Out & About
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Lincoln Center Theater doesn’t kid around when it stages one-night-only performances at its fund-raisers. The offering Monday was a reading of the late Wendy Wasserstein’s “The Sisters Rosensweig,” which holds a special place in the theater’s history as the first of four Wasserstein plays it produced between 1992 and 2005 (the others were “An American Daughter,” “Old Money,” and “Third”).
The actors who portrayed the play’s compassion, humor, and self-reckoning were Stockard Channing, Christine Baranski, Edie Falco, Robert Klein, John Michael Higgins, Aaron Krohn, Ari Graynor, Peter Scanavino, and Simon Jones. Leading lights in the audience were members of Wasserstein’s family, including her mother, Lola, and sister, Georgette Levis; the theater’s executive producer, Bernard Gersten; event chairwomen Brooke Garber Neidich and Jane Rosenthal, and the theater’s chairman, John Beinecke.
The 500 guests, including the director of “The Coast of Utopia,” Jack O’Brien, and the co-chairman and chief executive of New Line Cinemas, Michael Lynne, helped raise more than $1 million.
