Northern Stage Wins Moss Hart Award For HAMLET

The New England Theatre Conference has announced that Northern Stage has again been honored by a Moss Hart Memorial Award for excellence in theater for their September 2009 production of Hamlet. Northern Stage has won recognition in the Professional Division three times before; for the first time, the company has picked up not only the Professional Division prize, but also the Moss Hart Award itself, placing the production atop all of the other division winners.

Northern Stage will be awarded the traveling Moss Hart Award trophy in November 2010 at the annual New England Theatre Conference in New Haven, CT and will display it for a year.

"Hamlet represented the culmination of everything Northern Stage seeks to achieve in professional theater, and we're delighted by this important regional award," said Founding Artistic Director Brooke Ciardelli. "We started with an incredibly challenging script and assembled a great group of actors, many from Broadway and national tours. We were also extremely fortunate to benefit from the assistance of noted Shakespearean scholar Peter Saccio and original music by Emmy Award winner Roy Prendergast. With a stunning set, beautiful costumes and evocative lighting, the overall production has been a highlight of Northern Stage's 13 years of professional theater here."

The Moss Hart Award honor plays and productions that offer "affirmative views of human courage and dignity," have "strong literary and artistic merit" and "exemplify fresh, imaginative, creative treatment within the intent of the playwright." The award is named for the late Moss Hart, one of the most celebrated American Playwrights of the century, who collaborated with George Kaufman on plays such as You Can't Take It With You (winner of a Pulitzer Prize) and The Man Who Came To Dinner, as well as authoring Winged Victory and Light Up the Sky and contributing to the musicals My Fair Lady and Camelot. The award will be presented by Hart's wife, Kitty Carlisle Hart.

The New England Theatre Conference has previously recognized Northern Stage with awards for To Kill A Mockingbird (1999), All My Sons (2004) and Les Misérables (2008).

For information about Northern Stage, contact Charlie Glazer at 802-291-9009. For information about NETC and the Moss Hart Award, call 617-424-9275.

 

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