Lansbury, Garber, Conroy, Banes, and Harris Will Star in L.A. Staged Reading of This Is On Me

Broadway veterans Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Frances Conroy, Lisa Banes, and Harriet Harris head the cast of a staged reading of This Is On Me, An Evening of Dorothy Parker adapted by Tom Fontana to benefit The Acting Company on October 10, 7pm at the Brentwood Theatre in Los Angeles. Warner Shook directs. A patron reception with the cast follows.

Lansbury is the recipient of four Tony Awards, for Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, Dear World, and Mame. She chairs the Actors Advisory Board of The Acting Company, founded by her longtime friend, John Houseman, in 1972 with current Producing Director, Margot Harley, and the first graduating class of Juilliard’s Drama Division.

Garber, a member of the Company’s Actors Advisory Board, stars on Alias and has appeared in more than a dozen Broadway shows, garnering 4 Tony nominations and winning a Theatre World Award for Ghosts.

Conroy (Six Feet Under, Broadway’s A Ride Down Mt. Morgan), Harris (Tony winner for Thoroughly Modern Millie and a recurring role on Desperate Housewives) and Banes (Boston Legal and Broadway’s Arcadia) all began their careers on tour with The Acting Company as did fellow Alums Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Jeffrey Wright, Jesse L. Martin, Stephen DeRosa, Henry Stram, David Ogden Stiers, and Tom Hewitt.

Fontana (Emmy winning writer/producer of Oz, Homicide and St. Elsewhere) has adapted this evening of plays, poems, stories, essays, songs and patter of the wittiest woman in America and First Lady of the Algonquin Roundtable. Fontana is a Board Director of The Acting Company. Broadway Producer and Acting Company Board Member Susan Dietz (Steel Magnolias, Topdog/Underdog, The Lonesome West) chairs the event.

Recipient of a Tony Honor for Excellence in Theater, Obie, Audelco and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards, The Acting Company has toured
122 productions across America and to nine foreign countries. Its renowned education programs — master classes, student matinees and weeklong Literacy Through Theater artistic residencies — reach 25,000 students a year, most in schools where little or no other arts education is available.

For benefit tickets, call 213-365-3500. For further information, call 212-258-3111 or visit www.theactingcompany.org.