66th Obie Awards: Alex Edelman Acceptance Speech
Have you heard the one about the Jewish comedian and the white supremacists? Sounds like the setup for a joke"and, in a way, it is. It's also the building block for a sensational one-man sho…
Have you heard the one about the Jewish comedian and the white supremacists? Sounds like the setup for a joke"and, in a way, it is. It's also the building block for a sensational one-man sho…
Last night, Jessica Chastain, Michelle Yeoh, Brendan Fraser, Jennifer Coolidge, Jean Smart, and more took home SAG Awards. Check out the complete list of winners now!
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And yet, we're still here. Our party is a recognition of just that: tenacity and survival. The point is getting to know each other again, to meet and re-meet, and start to reimagine who we a…
For more than sixty years, the Obie Awards, developed by the Village Voice in 1955, have honored the boundary-pushing achievements of Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway theater, with informal…
In the early days of the pandemic, when all of theater had shut down and a sense of terrible despair and isolation was thick in the air, one company bravely formed to remind us of what hope,…
We sit in a steep bowl, surrounded by 12 singers and six musicians. For the next 90 minutes, in both English and Latin, we are taken on a cosmic musical journey, contemplating the experience…
Nothing is rotten in the state of North Carolina: A backyard barbecue, tacky wedding decor, groovy apparitions, an inappropriate lap dance, a pointed karaoke rendition of Radiohead's "Creep,…
Authentic new plays are a demanding process, and they call for a director with a sixth sense. One who can navigate the multilayered sediment of poetry on the page, while creating an authenti…
Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek heads to the Theatre District with Moulin Rouge! The Musical Tony winner Aaron Tveit to look back on his exciting theater career. Watch…
Lizan Mitchell wins an Obie for her performance in On Sugarland (NYTW). They are the keepers of memory for a community whose rich history could become burdened by immeasurable grief. Sister…
Digital+Virtual+Hybrid Production: Sarah Gancher (Writer), Jared Mezzocchi and Elizabeth Williamson (Directors) Russian Troll Farm (The Civilians, Theater Works Hartford, and TheatreSquared)…
Sanaz Toossi wins Obie Awards for Best New American Play for English (Atlantic Theater Company). In a play about language, every word counts. So, when a playwright tackles identity, intelli…
Stephanie Berry wins Obie Award for her performance in On Sugarland (NYTW). They are the keepers of memory for a community whose rich history could become burdened by immeasurable grief. Si…
Kara Young wins for her Performance in Twelfth Night (The Classical Theatre of Harlem). Whether this actor was shivering post-shipwreck, dashing about in disguise, or dueling with lightsabe…
Creative Team and Ensemble of English (The Atlantic Theater) Knud Adams (Directing), Marsha Ginsberg (Set Design), Enver Chakartash (Costume Design), Reza Behjat (Lighting Design), Sinan Ref…
The Classical Theatre of Harlem with The Ross Wetzsteon Award at the Obie Awards. Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Euripides reinvented, refocused, and revitalized by contemporary Black voices a…
Shaina Taub (Music and Lyrics) for collaboration in the adaptation of As You Like It (The Public) "All the world's a stage." When Shakespeare wrote it, could he ever have imagined it becom…
Laurie Woolery (Director) for collaboration in the adaptation of As You Like It (The Public). "All the world's a stage." When Shakespeare wrote it, could he ever have imagined it becoming …
Brittany Bradford wins Obie for her Performance in Wedding Band (Theatre For a New Audience). Captivating. Heartbreaking. Transcendent. Those were just a few of the adjectives applied to th…
Digital+Virtual+Hybrid Production: Modesto Flako Jimenez (Creator and Writer) Taxilandia (Oye Group | NYTW | Bushwick Starr | The Tank) "Under the seeming disorder of the old city, whereve…
Martyna Majok wins Obie for Playwriting for Sanctuary City (New York Theater Workshop - NYTW). Fractured scenes featuring two teens traverse time and place at lightning speed, while repetit…
The Sol Project wins Theatre Company Obie Award. Transforming advocacy to a national theater movement with wide-ranging results sounds like an impossibility. And yet in just seven years, th…
Aya Ogawa for the Creation, Writing, and Direction of The Nosebleed (Lincoln Center Theater| Japan Society) Failure is almost always something we hide from each other, but this artist dare…
Digital+Virtual+Hybrid Production: Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, Ariel Sibert, Cat RodrÃguez and Rory Pelsue (Creators, Writers, Director) in collaboration with David Bengali (Video Des…