Lucille Lortel Nominations
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The League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers announced the nominations yesterday for the Lucille Lortel Awards, which celebrate achievement Off-Broadway. The musical “Spring Awakening” led with six nominations. The Public Theater’s production of “Stuff Happens,” the David Hare play that documents –– or, in some cases, imagines –– the debates within the Bush administration in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, received five nominations, as did the Atlantic Theater Company’s revival of Harley Granville-Barker’s “The Voysey Inheritance,” which was adapted by David Mamet.
The awards will be presented on May 7 at New World Stages. Kevin Kline, who is currently starring in “King Lear,” at the Public, will receive a lifetime achievement award; Christopher Durang will get a star on “Playwrights’ Sidewalk,” in front of the Lucille Lortel Theater on Christopher Street; and the Classical Theatre of Harlem will be presented with an award for Outstanding Body of Work.
