What are the Obie Awards and who gives them?
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards originally given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City. In September 2014, the awards were jointly presented and administered with the American Theatre Wing.
What are the musical Theatre awards called?
Tony Awards
Tony Awards, annual awards for distinguished achievement in American theatre. Named for the actress-producer Antoinette Perry, the annual awards were established in 1947 by the American Theatre Wing and are intended to recognize excellence in plays and musicals staged on Broadway.
What awards are given for Broadway shows?
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in Midtown Manhattan.
What does Obie stand for?
OBIE
| Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|
| OBIE | Open Banking Implementation Entity (UK) |
| OBIE | Oberhasli (variety of goat) |
| OBIE | Ontology-Based Information Extraction |
What is an Obie Award given for?
The Obie Awards honor the highest calibre of off-Broadway and off-off Broadway theatre to recognize brave work, champion new material, and advance careers in theatre. For more than sixty years, the Village Voice has put off and off-off Broadway on the map by recognizing the artistic power of downtown theatre.
Did Hamilton win an Obie?
At the 70th Tony Awards, Hamilton received a record-breaking 16 nominations and won 11 awards, including Best Musical. It received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A filmed version of the Broadway production was released in 2020 on Disney+….Hamilton (musical)
| Hamilton | |
|---|---|
| Awards | show List of awards |
What awards are in Theatre excellence?
North America
- Tony Award (including the Regional Theatre Tony Award) (US)
- Chita Rivera Awards for Dance and Choreography (New York City, US)
- Clarence Derwent Awards (New York City, US)
- Del Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in the Art of Stage Management (given in New York City, US)
What awards do plays win?
The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award given to the best new (non-musical) play on Broadway, as determined by Tony Award voters….
| Tony Award for Best Play | |
|---|---|
| Currently held by | The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez (2020) |
| Website | TonyAwards.com |
Is Obie a name?
▼ as a boys’ name is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of the name Obie is “servant of God”. Obie is an alternate form of Obadiah (Hebrew).
Is Obie a word?
An award for excellence in the creation and production of off-Broadway theater. Any of the awards given annually in the U.S. for special achievements in off-Broadway productions.
Who are the Tonys named after?
Antoinette Perry
Named for Antoinette Perry, an actress, director, producer, and the dynamic wartime leader of the American Theatre Wing who had recently passed away, the Tony Awards made their official debut at a dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria hotel on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1947.
Did Lin Manuel Miranda win an Emmy?
More about Lin-Manuel Miranda at: Miranda’s awards include a Pulitzer Prize, two Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and three Tony Awards.