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Helen Hayes Awards Non-Resident Production
These Helen Hayes Awards are given for non-resident or touring productions for excellence in their productions in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Production Outstanding Touring Production * 1985 ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' - The Kennedy Center ** ''Cats'' - The National Theatre ** ''Foolsfire'' - Arena Stage ** ''Quilters'' - The National Theatre ** ''The Gospel at Colonus'' - Arena Stage ** ''Torch Song Trilogy'' - The Warner Theatre * 1986 ''La Cage aux Folles'' - The National Theatre ** ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'' - The National Theatre ** '' Kabuki Medea'' - American National Theatre ** ''My One and Only'' - The Kennedy Center ** ''Streamers'' - American National Theatre ** ''Tent Meeting'' - The Kennedy Center Outstanding Production Prior to New York * 1986 ''The Iceman Cometh'' - American National Theatre ** ''Lillian'' - The Kennedy Center ** ''Uptown, It's Hot'' - The Warner Theatre Outstanding Non-Resident Production * 1987 ''A Raisin in the Sun'' - The Kennedy Center ...
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Helen Hayes Award
The Helen Hayes Awards are theater awards recognizing excellence in professional theater in the Washington, D.C. area since 1983. The awards are named in tribute of Helen Hayes, who is also known as the "First Lady of American Theatre." They are presented by Theatre Washington (formerly known as the Helen Hayes Awards organization), sponsored by TodayTix, a ticketing company, and supported in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, The Share Fund, Prince Charitable Trust, and Craig Pascal and Victor Shargai. History In 1983, together with producing partner Arthur Cantor and ''Washington Post'' critic emeritus Richard L. Coe, Broadway producer Bonnie Nelson Schwartz presented a plan for strengthening and cultivating theatre in her home city, Washington, D.C., to the first lady of the American theatre and native Washingtonian, Helen Hayes, who embraced the idea. The Washington ...
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The Gospel At Colonus
''The Gospel at Colonus'' is an African-American musical version of Sophocles's tragedy, ''Oedipus at Colonus. '' The show was created in 1983 by the experimental-theatre director Lee Breuer, one of the founders of the seminal American avant-garde theatre company Mabou Mines, and composer Bob Telson. The musical was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The show had a brief run on Broadway in 1988. Productions ''The Gospel at Colonus'' premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in November to December 1983. The following year it received a production at the Arena Stage in Washington D.C. running from Nov 23, 1984 – Dec 30, 1984 The musical ran at the American Music Theater Festival, Philadelphia, in September 1985.O'Conner, John J"'The Gospel at Colonus' on Great Performances"''The New York Times'', November 8, 1985 A production at the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Ga, in 1987 included Morgan Freeman and the Blind Boys of Alabama. ''The Gospel at Colo ...
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Warner Theatre (Washington, D
Warner Theatre or Warner Theater may refer to: Australia * Warner Theatre, Adelaide, built as Majestic Theatre in 1916, now demolished United Kingdom *Vue West End in Leicester Square, London, from 1938 to 1981 known as The Warner Theatre United States * Hollywood Pacific Theatre, formerly the Warner Hollywood Theatre, Los Angeles, California * Mark Strand Theatre, later RKO Warner Twin Theatre, New York City * Powers Auditorium, previously Warner Theatre, Youngstown, Ohio * Warner Grand Theatre, an historic movie palace located in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California * Warner Theatre (Erie, Pennsylvania) * Warner Theatre (Morgantown, West Virginia) * Warner Theatre (Torrington, Connecticut) * Warner Theatre (Washington, D.C.) * Warner Theater (West Chester, Pennsylvania) Warner Theater, also known as The High Street Theater, was a historic movie theater located in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by the noted Chicago theater design firm of Rapp and Rapp ...
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William Missouri Downs
William Missouri Downs is an American comedy writer, playwright, screenwriter, stage director, and author Life & Writing William Missouri Downs started as an actor earning an MFA in acting from the University of Illinois, but a bout with viral encephalitis left him with a slight stammer and ended his acting career. So he gave up acting, moved to New York and lived in a transient hotel on the corner of 77th and Broadway. There he studied playwriting at the Circle Rep Theatre under Lanford Wilson and Milan Stitt. Early in his career, he became a writer because he wasn't good at anything else. He was fired by the big band singer Peggy Lee (“Is that all there is”) for being a rotten spotlight runner and fired from the Carlyle Hotel in New York for being a bad waiter. He then moved to Los Angeles and lived at 10733 Ohio in a bungalow once owned by the writer John O'Hara while he earned an MFA in screenwriting from UCLA. While a student at UCLA film school, he won numerous scre ...
