The winners of the 58h Annual OBIE Awards were announced tonight at Webster Hall.
And the winners were:
Performance
Eisa Davis
Sustained Excellence
Brandon J. Dirden
The Piano Lesson (Signature Theatre)
Shuler Hensley
The Whale (Playwrights Horizons)
Matthew Maher
Sustained Excellence
Paul Thureen
Blood Play (The Debate Society/Bushwick Starr)
Playwriting
Ayad Akhtar
Disgraced (LCT3)
Annie Baker
The Flick (Playwrights Horizons)
Direction
Lear deBessonet
The Good Person Of Szechuan (Foundry Theatre/La MaMa)
John Rando
All In The Timing (Primary Stages)
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
The Piano Lesson (Signature Theatre)
Eric Ting
We Are Proud To Present A Presentation... (Soho Rep)
Design
Laura Jellinek
Sustained excellence of Set Design
Clint Ramos
Sustained excellence of Costume Design
Special Citations
David Levine and Marsha Ginsberg
Habit (Crossing the Line Festival/FIAF & PS122)
Dave Malloy and Rachel Chavkin
Natasha, Pierre + The Great Comet of 1812 (Ars Nova)
Nature Theater of Oklahoma
Life and Times: Episodes 1-4 (Public Theater/SoRep)
Music/Lyrics
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim
Here Lies Love (Public Theater)
The Ross Wetzsteon Award (with check for $1,000)
Clubbed Thumb
Grants
Fulcrum Theater ($1,000)
Half Straddle ($1,000)
Best New American Play (tie With $500 to each playwright)
Lisa D’Amour, Detroit
Julia Jarcho, Grimly Handsome
Lifetime Achievement
Lois Smith
Frances Sternhagen
Monday, May 20, 2013
The 2013 Off-Broadway Drama Desk Winners
The 2013 Drama Desk Awards were announced on Sunday and although the nominations were pretty evenly distributed between Broadway and Off-Broadway, it was mostly Broadway shows that walked away with trophies.
So a special congratulations to all of the Off-Broadway winners this year:
Outstanding Music: David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, Here Lies Love [Public Theater]
Outstanding Lighting Design: Justin Townsend, Here Lies Love [Public Theater]
Outstanding Projection Design: Peter Nigrini, Here Lies Love [Public Theater]
Outstanding Solo Performance: Michael Urie, Buyer + Cellar [Rattlestick]
Outstanding Revue: Old Hats [Signature Theater]
Unique Theatrical Experience: Cirque Du Soleil: Totem [We're really not sure if Cirque du Soleil counts as Off-Broadway]
Friday, May 17, 2013
7 Show To See In June 2013
The "Broadway" season may be winding down, but things are heating up Beyond Broadway! Here are 7 shows not to miss in June 2013!
SONTAG: REBORN
New York Theater Workshop brings back terrific The Builders Association production of Moe Angelos' Sontag Reborn. Originally presented as part of the Under The Radar Festival in 2012, Angelos portrays the noted thinker as a young adult, forming who she will become. The show provides fascinating insight into Susan Sontag, the person.
SONTAG: REBORN
Based on the books by Susan Sontag
and edited by David Rieff
Adapted and performed by Moe Angelos
Directed by Marianne Weems
Tuesday, May 28th - Sunday, June 30th
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
For Tickets and Info: Click Here
Phoebe in Winter
La Brea
The Wild Project
195 E. 3rd Street
(between Ave. A and B)
New York, NY 10009
For Tickets and Info: Click Here
The Comedy of Errors
Daniel Sullivan directs the first production of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors to hit the Delacorte in twenty years. (The last one featured Elizabeth Franz, Boyd Gaines and Marissa Tomei in 1992.) This time around, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Hamish Linklater star in this broad comedy about identical twins separated at birth and mistaken identities.
This production has an unusual 8:30pm start time but the running time is listed as only 90 minutes. But knowing these two actors, I'd expected it to run longer at times!
