Lansbury, Garber, Harris, et al. Slated for Acting Company Benefit on December 5

This Is On Me, An Evening of Dorothy Parker, a staged reading starring Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Frances Conroy, Lisa Banes, and Harriet Harris to benefit The Acting Company, will take place at 7pm on December 5 at the Brentwood Theatre in Los Angeles. (The event was originally scheduled for October 10.)

The piece has been adapted by Tom Fontana, creator of the television shows Oz and Homicide, and will be directed by Warner Shook. Lansbury won Tony Awards for her performances in Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, Dear World, and Mame. Garber stars on the hit TV show Alias and has appeared in more than a dozen Broadway shows, including Sweeney Todd and Damn Yankees.

Conroy, best known for her work on Six Feet Under, was last seen on Broadway in Arthur Miller’s A Ride Down Mt. Morgan. Harris won a Tony Award for her role of Mrs. Meers in Thoroughly Modern Millie and will play Vera Charles in the upcoming Kennedy Center prodcution of Mame. Banes has been seen on the TV series Boston Legal and on Broadway in Arcadia.

The recipient of a Tony Honor for Excellence in Theater, among other awards, The Acting Company has toured 122 productions across America and to nine foreign countries. Its education programs — master classes, student matinees and weeklong Literacy Through Theater artistic residencies — reach 25,000 students a year, most of them in schools where little or no other arts education is available.

To purchase benefit tickets, call 213-365-3500; for further information, call 212-258-3111 or visit www.theactingcompany.org.