The Tony Awards Administration Committee announced on Friday the Nominating Committee for the 2011-2012 Broadway season. This committee attends all productions during the upcoming season and meets on the designated date determined by the Administration Committee to vote on the Tony nominees. The committee has been expanded to 35 members for this season and includes the following:John Arnone – Scenic Designer*Victoria Bailey – Executive Director, Theatre Development FundDavid Caddick – Music SupervisorKathleen Chalfant – Actor Hope Clarke – Stage Director/Choreographer/Actor Douglas J. Cohen – Composer/Lyricist/Playwright*André de Shields - ActorEdgar Dobie –Managing Director, Arena Stage Washington, DC Gordon Edelstein – Artistic Director of Long Wharf Theatre Beverly Emmons – Lighting DesignerBert Fink – Senior Vice President/Communications, Rodgers & Hammerstein*Boyd Gaines – Actor*Michael Greif – DirectorKathryn Grody – Actor/Writer*Paulette Haupt – Director of the Music Theatre Conference at The O'Neill CenterSusan Hilferty – Costume Designer*Mark Hollmann – Composer/LyricistAbe Jacob – Sound Designer*Robert...
- 6/17/2011
- by help@backstage.com (Lisa Eadicicco)
- backstage.com
Shakespeare's "King Lear," featuring alternating star turns by Dakin Matthews and Harry Groener; Rogue Machine's searing family drama "Four Places"; and Fountain Theatre's powerful "The Ballad of Emmett Till" are among the most-honored productions in the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle's 42nd annual awards nominations, announced today. The annual citations salute excellence in L.A.-area theater productions during 2010. Winners will be announced during a ceremony at Burbank's Colony Theatre on March 14. Joining the aforementioned shows in contention for the coveted production award are the Fountain's "Opus," the Actors' Co-op's "Wit," and two world premiere offerings: Del Shores' "Yellow" (Coast Playhouse) and Tom Jacobson's "The Twentieth-Century Way" (Theatre @ Boston Court). Shores' "Yellow" has also been named as the recipient of the Ted Schmitt Award for outstanding world premiere script, accompanied by a $1,000 award from Samuel French, which also extends an offer to publish it.Among other special recipients...
- 1/25/2011
- backstage.com
If you were guessing the locale of a leading regional American theater known for championing new, experimental work, you might first suggest San Francisco, Minneapolis, or Seattle. If someone prompted, "Think Texas," your mind would likely leap to Austin. Unless you were in the know about such things, you wouldn't name the Undermain Theatre, in Dallas."The Undermain is an unsung American treasure, and more people should know about it," says Len Jenkin, the Obie Award–winning, New York–based playwright whose "Port Twilight, or A History of Science" is currently enjoying its world premiere on the Undermain stage. "The Undermain is able to do a really extraordinary thing," Jenkin notes, "in that in a much more conservative town than some others in the United States, they're able to do the most adventurous kind of theater work, to do it really well, to do it imaginatively, and to keep doing it.
- 12/9/2009
- backstage.com
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