8th Annual Lilly Awards Honor Julie Taymor, Denée Benton
May 22 was ladies’ night at Playwrights Horizons. The 8th annual Lilly Awards were handed out to some of the top women theater makers working today. The awards, hosted this year by Tony Award-winning playwright Sarah Jones with presentations from Cynthia Nixon, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and David Henry Hwang, celebrated the achievements of women in American theater. In a riff off the “Miss Golden Globe&rdquo…