Outer Critics Circle announces nominations
Nice Work If You Can Get It leads with 9 nominations. See the full list here. Winners in 23 categories will be announced May 14, with the awards given May 24. ...
Awards and Honors
Nominations for 30th Elliot Norton Awards announced by Boston Theater Critics Association
Elliot Norton Nominations in 24 categories are selected by the 11-member Boston group. Named for the ATCA co-founder, who lived to be 100, the awards will be presented May 21, including a special tribute to Tommy Tune. See the full list here (note link to fuller press release). ...
2012 Pulitzers for drama, criticism
Quiara Alegría Hudes DRAMA: Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes. Finalists: Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz and Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam. CRITICISM: Wesley Morris (Boston Globe, film). Finalists: Philip Kennicott (Washington Post, cultural criticism) and Tobi Tobias (ArtsJournal.com, dance). Read Hudes’ and Morris’ citations here. NOTE that it is now 34 years since a theater critic has...
Playwright Darren Canady wins 2012 Osborn Award
March 28: ATCA announced today that Darren M. Canady has won its Darren Canady2012 M.Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright, recognizing his Brothers of the Dust, which premiered in May 2011 at Congo Square Theatre Company in Chicago, directed by Daniel Bryant. The award will be presented at...
Yussef El Guindi wins $25,000 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for 2012; Ken LaZebnik and A. Rey Pamatmat also cited
ATCA has named Yussef El Guindi’s Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World, a play about immigration and assimilation, winner of the $25,000 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for 2012. The Steinberg/ATCA recognizes the best American scripts that premiered professionally the previous year...
ATCA Names Six Finalists for Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award
ATCA has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2011. The top award of $25,000 and two citations of $7,500 each, plus commemorative...
Theater Hall of Fame inducts 8 with reminiscence, affection and laughter
Ann Roth Meryl Streep was a surprise last-minute addition, presenting her friend, costume designer Ann Roth. She joined the other presenters, Liza Minnelli, Brian Dennehy, Brian Murray, Jane Alexander, Donald Margulies and Phylicia Rashad, speaking respectively for inductees Ben Vereen, George White, Tyne Daly, Elliot Martin, Daniel Sullivan and Woodie King Jr.; the late Paul Sills was represented...
Theater Hall of Fame induction Jan. 30
As previously announced, this year’s class (chosen by an electorate dominated by ATCA members) is Tyne Daly, Ben Vereen, Woodie King Jr., Elliot Martin, Ann Roth, Daniel Sullivan, Paul Sills (posthumous), and George White. Those presenting them will include Liza Minnelli, Brian Dennehy, Brian Murray, Jane Alexander and Phylicia Rashad (all...
2013-14 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
SUSAN SMITH BLACKBURN PRIZE2013- 2014 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED MAJOR AWARD FOR FEMALE PLAYWRIGHTSCELEBRATES THIRTY- SIXTH YEAR “The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has done more than any other single force to get plays by women collected and celebrated, but more importantly, produced.”— Marsha Norman, 1983 Winner for ‘night Mother The Susan...
David Hays inducted
Introduction of David HaysTheater Hall of Fame, January 27, 2014 My name is Julia Hays, David’s daughter, and I’ve known him all my life. His greatest professional pleasure has been to stick with directors and producers. He did nineteen productions with Jose Quintero, and began the O’Neill revival...