Summer Stages

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A number of stars showed up in the last week at various shows and events. America Ferrera caught up with her Ugly Betty castmate Michael Urie at the July 18 performance of The Temperamentals, at the TBG Theatre. Urie stars as Rudi Gernreich, one of the founders of the pre-Stonewall gay rights organization, The Mattachine Society.

Law and Order‘s Stephanie March and actor Steve Wilder greet each other after a show on July 18 at the Midtown International Theatre Festival.

Primary Stages kicked off its 25th anniversary season on July 21 with a gala reception at Saks Fifth Avenue. The first production of the season will be A Lifetime Burning, by Cusi Cram, who is pictured here (second from left) with cast members Isabel Keating, Raul Castillo, and Jennifer Westfeldt.

Pam MacKinnon, who will be directing A Lifetime Burning for Primary Stages, stopped by the company’s 25th anniversary gala reception at Saks Fifth Avenue.

Husband and wife David Margulies and Lois Smith — who will co-star in the world premiere of Darci Picoult’s Lil’s 90th at the Long Wharf Theatre in 2010 — attended Primary Stages’ 25th anniversary gala reception at Saks Fifth Avenue.

Mark Blum, who was featured in Primary Stages’ 2008 production of Buffalo Gal, was a guest at the company’s 25th anniversary gala reception at Saks Fifth Avenue.

Five-time Emmy winner David Canary (All My Children) was among the guests at Primary Stages‘ 25th anniversary gala reception at Saks Fifth Avenue.

Penny Fuller, one of the recent stars in the Broadway production of Dividing the Estate, which got its start at Primary Stages, was among the attendees at the company’s 25th anniversary gala reception at Saks Fifth Avenue.

British actor and comedian Russell Brand (top center) — who will be hosting this year’s MTV music awards — stopped by to greet the cast and crew following the July 22 performance of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, at the Daryl Roth Theatre.

Tony nominee Justin Bond (best known as Kiki of Kiki and Herb fame) shows off his new CD Pink Slip at a release party at the Highline Ballroom, on July 22.

TheaterMania stopped by the July 23rd edition of Broadway in Bryant Park, a series of free summertime concerts featuring numbers from current and upcoming Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. Here’s Scarlett Strallen (center), who plays the title role in Mary Poppins, singing “Practically Perfect” along with Alison Jaye Horowitz and Marlon Sherman.

James Carpinello, Savannah Wise, and Jeremy Jordan performed numbers from the Tony-nominated musical, Rock of Ages, at Broadway in Bryant Park.

Wicked‘s Kevin Kern (Fiyero) and Dee Roscioli (Elphaba) sang the duet “As Long As You’re Mine” at Broadway in Bryant Park.

Lauren Kennedy, Anneliese Van Der Pol, and Sarah Stiles sang selections from the Off-Broadway musical Vanities at Broadway in Bryant Park.

Stage and screen star Andrew McCarthy is currently directing Margaret Colin and Victor Slezak in Neil LaBute’s A Second of Pleasure, part of the Summer Shorts 3 festival at 59E59 Theaters. TheaterMania caught up with the trio prior to a run-through on July 23.