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All photos taken by Justin Hoch – www.jhoch.com.


From left: André De Shields, Impressionism; Geoffrey Rush, Exit the King; Joan Allen, Impressionism; Colin Hanks, 33 Variations; Janet McTeer, Mary Stuart; John Glover, Waiting for Godot; Lauren Ambrose, Exit the King; Marcia Gay Harden, God of Carnage; Jeremy Irons, Impressionism; Hope Davis, God of Carnage; James Gandolfini, God of Carnage; Andrea Martin, Exit the King; Steven Weber, The Philanthropist; Marsha Mason, Impressionism; Matthew Broderick, The Philanthropist; Jeff Daniels, God of Carnage; Nathan Lane, Waiting for Godot; Michael T. Weiss, Impressionism; Harriet Walter, Mary Stuart; Susan Sarandon, Exit the King; Jane Fonda, 33 Variations; Tovah Feldshuh, Irena’s Vow; David Hyde Pierce, Accent on Youth; Samantha Mathis, 33 Variations; Bill Irwin, Waiting for Godot. Photograph by Mark Seliger; styled by Christine Hahn
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PORTRAIT & BEHIND-THE-SCENES VIDEO
For the June 2009 issue, Vanity Fair gathered 25 acclaimed Broadway stars of stage and screen for an original portrait taken by famed photographer Mark Seliger. The actors featured are now appearing on the New York stage in some of the hottest Broadway plays of the spring season.
For the shoot in late February, the actors arrived at Seliger Studios early in the morning for a light breakfast and a chance to catch-up with old friends, new friends and long-time colleagues. As they all started to fill the small studio space, their connection to each other was undeniable. Some had appeared together on stage or screen, some had passing social connections, and some met colleagues they long-admired for the first time. Since the photo shoot, the actors have met up with each other socially between performances and even had the chance to see their colleagues in action on stage.
The actors featured in the portrait include: 33 Variations’ Jane Fonda, Colin Hanks & Samantha Mathis; Accent on Youth’s David Hyde Pierce; Exit the King’s Geoffrey Rush, Susan Sarandon, Lauren Ambrose & Andrea Martin; God of Carnage’s Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini & Marcia Gay Harden; Impressionism’s Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Andrè De Shields, Marsha Mason and Michael T. Weiss; Irena’s Vow’s Tovah Feldshuh; Mary Stuart’s Janet McTeer & Harriet Walter; The Philanthropist’s Matthew Broderick & Steven Weber; Waiting for Godot’s Nathan Lane, Bill Irwin & John Glover.
To see this once in a lifetime gathering of actors, check out the June 2009 issue of Vanity Fair on stands Wednesday, May 6th. Click here for a special preview of the feature and footage from the shoot.
Mark Seliger and Vanity Fair have generously donated two prints of the portrait to Broadway Cares / Equity Fights Aids. BC/EFA will have the prints signed and auctioned at a future event.
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From Women’s Wear Daily:

