Douglas Watt News

After a hiatus of 3 years, The Astaire Awards will once again recognize excellence in dance on both stage and film.

Scores of the brightest lights on stage and screen will turn out in red carpet finery for a celebration of classic Hollywood, Hooray for Hollywood honoring the legendary Oscar winner Patricia Neal, Smith Barney's Shirl Penney and The Count and Countess de Lesseps, Stage 6 at Steiner Film Studios, 15 Washington Avenue at the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard. The gala evening is slated for November 1, with all proceeds going to The Auditory Oral School of New York, a non profit organization which specializes in teaching deaf and hard of hearing children to listen, talk, think and socialize.

Jayne Houdyshell, Jim Dale, Felicia P. Fields and Jason Ritter have been selected as this year's recipients of Actors' Equity Award

The Rivals' Dana Ivey and Twelve Angry Men's Larry Bryggman have been chosen as the 2005 recipients of Actors' Equity's Richard Seff Award

Christian Borle and Ari Graynor are this year's recipients of Actor's Equity's Clarence Derwent Awards