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GREGORY PECK
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John Lloyd Young, Darlene Love and
orchestra perform at Carnegie Hall
Tony Award winner
John Lloyd Young
played New York's
Carnegie Hall
with the Tim Janis
Ensemble
in a special tribute to friend,
recent Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer,
Darlene Love
John Lloyd Young and Darlene Love
December 2, 2011
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John Lloyd Young sings with the Beach
Boys, onstage at the Kennedy Center
Tony Award winner
John Lloyd Young
performed at Washington D.C.'s
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
with
The Beach Boys,
Marvin Hamlisch, conducting the
National Symphony Orchestra;
and country star, Lorrie Morgan
hosted by
Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan
and John Stamos
in a holiday
concert for our troops
and leaders of the U.S. Government and the Armed Forces
December 6, 2011
John Lloyd Young and the NFL
cheerleaders, backstage at the Kennedy Center
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John Lloyd Young at L.A.'s Staples
Center
Tony and Grammy winner John Lloyd
Young
sang the U.S. National Anthem
L.A. Kings vs. Minnesota Wild
Staples Center, Los Angeles
November
2011
L.A. Kings Hockey
http://kings.nhl.com
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John Lloyd Young performs for
Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang, October 2011
(photo: Bob Stone)
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Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young returned to headline Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camps' 2011 New York City Halloween celebration, along with Tony and Emmy Award winner, Lillias White. |
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Lillias White |
2010's event raised
nearly $700,000 to support summer camps for seriously
ill children. 2011's event raised nearly $800,000.
John Lloyd Young and friends at
rehearsals for the 2009 Gala
Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, Ashford, CT
Please visit
www.holeinthewallgang.org for
more
information about this very special organization.
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Grammy Award winning
JERSEY BOYS cast album certified
by the
Recording Industry Association of America
(over 1 million copies sold)
Tony Award Winner
John Lloyd Young
lead vocals
John Lloyd Young at the
Tony Awards:
click
here
John Lloyd Young's New York Times
JERSEY BOYS review...
click
here
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Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young was the first-ever guest star invited to appear on Ryan Murphy's FOX TV comedy, the Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning hit,
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Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young performed at ABC's Jimmy Kimmel's Feast of L.A., the Festival of San Gennaro |
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benefitting the San Gennaro
Foundation of Los Angeles
September, 2011
Hollywood, CA
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Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young
onstage at JERSEY BOYS Broadway's August Wilson Theatre
photo: Walter McBride/Broadwayworld.com
JERSEY BOYS Tony Award and Theatre
World Award winner
John Lloyd Young returned to Broadway's August Wilson Theatre,
home of JERSEY BOYS, to open the 67th Annual Theatre World Awards
along with fellow presenters and past Theatre World Award winners, Billy
Crudup, Gabriel Byrne, Edie Falco, Tovah Feldsuh, Blythe Danner and more...
click
here for an article
and photos from
Playbill.com
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John Lloyd Young installed his first
art
commission at Beverly Hills' famed,
world-class restaurant, Spago
March 2011
Spago
176 North Canon Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 385-0880
John Lloyd Young and Spago owner,
Barbara Lazaroff,
beside JLY's new still life, "Table at Spago" (2011)
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l-r: John Lloyd Young, Theodore Bikel
and Paul Kropfl in THE CHOSEN
2004 Paper Mill Playhouse, NJ /
(photo: Pedro Portal)
Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young
appeared in Hollywood for a concert benefiting The Actors Fund,
accompanied by his friend, Gerald Sternbach.
