Paper Mill Playhouse is a regional theater containing approximately 1,200 seats located in Millburn , within Essex County , New Jersey , United States, on the banks of the Rahway River . Due to its relative proximity to Manhattan , the theater draws from the pool of actors (and audience members) who live in New York City . Paper Mill was officially designated as the "State Theater of New Jersey". From 1971 to 2008, Paper Mill held the New Jersey Ballet as its resident ballet company, with the annual production of Nutcracker until the premiere 25th Anniversary tour of Les Misérables took up the ballet's performance slot. Mark S. Hoebee serves as the producing artistic director, and is often credited as saving the Paper Mill during the financial crisis in 2008.
34-565: In 2016, the playhouse received the Regional Theatre Tony Award . In March 1795, Sam Campbell built The Thistle Paper Mill on land along the Rahway River in the town of Millville, later renamed Millburn. Campbell ran his business for about 20 years until he was forced to close down due to a fire. The building remained vacant for several years and ownership changed several times. In the late 1870s, Diamond Mill Paper Company took over
68-833: A naturalised citizen of the United States. Redgrave was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2002 New Year Honours for services to acting and the cinema and to the British community in Los Angeles. Redgrave discussed her health problems associated with bulimia and breast cancer. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2002, had a mastectomy in January 2003 and underwent chemotherapy . She ultimately died from
102-1089: A Major Impact and Distinguished Arts Organization by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Through the years, Paper Mill Playhouse has welcomed such talent as Christopher Patterson, Gloria Stuart , Alice Ripley , Eddie Bracken , Laura Benanti (Rising Star Award winner), Orson Bean , Betty Buckley , Carol Channing , Kristin Chenoweth , Christine Ebersole , George S. Irving , Tiffany Giardina , Laurence Guittard , Anne Hathaway (Paper Mill Conservatory alumna and Rising Star Award nominee), Shanice Williams (Paper Mill Conservatory alumna, Rising Star Award nominee, and Adopt-A-School participant), Dee Hoty , John Mahoney , Dorothy Louden , Donna McKechnie , Ann Miller , Stephanie Mills , Liza Minnelli , Estelle Parsons , Bernadette Peters , Chita Rivera , Tony Roberts , Ali Brustofski , Patrick Swayze , Karen Ziemba , Adrian Zmed , Nick Jonas (actor, singer and member of
136-680: A Musical/Comedy, as well as earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress . Redgrave made her Broadway debut in 1967 and performed in several stage productions in New York City while making frequent returns to London's West End . Redgrave performed with her sister Vanessa in Three Sisters in London and in the title role of Baby Jane Hudson in a television production of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? in 1991. Redgrave made
170-1116: A large theater school offering a variety of classes. They have also run classes for developmentally disabled students with VSA New Jersey. Starting in 1996, the Paper Mill holds annual Rising Star Awards (modeled after the Tony Awards ) every spring, honoring excellence in high school theater performances across the state of New Jersey Nick Scafuto as “J. Bowden Hapgood” - Bridgewater-Raritan High School - Anyone Can Whistle Katie Adams - Morristown High School - Anything Goes Oscar Grob as “Mr. Wormwood” - Ridge High School - Matilda Elijah Dor as George - Morris Knolls High School - The Drowsy Chaperone Amanda Muldowney as Annie Reilly - Southern Regional High School - 42nd Street Jonathan Dayton High School - Heathers: School Edition Moorestown High School - Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella [REDACTED] Media related to Paper Mill Playhouse at Wikimedia Commons Regional Theatre Tony Award The Regional Theatre Tony Award
204-495: A minimum weekly salary which is smaller than what Broadway productions must pay their actors; Paper Mill is also allowed to cast a minimal amount of non-union actors, which is forbidden for Broadway shows. This gives Paper Mill the ability to produce shows on a larger scale than most Broadway productions (and in a shorter amount of time). It is a member company of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance . Paper Mill also has
238-694: A recommendation by the American Theatre Critics Association ", and includes a grant of $ 25,000. As the American Theatre Critics Association has noted, no theater has won the award more than once, "testifying to the growing strength of professional theater nationwide." One of the objects of the award is promoting what often amounts to the incubators of new productions. In June 2013, the Tony Awards Administration Committee stated that effective with
