The annual ceremony honoring Broadway’s top productions and performers is moving to the New York neighborhood where the musical “In the Heights” was set. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Awards, Decorations and Honors”
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar Wins Gish Prize
By Gotham Rex on July 18, 2022
Zollar, founder of the dance ensemble Urban Bush Women, will receive a cash award of $250,000 for pushing the boundaries of art and contributing to social change. Source: New York Times
Angela Lansbury Will Receive Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement
By Gotham Rex on May 23, 2022
The star of stage, film and screen has already won five competitive Tony Awards, and starred in several Stephen Sondheim musicals. Source: New York Times
NYC’s Only Army Base Renaming Street to Honor Black War Hero
By Gotham Rex on May 20, 2022
A street on New York City’s only Army base will bear the name of First Lt. John Earl Warren Jr., a Brooklynite who died saving others in Vietnam. Source: New York Times
James Ijames on Winning a Pulitzer and Making ‘Hamlet’ a Comedy
By Gotham Rex on May 9, 2022
The 41-year-old playwright’s show “Fat Ham,” set at a Southern barbecue, hasn’t even had an in-person production yet because of the pandemic. Source: New York Times
Ariana DeBose to Host This Year’s Tony Awards Ceremony
By Gotham Rex on May 4, 2022
The nominees are to be announced on Monday, and the awards ceremony is to take place on June 12. Source: New York Times
Abel Prize for 2022 Goes to New York Mathematician
By Gotham Rex on March 23, 2022
Dennis P. Sullivan of Stony Brook University and the City University Graduate Center won an award that is the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for math. Source: New York Times
Lucy Rowan Mann, Doyenne of a Prime Classical Music Prize, Dies at 100
By Gotham Rex on January 27, 2022
With her husband, the violinist Robert Mann, she mentored young classical musicians and administered the Naumburg Foundation’s storied annual awards. Source: New York Times
Tony Awards Voting Starts Now. And It’s Going to Be Weird.
By Gotham Rex on March 1, 2021
No shows are playing, and no one knows when they will come back. Here are answers to six questions about a process even more idiosyncratic than usual. Source: New York Times
New Prize Modeled on MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grants Hands Out $1 Million
By Gotham Rex on October 13, 2020
The founders of a shelter for homeless people seeking asylum and a group that helps college applicants are among five New Yorkers to get $200,000 awards. Source: New York Times
James Gordon Bennett Medal Is Renamed by F.D.N.Y.
By Gotham Rex on September 10, 2020
The James Gordon Bennett Medal will now be named for Chief Peter J. Ganci, who was killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Source: New York Times
Obies Honor ‘A Strange Loop’ and ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’
By Gotham Rex on July 14, 2020
The annual awards show for Off and Off Off Broadway theater was prerecorded and streamed after the coronavirus led to cancellation of a live ceremony. Source: New York Times