The Lawees Are Coming; The Lawees Are Coming!
Our nominees for the 27th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards
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Blank Theater Company will host the 27th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards on Monday, April 10, at the Music Box @ Fonda, 6126 Hollywood Blvd. (near Gower Street). Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; the show starts at 7:30 p.m.
This year’s Lawees honor excellence in Los Angeles theaters of 99 seats or less, in productions that opened between January 1 and December 31, 2005. The evening’s theme is adapted from Blank Theater Company’s production of Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe’s Algonquin Circle–era musical, Wild Party. Please dress in 1929 opulence — you know, the way they dressed when they were having the time of their lives, right before the Crash.
Presenters include Sally Kellerman, Valarie Pettiford, Daisy Eagan, Jane Lanier, Eric Anderson, Michael Kostroff, Sasha Wexler, James Black, Julie Dixon Jackson, Daren Herbert, Nathan Lee Graham, Kristen Benton Chandler, James Black, Sam Zeller and others.
Tickets for nominees are free. Nominees, please RSVP to (323) 993-3693, and somebody will confirm your reservation within a week. You are a nominee if your name appears on the list below or if in the categories of Production of the Year, Revival Production of the Year and Musical of the Year your name appeared in the program of the nominated show as an actor, designer, producer, director, writer, choreographer or stage manager. You are a nominee if in the category of Production Design your name appeared in the program of the nominated show as a producer, director or designer. Finally, you are a nominee if in the categories of Ensemble and Comedy Ensemble your name appeared in the program of the nominated show as an actor.
Tickets for all guests and for the general public are available for $15 plus handing fees, through www.laweekly.com. If you have any difficulties purchasing tickets or any further questions, please call the Theater Awards hotline: (323) 993-3693.
PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR
The Brothers Karamazov, Circle X ? Theater Company at [Inside]? the Ford
Macbeth, BIGHEAD at the? Vineland Theater
Yellowman, Fountain Theater
REVIVAL PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR (of a 20th- or 21st-century work)
Balm in Gilead, Gangbusters Theater? Company at the Met Theater
The Blue Dahlia, Pacific Resident? Theater
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said,? Evidence Room
Permanent Collection, Robey Theater? Company and Greenway Arts Alliance
MUSICAL OF THE YEAR
Blake .?.?. da Musical!, Grove? Theater Center, Burbank
Fellowship!, El Portal Forum Theater
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Open At the Top? Productions at the NoHo Arts Center
J.O.B.: The Hip-Hopera, FDLT Productions and Foreign Affairs Canada at the ? Stella Adler Theater
The Wild Party, Blank Theater Company at the? Hudson Mainstage Theater
DIRECTION
Sam Anderson, Shove,Road Theater Company
Shirley Jo Finney, Yellowman, Fountain Theater
Matt Gottlieb, The Caretaker, Bob’s Your Uncle? and APPLEARTS Productions at the ? Zephyr Theater
Brent Hinkley, Blood! Love! Madness!, The? Actors’ Gang at the Ivy Substation Theater
Fredérique Michel, The Battle: ABC,? City Garage
Stefan Novinsky and Hassan Christopher, J.O.B.: The Hip-Hopera, FDLT Productions? and Foreign Affairs Canada at the? Stella Adler Theater
Eric Tucker, Macbeth, BIGHEAD at? the Vineland Theater
COMEDY DIRECTION
Kelly Ann Ford, The Birds: A Tail of Ornithic? Proportions, TheSpyAnts at McCadden? Place Theater
Jessie Marion, Love Tapes, Sacred Fools? Theater Company
Pat Towne, Gorey Stories, Sacred Fools? Theater Company
ONE-ACT DIRECTION
Aaron White and Jason White, The Dance,? InThaCut Productions at Kaos Network? CineFreestyle Theater
Delroy Lindo, Medal of Honor Rag,? Egyptian Arena Theater
MUSICAL DIRECTION
Carolyn Magnini, Happy End, Pacific? Resident Theater
Joel McCrary, Fellowship!, El Portal? Forum Theater
Dean Mora, The Threepenny Opera,? Open Fist Theater Company
Henry Phillips, Blake .?.?. da Musical!,? Grove Theater Center, Burbank
David O, Wild Party, Blank Theater Company? at the Hudson Mainstage Theater
ENSEMBLE
The Battle: ABC, City Garage
Four, Celebration Theater
The Gary Plays: Girl on a Bed,? Padua Playwrights at the Electric Lodge
Honour, Matrix Theater Company
Mother Courage, Antaeus Company? at NewPlace Theater Center
Pera Palas, Theater @ Boston Court
Shove, Road Theater Company
Yellowman, Fountain Theater
COMEDY ENSEMBLE
The Birds: A Tail of Ornithic Proportions, TheSpyAnts at the McCadden Place Theater
Fellowship!, El Portal Forum Theater
Gorey Stories, Sacred Fools Theater Company
Ruthless!: The Musical, Golden Afternoon? Productions LLC at the Hudson? Mainstage Theater
7 Redneck Cheerleaders, Elephant Theater? Company at the Lillian Theater
Two Gentlemen of Corona, West Coast? Ensemble
LEADING FEMALE PERFORMANCE
Anne Gee Byrd, Mother Courage, Antaeus? Company at NewPlace Theater Center
Shawna Casey, Girl on a Bed, Padua? Playwrights at the Electric Lodge
Josie Gundy, The Threepenny Opera,? Open Fist Theater Company
Shannon Holt, She Stoops to Comedy,? Evidence Room
Robin Riker, Les Liaisons Dangereuses,? Blank Theater Company
Lisa Tharps, Medea, Theater @ Boston Court
LEADING MALE PERFORMANCE
Bill Celentano, Echo’s Hammer, ? Theater @ Boston Court
Nigel Gore, Macbeth, BIGHEAD at the? Vineland Theater
Ben Guillory, Permanent Collection, Robey? Theater Company and Greenway Arts? Alliance
John Fleck, She Stoops to Comedy,? Evidence Room
Robert Mandan, The Caretaker, Bob’s Your? Uncle and APPLEARTS Productions at the? Zephyr Theater
Chris Mulkey, Flags, Odyssey Theater
Durrell Nelson, The Habitation of Dragons,? Actors Co-op
SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE
Kevin Cristaldi, Eddie Legs, Calamity Theater? at the Lillian Theater
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