THE OFF-BROADWAY ALLIANCE
ANNOUNCES THE 2024 AWARDS NOMINATIONS 

LEGENDS OF OFF-BROADWAY, OFF-BROADWAY HALL OF FAME, 
AND FRIEND OF OFF-BROADWAY RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED


LEGEND OF OFF-BROADWAY AWARDS
MARY LOUISE BURKE
LEN CARIOU
SUZAN-LORI PARKS


OFF-BROADWAY HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
CHRISTOPHER DURANG
MICHAEL FEINGOLD
EDGAR LANSBURY

FRIEND OF OFF-BROADWAY AWARD
ADAM FELDMAN

(New York, NY): The Off Broadway Alliance an organization of Off Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals, has announced the nominees for the 13th Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, honoring commercial and not-for-profit productions that opened Off Broadway during the 2023-2024 season. 
 
Awards will be presented in six competitive categories: Best New Musical, Best New Play, Best Revival,  Best Unique Theatrical Experience, Best Solo Performance, and Best Family Show.  
In addition to the competitive awards, the Legend of Off-Broadway Awards will be presented to actors Marylouise Burke and Len Cariou, and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks for their extraordinary contributions over many years. Playwright/performer Christopher Durang, writer Michael Feingold, and producer Edgar Lansbury will be posthumously inducted into the Off Broadway Hall of Fame.  The Friend of Off-Broadway Award will be presented to Adam Feldman, National Theater and Dance Editor and Chief Theater Critic at Time Out New York.

 
The 2023 Off Broadway Alliance Awards Nominations & Honorees Are:
 
 

Best New Musical 
Buena Vista Social Club 
Dead Outlaw
Lizard Boy 
The Connector
The Gardens of Anuncia
 
Best New Play
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors 
Infinite Life
Job 
Oh, Mary!
Stereophonic 

Best Revival
I Can Get It for You Wholesale 
Pericles 
The Habit of Art
Translations 
Tuesdays With Morrie 
 
Best Solo Performance
Patrick Page in All the Devils Are Here
Rachel Bloom in Death, Let Me Do My Show
John Rubinstein in Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground
Jes Tom in Less Lonely
Wade McCollum in Make Me Gorgeous!

 
Best Unique Theatrical Experience
Dungeons & Dragons The Twenty-Sided Tavern
Grenfell: in the words of survivors
Mind Mangler: A Night of Tragic Illusion 
Stalker
The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers 
 
 
Best Family Show
Cat Kid Comic Club
El Otro Oz
Pinocchio
 

Legend of Off-Broadway Award
Marylouise Burke
Len Cariou
Suzan-Lori Parks
 
Off-Broadway Hall of Fame Inductees
Christopher Durang
Michael Feingold
Edgar Lansbury
 
Friend of Off-Broadway 
Adam Feldman

 

ABOUT THE HONOREES
 
LEGENDS OF OFF-BROADWAY

Marylouise Burke won a Drama Desk Award for her performance in Fuddy Meers at Manhattan Theatre Club and an Obie Award in 2014 for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Her Broadway credits include Into the Woods, Inherit the Wind, and Is He Dead?. Off-Broadway, she was seen recently in Rx; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; The Savannah Disputation; The Oldest Profession; Kimberly Akimbo; and Wonder of the World. She has appeared in many films, including Sideways, Series 7, Doubt, Ira & Abby, A Prairie Home Companion, Must Love Dogs, Meet Joe Black, and Sleepwalk With Me. Her television appearances include “Alpha House,” “30 Rock,” “Fringe,” “Law & Order,” and “Hung.”
 
Len Cariou made his first appearance in Damn Yankees at Rainbow Stage in Winnipeg in 1959, and was a founding member of the Manitoba Theatre Centre. Cariou also became a lead actor at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis in the 1960s, where he played Orlando in As You Like It; Agamemnon in Tyrone Guthrie’s compilation of The House of Atreus; Iago; Oberon; and the title roles in Henry V, Oedipus the King, and King Lear. He also was an associate director. In 1968, Cariou made his Broadway debut in The House of Atreus. Two years later, Cariou landed his first starring role opposite Lauren Bacall in Applause, a musical adaptation of the film All About Eve. It earned him a Tony Award nomination as Best Actor in a Musical and won him the Theatre World Award. In 1973, he received his second Tony nomination for A Little Night Music; he reprised the role of Fredrik for the 1977 film version opposite Elizabeth Taylor. Six years later he won both the Tony and Drama Desk Award for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in the Stephen Sondheim musical opposite Angela Lansbury. His off-Broadway appearances include Master Class, Papa (an Ernest Hemingway one-man show) and Mountain (Justice William O. Douglas). He appeared as Cap’n Andy in the national tour of Show Boat opposite Cloris Leachman.
 
