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Mayor Michael Bloomberg opened the festivities at the 50th Anniversary Gala for La MaMa E.T.C. which was held in the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Monday, October 17. Sam Shepard received the inaugural Ellen Stewart Award, and the evening featured selections from plays by Wallace Shawn, Harvey Fierstein, Jackie Curtis, and Taylor Mac.
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Tony Award winner Bill Irwin, currently performing in the Public Theater’s King Lear was among the attendees of the 50th Anniversary Gala for La MaMa E.T.C. which was held in the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Monday, October 17.
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Academy Award winner and multiple Tony nominee Estelle Parsons was among the attendees of the 50th Anniversary Gala for La MaMa E.T.C. which was held in the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Monday, October 17.
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Oscar nominee Diane Lane was among the attendees of the 50th Anniversary Gala for La MaMa E.T.C. which was held in the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Monday, October 17.
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Celebrated playwright/director Ping Chong, who is reviving his Angels of Swedenborg at La MaMa later this month, joined La MaMa’s new artistic director, Mia Yoo, for the theater’s 50th Anniversary Gala which was held in the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Monday, October 17.
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Playwright/actor Wallace Shawn was among the writers represented in performance excerpts during he 50th Anniversary Gala for La MaMa E.T.C. which was held in the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Monday, October 17.
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Tony Award-winning playwright Warren Leight was among the attendees of the 50th Anniversary Gala for La MaMa E.T.C. which was held in the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Monday, October 17.
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Justin Vivian Bond, who will be performing with The Tiger Lillies in Sinderella Songs later this month, was among the attendees of the 50th Anniversary Gala for La MaMa E.T.C. which was held in the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Monday, October 17.
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Tony Award-winning lyricist Scott Wittman was among the attendees of the 50th Anniversary Gala for La MaMa E.T.C. which was held in the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Monday, October 17.
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Downtown legends Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw of Split Britches fame were among the attendees of the 50th Anniversary Gala for La MaMa E.T.C. which was held in the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Monday, October 17.
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Obie Award-winning performer Karen Kandel was among the attendees of the 50th Anniversary Gala for La MaMa E.T.C. which was held in the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Monday, October 17.
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La Mama Board president Frank Carucci and writer/composer/director Elizabeth Swados — who will be premiering her new oratorio, The La MaMa Cantata next month — were among the attendees of the 50th Anniversary Gala for La MaMa E.T.C. which was held in the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Monday, October 17.
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Acclaimed director/designer John Jesurun, who will be premiering a new work at La MaMa this season, was among the attendees of the 50th Anniversary Gala for La MaMa E.T.C. which was held in the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Monday, October 17.
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Playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie was among the attendees of the 50th Anniversary Gala for La MaMa E.T.C. which was held in the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Monday, October 17.
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Mark Russell, who curates the annual Under the Radar festival, was among the attendees of the 50th Anniversary Gala for La MaMa E.T.C. which was held in the Ellen Stewart Theatre on Monday, October 17.
