Audra McDonald, Mel Brooks & More to Receive National Medal of Arts from President Obama
Tony winners Audra McDonald and Mel Brooks, as well as the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, are among the recipients of the 2015 National Medal of Arts. They will be presented with their honors by President Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House on September 22. The event will be streamed live. McDonald won her history-making sixth Tony Award in 2014 for Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill; the mo…