Lucille Lortel Award Winners Are Set to Be Announced
(© Joan Marcus)
The Off-Broadway League will announce the winners of the 30th annual Lucille Lortel Awards today at the NYU Skirball Center, beginning at 7pm. The program will be hosted by Emmy Award nominees Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family) and Anna Chlumsky (Veep, Living on Love).
Leading the pack of nominations, with a record-breaking 12, is the Public Theater production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, followed closely by Fiasco Theater's revival of Into the Woods with 8, and Stephen Adly Guirgis' Between Riverside and Crazy, with 6.
The special honors to be presented this year include a Lifetime Achievement Award for prolific playwright Terrence McNally, an induction onto the famed Playwrights' Sidewalk in front of the Lucille Lortel Theatre for writer and composer Jeanine Tesori, and the Edith Oliver Service to Off-Broadway Award for veteran general manager Nancy Nagel Gibbs.
The Lortel Awards ceremony is produced by the Off-Broadway League's Lortel Awards Producing & Administration Committee. Acclaimed writer and director Michael Heitzman returns to direct the Lortel Awards for the sixth consecutive year. The Lucille Lortel Awards is produced by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation. Additional support provided by Theatre Development Fund.
