This Tuesday, May 18, at 7:30 pm, Theatre Communications Group (TCG) – the New York-based national organization for theater, founded in 1961, and now with more than 7,000 individual members and 700 member theaters and affiliate organizations – is holding its 60th Anniversary Gala: Our Stories, followed by an after-party to continue the celebration. The big event, hosted by drag superstar Shequida, will feature songs from Lauren Yee’s Off-Broadway hit Cambodian Rock Band, performed by original NYC cast members Francis Jue, Abraham Kim, Jane Lui, Joe Ngo, Courtney Reed, and Moses Villarama, along with a performance from The Market Theatre Laboratory in Johannesburg, South Africa.
A donations-based event, the annual gala, now in its ninth year, will support TCG’s work in leading the theater industry towards a just and thriving ecology. Recent honorees include award-winning playwright and librettist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America), and Broadway press agent and DKC/O&M President Rick Miramontez.