Friday, February 3, 2012

Drama Desk, St. George's Society Present Program With Grandage, Brokaw

Laurence Olivier Award Winner
Michael Grandage CBE
President of the Central School of Speech and Drama of London University and immediate past Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse who is coming to New York to direct an exciting new production of Evita.

He just completed ten award-winning years as Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse. Notable plays that subsequently came to Broadwayfrom the Donmar are RED with Eddie Redmayne and Alfred Molina and FROST/NIXON with Frank Langella and Michael Sheen. Other credits are: RICHARD III with Kenneth Branagh, EDWARD II with Joseph Fiennes, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER with Diana Rigg, and THE TEMPEST and DON CARLOS with Derek Jacobi. He is in New York to direct the highly-anticipated production of EVITA.
Mark Brokaw
Mark Brokaw will direct the new, first-ever
Broadway production of
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella,
projected to open on Broadway during 2012-2013.
Brokaw is the Artistic Director of the Yale Institute for Music Theatre. Broadway credits include directing the musical 'Cry Baby,' along with the plays 'The Constant Wife,' 'Reckless' and 'After Miss Julie.'
He has directed at London's Donmar Warehouse and Dublin's Gate Theatre and is an artistic associate of Roundabout Theatre

Introductions by
Elysa Gardner
Theatre Critic for USA Today
and
Gavin Henderson, CBE
Principal, Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London
$20 cover charge includes wine and light fare
Limited space - Reservations and payment required prior to the event
Click here to reserve now
At Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
31 West 52nd Street
New York, New York

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