAN Managing Tax Partner Price Waterhouse Rodger H. Hess NOMINATING CHAIRMAN President, Rodger Hess Productions, Inc. David C. Hodgson GALA CO-CHAIR General Partner General Atlantic Partners Cherry Jones Actor Gerri Karetsky PLAY DEVELOPMENT CHAIRMAN Consultant Javelin Exploration Akira Kondoh President Sumitomo Bank Capital Markets, Inc. Paul B. Kopperl CHAIRMAN EMERITUS President, Delano & Kopperl, Inc. Nathan Lane Actor Reynold Levy Author, Consultant James Marcus DEVELOPMENT CHAIRMAN Limited Partner Goldman, Sachs & Co. Terrence McNally Playwright Roberto Mendoza Vice Chairman J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc. Christine Miller MARKETING CHAIRMAN Walter Mosley Author Roberta Olson EDUCATION CHAIRMAN Bruno Quinson WRITERS IN PERFORMANCE CHAIRMAN Clifton S. Robbins GALA CO-CHAIR General Partner Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Edward R. Roberts Limited Partner Goldman Sachs & Co. Ronald K. Shelp Jeffrey A. Sine Managing Director Morgan Stanley & Co, Inc. Arthur P. Solomon General Partner Lazard Frères % Co., LLC Peter J. Solomon REAL ESTATE CO-CHAIR Founder, Peter J. Solomon & Company Limited Marcy Syms President & COO Syms Corp. Saundra Williams Cornwell GOVERNMENT ADVOCACY CHAIRMAN Charlayne Woodard Actor A. E. Jeffcoat HONARARY FOUNDER CHAIRMAN Senior Counselor, Hill & Knowlton Edwin C. Cohen CHAIRMAN EMERITUS President, General Atlantic Corp.
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