NEW YORK CITY: On May 5, Silver Anderson, representing Milwaukee Repertory Theater, gained True Colors Theatre Company’s 2025 Next Narrative National Monologue Competition (NNMC) National Finals at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theatre. Chiedza Mahuni from the Tulsa Performing Arts Center positioned second, and Ja’Kyah Jackson from Atlanta’s True Colors Theatre Company completed third. The occasion was hosted by True Colors inventive director Jamil Jude and author/performer Roger Q. Mason, and judged by Ngozi Anyanwu, Brittanny Bradford, Andre Minkins, Ricardo Vazquez, and Evette Marie White. Students participated in a workshop from Phylicia Rashad throughout their all-expense-paid journey to New York City.
Anderson, who obtained the $3,000 prime prize, carried out “Shame” by Cheryl L. West. Mahuni, who carried out “Young Mother” by Dominic Taylor, obtained $2,000, whereas Jackson gained $1,000 for performing “Young Mother” by Nubia Monks. Finalists have been Spirit Waddell (True Colors Theatre Company), Adrian Sanchez and Joud Alkhalifa (the Huntington), Gabrielle Couts and Kerion Gordon (Dallas’s Southern Methodist University), Cameron Ritchie and Kamea J. Richardson (Kansas City Melting Pot Theatre), Thatcher Jacobs (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Dayton Jackson and Ken-Niyah Woods (Pittsburgh’s Bill Nunn Theatre Outreach Project), Ava Simone Cabine and Judah Forrester (Portland’s World Stage Theatre), Tyanna Curry and Giselle Kendrick (Seattle Rep), and Shawnna’lee Davis (Tulsa Performing Arts Center).
Launched 4 years in the past, NNMC options authentic monologues commissioned particularly for the competitors from 31 main up to date Black playwrights. NNMC is an evolution of Atlanta-based True Colors’ authentic monologue competitors, which featured the monologues of August Wilson and ran from its creation in 2007 till 2021.
NEW YORK CITY: Actors’ Equity Foundation introduced the recipients of its 2025 Performance Awards. They will likely be offered in New York City and honor performers within the 2024-2025 season on June 23, in a ceremony that will even embody the Foundation’s humanitarian Patrick Quinn Award, the ACCA Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus (winners to be introduced) and the Paul Robeson Award, beforehand introduced to be awarded to Leslie Ishii.
The Richard Seff Award, given to 2 veteran character actors who’re 50 years outdated or older and have been Equity members for 25 years or longer, will likely be awarded to Jessica Hecht (Eureka Day) and Francis Jue (Yellow Face). The Clarence Derwent Award for the 2 most promising performances of the season from early-career performers will likely be given to Nicholas Barasch (Pirates! The Penzance Musical) and Julia Lester (All Nighter). The Joe A. Callaway Award for the 2 finest performances in a classical play will likely be awarded to Steven Epp (Henry IV) and Kimber Elayne Sprawl (Othello). The Michael McCarty Recognition Award, honoring established Los Angeles-based Equity actors who’ve constructed their lives in that metropolis’s theatre scene, will likely be awarded to Jennifer Leigh Warren.
NEW YORK CITY: The Outer Critics Circle Awards introduced its 2025 award winners on May 12. The musical Maybe Happy Ending took essentially the most wins, garnering 4: the highest honor of Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Outstanding Book and Score for Will Aronson and Hue Park, and Outstanding Direction of a Broadway Musical for Michael Arden. Death Becomes Her obtained 12 nominations, however didn’t win any.
Other prime awards included Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor Is The Villain for Outstanding New Broadway Play (which additionally obtained recognition for Danya Taymor’s course), DRAG: The Musical for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical (which additionally garnered Nick Adams recognition as Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical), and Roundabout Theatre Company’s Liberation by Bess Wohl for Outstanding New Play. George Clooney and Grant Heslov obtained the John Gassner award for brand new playwrights for Good Night, and Good Luck. As for the revivals, Cats: The Jellicle Ball and Andrew Scott’s Vanya took the honors.
Additional large winners included BOOP! The Musical, which obtained three wins for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical for Jasmine Amy Rogers, choreography for Jerry Mitchell and costume design for Gregg Barnes; and Stranger Things: The First Shadow, which led in design classes, together with Best Scenic Design for Miriam Buether, Jamie Harrison, and Chris Fisher, Sound Design for Paul Arditti and Lighting Design for Jon Clark.
Sarah Snook was acknowledged for Outstanding Solo Performance for her flip in The Picture of Dorian Gray (for which David Bergman was additionally acknowledged for his video/projections design). Laura Donnelly of The Hills of California and Francis Jue of David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face have been acknowledged as Outstanding Lead Performers of Broadway performs, and Adam Driver gained Outstanding Lead Performer of an Off-Broadway Play for Hold On to Me Darling at Atlantic Theater Company. Winning featured performers included Jak Malone for Operation Mincemeat, André De Shields for Cats: The Jellicle Ball, and Michael Rishawn for Table 17. Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber’s orchestrations have been acknowledged for Just in Time.
