PHOTO CALL: New Dramatists Honor Fierstein with Lifetime Achievement Award

By Ernio Hernandez
May 16, 2008

New Dramatists honored Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein during its 59th Annual Spring Benefit Luncheon May 15.

Friends and collaborators of the actor-playwright-librettist were on hand to celebrate the star and co-creator of the new Broadway musical A Catered Affair.

Fierstein was honored with the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award for "outstanding artistic contribution to the American theatre" at a ceremony at the New York Marriott Marquis.

Fierstein earned Tony Awards for Torch Song Trilogy (Best Actor in a Play and Best Play), Jerry Herman's La Cage aux Folles (Best Book of a Musical) and Hairspray (Best Actor in a Musical). Other works include Safe Sex, Spookhouse and Forget Him as well as film turns in "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Independence Day," "Bullets Over Broadway," "The Times of Harvey Milk" and "Torch Song Trilogy."

Here are some photos from the evening:

Karen Ziemba, Harvey Fierstein and Swoosie Kurtz

Marissa Jaret Winokur and Kerry Butler		Boyd Gaines and Arthur Laurents

Leslie Kritzer, Faith Prince and John Bucchino

Harriet Harris and Swoosie Kurtz		Cheyenne Jackson and Matt Cavenaugh

Leslie Kritzer and Harvey Fierstein		David Pittu and Colman Domingo

Robin De Jesús, Janet Dacal, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Andrea Burns and Olga Merediz

Dana Ivey and Tyne Daly		Stew

Doug Wright		Jim Dale

All photos by Aubrey Reuben.