PHOTO FLASH: James Lapine, Bruce Norris, Annie Parisse, Stephen Sondheim at Playwrights Horizons Gala

Playwrights Horizons held its annual Spring Gala on Monday, June 11 at 583 Park Avenue. The gala honored the theater’s Pulitzer Prize-winning productions and its creators, including James Lapine, Bruce Norris, Stephen Sondheim, Alfred Uhry, Wendy Wasserstein and Doug Wright, and featured excerpts and tributes by those connected to the projects.

The original 2010 Playwrights Horizons world premiere cast of Norris’ 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner and 2012 Tony Award winner Clybourne Park, Crystal A. Dickinson, Brendan Griffin, Damon Gupton, Christina Kirk, Annie Parisse, Jeremy Shamos and Frank Wood were on hand to perform an excerpt from the play.

Mark Nelson performed a special three-minute version of Wright’s 2004 Pulitzer winner, I Am My Own Wife, adapted by Jordan Harrison; Maria Dizzia performed a three-minute, one-woman version of Wasserstein’s 1989 Pulitzer winner The Heidi Chronicles, adapted by Leslye Headland; Suzanne Bertish, Michael Potts and Brian Avers performed a three-minute version of Uhry’s 1988 Pulitzer winner Driving Miss Daisy, adapted by Evan Smith; and Santino Fontana performed musical excerpts from Lapine and Sondheim’s 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George alongside alumni and students from the Playwrights Horizons Theater School.

Guests at the gala included Wasserstein’s sister, Georgette Levis, Playwrights Horizons Board Chairperson Judith O. Rubin, as well as Aubrey Dollar, Anita Gillette, Pam MacKinnon, and Deirdre O’Connell.