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Joseph Chaikin

 
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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 Gold Star
Joseph ChaikinThe Mutation Show
 
Drama Desk Awards - 1969 - Vernon Rice Awards Gold Star
Joseph Chaikin
 
Obie Awards - 1965 - Performance Gold Star
Joseph ChaikinVictims of Duty
 
Obie Awards - 1965 - Performance Gold Star
Joseph Chaikin, The Exception and the Rule
 
Obie Awards - 1963 - Performance Gold Star
Joseph Chaikin , Man Is Man

Joseph Chaikin News

Casting Announced for Hell In A Handbag's I PROMISED MYSELF TO LIVE FASTER Photo Casting Announced for Hell In A Handbag's I PROMISED MYSELF TO LIVE FASTER
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.

David Willinger's Takes A Journey Into The Mind And Spirit with EXISTENCE Photo David Willinger's Takes A Journey Into The Mind And Spirit with EXISTENCE
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.

New Play by David Willinger EXISTENCE Comes to Theater for the New City Photo New Play by David Willinger EXISTENCE Comes to Theater for the New City
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.

La MaMa to Present World Premiere of LEMON GIRLS OR ART FOR THE ARTLESS Photo La MaMa to Present World Premiere of LEMON GIRLS OR ART FOR THE ARTLESS
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.

BWW Review: Scoundrel and Scamp Brings Dickens Classic to Sacred Desert Photo BWW Review: Scoundrel and Scamp Brings Dickens Classic to Sacred Desert
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.

THE SERPENT Announced At The Odyssey Theatre Photo THE SERPENT Announced At The Odyssey Theatre
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.

10 New Contemporary Puppet Works to Debut at LA MAMA PUPPET SERIES Photo 10 New Contemporary Puppet Works to Debut at LA MAMA PUPPET SERIES
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.

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Announces SEGAL TALKS Week 25
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.

World-Renowned Vocal Coach Kristin Linklater Passes Away at 84 Photo World-Renowned Vocal Coach Kristin Linklater Passes Away at 84
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.

Obie Award-Winning Set Designer Jun Maeda Has Passed Away at 79 Photo Obie Award-Winning Set Designer Jun Maeda Has Passed Away at 79
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.


Joseph Chaikin Frequently Asked Questions

What awards has Joseph Chaikin been nominated for?
Unique Theatrical Experience (Drama Desk Awards) for Texts , Outstanding Director - Play (Drama Desk Awards) for The Dybbuk , Outstanding Director (Drama Desk Awards) for The Mutation Show , Vernon Rice Awards (Drama Desk Awards) , Performance (Obie Awards) for Victims of Duty Performance (Obie Awards) for The Exception and the Rule and Performance (Obie Awards) for Man Is Man .

What awards has Joseph Chaikin won?
Outstanding Director (Drama Desk Awards) for The Mutation Show, Vernon Rice Awards (Drama Desk Awards), Performance (Obie Awards) for Victims of Duty Performance (Obie Awards) for The Exception and the Ruleand Performance (Obie Awards) for Man Is Man.