"Off-Off-Broadway -- No Limits!!"
This year's OOBR Awards were to be held at the Union Square Theatre. No more! As a result of the show SURVIVING GRACE's closing, the Awards are going to the Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane. If you are a producer of a show that is winning an award, please let all your people know!
The following productions are being honored with OOBR Awards. Follow the links for exhaustive lists of the personnel who put on each production.
The awards are scheduled to be held at the Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane near the W. 4th St. station on Sixth Ave., on Monday, June 24 at 7 p.m. Admission is $20 (at the door; no credit cards, please!). In addition to the awards ceremony, there will be entertainment and refreshments.
If you were involved in one of these shows and want to come to the awards, please contact your producer and ask to be added to the number of reservations for that group. If you are no longer in touch with the producer (or if you just want to come to the awards), call (212) 691-2014 and leave your name, company affiliation if any, and the number of people in your party.
Some of the awards are "Favorite Show" awards, given by reviewers in recognition of their favorite shows. Others are "Category Awards," given in recognition of particular facets (Design, Directing, etc.) that stand out above the everyday standard Off-Off-Broadway. Everyone involved in each show, regardless of whether it is a Favorite Show or Category Award, will receive a personalized certificate, suitable for framing (the names of the recipients are under the links from each title). There are also a couple of awards to theatre companies, the principals of which will receive certificates.
The Awaited Visit by James Comtois (Nosedive Productions)
The Beginning of the And by Daniel Roberts and Sam Roberts (Audax Productions)
De Donde by Mary Gallagher (Barefoot Productions)
The Emperor Jones (NTID Performing Arts and Ebony Club/Interborough Repertory Theater)
Evergreen (4th Unity)
The Father by August Strindberg (Yahoo Escadrille Theatre Co.)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (The Willful Company)
John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen (Century Center)
Lesbian Pulp-O-Rama! Created and performed by The Sassmasters
of On the Verge Theatre Company
The Misanthrope (Boomerang Theater Company)
Moonchildren (Oberon Theater Company)
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (Love Creek Productions)
Possible Worlds by John Mighton (Method2Madness Theater Co.)
The Six Characters written, developed and performed by The Six Characters Troupe
(Fractured Atlas Productions)
The Stranger adapted and directed by Frank Cwiklik (Horse Trade Theater Group and Danse Macabre Theatrics)
The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder (5th Ave. Presbyterian Church)
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (New Perspectives)
Tango Masculino Book & lyrics by Clint Jefferies
Music by Paul L. Johnson (Wings Theatre Co.) Directed by Jeffery Corrick
Victims of Duty by Eugene Ionesco (Subjective Theatre Co.)
Vital Children's Theater Co.
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare (Safe Haven Productions/The Bard's Wench)
Special Achievement Award
Untitled Theater Company #61 (David Einhorn and Edward Einhorn) for producing the Ionesco Festival
There is no dress code at the OOBR Awards, but this year I'd like to encourage the flamboyant, the elegant, the exuberant. Only grunge is not especially appreciated, but you can dress as you like.