Legendary stage and screen star Brian Dennehy and Nathan Lane were reunited once again at the Theatre Communications Group (TCG) annual benefit honoring Dennehy and celebrating TCG’s American Theatre magazine, at the Edison Ballroom.
Lane who co-starred with Dennehy earlier this year in The Iceman Cometh, made a tribute to Dennehy and brought the house down.
“I am always asked who my favorite co-star is and I have to reply … Matthew Broderick. But he was unavailable tonight so the award goes to you, Brian Dennehy.”
The Goodman Theatre Director, Bob Falls, presented the award to Brian, and in his speech he called him a “tireless actor, who always keeps challenging himself.”
Dennehy took the stage to a standing ovation, thanked TCG for his new honor, “theatre has always been my principal home and I feel greatly honored by TCG for what really amounts to a lifetime achievement award… I owe my reputation in New York, my theatre hometown, and to Chicago, a city with an artistic soul unlike any other, to my long and wonderful relationship with Robert Falls who I met at an early point in my career, and Roche Schulfer, and the Goodman Theatre—both of whom are, to me, essential parts of this award. To them and TCG I am thankful and grateful.”
Pictured:
TCG’s Managing Director Kevin Moore, TCG’s Executive Director Teresa Eyring, Nathan Lane, Brian Dennehy, Bob Falls