Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) and Center Theatre Group's co-production of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel, at the Mark Taper Forum, has been awarded 3 Los Angeles Ovation Awards. Viola Davis won for Lead Actress in a Play, Daniel Sullivan won for Director of a Play and Catherine Zuber won for Costume Design. The peer-judged awards are presented annually to recognize and honor "artistic excellence of L.A.'s theatres and theatre artists, and their continuing contribution to the vibrant cultural scene." The ceremony was held last night (November 15th) at Los Angeles' Orpheum Theatre.
Intimate Apparel's Corey Stoll (Featured Actor in a Play), Derek McLane (Set Design), Allen Lee Hughes (Lighting Design) and Marc Gwinn (Sound Design) were also nominated for Ovation Awards.
Intimate Apparel began previews at the Laura Pels Theatre (Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre) on March 17th and opened on April 11th, 2004. It concluded an acclaimed limited engagement on June 13th, 2004 and transferred to the Mark Taper Forum where it ran from July 25th through September 12th.
Intimate Apparel garnered an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the John Gassner Award for Best Play and the 2004 American Theatre Critic's Association's Francesca Primus Award, as well as the coveted 2004 Steinberg New Play Award and the Laura Pels "Pen" Award for Lynn Nottage for emerging playwright. Viola Davis received Drama Desk and Obie Awards for Best Actress in a Play and was nominated for Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Awards for her performance as Esther Mills in Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel.
Roundabout's current production at the Laura Pels Theatre, Larry Shue's The Foreigner, starring Matthew Broderick and Frances Sternhagen, opened on November 7th and will run through January 16th, 2005. Tickets available by calling Roundabout Ticket Services at (212) 719-1300, online at www.roundabouttheatre.org, or at the box office at the Laura Pels Theatre (111 West 46th Street).
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