Betty Buckley to Perform This September at Landmark on Main

Betty Buckley, one of theater's most respected and legendary leading ladies, will take the stage at the Jeanne Rimsky Theater at Landmark in Port Washington on Friday, September 30, 8 PM.

Often called "The Voice of Broadway," Ms. Buckley is an actress/singer whose career spans theater, film, television and concert halls around the world. She is a 2012 Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.

Buckley won a Tony Award for her role-defining performance as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats. She received her second Tony nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her performance in Triumph of Love, and an Olivier Award nomination for her critically acclaimed interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway.

Her career includes countless awards, nominations and memorable appearances on and off Broadway, on television (Eight is Enough, HBO's Oz and The Leftovers), and in movies (Tender Mercies, Carrie, and M. Night Shyamalan's latest film Split, co-starring James McAvoy and due out in January 2017.

Buckley tours in concert worldwide with her ensemble of musicians and recently was featured in the Royal Albert Hall concert of Follies in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 85th birthday. She has recorded 16 CD's,most recently2014's Ghostlight, produced by T Bone Burnett.

For over forty years Ms. Buckley has been a teacher of scene study and song interpretation, giving workshops in Manhattan and various universities and performing Arts Conservatories around the country. In 2009, Ms. Buckley received the Texas Medal of Arts Award for Theater and was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in 2007. She has two honorary doctorates from The Boston Conservatory and Marymount College and has been honored with three Lifetime Achievement Awards for her contributions to theater from the New England Theater Conference, The Shubert Theater in New Haven and the Terry Schreiber School in NYC.

Tickets for An Evening with Betty Buckley go on sale to Friends of Landmark on July 11 and to the general public starting August 1 through Landmark's Box Office, 516-767-6444 and online at www.landmarkonmainstreet.org. Tickets: Premium $57 (Friends $52)• Select $52 (Friends $47)• Standard $47 (Friends $42). *