DEWAR'S Hosts Pershing Square Signature Center Opening Gala

Where: Pershing Square Signature Center

Who was there: Guests included Alice Griffin, John Griffin, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Karen Ackman, Bill Ackman, Edward Albee, Laura Linney, Tony Kushner, John Guare, Jim Houghton, Matthew Broderick, Frank Gehry, Barry Diller, Lisa Maria Falcone, Regina Taylor, Deanna Rose, Francesco Clemente, Jonathan Rose, Katori Hall, Alba Clemente, Will Eno, Marin Ireland, Scott Shepard, Leigh Silverman, David Henry Wong, Erika Mallin, and John Guare.

[Photo: Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton via PMc]

Other details: Guests gathered to honor Edward Norton's work on getting the Signature Center completed. Edward Norton sipped on Dewar's Signature to ale his sore throat before giving an emotional acceptance speech about how his grandfather had once commissioned Frank Gehry for a building in New York. Kevin Spacey sipped on Dewar's Sour before performing "The Frogs" by Aristophanes. Laura Linney and her hubby were holding hands checking out "the LINNEY" theater names after her father.

[Edward Norton, Edward Albee, Frank Gehry, James Houghton] [Edward Norton, Kevin Spacey]

[Edward Norton]

[Matthew Broderick] [Laura Linney, Edward Norton]

[Edward Norton] [James Houghton, Kevin Spacey] [Marin Ireland, Scott Shepherd]

[Photos via PMc, via]