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Off Broadway Obie Awards To Ditch Annual Ceremony In Favor Of Winner Grants, Ending 68-Year Tradition
The Obie Awards, the venerable honors for outstanding Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions, is doing away with its annual ceremony and will instead use the funds to provide winners with gr…
Select winners of this year’s 67th Obie Awards will be announced Saturday on New York’s Spectrum News NY1 as a special presentation of the channel’s On Stage program hosted by Frank DiLella. “The grants and our relationship with Spectrum News NY1 will provide meaningful support, and more effective, nationwide promotion for these incredible artists, innovators, and theater companies,” Hitchens said. The long list of ceremony hosts has included Shelley Winters (the first, in 1956), Colleen Dewhurst, Elaine May, Groucho Marx, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Harvey Fierstein, Cynthia Nixon, S. Epatha Merkerson, Lea DeLaria, Rachel Bloom and, last year, Crystal Lucas-Perry.
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