Pics! Louise Kerz Hirschfeld, Austin Pendleton, Michael Riedel Perform in Happy Birthday, Eric Bentley! A Centennial Tribute Concert | Playbill

News Pics! Louise Kerz Hirschfeld, Austin Pendleton, Michael Riedel Perform in Happy Birthday, Eric Bentley! A Centennial Tribute Concert On Dec. 7, the theatre community came out to celebrate legendary playwright, singer, editor and translator and Theatre Hall of Fame inductee Eric Bentley’s 99th birthday at The Town Hall with Happy Birthday, Eric Bentley! A Centennial Tribute Concert.

The event featured Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner; celebrated playwright/actor/director Austin Pendleton; Bill Coco of The Actors Studio; Michael Paller of The American Conservatory Theater; Louise Kerz Hirschfeld, theatre historian and president emeritus of The Al Hirschfeld Foundation; James Shapiro, Edward Mendelson and Phillip Lopate of Columbia University; Roger Copeland, and Professor of Theater and Dance, Oberlin College and Conservatory, as well as musical performances by celebrated soprano Karyn Levitt, pianist Eric Ostling, and the Metamorphosis Chamber Orchestra conducted by Glen Roven.

Louise Kerz Hirschfeld, Austin Pendleton, Michael Riedel Perform in Happy Birthday, Eric Bentley! A Centennial Tribute Concert

 
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