272-478: A return to cinema in the late 1990s, in films such as Shine (1996) and Gods and Monsters (1998), for which she received her second Academy Award nomination and won a Golden Globe Award For Best Supporting Actress. Lynn Redgrave is the only person to have been nominated for all of the ' Big Four ' American entertainment awards ( Emmy , Grammy , Oscar and Tony , collectively known when all four have been won as " EGOT ") – without winning any of them. Redgrave
306-531: Is a special recognition Tony Award given annually to a regional theater company in the United States. The winner is recommended by a committee of drama critics . Initially presented in 1948 to Robert Porterfield of the Virginia Barter Theatre for their Contribution To Development Of Regional Theatre , the Regional Theatre awards were next presented starting in 1976. The award is "based on
340-520: The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Talking Heads . Redgrave became well-known in the United States after appearing in the television series House Calls , for which she received an Emmy nomination. She was fired from the series after she insisted on bringing her child to rehearsals so as to continue a breastfeeding schedule. A lawsuit ensued but
374-859: The Garrick , David Hare 's Slag at the Royal Court and Born Yesterday , directed by Tom Stoppard at Greenwich in 1973. Redgrave returned to Broadway in 1974, in My Fat Friend . There soon followed Knock Knock with Charles Durning , Mrs. Warren's Profession (for a Tony nomination) with Ruth Gordon and Saint Joan . During the 1985–86 season she appeared with Rex Harrison , Claudette Colbert and Jeremy Brett in Aren't We All? , and with Mary Tyler Moore in A. R. Gurney 's Sweet Sue . In 1983, Redgrave played Cleopatra in an American television version of Antony and Cleopatra opposite Timothy Dalton . She
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#1732851677528408-982: The Haymarket , in N. C. Hunter 's The Tulip Tree with Celia Johnson and John Clements . She was invited to join the National Theatre for its inaugural season at the Old Vic , working with such directors as Laurence Olivier , Franco Zeffirelli and Noël Coward in roles like Rose in The Recruiting Officer , Barblin in Andorra , Jackie in Hay Fever , Kattrin in Mother Courage , Miss Prue in Love for Love and Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing , which kept her busy for
442-546: The New Jersey Ballet staged its first production of The Nutcracker at Paper Mill with world-renowned dancer Edward Villella in the role of the Cavalier. The Nutcracker production has been produced annually at Paper Mill since then. In 1972, Governor of New Jersey William Cahill proclaimed Paper Mill the "Official State Theater of New Jersey." The theater has been cited as a State Center of Artistic Excellence and as
476-562: The 2013-14 season, "New York-based theatre companies will be eligible to receive the Regional Theatre Award." The Broadway League and American Theatre Wing, in a joint statement, explained: "New York has some of the most prestigious and creative theatre groups in the country and we are thrilled to include the New York theatre community in this category." Lynn Redgrave Lynn Rachel Redgrave OBE (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010)
510-786: The Christmas carol Silent Night . She starred with Stewart Granger and Ricardo Montalbán in a Hollywood production of Don Juan in Hell in the early winter of 1991. With her sister Vanessa as Olga, she returned to the London stage playing Masha in Three Sisters in 1991 at the Queen's Theatre , London, and later played the title role in a television production of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? again with her sister. Highlights of her early film career also include The National Health , Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) , The Happy Hooker and Getting It Right . In
544-434: The Paper Mill reopened for their first theatrical production since the fire. This period of time became the focal point of a lawsuit between the theater and Millburn on whether or not they would be exempt from property taxes during the time the property was not in use. Founded in 1934, Paper Mill Playhouse raised the curtain on its first performance with Gregorio Martinez Sierra ’s The Kingdom of God on November 14, 1938. By
