Stuff Happens won four awards, the most of any production of the season. The David Hare play, which was produced by the Public Theater, brought home honors for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Director (Daniel Sullivan), Outstanding Lead Actor (Peter Francis James) and Outstanding Lead Actress (Gloria Reuben).
Other multiple winners included In the Heights, Spring Awakening, Two Trains Running and The Voysey Inheritance, which all won two awards apiece.
Gail Merrifield Papp presented Tony and Academy Award winner Kevin Kline with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Fight director Rick Sordelet received the Edith Oliver Award for Sustained Excellence, which was presented to him by Oskar Eustis. Arthur French presented the Classical Theatre of Harlem with its award for Outstanding Body of Work.
Debra Monk, currently back on Broadway in Curtains, presented an award to Playwrights' Sidewalk Inductee Christopher Durang (the playwright will be honored with a star on the Playwrights' Sidewalk outside the Lortel Theatre on Christopher Street). And, Company's Raúl Esparza presented the Actors' Fund of America with a Special Award in honor of 125 years of service.
The complete list of winners follows (winners names are in bold with an asterisk). Outstanding Play
The Busy World Is Hushed
Written by Keith Bunin
Produced by Playwrights Horizons
Dying City
Written by Christopher Shinn
Produced by Lincoln Center Theater
Indian Blood
Written by A.R. Gurney
Produced by Primary Stages
*Stuff Happens
Written by David Hare
Produced by The Public Theater
Outstanding Musical (a tie)
Gutenberg! The Musical!
Written by Scott Brown and Anthony King
Produced by Trevor Brown, Ron Kastner, Terry Allen Kramer, Joseph Smith, in association with Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
*In the Heights
Book by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Produced by Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller, and Jill Furman
*Spring Awakening
Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
Produced by Atlantic Theater Company, in association with Tom Hulce and Ira Pittelman
Striking 12
Book, Music and Lyrics by Brendan Milburn, Rachel Sheinkin, and Valerie Vigoda
Produced by Nancy Nagel Gibbs and Greg Schaffert, in association with Mark Johannes and Amy Danis
Outstanding Solo Show
¡El Conquistador!
Written by Thaddeus Phillips and Tatiana Mallarino in collaboration with Victor Mallarino
Produced by New York Theatre Workshop
Performed by Thaddeus Phillips
*No Child…
Written and Performed by Nilaja Sun
Produced by Scott Morfee, Tom Wirtshafter and Epic Theatre Center
Wrecks
Written by Neil LaBute
Produced by The Public Theater
Performed by Ed Harris
Outstanding Revival
King Hedley II
By August Wilson
Produced by Signature Theatre Company
Landscape of the Body
By John Guare
Produced by Signature Theatre Company
*Two Trains Running
By August Wilson
Produced by Signature Theatre Company
The Voysey Inheritance
By Harley Granville-Barker, Adapted by David Mamet
Produced by Atlantic Theater Company
Outstanding Director
Michael Mayer, Spring Awakening
PJ Paparelli, columbinus
Derrick Sanders, King Hedley II
*Daniel Sullivan, Stuff Happens
David Warren, The Voysey Inheritance
Outstanding Choreographer
Hinton Battle, Evil Dead the Musical
*Andy Blankenbuehler, In the Heights
Devanand Janki, Henry and Mudge
Bill T. Jones, Spring Awakening
Outstanding Lead Actor
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Goes Boating
Russell Hornsby, King Hedley II
*Peter Francis James, Stuff Happens
Lee Pace, Guardians
Michael Stuhlbarg, The Voysey Inheritance
Outstanding Lead Actress
Rebecca Brooksher, Dying City
Jill Clayburgh, The Busy World Is Hushed
Patricia Heaton, The Scene
*Gloria Reuben, Stuff Happens
Laila Robins, Sore Throats
Outstanding Featured Actor
*Arthur French, Two Trains Running
David Greenspan, Some Men
Ron Cephas Jones, Two Trains Running
Robert Sella, Stuff Happens
Harris Yulin, Frank's Home
Outstanding Featured Actress
Anna Camp, The Scene
Mamie Gummer, The Water's Edge
Nina Hellman, The Internationalist
Michele Ragusa, Adrift in Macao
*Sherie Rene Scott, Landscape of the Body
Outstanding Scenic Design
David Korins, Jack Goes Boating
Eugene Lee, The Hairy Ape
Anna Louizos, In the Heights
*Derek McLane, The Voysey Inheritance
Allen Moyer, The Busy World is Hushed
Outstanding Costume Design
Gregory Gale, The Milliner
*Gregory Gale, The Voysey Inheritance
Susan Hilferty, Spring Awakening
Willa Kim, Adrift in Macao
Valerie Marcus Ramshur, Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen
Outstanding Lighting Design
Kevin Adams, Some Men
*Kevin Adams, Spring Awakening
Christopher Akerlind, KAOS
Jeff Croiter, The Internationalist
Japhy Weideman, Jack Goes Boating
Outstanding Sound Design
John Collins, David Herskovits, and Tim Schellenbaum, Faust
*Martin Desjardins, columbinus
Robert Kaplowitz, The Internationalist
Brian Ronan, Spring Awakening
Eric Shim, Essential Self-Defense
Awarded since 1986, the Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the League by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation. Additional support is provided by Theatre Development Fund.
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The League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers announced the 22nd annual nominations April 2.
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The 2007 Lucille Lortel Awards nominating/voting committee is appointed by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, Actors' Equity Association, Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers, and also includes journalists, educators, and other Off-Broadway theatre professionals.
For more information visit www.lortelaward.com.
