PHOTO FLASH: Kirk Douglas at Center Theatre Group Theatre Artists Dinner

Stage and screen star Kirk Douglas and his wife Anne, along with Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie, welcomed CTG donors to a special “Theatre Artists” dinner onstage at the CTG/Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, on Wednesday, September 14.

Over 80 CTG donors at the Benefactor level ($10,000 annually) and above shared the stage with the Douglas for a private dinner and an intimate evening of conversation. The Douglases have also been generous financial contributors to CTG, from an initial $2.5 million donation in 2004 to a more recent $1 million challenge grant to CTG.

Douglas has appeared on Broadway in six shows: The Three Sisters, Kiss and Tell, Alice in Arms, The Wind Is Ninety, Woman Bites Dog and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. He won an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 and was nominated for his work in Lust for Life, The Bad and the Beautiful, and Champion. His many other films include Spartacus, Seven Days in May, The Arrangement, The Way West, The Glass Menagerie, in which he played Jim, the Gentleman Caller, and Mourning Becomes Electra. He has also performed his solo show, Before I Forget, at the CTG theater named after him, the Kirk Douglas Theatre.