Detroit's Wayne State University to Host 'A Conversation with Elaine Stritch', 4/27

Wayne State University's Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to announce "A Conversation with Apple Award Recipient Elaine Stritch" at the Hilberry Theatre on April 27 at 4 p.m. Stritch will appear on campus as the recipient of the 2013 Apple Award and will entertain her audience in an "Actors Studio" style interview and question-and-answer session.

A Tony, Emmy, and Drama Desk awards winner, the legendary Stritch has been onstage entertaining audiences since 1944. Her most recent stage work includes her critically acclaimed portrayal of Madame Armfeldt in the Sondheim-Wheeler musical "A Little Night Music," "Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell," and the Tony Award-winning "Elaine Stritch At Liberty." In addition to her vast list of stage credits, Stritch is also prolific in movies and television, most recently as a recurring character portraying the feisty mother of Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) on the popular NBC sitcom "30 Rock." She continues to delight audiences with hilarious and heart-felt cabaret performances such as "At Home at the Carlyle" and "At Home at The Carlyle: Elaine Stritch Singin' Sondheim...One Song at a Time."

The Apple Award, named for Sarah Applebaum Nederlander, is given by the Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance at Wayne State University and the Fisher Theatre on behalf of the Nederlander family. In 2001, the Nederlander family formed a partnership with the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts at Wayne State University, establishing the Sarah Applebaum Nederlander Award for Excellence in Theatre, an annual theater award and visiting artist fund in their mother's name. The Apple Award brings a nationally prominent theater professional to Detroit and the Wayne State University campus as a guest lecturer to interact with and educate the rising stars of the Department of Theatre and Dance through master classes and a question-and-answer style forum. Previous Apple Award winners include Neil Simon, Carol Channing, David Stone, Stephen Schwartz, Mandy Patinkin, Patti LuPone, and Marvin Hamlisch.

Tickets are $25 and seating is assigned. To purchase tickets, call 313-577-2972 or visit the Wayne State University Theatres Box Office at 4743 Cass Avenue on the corner of Hancock in Midtown Detroit.

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About Theatre & Dance at Wayne
Wayne State University's Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance serves students as a nexus of performance, production, and research in the fields of dance, theater and performance studies. It provides a wide choice of degree programs that allow students the flexibility to study these disciplines broadly or to concentrate more specifically in performance, design or management. The dance program is one of the longest-running in the U.S., tracing its beginning to Ruth Lovell Murray's founding of the Dance Workshop in 1928. The theater program is internationally recognized as a training ground for theater professionals. The Hilberry Theatre is the nation's longest-running graduate repertory company. The two programs are accredited by the National Association of Schools of Dance and the National Association of Schools of Theatre, respectively.