Evening hosted by
actor, singer, activist, Emmy winner and friend,
Theodore Bikel
Pantages Theatre, Hollywood
click above for video
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Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young
at the
"Hollywood Loves Broadway" benefit for the
Motion Picture and Television Fund
SONY Pictures Studios
John Lloyd Young
sings "Cryin'"
at the 2nd Anniversary of Ryan Black's 88s
La Boheme, Hollywood
click
here
for video
John Lloyd Young as "Marius" in
Les Miserables in Concert, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles
photo:
©
Lily Lim, 2008
John Lloyd Young starred as "Marius"
in an all-star production of
Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles
click
here for video of
"Empty Chairs at Empty Tables"
Tony Award Winner (Best Actor)
Drama Desk Award Winner
(Outstanding Lead Actor)
Outer Critics Circle Award Winner (Outstanding Lead Actor)
Theatre World Award Winner (Outstanding Broadway Debut)
Drama League Award Nominee (Performer of the Year)
...as "Frankie Valli"
in the
Original Broadway Cast of
...and lead vocalist on the
Grammy Award-winning, certified-Platinum
Original Cast Recording
click here for video
click
here for
JERSEY BOYS at New Year's Eve
Times Square, NYC
click here for New York Times review
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Young on
JLY FANS:
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correspondence!
Send a letter to John Lloyd at this address:
John Lloyd Young
8391 Beverly Blvd., 378
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Friday, February 3, 2012
JLY was just back in New York City where he saw playwright Theresa Rebeck's engaging new play, SEMINAR, starring Tony nominees Alan Rickman and Lily Rabe, along with Hamish Linklater, Jerry O'Connell and Hettienne Park. Click here for the show's website.
Broadway playwright Rebeck is the writer of NBC's new Broadway-themed show, SMASH, produced by Steven Spielberg, premiering this Monday night on NBC-TV.
Monday, January 30, 2012
"We must be
willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that
is waiting for us."
-- JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
What a way to end a quiet day in the
art studio...
Sunday, January 22, 2012
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JLY recently
received a letter from Karen in Iowa wondering what he does with the
food inside the packaging he makes into art pieces. Starting
with "Food for Thought," his 2010 debut art show at
Willis Wonderland in Los Angeles, JLY has given most of the
food from inside the pieces' original packaging to
AIDS Project Los Angeles' Necessities of Life Food Pantry Program, the country's
largest network of food pantries for people living with HIV/AIDS.
To donate food or learn more about the Necessities of
Life Program, please click
here. |
Sunday, January 15, 2012
JLY hopes you all enjoy the Golden Globe Awards tonight on NBC. Here are a few of his very favorite past Golden Globe winners.
 fortitude |
 naive genius |
 integrity |
Thursday, January 12, 2012
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Last month, John Lloyd Young returned to the Elaine Baker Gallery in Boca Raton, Florida for a performance and show of his new art pieces. A couple evenings later, his art was displayed in the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria's Boca Raton Resort and Club, where JLY returned to sing a set at their annual Winter Gala. Here are some photos. |
John Lloyd Young performs at the Waldorf-Astoria's Boca Raton Resort and Club Winter Gala
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 "Since I Don't Have You" |
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
"Silence is
so accurate."
-- MARK ROTHKO
Monday, January 9, 2012
"If there is no
struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and
yet depreciate agitation...want crops without plowing up the ground, they
want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without
the awful roar of its many waters.... Power concedes nothing without a
demand. It never did and it never will."
-- FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Saturday, January 7, 2012
JLY's new friends, the Beach Boys, have announced a 50th Anniversary reunion tour and album for 2012. Follow this link for an interview with the Beach Boys' Mike Love from: Billboard Magazine.
Here are some photos of JLY performing with the Beach Boys at Washington, D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
 Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan introduces John Lloyd Young |
 John Lloyd Young onstage at the Kennedy Center |
 John Lloyd Young with the Beach Boys' Mike Love and John Cowsill on drums |
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John Lloyd Young, Mike Love and the Beach Boys |
 John Lloyd Young and the Beach Boys |
Friday, December 30, 2011
Best wishes for a very Happy New Year.
"The world is
before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came
in."
-- JAMES BALDWIN
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
Here are some backstage photos from John Lloyd Young's December 6th performance for our troops at Washington D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. JLY sang with the Beach Boys and with the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy, Golden Globe and Pulitzer Prize winner, Marvin Hamlisch.
Hamlisch conducted JLY in a performance of "All I Want for Christmas is You" and the famous Carmen Dragon symphonic arrangement of "America the Beautiful" that JLY sang as a duet with country star, Lorrie Morgan.
Onstage concert photos to come soon...
