Arts Desk
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SYMPHONY SPACE NAMES NEW ADVISERS
The Upper West Side cultural institution Symphony Space has announced the formation of a new advisory board, which will include Alec Baldwin, Leonard and Susan Bay Nimoy, Cynthia Nixon, David Sedaris, Joanne Woodward, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham.
During the past four years, Symphony Space has seen its ticket sales increase more than 50%. It also recently unveiled a new advertising campaign.
Other new board members include executive director of New York Foundation for the Arts, Theodore Berger; executive and artistic director of World Music Institute, Robert Browning; executive director of Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, Theodore S. Chapin; president of Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, Mary Rodgers Guettel; humorist, writer, and actor Stephen Colbert; founder of the National Dance Institute, Jacques d’Amboise; author Edwidge Danticat; “Sesame Street” cast member Sonia Manzano; Tony Award-winning actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson; the founder of New Yorker Films, Dan Talbot; theater director Jerry Zaks; and the former lead singer and songwriter of the Del Fuegos, Dan Zanes.
The board also includes the designer of the Symphony Space graphic identity, Paula Scher,a partner at Pentagram Graphics; and the architect of Symphony Space’s renovation, James Stewart Polshek.
NOTES
Donald Revell is the recipient of this year’s Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and $25,000 for his book “My Mojave” (Alice James Books). The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, an annual award for the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year, is given out by the Academy of American Poets and the Nation magazine. … The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction awarded by the State Library of Victoria, Australia, goes to Annamarie Jagose for “Slow Water” (Vintage). …The Juilliard School’s yearlong centennial celebration beginning in 2005 has found principal corporate sponsorship from Lehman Brothers, Inc. Its $1 million contribution will fund performances by all three divisions of music, dance, and drama in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
