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Star Gazing

Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Cyndi Lauper, and "Barbra Streisand" are among the celebs recently snapped by our photographers at various events around town.

New York City

Celebs were all over the place in NYC this week, both on stage and off. Last evening, the Roundabout Theatre Company’s new production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera opened at Studio 54 with a cast that can only be described as “eclectic.” Here’s Alan Cumming, who plays Macheath.

Among the other stars of the show: Cyndi Lauper, who plays Jenny…

…Jim Dale, who plays Mr. Peachum…

…and Ana Gasteyer, who plays Mrs. Peachum.

Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of Clifford Odets’s Awake and Sing! opened on Monday, April 17 at the Belasco, where the original production played in 1935! Heading the show’s stellar cast: Ben Gazzara, who plays grandpa Jacob…

…Pablo Schreiber and Zoe Wanamaker, who play Ralph Berger and his mom, Bessie…

…Lauren Ambrose, who plays Hennie Berger….

…and Mark Ruffalo, who plays boarder Moe Axelrod, pictured here with his wife, Sunrise.

Talk about your starry audiences! Among the notables who attended the Awake and Sing! opening were Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams, two of the stars of Brokeback Mountain (and now a real-life couple, just in case you hadn’t heard)…

…stage and film star Liev Schreiber (Pablo’s half-brother)…

…Amanda Peet, who plays Corie Bratter in the current Broadway revival of Barefoot in the Park…

…Victoria Clark, the Tony Award-winning star of The Light in the Piazza…

…Michael Berresse, one of Clark’s Piazza co-stars (and director of the Off-Broadway hit [title of show]), who will play Zach in the upcoming Broadway revival of A Chorus Line…

…and the amazing Barbara Cook with the “king of the gypsies,” Harvey Evans.

We leave you with this photo of Steven Brinberg as Barbra Streisand, surrounded by the three special guest stars of his Monday, April 17 show at Birdland (left to right): Daniel Reichard of Jersey Boys, David Burnham of The Light in the Piazza, and Matt Cavenaugh of Grey Gardens. Like buttah!