DUMBO

First gala in new St. Ann’s Warehouse honors collaborators, raises $650K

June 18, 2015 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
St. Ann’s Warehouse on Tuesday presented “Lights Up,” its 2015 gala in the organization’s highly anticipated, nearly complete new theater at the historic waterfront Tobacco Warehouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Eagle photos by Cody Brooks. For more photos from this event, visit BrooklynArchive.com
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St. Ann’s Warehouse presented its 2015 gala “Lights Up,” in the organization’s highly anticipated, nearly complete new theater at the historic waterfront Tobacco Warehouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park on Tuesday.

The event, which raised $650,000, honored artists Steven Hoggett, John Tiffany and Enda Walsh, who have made St. Ann’s Warehouse their American artistic home since 2007. The honored artists have produced works such as the National Theatre of Scotland’s “Black Watch” and Druid Ireland’s “The Walworth Farce,” and more recent hits including Walsh’s “Misterman” and this season’s “Let the Right One In,” directed by Tiffany with Hoggett as associate director / movement.

Add the Best Musical Tony-winner “Once,” by all three artists, and Tiffany and Hoggett’s Broadway production of “The Glass Menagerie,” and Hoggett, Tiffany and Walsh have entered the ranks of New York’s — and the world’s — most beloved theater-makers. Through decades of collaborations with these and other innovators, St. Ann’s has established itself as an indispensable force on the New York and international cultural landscapes.

Attorneys Willkie Farr & Gallagher were also honored and have provided St. Ann’s with a steady, guiding hand for more than 20 years and played an important role in navigating St. Ann’s on the journey to the Tobacco Warehouse, which opens this fall. As the first event in the organization’s new home, near the end of a two-year construction process, the “Lights Up” gala marks a major milestone.

The gala began with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in the lobby, followed by a concert in the new theater. The performers were Alan Cumming (star of John Tiffany’s “Macbeth”) and his frequent collaborator Lance Horne, Glen Hansard (Oscar-winning songwriter and star of the film “Once,” adapted by Enda Walsh for the Broadway production directed by Tiffany and choreographed by Hoggett), Cristin Milioti (star of “Once” on Broadway), Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond), and a band led by Music Director Thomas Bartlett (Doveman), who also directed “The Wrecking Ball,” St. Ann’s final gala in its previous home at 38 Water St.

A family-style dinner was catered by Food in Motion, after which the evening concluded with dessert and a dance party featuring DJ Herbert Holler of Freedom Party.

St. Ann’s has transformed the Tobacco Warehouse — originally constructed in 1860, roofless and in disrepair for decades — into a 25,000-square-foot cultural space for innovative theater productions and special concert presentations. The theater design recreates the flexible, open footprint that has drawn artists and audiences to St. Ann’s since the organization opened its first DUMBO warehouse venue at 38 Water St. in 2001. The versatile theater allows artists to stretch, both literally and imaginatively, enabling them to work with unfettered creativity, adapting the theater to a configuration that suits their needs.

For more photos from this event, visit BrooklynArchive.com

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