LA Drama Critics Awards Held on 3/17

The 39th annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards will be handed out on March 17 at North Hollywood's El Portal Theatre. The awards, recognizing excellence in Southern California theatre, including Los Angeles and Orange County, will be hosted by Jason Graae.

Laurie Metcalf, Michael John LaChiusa, Gregory Itzin, JoBeth Williams, Jeff Calhoun, Jason Robert Brown's 13 and Tim Acito and Alexander Dinelaris' Zanna, Don't! are among nominees.

Zanna, Don't! and 13, along with dark play or stories for boys and Love Loves a Pornographer took the most nods with five each.

Also scoring high in multiple nominations were Elephant Theater's In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings, Geffen Playhouse's The Quality of Life and the Center Theater Group/Kirk Douglas Theater premiere of Sleeping Beauty Wakes.

The 2007 nominees for the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards are:

PRODUCTION
13, CTG, Mark Taper Forum
dark play or stories for boys, Theater@Boston Court
In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings, Elephant Theater Company with VS. Theater Company
The Quality of Life, Geffen Playhouse
Trying, Colony Theater Company

REVIVAL
The Hasty Heart, Pacific Resident Theater Company
Tonight at 8:30, Parts 1 and 2, Antaeus Theater Company at Deaf West Theater
Waiting for Godot, A Noise Within

LEAD PERFORMANCE
Dennis Boutsikaris, The Quality of Life
Danny Calvert, Zanna, Don't!, West Coast Ensemble
Gregory Itzin, Shipwrecked: An Entertainment, South Coast Repertory
Matt Letscher, Anatol, Pacific Resident Theater
Alan Mandell, Trying
Rebecca Marcotte, Loyal Women, Theater Banshee
Laurie Metcalf, The Quality of Life
Gabriel Olds, Tryst, Black Dahlia Theater
Deborah Puette, Tryst
Rex Smith, The Pirates of Penzance, Musical Theater West at Carpenter Performing Arts Center

FEATURED PERFORMANCE
Deanne Bray, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, CTG, Kirk Douglas Theater
Stephen Cell, Small Tragedy, Odyssey Theater Ensemble
Misty Cotton, A Little Night Music, South Coast Repertory
Adam Haas Hunter, dark play or stories for boys
Norman Large, The Pirates of Penzance
Shawn Lee, An Impending Rupture of the Belly, Furious Theater Company at Pasadena Playhouse
Kathleen Rose Perkins, Love Loves a Pornographer, Circle X at [Inside] the Ford
JoBeth Williams, The Quality of Life

ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
13, Mark Taper Forum
Loyal Women, Theater Banshee
Waiting for Godot, A Noise Within
Winter Wonderettes, El Portal Forum Theater
Zanna, Don't!, West Coast Ensemble

WRITING
Dan Elish, 13
Joanna McClelland Glass, Trying
Jeff Goode, Love Loves a Pornographer
Stephen Adly Guirgis, In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings
Carlos Murillo, dark play or stories for boys

ADAPTATION
Martin Crimp, The Misanthrope, Andak Stage Company at New Place Studio Theater
Stephen Sachs, Miss Julie, Fountain Theater
Matt Walker, Alice In One-Hit Wonderland, Troubadour Theater Company at Falcon Theater

MUSICAL SCORE
Tim Acito and Alexander Dinelaris, Zanna, Don't!
Jason Robert Brown, 13
Michael John LaChiusa, Little Fish, Blank Theater Company at 2nd Stage Theater

DIRECTION
Jillian Armenante, Love Loves a Pornographer
Dan Bonnell, Anatol, Pacific Resident Theater
Jeff Calhoun, Sleeping Beauty Wakes
Nick DeGruccio, Zanna, Don't!
Michael Michetti, dark play or stories for boys

MUSICAL DIRECTION
Brian Baker, Winter Wonderettes, El Portal Forum Theater
John Glaudini, Altar Boyz, Musical Theater West at Carpenter Performing Arts Center
David O, 13
Gerald Sternbach, On Your Toes, Reprise! Broadway's Best at UCLA Freud Playhouse

CHOREOGRAPHY
Christine Lakin & Paul Nygro, Zanna, Don't!
Troy Magino, Altar Boyz
Lee Martino, On Your Toes
Janet Miller, Winter Wonderettes

SCENIC DESIGN
Joel Daavid, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings
Robert G. Smith, Bug, Lost Angels Theater Company at Coast Playhouse
Gary Smoot, Love Love's A Pornographer

LIGHTING DESIGN
Joel Daavid, In Arabia We'd All be Kings
Jeremy Pivnick, Calling Aphrodite, International City Theater
Steven Young, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, Theater@Boston Court

COSTUME DESIGN
Shon LeBlanc, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Maggie Morgan, Sleeping Beauty Wakes
Paul Spadone, Love Loves a Pornographer

SOUND DESIGN
Lindsay Jones, Bug
Cricket Myers, dark play or stories for boys
Eric Snodgrass, Sleeping Beauty Wakes

PUPPET DESIGN
Rick Lyon, Avenue Q, CTG, Ahmanson Theater

Tickets to the ceremony at the El Portal Theatre, 5269 Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood, CA are available for $35. For further information, visit ladramacriticscircle.com.  

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