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 John Lloyd Young and manager, Dona R. Miller |
 JLY's friends Dona R. Miller and Steven Sehm of Giorgio Armani |
John Lloyd Young with the NFL
Cheerleaders
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Some of you have been asking about the yellow can in my art piece "U.S. of Andy." Here's a closer look. Click to enlarge.
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  Andy Warhol, Souperstar
"In the future, everyone
will be world-famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy would have loved Facebook and Twitter). |
Andy Warhol is one of my preferred artists and cultural critics of the 60's Pop Art movement, along with other favorite artists of the 60s Tom Wesselmann and Robert Rauschenberg.
A wonderful quality of Pop Art that I believe is somewhat lacking in contemporary pop culture today is the idea of Socratic irony, for example, pretending to take a stance (sometimes even a dopey one) in order to leave a question mark in the mind of the viewer and provoke in them the sometimes-rarely-occurring phenomenon of...involvement and thought!
(Food for Thought!)
Warm regards, JLY
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
John Lloyd Young went to Washington D.C. earlier this month to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for current and former troops of the United States Armed Forces. The audience included courageous wounded servicemen just recently released from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, several Medal of Honor winners, leaders of the U.S. Government and Armed Forces and surviving legends of World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen and the Navajo Code Talkers.
One of the wounded soldiers, SSgt. Jesse Cottle of San Diego, CA, sustained bi-lateral amputations in Afghanistan, and successfully underwent prosthetic training and can walk again. He is an accomplished pianist and was invited onstage at the Kennedy Center to play keyboard for the Beach Boys on "Don't Worry Baby" and a performance of "California Girls" with the NFL Cheerleaders.
SSgt. Cottle; JLY; the Beach Boys; concert hosts, John Stamos and Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan; and other special guests of honor were invited for a reception the night prior to the concert at the Washington, D.C. home of concert presenters, Bob and Suzy Pence. Here are a couple photos from that evening.
 Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan, and John Lloyd Young |
 John Lloyd Young with former WWII Navajo Code Talker, Joe Vandever |
Photos from the Kennedy Center concert to come... |
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
John Lloyd Young wishes his Jewish friends a very Happy Hanukkah.
Monday, December 19, 2011
John Lloyd Young performed in a sold-out holiday concert at New York's Carnegie Hall with friend, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Darlene Love, December 2, 2011.
John Lloyd Young, Darlene Love and
orchestra perform at Carnegie Hall
 John Lloyd Young onstage at Carnegie Hall |
 John Lloyd Young and Darlene Love take in the crowd |
Check back soon for photos from JLY's appearance with the Beach Boys in Washington, D.C. in a holiday concert for our troops at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
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JLY is back from the East Coast and will share some photos soon. In the meantime, here's a preview from his art shows and performances in Boca Raton Florida, at the Elaine Baker Gallery and the Waldorf-Astoria's Boca Raton Resort and Club. |
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John Lloyd Young art opening |
Monday, November 21, 2011
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John Lloyd Young has been home in L.A. preparing for his upcoming East Coast appearances at Carnegie Hall in New York City; a holiday concert for the troops at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C.; and a second major show of his art at Florida's Elaine Baker Gallery, all happening in the first week and a half of December. In the meantime, JLY returned this year to attend AIDS Project Los Angeles' annual AIDS Walk, APLA's largest, most important fundraiser, and he recently sang the U.S. National Anthem at L.A.'s Staples Center for the National Hockey League's L.A. King's 5-2 victory over the Minnesota Wild. |
Tuesday, November 2, 2011
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." -- DR. SEUSS
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John Lloyd Young enjoyed performing for children and their families for the third year running in support of Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camps, summer camps for seriously ill children. He was joined
this year by Hole in
the Wall Gang Halloween Celebration, Visit the
Hole in the Wall Gang website: |
Friday, October 28, 2011
"As much as we need a prosperous
economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency."
-- CAROLINE KENNEDY
Friday, October 14, 2011
I'm a very loyal member of several Los Angeles art museums. Two of them, UCLA's Hammer Museum and the MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) have very interesting exhibitions happening right now.