ST. PAUL, MINN.: The Playwrights Center introduced their 2025-2027 Jerome and Many Voices Fellows on May 6. These artists would be the second group to hitch because the phrases of those fellowships have been expanded to 2 years, and the primary to expertise the total tenure of their fellowships from the Center’s new dwelling in St. Paul. For the Jerome Fellowship, returning fellow Michelle De Joya and new fellow Sharifa Kazmeen have been chosen. The Many Voices fellows will likely be playwright Vinecia Coleman, who goals to inform tales that target the Black feminine expertise; Minnesota-born playwright Bianca Nkwonta, who’s excited to jot down about her personal group; and Tejana playwright, inventive collaborator, and photographer J. Isabel Salazar.
NEW YORK CITY: The Tony Awards Administration Committee introduced that, primarily based on the advice of the American Theatre Critics Association, the Muny—the frequent identify for the Municipal Theatre Association of St. Louis—would be the recipient of the 2025 Regional Theatre Tony Award. The honor, recognizing a regional theatre firm that has displayed a steady stage of inventive achievement contributing to the expansion of theatre nationally, is accompanied by a grant of $25,000, made attainable by City National Bank. For extra, learn the breaking information right here.
NEW YORK CITY: On May 5, the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins took dwelling the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Purpose, simply hours after receiving the Steinberg Prize, and on the identical day he was additionally acknowledged by the New York Drama Critics Circle. The Pulitzer finalists have been Oh, Mary! by Cole Escola and The Ally by Itamar Moses. For the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, theatre critics have been acknowledged, together with finalists Sara Holdren and Vinson Cunningham, each of The New Yorker. For extra, learn the breaking information right here.
NEW YORK CITY: The New York Drama Critics’ Circle met to find out their 2025 award winners on May 5. Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins gained Best Play for Purpose, and Will Aronson and Hue Park’s Maybe Happy Ending was acknowledged for Best Musical. Andrew Scott was awarded for Best Individual Performance for Vanya, and Best Ensemble Performance was given to the solid of Bess Wohl’s Liberation. Special citations got to Cole Escola for Oh, Mary!, the revival of Cats: The Jellicle Ball, and David Greenspan for lifetime achievement. The awards will likely be given in a ceremony on May 15.
COSTA MESA, CALIF.: The Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Awards recipients have been named on May 5. The award acknowledges an impressive script that premiered in knowledgeable manufacturing outdoors of New York City. Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins gained the award for the Steppenwolf Theatre run of his new play, Purpose. Steinberg finalists have been The Janeiad by Anna Ziegler on the Alley Theatre, and Little Bear Ridge by Samuel D. Hunter on the Steppenwolf. Additionally, for his play Judgment Day, Rob Ulin obtained the 2025 M. Elizabeth Osborne Award, which acknowledges the work of an rising playwright who has not but obtained a serious New York manufacturing or nationwide award, with a prize of $3,000.
HILLSBORO, ORE.: In honor of National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives, Native Theater Project awarded 4 money prizes of $250 to playwrights with new performs addressing MMIR: Marci Rendon, Carolyn Dunn, Isabella Madrigal, and Honokee Dunn. NTP will even develop I is For Invisible by DeLanna Studi over the approaching 12 months with Advance Gender Equity within the Arts (AGE) and Bag&Baggage Productions (B&B), culminating in a public presentation at Bag&Baggage’s The Vault Theater on subsequent 12 months’s National Day of Awareness for MMIR. For extra, learn the breaking information right here.
NEW YORK CITY: At the fortieth Lucille Lortel Awards at NYU Skirball on May 4, the highest honors for Outstanding Play went to New York Theatre Workshop and Tectonic Theater Project’s Here There Are Blueberries by Moises Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, and Outstanding Musical went to Signature Theatre Company’s Three Houses by Dave Malloy. Andrew Scott’s Vanya gained for Outstanding Solo Show, and MART Foundation and Arlekin Players’ Our Class, written by Tadeusz Slobodzianek and tailored by Norman Allen, gained 4 awards, together with Outstanding Revival, Outstanding Ensemble, and Outstanding Director for Igor Golyak. Special honorees included new Playwrights’ Sidewalk inductee Alice Childress, Outstanding Body of Work honoree New Federal Theatre, and Edith Oliver Service to Off-Broadway honoree Carol Fishman.
NEW YORK CITY: On May 1, winners of the 2025 Doris Duke Artist Awards have been introduced. Theatre artists among the many recipients this 12 months are Raja Feather Kelly of A Strange Loop, Aya Ogawa of The Nosebleed, and Kaneza Schaal of Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now. Trajal Harrell, Kassa Overall, and Brandee Younger have been additionally acknowledged. Each winner will obtain $525,000 over seven years, and an incentive of as much as $25,000 to avoid wasting for retirement. The awards are the most important U.S. prize devoted to performing artists on this planet of theatre, jazz, and dance.
NEW YORK CITY: The Broadway Stage Management Symposium introduced the 5 recipients for the 2025 Charlie Blackwell Symposium Scholarships for BIPOC stage managers on April 23. Ryann Nicole (Fort Lewis College), Kaitlyn Dorsey (Howard University), LaMarr White, Jr. (Jackson State University), Larry Gill (Coppin University), and Amaya Jacques (NYC-based stage supervisor with nationwide tour and regional theatre credit) will be a part of the convention and acquire one-on-one mentorship from adjudicators. They have been chosen by a panel that included Narda E. Alcorn, Kenneth J. McGee, Cody Renard Richard, Lisa Dawn Cave, and Beverly Jenkins. The scholarship is called for Charlie Blackwell, a Black stage supervisor with Broadway credit.
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