Guild Hall to Honor Three For Lifetime Achievement

Guild Hall has announced the recipients of the 32nd Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards, which will be presented at a benefit dinner on March 13 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan. Eric Fischl, the academy’s president, will host the event with Marty Cohen, chairman of the Guild Hall board, and Andrea Grover, executive director.

The honorees are Susan Stroman, a theater director and choreographer, whose performing arts award will be presented by John Weidman, a librettist and writer for “Sesame Street”; the landscape designer and environmentalist Edwina von Gal, who will receive her visual arts award from the artist and designer Maya Lin, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz, whose literary arts award will be presented by Alice Quinn, executive director of the Poetry Society of America.

In addition, Roy Furman, a Broadway producer, will present the Special Award for Leadership and Philanthropic Endeavors to Cheryl and Michael Minikes.

Tickets for the benefit, which range in price from $100 to $1,500, can be purchased online at guildhall.org.