Elevator Repair Service, Leon, Paulus, et al Garner Elliot Norton Award Noms.

The Elliot Norton Awards, which honor theatrical achievement in Boston, have announced nominations for the 2010 season.  A ceremony will be held on May 17 at 7PM at the Paramount.

Visiting productions receiving nomenations include: Spring Awakening and Waiting for Godot.  American Repertory Theatre received a total of five nomenations recognizing director John Collins and actor Scott Collins.  Other direction nomenations went to Diane Paulus for The Donkey Show and Kenny Leon for Stick Fly.

Additional acting nomenations went to Nigel Gore for Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, CrystAl Fox for Fences, Scott Fisher for Becky Shaw, Luke Grooms for Jerry Springer, The Opera, Will Lyman and Karen MacDonald for All My Sons, and Sandra Shipley for Entertaining Mr. Sloane.

The Elliot Norton Awards are presented annually to recognize achievement in the Greater Boston theatre community.  The Norton Awards originated in the Norton Medal first bestowed in 1983 and since then awards now include Lifetime Achievement Award, the Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence, and more than a dozen awards to outstanding productions, performers, directors and designers.

The awards were founded in honor of Elliot Norton, who served as drama critic for Boston newspapers for forty-eight years and as moderator of Elliot Norton Reviews on WGBH-TV from 1958-1982. Mr. Norton reviewed more than 6,000 productions in New York and other American cities, and abroad, and in 1971 he received a special Tony Award from the League of American Theatres and Producers. Mr. Norton was born in Boston in 1903 and died in 2003 at the age of 100 years old.

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