The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival presents
The Comedy of Errors
with Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Hamish Linklater
directed by Daniel Sullivan
May 28th - June 30th
Delacorte Theater
Central Park
Enter at West 81st Street
Tickets are free, but can be a challenge to get. For more information: Click Here
MANNA-HATA
Peculiar Works Project, known for their nifty site-specific performances, will next take on nothing less than the 400-year history of New York City. MANNA-HATA written by Barry Rowell, directed by Rowell and Kathleen Amshoff. will take place at the James A. Farley Post Office on 8th Avenue, soon to become part of history itself when it becomes Moynihan Station.
MANNA-HATA (from the indigenous Lenape tribe's name for the island) is the extraordinary true story of the transformation of New York City from a small island to a booming metropolis. Featuring famous scoundrels (Peter Stuyvesant, Boss Tweed, Robert Moses); artistic legends (Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker); and other beloved City figures (Emily Roebling, Jane Jacobs, Shirley Chisholm), MANNA-HATA shares tales of graft, oppression, and violence, as well as stories, poems and songs of love dedicated to the Great City herself.
The 21-member cast, playing all of the live music and over 100 roles, includes Everett Quinton, Christopher Hurt, Catherine Porter and Cherrye Davis.
Peculiar Works Project presents
MANNA-HATA
by Barry Rowell
directed by Barry Rowell and Kathleen Amshoff
Friday, June 7 - Sunday, June 23, 2013
James A. Farley Post Office
425 Eighth Avenue
(enter on West 31st Street, just west of 8th Avenue)
Tickets are $18, and must be purchased in advance!
For Tickets and Info: Click Here
SOUND SCAPE
This summer, The Brick Theater puts sound designers center stage in what promises to be a truly unique approach to their annual summer festivals.
Some of the highlights include:
The Brick Theater presents
SOUND SCAPE
June 7 - 29th, 2013
Brick Theater
579 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
For Tickets and Info:Click Here
The Apothetae's mission is to produce works written and performed by disabled actors and writers. inspired on the book of the same name by Gouverneur Morris, The Penalty follows a tale of revenge by a physically deformed derelict as he works his way across a cold and unforgiving New York City. His cohorts are a bevy of dancing girls who inhabit the bars and dance halls of the Lower East Side. Gregory Mozgala will recreate the role first portrayed by Lon Chaney in the 1920's film adaptation.
Dixon Place and The Apothetae present
Robert M. Johanson is the genius behind the music of Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Life and Times!
June 13th - 29th
For Tickets and Info: Click Here
The Painted Bird Trilogy
(Bastard, Amidst, and Strange Cargo)
Presented previously in its individual parts, LaMama ETC now presents Pavel Zustiak and Palissimo Company's The Painted Bird Trilogy in its entirety. This four-hour epic is inspired by the classic and controversial novel of the same name by Polish-born author Jerzy Kosinski. The allegorical novel tells the story of a young boy making his way through war-time Eastern Europe and a brilliantly painted bird that is violently killed by its own flock, which mistakes it for an imposter.
LaMama ETC presents
Pavel Zustiak and Palissimo Company's
The Painted Bird Trilogy
(Bastard, Amidst, and Strange Cargo)
June 21st - June 30th, 2013
Ellen Stewart Theater
66 E 4th St New York
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: $60 for all three parts (4 hours with two intermissions)
For Tickets and Info: Click Here
SONTAG: REBORN
New York Theater Workshop brings back terrific The Builders Association production of Moe Angelos' Sontag Reborn. Originally presented as part of the Under The Radar Festival in 2012, Angelos portrays the noted thinker as a young adult, forming who she will become. The show provides fascinating insight into Susan Sontag, the person.
