Andrea Stark and Lewis Miller Shine at Holiday House Palm Beach’s ‘Taking it to the Table’ for Breast Cancer Research

Designer Andrea Stark was among the winners at Holiday House Palm Beach’s tabletop event at the Colony Hotel. Stark placed photos of her dream guests including Brigitte Bardot, Twiggy, Jane Birkin, and Mary Quant at her red, white, and black poppy bedecked table. Lewis Miller’s table for Lugano Diamonds was the night’s show-stopper. The NYC and Hamptons-based organization celebrated their annual Florida event ‘Taking it the Table’ to raise funds for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.  Survivor and Founder Iris Dankner was joined by her Co-Chairs Jayne Chase, Campion Platt, Jean Shafiroff, and Stark. Guests included Kimberly Paige Bluhm, AD 100 designer TC Chou, Jill Brooke, Baroness Tracy Turco, Classic Sofa’s Andre Vargas-Crispieri, H&D Events’ David Handy, and NY Housewife alumni Ramona Singer. Participating designers included Alexandra Naranjo, Allison Eden, Jennifer McGrath, Sean Rush,  Betsy Wentz, Dar Chauve, and  Kimberly Pucci.

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Tony Award winner Greg Kotis, who wrote Urinetown, will star in his new play, The End of All Flesh, during the 9th annual Fringe Festival, which opens at five venues around the city on April 2nd and closes on April 20th. The comedy festival will feature over sixty-four boundary-pushing talents, including Jackie Skinner, Allison Villaseñor, Hayley Kar, and D’yan Forest, the 90-year-old performer who is the Guinness World Record holder for Oldest Female Comedian. Forest chuckled and told me, “I’m going to turn heads with my sexy show 90 Years of Song & Scandal.” Her show, written with Eric Kornfeld and Stephen Clarke, includes the story of how Forest divorced her husband and married a nun, proving comedy and scandal only get better with age. Forest will storm the stage at the Wild Project in the East Village on April 3rd. The festival supports the Indie Theater Community, with 100% of proceeds going directly to each artist.

Judith Pisar to Chair Young Concert Artists’ 64th Gala Honoring Clive Gillinson

Judith Pisar, the former Director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, will serve as the Gala Chair for the Young Concert Artists’ 64th Annual Benefit honoring Clive Gillinson, the artistic director of Carnegie Hall, on April 17th. The event at Jazz at Lincoln Center will feature performances by over a dozen musical luminaries, including pianists Emanuel Ax and Anne-Marie McDermott, both alumni of the YCA, as well as soprano Courtenay Budd and violinist Tim Fain. Pisar’s daughter Leah Pisar will miss the concert because she will be reciting the text of Leonard Bernstein’s third symphony, “Kaddish”, in Warsaw, Poland at the annual Beethoven Festival on April 18th. The text was written by her father, Samuel Pisar, who performed the piece around the world until his death in 2015. Judith Pisar’s son, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, introduced Leah and her mother when they performed the piece together at Carnegie Hall in January. yca.org

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