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A Tony Award-winning star, Laura Benanti is fresh from her acclaimed performance as Eliza Doolittle in Lincoln Centers My Fair Lady. A highly celebrated stage and screen actress, Laura Benanti has also appeared on Broadway in She Loves Me, Into the Woods, and opposite Patti LuPone in Gypsy.Other distinguished theater performances include Perdita in The Winters Tale at the Williamstown Theater Festival, Anne in A Little Night Music at the L.A. Opera, and Eileen in Wonderful Town and Rosabella in The Most Happy Fella, both for City Center Encores! Her television credits include recurring and guest appearances on Younger, The Detour, Supergirl, Law & Order: SVU, Nashville, The Good Wife, Elementary, Nurse Jackie, The Big C, NBCs The Sound of Music Live and as First Lady Melania Trump on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. New York Times claimed: her supreme command, thrilling voice and wild sense of humor combine to make Laura Benantis show a sensation. Dont miss Laura Benanti starring at the 2019 Annual Gala Benefit Concert to help support Axelrod PAC Programs.
The Axelrod Performing Arts Center, in conjunction with its sponsors, local non-profit Cabaret for Life [CFL] and Kearny Bank, announced the winners of the inaugural NJ High School AXE Awards. The awards were created to shine a light on students whose high school musicals were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
While live theatre in New Jersey is being paused due to the Covid-19 outbreak, we continue our series of interviews with theatre professionals to learn more about how they are coping and their future plans. Andrew DePrisco, the Artistic Director of Axelrod Performing Arts Center told us about his background and his position.
With high school theaters going dark throughout the state of New Jersey, the Axelrod Performing Arts Center, in conjunction with local non-profit Cabaret for Life [CFL], turns the spotlight on high school musical theater students with the NJ High School AXE Awards.
The Axelrod's 2019 Gala will star Laura Benanti, who won her Tony Award for her performance as Gypsy Rose Lee in the 2008 revival of Gypsy, starring Patti Lupone and directed by original book writer Arthur Laurents
Tony Award-winning Broadway star Laura Benanti will be performing in a gala concert at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center on Saturday, October 19 at 8:00 PM.
Axelrod Performing Arts Center is at 100 Grant Ave., Deal Park, NJ.
New Jersey Theatre Alliance was founded in 1981 by five professional theatres on the belief that the theatre community is stronger united, not divided, and that one theatre’s success is a success for all. Today we serve 20 Equity Producing member theatres, 11 Associate Equity member theatres, and 9 Affiliate member theatres, representing 13 of the state’s 21 counties.
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