Lincoln Center: Celebrates 50 Years With Guest Sam Waterston 10/17

Join us for a preview of the exhibition Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years, With Special Guest Sam Waterston. Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:00 am

Coffee and check-in at 9:30 am, Following remarks guests will be invited into the gallery for a preview of the exhibition with exhibition curator, Thomas Mellins

Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center 40 Lincoln Center Plaza

Actor Sam Waterston has a long history with Lincoln Center, having performed in three productions at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. He made his Lincoln Center debut in the title role in Hamlet in 1975 and returned in A Doll's House that same year. In 1994 he won a Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in the title role in Lincoln Center Theater's Abe Lincoln in Illinois. He has served as host of Live From Lincoln Center on PBS and has narrated two New York Philharmonic concerts. His theatrical appearances are documented extensively in the collections of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, including the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, and he has appeared in the Library's public programming series, most recently in an evening of readings and reminiscences commemorating the Library's acquisition of the Katharine Hepburn Papers.