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Helen Hayes Awards Non-Resident Acting
These Helen Hayes Awards are given for outstanding acting in non-resident or touring productions that are staged in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Lead acting Outstanding Lead Actor in a Touring Production * 1985 Derek Jacobi - ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' - The Kennedy Center ** Charles Adler - ''Torch Song Trilogy'' - The Warner Theatre ** James Whitmore - ''Will Rogers, U.S.A.'' - Ford's Theatre ** Joe Sears - ''Greater Tuna'' - Ford's Theatre ** Mbongeni Ngema - ''Woza, Albert!'' - Arena Stage ** Percy Mtwa - ''Woza, Albert!'' - Arena Stage Outstanding Lead Actor in a Touring Production or Prior to New York * 1986 Jason Robards - ''The Iceman Cometh'' - American National Theatre ** Bill Irwin - ''The Regard of Flight'' - Arena Stage ** Keene Curtis - ''La Cage aux Folles'' - The National Theatre ** Patrick Dempsey - ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'' - The National Theatre ** Tommy Tune - ''My One and Only'' - The Kennedy Center ** William L. Petersen - ''In the Belly of the Beast ...
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Helen Hayes Awards Resident Acting
The Helen Hayes Awards are given for acting in resident theatre productions in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The awards are generally divided between male and female performers, between lead and supporting performers, and since the early 1990s between dramatic plays and musicals. Lead Acting Outstanding Lead Actor in a Resident Production * 1985 Francois de la Giroday - ''Man and Superman'' - Arena Stage ** Kevin Donovan - ''Cloud 9'' - Arena Stage ** Richard Bauer - ''Enter a Free Man'' - Olney Theatre ** Stanley Anderson - ''Lydie Breeze'' - New Playwrights' Theatre ** Tom Toner - ''The Gin Game'' - Olney Theatre * 1986 Thomas Schall - '' Fool for Love'' - Round House Theatre ** Grover Gardner - ''Looking Glass'' - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company located at 641 D Street NW in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1980, it produces new plays which it believes to be edgy, challenging, ...
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Helen Hayes Awards Resident Design
These Helen Hayes Awards are given annually for excellence in production design for professional theatres in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. They are given only for resident productions. Choreography and Musical Direction Outstanding Choreography in a Resident Production * 1993 Dianne McIntyre - ''In Living Colors'' Theater of the First Amendment** Linda Garner Miller - ''H.M.S. Pinafore'' Interact Theatre Company** Marcia Milgrom Dodge - ''Of Thee I Sing'' Arena Stage** Robert Biederman - ''2-2-Tango'' The Studio Theatre Secondstage** Roy Anthony Arauz - ''Female Hitchikers'' - Consenting Adults Theatre Company * 1994 Mike Malone - ''Spunk'' The Studio Theatre** Charles Augins - ''Five Guys Named Moe'' - Ford's Theatre ** David Leong - ''Julius Caesar'' - The Shakespeare Theatre ** Jim Corti - ''Dancing TROLLat Lughnasa'' - Arena Stage * 1996 Patdro Harris - ''Bessie's Blues'' - The Studio Theatre ** Brad Waller - ''Richard III'' - Folger Shakespeare Library ** Dianne McIn ...
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Helen Hayes Awards Resident Production
The Helen Hayes Awards are given to resident theatre productions in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. They include awards for the production itself, the direction, the acting, design and the stage plays themselves. The awards were named after Helen Hayes, known as the First Lady of the American Theatre, who was born in Washington, DC. The Helen Hayes Awards are traditionally given every spring. The 2023 edition will take place on May 22, 2023 at The Anthem. Production Best Resident Production * 1985 ''Cloud 9'' – Arena Stage ** ''The Beautiful Lady'' – New Playwrights' Theatre ** ''Lydie Breeze'' – New Playwrights' Theatre ** ''Man and Superman'' – Arena Stage ** ''My Sister in This House'' – The Studio Theatre Outstanding Production of a Resident Play * 1987 ''The Miser'' – The Shakespeare Theatre ** ''Christmas on Mars'' – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company ** ''Romeo and Juliet'' – The Shakespeare Theatre ** ''Slab Boys'' – The Studio Theatre ** ''The ...
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