Philip Seymour Hoffman,Ruth Maleczech and Nicholas Martin will all be receiving posthumous honors in the fourth annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, which announced the nominees for its competitive categories today:
Best New Musical
Disaster!
Fun Home
Heathers: The Musical
Murder for Two
What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined
Best New Play
Bad Jews
Breakfast With Mugabe
Hand to God
The Heir Apparent
Regular Singing
Best Revival
I Remember Mama
Measure for Measure
The Model Apartment
The Mystery of Irma Vep
Saint Joan
Best Unique Theatrical Experience
Eager to Lose
Cirkopolis
La Soirée
Queen of the Night
Shut Up, Sit Down & Eat
Best Family Show
Dear Albert Einstein (Making Books Sing)
The Civil War (Theatreworks USA)
Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money (Atlantic Theater Company)
The Greatest Pirate Story Never Told! (Off Sides Entertainment)
The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go! (La MaMa in association with Ma-Yi Theater Company)
Legend of Off Broadway Honorees
Edmund Gaynes
Andre Gregory
Terrence McNally
Wallace Shawn
Hall of Fame Awards
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Ruth Maleczech
Nicholas Martin
The Off Broadway Alliance is a non-profit 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.
(And yes, there are other, older awards for Off-Broadway — The Lucille Lortel Awards and the Obies, for example.)
