ADVISORY/You are Cordially Invited to The 2002 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize Ceremony Honoring Theater Director Lloyd Richards.

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ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Oct. 30)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

With Kate Burton, Charles Dutton, and

other personalities of stage and film

    WHO: Accepting the Award:    Lloyd Richards, Tony Award-Winning
                                 Director
         Remarks by:             Kate Burton, actress
                                 Charles S. Dutton, actor
                                 James Bundy, dean, Yale School of
                                  Drama and artistic director, Yale
                                 Repertory Theatre
                                 Ming Cho Lee, set designer
                                 Benjamin Mordecai, theatrical
                                  producer
         Presenting the Award:   Ned Rifkin, director, Hirshhorn
                                 Museum & Sculpture Garden Chairman,
                                 The Gish Prize Selection Committee
         Other guests attending: Delroy Lindo, actor
                                 Alvin Singleton, musician
                                 Courtney Vance, actor
                                 ... and other leaders in the arts
                                 community

    WHAT: The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize -this year $200,000 - is
        one of the largest and most prestigious awards in the arts.
        Theater director Lloyd Richards is this year's recipient.
        Previous Gish Prize winners include Jennifer Tipton, Merce
        Cunningham, Arthur Miller, Isabel Allende, Bob Dylan, Robert
        Wilson, Ingmar Bergman, and Frank Gehry.

        For more than 40 years, Richards has nurtured playwrights and
        staged significant new stories with an ever changing and
        challenging perspective on life. He has been honored by the
        Writer's Guild of America and recognized with the National
        Medal of Arts, the nation's highest honor for the arts.
        Richards brought to Broadway The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars,
        and Fences, for which he earned the Tony Award for Best
        Direction in 1987. Artistic director (1968-1999) of the
        National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater,
        Richards encouraged leading voices in modern theater including
        August Wilson, Christopher Durang, John Guare, and Wendy
        Wasserstein. Dean of the Yale School of Drama and artistic
        director of the Yale Repertory Theatre (1979-1991), Richards'
        staged works by South African playwright Athol Fugard and
        Nobel laureates Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcott, and he brought
        to the Repertory stage theater professionals like James Earl
        Jones, Jason Robards, Glenn Close, and Colleen Dewhurst.

    WHEN: Wednesday, October 30, 2002
          6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Ceremony to begin at 6:30 pm sharp,
          Reception to follow.

    WHERE: Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel
           145 West 44th Street, New York, New York

    R.S.V.P.: For more details call Pamela Johnson Associates,
              [phone], x12