Suzan-Lori Parks is a multi-award-winning American writer/musician and the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Topdog/Underdog which recently enjoyed its twentieth-anniversary Broadway revival. The production won both the 2023 Tony Award (Best Revival of a Play) and the Outer Critics Circle Award. Just last year, in 2023, Parks also had three new works which all received world premieres: at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Sally & Tom (Steinberg New Play Award finalist) at Joe’s Pub in New York City, Plays for the Plague Year (winner of The Drama Desk Award for Best Music in a Play), and, at the Public Theatre, Parks world-premiered a musical adaptation of the 1972 film The Harder They Come (winner: Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical.) Parks’ other notable works for theatre include: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical), Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Musical, White Noise, The Book of Grace, In the Blood, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, The America Play, Father Comes Home From The Wars Parts 1,2,&3 and Fucking A.  Parks’ marathon writing “diary play” 365 Days/365 Plays— her first project in which she wrote a play a day for an entire year—was produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in theater history.
 
Off Broadway Hall of Fame Inductees

Christopher Durang (1/2/49 – 4/2/24) was a playwright whose plays include A History of the American Film (Tony nomination, Best Book of a Musical), The Actor’s Nightmare, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (Obie Award), Beyond Therapy (with Dianne Wiest and John Lithgow), Baby with the Bathwater (Playwrights Horizons), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Public Theatre, Obie Award, Dramatists Guild Hull Warriner Award), Laughing Wild (Playwrights Horizons), Durang/Durang (an evening of six plays at Manhattan Theatre Club, including the Tennessee Williams’ parody, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls), Sex and Longing (starring Sigourney Weaver), and Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie Award). The musical Adrift in Macao, with music by Peter Melnick and book and lyrics by Durang, premiered at New York Stage and Film in the summer of 2002. Durang is also a performer and acted with E. Katherine Kerr in the N.Y. premiere of Laughing Wild and with Jean Smart in the L.A. production. He shared the acting ensemble Obie for The Marriage of Bette and Boo, and with John Augustine and Sherry Anderson performed his crackpot cabaret Chris Durang and Dawne at the Criterion Center, Caroline’s Comedy Club, Williamstown Summer Cabaret, and the Triad, winning a 1996 Bistro Award. In the early 80s, he and Sigourney Weaver co-wrote and performed their acclaimed Brecht-Weill parody, Das Lusitania Songspiel, and were both nominated for Drama Desk awards for Best Performer in a Musical. In 1993 he sang in the off-Broadway Sondheim revue, Putting It Together, with Julie Andrews at the Manhattan Theatre Club and he played a singing Congressman in the Encores presentation of Call Me Madam with Tyne Daly. In films, he has appeared in The Secret of My Success, Mr. North, The Butcher’s Wife, Housesitter, and The Cowboy Way, among others. His most recent play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike moved to Broadway following runs at Lincoln Center and McCarter Theater. It won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play.
 
Michael Feingold (5/5/45 – 11/21/22) was born in Chicago, Illinois, and studied at Columbia University and the Yale School of Drama.  After graduating from Yale, he read scripts for The New Theatre Workshop and began to freelance as a critic, mainly for The Village Voice, where he eventually became a staff writer and chief theatre critic. Regionally he worked as Literary Manager of the Yale Repertory Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, and the American Repertory Theatre, and as a dramaturg and critic-teacher at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Feingold also provided translations for the Broadway productions of Brecht/Weill’s Happy End (1977) and The Threepenny Opera (1989) and has translated operas including Brecht/Weill  Mahagonny, Offenbach’s La Perichole, Donizetti’s Viva La Mamma, Marschner’s  Der Vampyr, and Penderecki’s The Black Mask. In addition to writing regularly for The Village Voice, from 2013-2017 Feingold wrote essays for TheaterMania under the column title “Thinking About Theater,” for which he received the 2013-14 George Jean Nathan Award, making him one of the few critics to win the award a second time.  He had previously won it for his Village Voice writing in 1995-96. For his work, he has also twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.
 
Edgar Lansbury (1/12/30 – 5/2/24) once said “Of my work in the theater I am particularly proud of the musical Promenade; The Subject Was Roses; the musical The Magic Show with Doug Henning that re-introduced magic to the Great White Way; a revival of the musical Gypsy that starred sister Angela in New York, London, and elsewhere in the U.S.; the musical Godspell in productions in New York, London, Paris, and throughout the U.S.; David Mamet’s Broadway debut American Buffalo; the musical Lennon; As Bees in Honey Drown that won a Drama Desk nomination; the first revival of Waiting for Godot, directed by Allan Schneider; and Long Day’s Journey into Night with a cast that included Robert Ryan, Stacey Keach, and Geraldine Fitzgerald.
 
 
Friend of Off Broadway 

Adam Feldman is the National Theater and Dance Editor and chief theater critic at Time Out New York, where he has been on staff since 2003. He covers Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway theater, as well as cabaret and dance shows and other events of interest in New York City. He is the President of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle, a position he has held since 2005. He was a regular cohost of the public television show “Theater Talk,” and served as the contributing Broadway editor for the Theatre World book series. A graduate of Harvard University, he lives in Greenwich Village, where he dabbles in piano-bar singing on a more-than-regular basis.

 
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