67th Obie Awards: Dickie Hearts Acceptance Speech
The way we gauge excellence in acting is often tied up with how a single language is spoken on stage. But in reality, the ways an actor communicates with their audience are far more expansiv…
The way we gauge excellence in acting is often tied up with how a single language is spoken on stage. But in reality, the ways an actor communicates with their audience are far more expansiv…
Plato describes music as "the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue." To sit in space and feel, not only hear chords, but feel notes and an arrangement of music…
These two performance artists' radical vision of what theater can be has shaped generations of artists since their debut in the 1980s at the WOW Café Theater. For decades, in plays such as …
The minimalism of a perfectly placed slash of light piercing the dark can be as memorable and dramatic as the best writing and acting. From the nightmarishly epic boxing ring of the mind in …
Her Celine Dion impersonation"the physicality, the mannerisms, and the octave-spanning voice"was simply unparalleled. Her ability to be improvisational and impromptu was extraordinary. Her b…
Even after a career of many excellent turns in many excellent roles, this chameleonic actor took it up a notch with a pugnacious performance as a sex offender in DOWNSTATE. Part den mother a…
From the playfully bold pink box of DARK DISABLED STORIES to the minimalist Californian limbo of INFINITE LIFE, and the exacting naturalism of a home in India in PUBLIC OBSCENITIES, this col…
From a dark basement in Germany to a boxing ring set among the ruins of one family's journey to adopt a child, to a home in the suburbs of Arizona that explodes into an alien spaceship, one …
Perhaps the role was not written for him, but it sure feels like it was. The part of Kenneth in Eboni Booth's PRIMARY TRUST demands subtlety, patience, charm, as well as an ability to break …
In this two-hander, there was no hiding or make-believe. Portraying two women trapped in the basement of their own paranoia and ever-growing spiritual and existential psychosis, these two ac…
You cannot stop watching her: whether in Lloyd Suh's poignant Chinese immigrant drama THE FAR COUNTRY, where she plays a bride-to-be and is described as "always dynamic"; when she plays Mora…
Once in a while a collaboration emerges that is so artistically in sync that when you experience the production, you viscerally feel that the story and the direction buoy each other and enco…
The way we gauge excellence in acting is often tied up with how a single language is spoken on stage. But in reality, the ways an actor communicates with their audience are far more expansiv…
The 67th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. The 23 winners are listed below, some of them linked to my reviews BEST NEW AMERICAN PLAY …
This year's honors celebrate Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions from the 2022-2023 season.
The American Theatre Wing has announced the recipients of The 67th Obie Awards. Check out the full list of winners here!
A roundup of prizes, fellowships, and other recognitions.
Tony and Academy Award nominee Colman Domingo will play singer Nat King Cole in a new movie musical. Domingo co-wrote the screenplay and will also helm, in his feature film directing debut. …
In this video, watch as BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge is joined by Jimmy Awards alumni to chat about the special event!
The Obie Awards, the venerable honors for outstanding Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions, is doing away with its annual ceremony and will instead use the funds to provide winners …
The work, following a 17-year-old science prodigy whose biological father unexpectedly enters his life, will be directed by David Esbjornson.
Winners will receive grants ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 to support further growth.
In lieu of the Obie annual awards ceremony, the American Theatre Wing will instead dedicate funds to the support and growth of the artists, by bestowing winners with grants ranging from $1,0…
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded a total of $200,000 in grants to 12 Connecticut arts organizations, including the Amistad Center in Hartford.
Tony Danza will star in an industry reading of new play, Radio Galaxy, next month! Learn more about the reading here!