SONTAG: REBORN
Based on the books by Susan Sontag
and edited by David Rieff
Adapted and performed by Moe Angelos
Directed by Marianne Weems
Tuesday, May 28th - Sunday, June 30th
New York Theatre Workshop
79 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
For Tickets and Info: Click Here
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Clubbed Thumb's SUMMERWORKS
One of our favorite events of the year is Clubbed Thumb's SummerWorks, three more-than-workshop productions of three new plays, usually quirky. This year's offerings are:
Baby Screams Miracle
by Clare Barron
directed by Portia Krieger
Phoebe in Winter
by Jen Silverman
directed by Mike Donahue
La Brea
by Gregory S. Moss
directed by Adam Greenfield
Clubbed Thumb presents
Summerworks 2013
May 24 – June 29, 2013The Wild Project
195 E. 3rd Street
(between Ave. A and B)
New York, NY 10009
For Tickets and Info: Click Here
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Daniel Sullivan directs the first production of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors to hit the Delacorte in twenty years. (The last one featured Elizabeth Franz, Boyd Gaines and Marissa Tomei in 1992.) This time around, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Hamish Linklater star in this broad comedy about identical twins separated at birth and mistaken identities.
This production has an unusual 8:30pm start time but the running time is listed as only 90 minutes. But knowing these two actors, I'd expected it to run longer at times!
The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival presents
The Comedy of Errors
with Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Hamish Linklater
directed by Daniel Sullivan
May 28th - June 30th
Delacorte Theater
Central Park
Enter at West 81st Street
Tickets are free, but can be a challenge to get. For more information: Click Here
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Peculiar Works Project, known for their nifty site-specific performances, will next take on nothing less than the 400-year history of New York City. MANNA-HATA written by Barry Rowell, directed by Rowell and Kathleen Amshoff. will take place at the James A. Farley Post Office on 8th Avenue, soon to become part of history itself when it becomes Moynihan Station.
MANNA-HATA (from the indigenous Lenape tribe's name for the island) is the extraordinary true story of the transformation of New York City from a small island to a booming metropolis. Featuring famous scoundrels (Peter Stuyvesant, Boss Tweed, Robert Moses); artistic legends (Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker); and other beloved City figures (Emily Roebling, Jane Jacobs, Shirley Chisholm), MANNA-HATA shares tales of graft, oppression, and violence, as well as stories, poems and songs of love dedicated to the Great City herself.
The 21-member cast, playing all of the live music and over 100 roles, includes Everett Quinton, Christopher Hurt, Catherine Porter and Cherrye Davis.
Peculiar Works Project presents
MANNA-HATA
by Barry Rowell
directed by Barry Rowell and Kathleen Amshoff
Friday, June 7 - Sunday, June 23, 2013
James A. Farley Post Office
425 Eighth Avenue
(enter on West 31st Street, just west of 8th Avenue)
Tickets are $18, and must be purchased in advance!
For Tickets and Info: Click Here
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SOUND SCAPE
This summer, The Brick Theater puts sound designers center stage in what promises to be a truly unique approach to their annual summer festivals.
Some of the highlights include:
- Cliff House's The Beckett Cycle looks at Beckett's radio and television plays.
- Six of Six Productions' Commotion Collage is based on Dadaist Simultaneous and Sound Poems.
- Submerged presents a sound and music driven adaptation of Dante's Inferno.
- Tux + Tom Productions' ELE↓↑TOR will transform the stage of the Brick Theater into a dangerously malfunctioning elevator making its way to the 80th floor of the Empire State Building.
- 31 Down will tackle Alvin Lucier's I am Sitting in a Room.
- 13 Chairs will present Tangerine EP, Tommy Smith's sonic retelling of drugged seduction in Homer’s The Odyssey
- Christopher Loar's The Theoretical Physics of Procrastination is a solo performance connecting procrastination, creativity and global warming using lip-syncing and video.
- The Fifth Wall's The True History of the Tragic Life and Triumphant Death of Julia Pastrana, The Ugliest Woman in the World by Shaun Prendergast and directed by Gyda Arber, is performed entirely in the dark.
The Brick Theater presents
SOUND SCAPE
June 7 - 29th, 2013
Brick Theater
579 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
For Tickets and Info:Click Here
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The Penalty
The Apothetae's mission is to produce works written and performed by disabled actors and writers. inspired on the book of the same name by Gouverneur Morris, The Penalty follows a tale of revenge by a physically deformed derelict as he works his way across a cold and unforgiving New York City. His cohorts are a bevy of dancing girls who inhabit the bars and dance halls of the Lower East Side. Gregory Mozgala will recreate the role first portrayed by Lon Chaney in the 1920's film adaptation.
