‘Passing Strange’ Wins Best-Play Obie
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“Passing Strange” won the Best New Theater Piece category at the 53rd annual Village Voice Obie Awards on Monday night.
Horton Foote, for “Dividing the Estate,” and David Henry Hwang, for “Yellow Face,” took playwriting honors, while Krzysztof Warlikowski, for “Krum,” and David Cromer, for “Adding Machine,” scored directing honors. Rob Ashford received the Fred & Adele Astaire Award for Best Choreography on Broadway for his work in “Cry-Baby,” and Spencer Liff won an Astaire Award for Best Male Dancer on Broadway for “Cry-Baby.” Karen Olivo won Broadway’s Best Female Dancer for “In the Heights.”
