This caused such an outcry that they re-enfranchised the members of the New York Drama Critics Circle (see below), but still banned the rest of us*. A few years ago, The Tonys announced they would no longer allow any theater critics to vote. The Tony voters, numbering more than 800 (it fluctuates from year to year), are theater professionals (representatives from various theater unions, for example, including Actors Equity) and press agents, and a handful of critics. The competitive nominees are selected by a rotating group of up to 50 theater professionals, who meet after the Tony eligibility deadline, which this year is April 27. There are also several special awards each year, for example, the Regional Theater Award and the Isabelle Stevenson Award honoring a member of the theater community for their humanitarian efforts. There are currently 26 competitive categories (the two sound award categories, which were eliminated in 2014, were restored in 2018). (The award was named in her honor after her death.) The Tony Awards annually honor work on Broadway, and are the only awards ceremony broadcast on network television (since 1956), which helps explain their prominence. The Tonys, established by the American Theatre Wing in 1947, are named after Antoinette Perry, an actress, director and producer - and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing. In the descriptions of the awards below, I include a link to the lists of last year’s winners, to give a sense of what the categories are (although some have been changed this year, especially in acting categories for the Outer Critics Circle and the Drama Desk awards.) The Tony Awards June 6 67th Annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony at Sardi’s May 29 Drama Desk Award winners announced (tentative date) May 25 Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center May 19 89 th annual Drama League Awards ceremony and announcement at the Ziegfeld Ballroom May 16 Outer Critics Circle Award winners announced May 8 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists announced I’ll be filling in this calendar, and linking to results, as they come in.Īpril 5 Lucille Lortel Award Nominations announcedĪpril 25 Drama League Award nominations announcedĪpril 26 Outer Critics Circle Award Nominations announcedĪpril 27 Drama Desk Awards nominations announcedīroadway shows must open by this date to be eligible for 2023 TonysĪpril 28 Chita Rivera Award nominations announced The pandemic threw off the calendar for three years (the Obie Awards, for example, which were annually held in May before the pandemic, was held in February this year to honor Off and Off-Off Broadway work over the previous three seasons.) Not every date for every annual award has been announced as of this writing, but the schedule is more or less back to normal. Most award ceremonies unfold from now until June. Most nomination announcements usually happen in April and May. Learn some of the illustrious (and sometimes less than illustrious) history of each award, whether New York Drama Critics Circle or the Outer Critics Circle, the Drama League or the Drama Desk, the Tonys or the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (and I throw in a list of playwrights who won the Nobel Prize for Literature) Calendar of Select 2023 NYC Theater Nominations and Awards Why so many? How do they differ? Which are worth paying attention to? (She died in 1923.) But other questions about these awards are harder to answer. Why was Sarah Bernhardt - one of the world’s greatest actresses, who performed in and/or produced more than 40 shows on Broadway - never even nominated for a single Tony, nor any other major New York theater award? The answer is easy: The Tonys and most other New York theater awards didn’t exist during her lifetime.
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