Dixon Place and The Apothetae present
The Penalty
Written by Clay McLeod Chapman
Directed by Kris Thor
Music and Lyrics by Robert M. Johanson and Clay McLeod Chapman
Robert M. Johanson is the genius behind the music of Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Life and Times!
June 13th - 29th
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002
$15 in advance ($18 door / $12 Students & Seniors)
For Tickets and Info: Click Here
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The Painted Bird Trilogy
(Bastard, Amidst, and Strange Cargo)
Presented previously in its individual parts, LaMama ETC now presents Pavel Zustiak and Palissimo Company's The Painted Bird Trilogy in its entirety. This four-hour epic is inspired by the classic and controversial novel of the same name by Polish-born author Jerzy Kosinski. The allegorical novel tells the story of a young boy making his way through war-time Eastern Europe and a brilliantly painted bird that is violently killed by its own flock, which mistakes it for an imposter.
LaMama ETC presents
Pavel Zustiak and Palissimo Company's
The Painted Bird Trilogy
(Bastard, Amidst, and Strange Cargo)
June 21st - June 30th, 2013
Ellen Stewart Theater
66 E 4th St New York
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: $60 for all three parts (4 hours with two intermissions)
For Tickets and Info: Click Here
Thursday, May 16, 2013
ICE FACTORY'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
Ice Factory runs June 26 - August 3, 2013 at the New Ohio Theater.
June 26–29
THE ASSEMBLY
THAT POOR DREAM
Created by the company, written by Stephen Aubrey, directed by Jess Chayes Set entirely on a MetroNorth train traveling from New York City to Fairfield, Connecticut, THAT POOR DREAM draws on the company’s own complex relationship to class identity and economic disparity in American society. Inspired by Great Expectations, Charles Dickens’s classic novel about coming of age in a profoundly class-conscious society. MORE
July 3–6
SIGHTLINE
MY MACHINE IS POWERED BY CLOCKS
Written by B. Walker Sampson, directed by Matt Stone and Calla Videt, and choreographed by Jeff and Rick Kuperman Imagine the day when time travel is a common thing. When a future can be seen and a past, changed. But everything is stacked upon everything else. Maybe you can escape your own time, but you may lose focus. You may even forget who you are.
July 10–13
THE MAD ONES
UNTITLED BIOPIC PROJECT
Created by The Mad Ones A hallucinatory meditation on 1960s folk rock culture and the confines of motel room 118. From the creators of the acclaimed Drama Desk Nominated Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War and The Tremendous Tremendous. This is the final installment of their Performer Trilogy.
July 17–20
COLLABORATIONTOWN
HELP ME TO MAKE IT
Written and created by Boo Killebrew, Geoffrey Decas O'Donnell, and Jordan Seavey, directed by Lee Sunday Evans, co-created with Lee Sunday Evans and TJ Witham Multiple generations struggle from inside the architecture of contemporary families, as questions arise about fidelity, sexuality, gender, and the myths created to help us comprehend. Personal moments of everyday existence add up to lifetimes of monumental compassion, devastating betrayal, and inevitable transformation.
July 24–27
BUILT FOR COLLAPSE
RED WEDNESDAY
Conceived by the company, written and directed by Sanaz Ghajarrahimi, and choreographed by Ben Hobbs Travel through 4700 years of weddings, wars, teahouses, gardens, and dinner parties in this operatic multi-media spectacle that unpacks the core issues between Iran, Western and global interests. Examines the struggles and dreams of a family born into war and revolution, asking: how will we continue forward in a world consumed by fire?
July 31–August 3
ANONYMOUS ENSEMBLE
I LAND
Created by the company Spend an evening on an island far from your daily lives – an island inhabited by your inner life. This meticulously crafted performance event investigates the evolution of our imagination as the audience is lead on an expedition into an uncharted terrain of commonplace fantasies and wildly improbable realities.
