'My Fair Lady' and 'The Great Race' will screen at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood on Friday, March 27, and Saturday, March 28, respectively. Screenings will begin at 8 p.m. The programs are presented by the Academy's Science and Technology Council in conjunction with its 'Dressed in Color: The Costumes' exhibition, which includes costumes from both films.
Legendary designers WILLIAM IVEY LONG and BOB CROWLEY are among the four recipients of the 2009 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards. Five-time Tony Award winning costume designer William Ivey Long will receive the 2009 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for theatrical costume design, and, for his achievements as both a costume and scenic designer, Bob Crowley (also a five-time Tony Award winner) will receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards' special Robert L. B. Tobin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatrical Design at a ceremony on Friday, March 27, at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.
Dick Scanlan, Tony-nominated lyricist and librettist of 2002's Thoroughly Modern Millie, will host the VIP preview of StageStruck: The Magic of Theatre Design at the Leslie/Lohman Gallery on Tuesday, November 13.
A dazzling array of some 150 theatrical set and costume design models and sketches will be on display in StageStruck: The Magic of Theatre Design at Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation Gallery from November 14 to December 22.
The York Theatre Company is presenting some of composer Harvey Schmidt's collection of Times Square memorabilia at the company's home at Saint Peter's Church in Citigroup Center (619 Lexington Avenue, enter on 54th Street).