Winners will be announced April 28.
Awards will be presented in six competitive categories: Best New Musical, Best New Play, Best Theatrical Experience, Best Musical Revival, Best Play Revival and Best Long-Running Show.
With the exception of the Best Long-Running Show category, all winners will be selected by secret ballot by members of the awards committee of the Off Broadway Alliance. Winner of the Best Long-Running Show award will be selected by audience vote by visiting OffBroadwayAlliance.com; voting closes April 25 at 11:59 PM ET.
Six Legend of Off Broadway Awards are being presented for "sustained achievement in the world of Off Broadway." Recipients include Blue Man Group, Charles Busch, Julie Halston, Tom Jones, Everett Quinton and Harvey Schmidt. The 2011 Hall of Fame Awards are being presented posthumously to Romulus Linney, Ellen Stewart and Lanford Wilson.
Nominees follow:
Best New Musical
Dietrich and Chevalier: The Musical
NEWSical the Musical: Full Spin Ahead
The Burnt Part Boys
The Kid
Tomorrow Morning
Best New Play
Devil Boys from Beyond
Freud’s Last Session
Peter and the Starcatcher
The Divine Sister
The Whipping Man
Best Theatrical Experience
Colin Quinn Long Story Short
Gatz
Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage
Play Dead
Sleep No More
Best Musical Revival
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Dear Edwina
Hello Again
Imaginocean
Nunsense
Best Play Revival
Angels in America
Marie and Bruce
My Big Gay Italian Wedding
The Merchant of Venice (Public Theater)
The Three Sisters
Best Long-Running Show
Avenue Q
Black Angels Over Tuskegee
Blue Man Group
Celebrity Autobiography
Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical
Fuerza Bruta
Love, Loss and What I Wore
Naked Boys Singing!
Perfect Crime
Stomp
The Awesome 80s Prom
The Fantasticks
The Gazillion Bubble Show
The Off Broadway Alliance is a non-profit corporation organized by theater professionals dedicated to "supporting, promoting and encouraging the production of Off Broadway theater and to making live theater increasingly accessible to new and diverse audiences."
