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Between Riverside and Crazy and Hamilton Win Off-Broadway Alliance Awards

”Into the Woods” and ”A Band of Angels” are also winners.

Stephen McKinley Henderson, Victor Almanzar, and Ron Cephas Jones in the Off-Broadway Alliance Award-winning play Between Riverside and Crazy.
Stephen McKinley Henderson, Victor Almanzar, and Ron Cephas Jones in the Off-Broadway Alliance Award-winning play Between Riverside and Crazy.
(© Carol Rosegg)

The Off-Broadway Alliance, the organization of off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals, today announced the winners of the 5th Annual Off-Broadway Alliance Awards, honoring commercial and not-for-profit off-Broadway productions that opened during the 2014-15 season.

Winners are preceded by an asterisk. Note that hyperlinked shows are currently running.

Best New Play
*Between Riverside & Crazy
Dry Land
Father Comes From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
The Nether
Punk Rock

Best New Musical
Brooklynite
Clinton The Musical
Disenchanted!
*Hamilton
Mighty Real: A Fabulous Sylvester Musical

Best Play Revival
*Abundance
Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest
Fashions for Men
Tamburlaine the Great
A Walk in the Woods

Best Musical Revival
Allegro
*Into the Woods
John & Jen
Pageant

Best Unique Theatrical Experience
Drunk Shakespeare
Ghost Quartet
The Pigeoning
*Scenes From a Marriage
Tail! Spin!

Best Solo Performance
Jonny Donahoe, Every Brilliant Thing
Dael Orlandersmith, Forever
Anne Hathaway, Grounded
*Jim Dale, Just Jim Dale
Sylvia Milo, The Other Mozart

Best Family Show
*A Band of Angels
Camp Kappawanna
The Lightning Thief
The Little Prince
Swamp Juice

Legend of off-Broadway Honorees
Robert Kalfin
Linda Lavin
Austin Pendleton

Hall of Fame Awards
Arthur Gelb
Judith Malina
Marian Seldes

Some past winners of the top awards bestowed by the Off-Broadway Alliance include Fun Home, Hand to God, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Freud’s Last Session, NEWSical the Musical, Buyer & Cellar, and Silence! The Musical.

The Off-Broadway Alliance is a nonprofit corporation organized by theater professionals dedicated to supporting, promoting, and encouraging the production of off-Broadway theater and to making live theater increasingly accessible to new and diverse audiences. The Alliance holds monthly meetings and membership is open to everyone in the off-Broadway theater community.

The 2015 Off-Broadway Alliance Awards will be presented on Tuesday, June 16, at 4:30pm at Sardi's.

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