578-825: The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. In 1993, she was elected president of the Players' Club . In 2005, Redgrave appeared at Quinnipiac University and Connecticut College in the play Sisters of the Garden , about the sisters Fanny and Rebekka Mendelssohn and Nadia and Lili Boulanger . She was also reported to be writing a one-woman play about her battle with breast cancer and her 2003 mastectomy , based on her book Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer with photos by her daughter Annabel and text by Redgrave herself. In September 2006, she appeared in Nightingale ,
612-472: The Township of Millburn voted to purchase building and four acres of land the Paper Mill sits on for $ 9 million. They have entered into a 75-year lease with the theater; and its operations will remain independent. Prior to this deal the Paper Mill had accumulated $ 4.5 million in debt. Based on the terms of the lease, the Paper Mill would pay $ 1 for the first two years. After 2 years the rent would grow to equal 1% of
646-900: The U.S. premiere of her new one-woman play based upon her maternal grandmother Beatrice, at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum . She also performed the play in May 2007 at Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut . In 2007, she appeared in an episode of Desperate Housewives as Dahlia Hainsworth, the mother of Susan Delfino 's boyfriend Ian Hainsworth. In 2009, she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame . Redgrave narrated approximately 20 audiobooks, including Prince Caspian: The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis for Harper Audio and Inkheart by Cornelia Funke for Listening Library. On 2 April 1967, Lynn Redgrave married actor John Clark . Together they had three children. Her marriage to Clark
680-659: The United States she was seen in such television series as Teachers Only , House Calls , Centennial and Chicken Soup . She also starred in BBC productions such as The Faint-Hearted Feminist , A Woman Alone , Death of a Son , Calling the Shots and Fighting Back . She played Broadway again in Moon Over Buffalo (1996) with co-star Robert Goulet and starred in the world premiere of Tennessee Williams ' The Notebook of Trigorin , based on Anton Chekhov 's The Seagull . She won
714-666: The band the Jonas Brothers ), Bailey Hanks (the winner of Legally Blonde: The Musical – The Search for Elle Woods ), Lynn Redgrave , Lorna Luft , David Garrison , Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , Mickey Rooney , Barbara Rush , Betsy Palmer , Robert Horton , Vivian Vance , Jerome Hines , Sarah Hyland , Shelley Winters , Hugh O'Brian , Gloria Swanson , Georgia Engel , and Gavin Lee among many. In April 2003, Michael Gennaro, former executive director of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater, joined Paper Mill as president and CEO. Paper Mill Playhouse
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#1732851677528748-461: The basis of her one-woman play Shakespeare for My Father . In 1989, she appeared on Broadway in Love Letters with her husband John Clark , and thereafter they performed the play around the country, on one occasion for the jury in the O. J. Simpson case. In 1993, she appeared on Broadway in the one-woman play Shakespeare for My Father , which Clark produced and directed. She was nominated for
782-762: The cancer at her home in Kent, Connecticut on 2 May 2010, aged 67. Redgrave's funeral was held on 8 May 2010 at the First Congregational Church in Kent. She was interred in St Peter's Episcopal Cemetery in the hamlet of Lithgow, New York , where her mother Rachel Kempson and her niece Natasha Richardson are also interred. In 2012, the Folger Shakespeare Library acquired Redgrave's collection of personal papers and photographs. In 2001, Lynn Redgrave received
816-874: The end of the first year, Carrington had coaxed entertainer Irene Castle out of retirement to make her dramatic debut in Noël Coward ’s Shadow Play . The first few years featured a variety of classical and modern plays. By 1941, the Playhouse had begun to specialize in operettas , which it continued until the early 1950s. Change marked this period in Paper Mill’s history, especially with Miss Scudder’s death in 1958. Angelo Del Rossi joined as associate producer in 1964, working closely with Carrington until his death in 1975. Del Rossi became executive producer and remained in that role for nearly 40 years until his death in August 2014. In 1971,
850-789: The next three years. During that time, she appeared in films such as Tom Jones (1963), Girl with Green Eyes (1964), The Deadly Affair (1966), and the title role in Georgy Girl (also 1966, and which featured her mother, Rachel Kempson). For the last of these roles, she gained the New York Film Critics Award , the Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. In 1967, she made her Broadway debut in Black Comedy with Michael Crawford and Geraldine Page . London appearances included Michael Frayn 's The Two of Us with Richard Briers at