The first is "Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980" at UCLA's Hammer Museum. Check out, especially, the really excellent examples of California's assemblage art movement by Betye Saar and John Outterbridge.
"Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981" is at MOCA's David Geffen Contemporary (there are some noteworthy pieces by Betye Saar and John Outterbridge in this exhibition, too). What a time machine into the pysyche of the country at that period of time immediately post-Watergate. Some of the hopes and anxieties resonating in this show feel very similar to the ones happening now. A standout for me from this exhibit is a very-relevant-to-today piece from 1981 by renowned California artist, John Baldessari: click here to see "Virtues and Vices (for Giotto) ."
-- JLY
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
"Here's to the
crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in
the square holes...the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond
of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them,
but the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change
things... They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as
the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the ones who are crazy enough
to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
-- Apple's "Think Different," 1997, originally narrated by STEVE JOBS
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JLY has had a busy last few weeks, including his second year performing for weSPARK Cancer Support Center's annual benefit concert, this year honoring JLY's friend, Desperate Housewives creator, Marc Cherry; the October 4th release of "Seasons Greetings: A Jersey Boys Christmas," where JLY joined the worldwide casts of JERSEY BOYS to make the first holiday album of its kind in Broadway history; and other events, in a photo recap, below:
 While in San Francisco for a performance for the Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation, JLY contemplates a painting by abstract expressionist Clyfford Still. San Francisco MOMA |
 JLY peformed at Jimmy Kimmel's Feast of L.A. San Gennaro Festival Hollywood, CA September 24-25, 2011 |
 Jimmy Kimmel addresses the crowd at the Feast of L.A. |
 Daryl Hall takes the stage Jimmy Kimmel's Feast of L.A. |
 The stage Jimmy Kimmel's Feast of L.A. |
 John Lloyd Young performs for Jimmy Kimmel's Feast of L.A. |
 Back to Silicon Valley for a developmental reading of a new musical about the advent of the Internet circa 1993. |
Geeky: John Lloyd Young and
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 Geeks need love, too: John Lloyd Young and Disney Channel's Annaliese van der Pol |
 John Lloyd Young and manager, Dona R. Miller UCLA Visionary Gala, 2011 Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Los Angeles |
 Sound check: UCLA Visionary Gala, 2011 Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Los Angeles |
 John Lloyd Young performs for the UCLA Visionary Gala, 2011 Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Los Angeles |
 John Lloyd Young with another famous Italian American, Nobel Prize winner, and Visionary Awards honoree, Doctor Louis Ignarro UCLA Visionary Gala, 2011 |
 Sir Michael Caine introduces honoree, philanthropist, Hollywood producer, and empresario, Sidney Kimmel UCLA Visionary Gala, 2011 |
 Sidney Kimmel accepts his UCLA Visionary Award UCLA Visionary Gala, 2011 |
 After an intro by John Stamos, Bob Saget accepts the 2011 Rodney Dangerfield Respect Award UCLA Visionary Gala, 2011 |
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It's so easy to get wrapped up in
your own things when times are busy. JLY sends a heartfelt but belated congratulations to his friend, NYC's
Target Margin Theatre Artistic
Director, David Herskovits, and his wife, Jennifer Eagan, on her
Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her novel "A
Visit from the Goon Squad." And congratulations to David on
Target Margin Theatre Company's 20th Anniversary.
Friday, August 26, 2011
"As
the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat
there thinking about life.
Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it
seemed that way."
-- Deep Thoughts by JACK
HANDEY
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
"Condemnation without investigation is the highest form of ignorance." -- ALBERT EINSTEIN
Sunday, August 14, 2011
"Have a very good reason for everything you do." -- LAURENCE OLIVIER
Sunday, July 24, 2011
John Lloyd Young was one of the three prize winners in the group exhibition "AMERICA," jurored by Harvard art historian and San Diego gallery owner Alexander Salazar.
Featuring
artists:
Ruben Acosta,
Sara Alavikia, Don Chafey, Frank
Cancian, Michael Carini,
Margie Darrow, Jamie Dickerson,
Jocelyn Duke,
Natalya Fiore,
Lunel Haysmer,
William E.
