Joseph Chaikin Awards and Nominations
Drama Desk Awards - 1981 - Unique Theatrical Experience | ||
Joseph ChaikinTexts | ||
Drama Desk Awards - 1978 - Outstanding Director - Play | ||
Joseph Chaikin, The Dybbuk | ||
Drama Desk Awards - 1973 - Outstanding Director ![]() |
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Joseph ChaikinThe Mutation Show | ||
Drama Desk Awards - 1969 - Vernon Rice Awards ![]() |
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Joseph Chaikin | ||
Obie Awards - 1965 - Performance ![]() |
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Joseph ChaikinVictims of Duty | ||
Obie Awards - 1965 - Performance ![]() |
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Joseph Chaikin, The Exception and the Rule | ||
Obie Awards - 1963 - Performance ![]() |
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Joseph Chaikin , Man Is Man |
Joseph Chaikin News

by Blair Ingenthron - Jan 18, 2023
Hell in a Handbag Productions will continue its 21st season with the Chicago premiere of I Promised Myself to Live Faster, an intergalactic queer extravaganza featuring closeted extraterrestrials, high stakes pursuits and nuns from outer space, created and conceived by Pig Iron Theatre Company, with text by Greg Moss and Pig Iron and directed by JD Caudill*. I Promised Myself to Live Faster will play March 23 – April 16, 2023 at The Chopin Upstairs Theatre.

by A.A. Cristi - Jun 3, 2022
Theater for the New City & Ananim Productions present a new play by David Willinger: EXISTENCE A Theatre and Video Hybrid.

by Stephi Wild - Apr 15, 2022
Theatre veteran David Willinger helms an exciting hybrid showcase of live theatre experience coupled with video featuring Espirito Domingo, Sharendelle Murga, Robert Striker, and Hanna Ventura.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 1, 2022
La MaMa will present the world premiere of Lemon Girls or Art for the Artless. Written and composed by OBIE and Drama Desk Award winning playwright and composer Ellen Maddow, Lemon Girls or Art for Artless is a comedic and revelatory celebration of older women and the thrill of making unlikely art.

by Robert Encila-Celdran - Dec 13, 2021
In A SONORAN DESERT CAROL, Claire Mannle had the insight to adapt Charles Dickens' Christmas classic as a sacred homage to our native ancestors, but not without admonishing the predatory elites of our modern economic system. Dickens would likely approve the latter inasmuch as income inequality had become a chief ingredient of his social criticism.

by A.A. Cristi - Sep 21, 2021
The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble re-opens its re-envisioning of the Odyssey's 1969 West Coast premiere of The Serpent, the Obie award-winning play by Jean-Claude van Itallie. The production initially opened in March, 2020 as part of the Odyssey's 50th Anniversary “Circa '69” Season, but was shuttered five days later by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 27, 2021
La MaMa – one of the first major theatres in the U.S. to present contemporary puppet artists and their work on its mainstages – will begin its 60th season with the celebrated, biannual LA MAMA PUPPET SERIES from September 29 to October 24 at the Ellen Stewart Theatre and Downstairs Theatre.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 2, 2020
New York, US, and international theatre artists, curators, researchers, and academics will talk daily during the week for one hour with Segal Center’s director, Frank Hentschker, about life and art in the Time of Corona and speak about challenges, sorrows, and hopes for the new Weltzustand— the State of the World.

by Nicole Rosky - Jun 18, 2020
BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Kristin Linklater, world-renowned vocal coach and mother of Broadway veteran Hamish Linklater, passed away earlier this month in her Orkney home. She was 84 years old.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 30, 2020
Jun Maeda, the Obie Award-winning designer and resident set designer at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (ETC) since 1970, died on Monday, April 6 - three days after his 79th birthday - at Mt. Sinai West Hospital in Manhattan.