884-437: The property and used it for their paper making business until 1928. Writer and performer Antoinette Scudder, along with actor and director Frank Carrington formed a partnership in the late 1920s to create their own theater. They eventually found the vacant mill, and spent many years working on it, turning it into a theater. Another fire in 1980 changed the course of the theater, and it closed for rebuilding. On October 30, 1982,
918-508: The theater's annual operation income. The Paper Mill maintained an option to repurchase the property from the town after 11 years of the lease. The artistic director at the time, Mark S. Hoebee, is attributed with saving the Paper Mill. Paper Mill is a member of the Council of Stock Theatres (COST), a group of theaters who join to negotiate with the various unions that are involved in stage productions. COST's contract with Actors' Equity allows for
952-571: Was silent screen leading man Roy Redgrave . Redgrave dropped out early in 1959 from Queensgate School which she had joined to train as a professional show jumper. After training at London's Central School of Speech and Drama , Redgrave made her professional debut in a 1962 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Court Theatre . Following a tour of Billy Liar and repertory work in Dundee , she made her West End debut at
986-453: Was a British-American actress. She won two Golden Globe Awards during her career. A member of the Redgrave family of actors, Lynn trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. By the mid-1960s, she had appeared in several films, including Tom Jones (1963) and Georgy Girl (1966), which won her a New York Film Critics Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in
1020-578: Was born in Marylebone , London, the youngest child of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson . Her sister is actress Vanessa Redgrave ; her brother was actor and political activist Corin Redgrave . She was the aunt of writer/director Carlo Gabriel Nero and of actresses Joely Richardson , Jemma Redgrave and Natasha Richardson , and the sister-in-law of director Tony Richardson , actress Kika Markham and Italian actor Franco Nero . Her grandfather
1054-456: Was dismissed a few years later. Following that, she appeared in a long-running series of television commercials for H. J. Heinz Company , then the manufacturer of the weight loss foods for Weight Watchers , a Heinz subsidiary. Her signature line for the ads was "This Is Living, Not Dieting!". She wrote a book of her life experiences with the same title, which included a selection of Weight Watchers recipes. The autobiographical section later became
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1088-432: Was dissolved in 2000, two years after he revealed that he had had an affair with her personal assistant, and that Lynn's supposed grandson was in fact Clark's own son by the personal assistant, who had married (and subsequently divorced) Clark and Regrave's son. The divorce proceedings were acrimonious and became front-page news, with Clark alleging that Redgrave had also been unfaithful. On 5 January 1998, Redgrave became
1122-645: Was in Misalliance in Chicago with Irene Worth (earning the Sarah Siddons and Joseph Jefferson awards), Twelfth Night at the American Shakespeare Festival, California Suite , The King and I , Hellzapoppin' , Les Dames du Jeudi , Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Cherry Orchard . In 1988, she narrated a dramatised television documentary, Silent Mouse , which told the story of the creation of
1156-770: Was one of the first theaters to begin the regional theater movement in the United States. It has grown to be one of the most acclaimed not-for-profit professional theaters in the country, and attracts more than 450,000 people annually, and has one of the largest subscription based audiences. On April 3, 2007, Paper Mill announced that it would need $ 1.5 million to open its season and an equal amount to complete its season, or it would be forced to close its doors. On April 6, 2007, Paper Mill announced that it had received $ 300,000, enough to cover costs of rehearsals and preview performances for its production of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers . Paper Mill announced that it would have to do more well-known shows to stay in business. On June 17, 2008,
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