Ishmael, Delores
Peffley, Lori Pond,
Swan,
Viviana Lombrozo,
Paul Samenfeld,
Stuart Wagner, Eric Wixon,
Gil Woo Lee and
John Lloyd Young
2nd City Arts Council Gallery
Long Beach, CA
June 25 - July 24, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
JLY has had a busy last few months with lots of travel, recording, performing and art business. Here are some photo highlights.
 JLY Art Opening, April Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL l-r: Patty Beck, Dona R. Miller, JLY, Louis Beck, Stacy Beck, Cici Boymel |
 Centerpiece: JLY's "Preferred Variety" (2011) 1st edition of 9, in the home of owners Patty and Louis Beck |
 Elaine Baker, Dona R. Miller, JLY and Elaine Baker Gallery's Deborah Sponder after delivering another JLY art piece |
 Art Institute of Chicago This is an important painting. Still life paintings rose to prominence in Spain in the early 1600s; this one's by Juan Sánchez Cotán (the composition of JLY's Spago piece was inspired by a 1633 Spanish still life by Francisco de Zurbarán) |
Artists have depicted food for eons:
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 "Mmm, mmm, Good" Pop Art "Still Life" Andy Warhol"s "Campbell's Soup Can" 1964 |
 JLY and Dona Miller outside the Art Institute of Chicago |
 JLY and friend, Karen Swanson, NYC after his performance at the 2011 Theatre World Awards |
 Fort Worth Contemporary Art Museum, TX JLY loves abstract expressionist Clyfford Still |
 Dallas Museum of Art JLY peeks through a sculpture by English sculptor, Barbara Hepworth |
 2nd City Council Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA JLY's "Preferred Variety" prize winner in group show, "AMERICA," jurored by Harvard art historian and San Diego gallerist, Alexander Salazar |
 JLY and his little friend, Becky Ed and Gayle Garner Roski's opening reception for the new dinosaur hall at Los Angeles Natural History Museum |
| one last shot... |
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 NASHVILLE |
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
"As I've gotten
older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness,
tolerance,
compassion, a gentler way of looking at things." -- MARTIN
SCORSESE
Thank you all for your letters, cards, gifts and Facebook messages for my birthday, yesterday. As always, I so appreciate your kindness and friendship.
Yours, JLY
Friday, June 17, 2011
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John Lloyd Young
returned to the stage of
JERSEY BOYS Broadway's August Wilson Theatre
to open the 67th Annual
Theatre World Awards.
John Lloyd won his Theatre World Award for JERSEY BOYS in 2006. Founded in 1945 by John Willis, the Theatre World Awards pre-date the Tony Awards and are amongst the oldest performing awards for New York theatre, honoring 12 Broadway or off-Broadway newcomers each year, 6 men and 6 women. |
This year's presenters were past
Theatre World Award-winners Karen Akers (Nine, 1982), Tammy
Blanchard (Gypsy, 2003), Gabriel Byrne (A Moon for the
Misbegotten, 2000), Jonathan Cake (Medea, 2003), Zoe Caldwell
(Slapstick Tragedy, 1966), Billy Crudup (Arcadia, 1995), Blythe
Danner (The Miser, 1969), Edie Falco (Side Man, 1998), Tovah
Feldshuh (Yentl, 1976), Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening, 2007),
Rosemary Harris (The Climate of Eden, 1953), Ernestine Jackson
(Raisin, 1974), Jason Danieley (
The 2011 Theatre World Award
winners are Ellen Barkin (The Normal Heart), Desmin Borges
(The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity), Halley Feiffer (The House of
Blue Leaves), Grace Gummer (Arcadia), Rose Hemingway
The list of past Theatre World Award winners is amongst the most distinguished of any acting awards, including Marlon Brando, Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, Patricia Neal, Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, William Shatner, Warren Beatty, Carol Burnett, Jane Fonda, Carol Channing, James Earl Jones, Liza Minelli, Al Pacino, Michael Douglas, Ben Vereen, William Hurt, Richard Gere, Cynthia Nixon, John Malkovich, Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Mark Ruffalo and many more. For a full list of past winners, click here.
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