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Elizabeth Ashley, Arielle Tepper Madover, et al. Set for League of Professional Theatre Women Events

Elizabeth Ashley
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Elizabeth Ashley
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Tony Award winner Elizabeth Ashley will take part in a public conversation about her life and career on January 24 at 6pm at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Filmmaker Rick McKay will conduct the interview.

Ashley won the Tony for her performance in George Abbott’s Take Her, She’s Mine. Among her other appearances on Broadway are Barefoot in the Park and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, for which she received Tony nominations, as well as Enchanted April, August: Osage County, and Dividing the Estate. Most recently, she was seen Off-Broadway in Edward Albee’s Me, Myself, and I.


The League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW) is offering the interview with Ashley as part of its Oral History Project, which chronicles and documents the contributions of significant theater women in many disciplines. Interviews with outstanding women are videotaped and housed in the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

Admission to the Oral History interview is free; LPTW members may reserve seats by emailing history@theatrewomen.org or by phone at 888-297-3117. Seating for the general public is first come, first served.

In related news, the League has announced that it will hold its 10th annual Leadership Luncheon on February 10 at Sardi’s. At this event, producer Arielle Tepper Madover will talk about producing new works for the New York theater and the Summer Play Festival.

The organization has also announced that on March 7, Support Women Artists Now Day (SWAN Day), it will host a new play festival at New World Stages, presenting short works by Kitty Chen, Glenda Frank, Leah Kornfeld Friedman, Fengar Gael, Elizabeth Hess, Andrea Lepcio, Robin Rice Lichtig, Susan Merson, Robin Rothstein, Deborah Savadge and Laura Shamas. Additional details will be announced shortly.

For further information, visit: www.TheatreWomen.org.