For Tickets and Info: Click Here
Monday, May 13, 2013
2013 Sundance Theater Lab
The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
By Adam Bock
Directed by Trip Cullman
"Meet the Colby sisters of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Five sisters, 'It girls' slightly past their time, living in New York City, trying to figure out how to put up with each other. Family. What are you going to do?"
The Fre
By Taylor Mac
Directed by Lisa Peterson
"This project is part of Mac's Kothornos Festival (four plays that will premiere separately but ultimately be performed in an all-day festival mirrored after the Greek Dionysia). It is an all-ages play written in the form of Old Comedy. It is the story of an intellectual aesthete, who is trapped inside a mud pit in the middle of a swamp, and his desperate attempt at escaping the swamp's fatuous inhabitants who call themselves, the Fre."
Really Really Really Really Really
By Jackie Sibblies Drury
Directed by Dan Rothenberg
"Sibblies Drury's play centers on two women (the Mother and the Girlfriend of a conceptual artist who has vanished) leaving them to sort through his overwhelming body of work. It is a piece about artists, legacy and photography that asks about what we try to leave behind, what we actually leave behind, and how we deal with being left."
The Vengeance Project
By Paula Vogel
Directed by Rachel Taichman
"Vogel's latest play follows the circuitous path of Scholem Asch's play God of Vengeance from 1905 Warsaw to 1951 Stamford Connecticut. It chronicles a contentious work written by a young man during the Yiddish Renaissance: from the fights in the salon after its first reading in Warsaw to its triumph on Second Avenue New York—and onward to 1923 Broadway. What should be the pinnacle of the Yiddish theatre crossing over to the Great White Way becomes a spectacle of scandal: prosecution for obscenity, struggles over anti-Semitism, and oh yes, the first kiss between two women on the American stage. When does one fight to produce a manuscript? When does prudence dictate a manuscript stays in the drawer? And when should an author burn his/her own script?"
War is F**king Awesome
By Qui Nguyen
Directed by Liesl Tommy
"A politically incorrect action-comedy following the life of Unity Spencer, a young colonial girl imbued with immortality but cursed to fight in every American conflict from the American Revolution to present day and beyond."
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Outer Critics Circle Award Winners
The Outer Critics Circle Awards designate certain awards for Broadway and for Off Broadway, but the acting awards can be for either. This year, not a single performance award was given to a non-Broadway performance.
Here are the Off Broadway winners:
Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Bad Jews
Cock
My Name is Asher Lev*
Really Really
The Whale
Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical
February House
Dogfight
Giant
Here Lies Love*
Murder Ballad
John Gassner Award (Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Ayad Akhtar Disgraced
Paul Downs Colaizzo Really Really
Joshua Harmon Bad Jews
Samuel D. Hunter The Whale
Aaron Posner My Name is Asher Lev*
Special Achievement Award
Irish Repertory Theatre Charlotte Moore, artistic director and Ciarán O'Reilly, producing director in recognition of 25 years of producing outstanding theatre.
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
2013 Off Broadway Alliance Awards Nominations
Best New Musical
F#%king Up Everything
Here Lies Love
Murder Ballad
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
The Other Josh Cohen
Best New Play
Cock
Disgraced
Finks
My Name is Asher Lev
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Best Musical Revival
Closer Than Ever
The Good Person of Szechwan
The Last Five Years
New Girl In Town
Passion
Best Play Revival
All in the Timing
Golden Child
The Piano Lesson
Talley’s Folly
Uncle Vanya
Best Unique Theatrical Experience
Buyer and Cellar
Ingenious Nature
Jukebox Jackie
Old Jews Telling Jokes
Old Man and the Old Moon
In addition to the above competitive awards, Off Broadway Alliance Legend of Off Broadway Awards will be presented for sustained achievement in the world of Off-Broadway to: Christopher Durang
A.R. Gurney
Kristine Nielsen
Daryl Roth
Stomp
and Sigourney Weaver
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