Francesca Bortolotto Possati is the chief of the Bauer hotel group in Venice, Italy. The forty-something Francesca Bortolotto Possati, is the owner of Venice’s Bauer hotel, and it has been home to her family for generations. Francesca grew up in a splendid 17th-century palazzo on the Grand Canal and now lives in another one nearby with her teenage daughter. Her looks are so characteristic of the “Serene Republic,” as Venice was once known, that you can’t miss her resemblance to the women who inhabit the paintings of Bellini, Veronese and Titian, except that she wears Caraceni, Hermes and Armani. Tall, with flowing, fair hair and eyes the pale blue of the city’s skies, she is met most mornings by a redwood motorboat at the dock outside her palazzo. She rides up the Grand Canal to the Bauer, which her late grandfather, a Genoan shipping tycoon, bought in the 1940s after he moved to Venice to marry her Venetian grandmother.
Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute Explores Role of Fashion Models as Muses of Recent Eras
* Gala Benefit May 4, 2009, with Honorary Chair Marc Jacobs and Co-Chairs Kate Moss, Justin Timberlake, and Anna Wintour
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion, the spring 2009 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, focusing on iconic fashion models in the latter half of the 20th century and their roles in projecting, and sometimes inspiring, the fashion of their respective eras. The exhibition is on view at the Metropolitan from May 6 through August 9, 2009.
The exhibition is made possible by Marc Jacobs. Additional support is provided by Condé Nast.
“The exhibition examines a timeline of fashion from 1947 to 1997 through the idealized aesthetic of the fashion model,” said Harold Koda, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute. “We look at the power of clothing, fashion photography, and the model to project the look of an era. With a mere gesture, a truly stellar model can sum up the attitude of her time – becoming not only a muse to designers or photographers, but a muse to a generation.”
To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, the Museum’s Costume Institute Gala Benefit takes place on Monday, May 4, 2009. Marc Jacobs serves as Honorary Chair of the Gala. Co-Chairs are Kate Moss; Justin Timberlake; and Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue. This fundraising event is The Costume Institute’s main source of annual funding for exhibitions, acquisitions, and capital improvements.
The exhibition features approximately 80 masterworks of haute couture and ready-to-wear. Fashion editorial, advertising, and runway photography plus large- scale projections from feature films are used throughout the galleries to contextualize the fashion zeitgeist.
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| Jeremy Irons is considered one of the world’s great actors, having won the Oscar, Emmy and Tony awards.
On the silver screen, he has starred in such films as Eragon with Jon Malkovich and Djimon Hounsou, Casanova co-starred opposite Heath Ledger, David Lynch’s Inland Empire, Being Julia opposite Annette Bening, The Merchant of Venice, co-starring Al Pacino, Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven co-starred opposite Orlando Bloom, Appaloosa with Viggo Mortensen and Renee Zellweger, Man in the Iron Mask, in which he co-starred with Leonardo DiCaprio, The Mission with Robert De Niro. Irons played opposite Meryl Streep in The French Lieutenant’s Woman, David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers, M. Butterfly, Lolita, Die Hard with a Vengeance, co-starring Bruce Willis, and Reversal of Fortune with Glenn Close – the film based on Claus von Bulow. For this performance, Irons received the 1990 Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. On television Irons performance as Charles Ryder in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited brought him worldwide acclaim, as well as the Oscar and the Golden Globe for Best Actor, and nominations for an Emmy and a British Academy Award. Irons co-starred with Helen Mirren in HBO’s Elizabeth I. His portrayal of the Earl of Leicester won him the Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie of Miniseries. He made his Broadway debut in 1984 in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing opposite Glenn Close, for which he won both the Drama League Award and Tony Award for Best Actor. Impressionism opened on Broadway in 2009. This new Broadway play, written by Michael Jacobs and directed by Jack O’Brien, features Irons as Thomas Buckle. Joan Allen co-stars. Impressionism is produced by Bill Haber and is at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Join us for this rare and intimate lunch with one of the world’s greatest actors, Jeremy Irons. The event will quickly reach capacity. Early RSVPs are suggested here. |
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NEW YORK – MAY 03: Jeremy Irons attends the 2009 Lucille Lortel awards at the Broadway Ballroom at The Marriott Marquis on May 3, 2009 in New York City.
All of these photos have come from the site: Charlie Campbell Photography

Fri. May 1: 8:00 AM, 4:00 PM, 9:00 PM
Sat. May 2: 11:00 PM
Sun. May 3: 12:00 AM
Wed. May 6: 3:00 AM
“A Conversation with Jeremy Irons”
Actor Jeremy Irons discusses his return to Broadway after 25 years in the play, “Impressionism.” Interviewer: Janet Maslin, New York Times daily book critic and former film critic. Taped April 13, 2009.
Times Talks: A Conversation with Jeremy Irons
Taped: 04/13/2009![]()
Actor Jeremy Irons discusses his return to Broadway after 25 years in the play, “Impressionism.” Interviewer: Janet Maslin, New York Times daily book critic and former film critic.
Prod.: New York Times Television & CUNY-TV.

Max Irons is to appear as “Count Max” in the play Wallenstein for the Chichester Festival Theatre.
WALLENSTEIN
By Friedrich Schiller
Adapted by Mike Poulton
With Iain Glen
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Max Irons as Count Max


Minerva Theatre
Positioned in the beautiful surroundings of Oaklands Park, Chichester Festival Theatre is one of the United Kingdom’s flagship theatres, with a dazzling international reputation for producing a wide range of theatrical productions, from musicals and comedies, to classic drama and innovative new writing.
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