Theatre World: Volume 61 » (New Edition)

Volume 61 features the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for 2005, and the Tony Award-winning Best Play, John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, which also earned star Cherry Jones the Best Leading Actress in a Play Tony Award and the Best Direction of a Play Tony Award for Doug Wright. Kathleen Turner and Tony Award-winner Bill Irwin sparred memorably in the critically acclaimed revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Spamalot and its director Mike Nichols took home a Tony for Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical respectively for the bonafide Monty Python megahit. Other highlights of the season include the Off-Broadway hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which would eventually land on Broadway. Regionally, the world premiere of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Tony winners John Lithgow and Norbert Leo Butz began life at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and transferred successfully to Broadway. The Light in the Piazza, first produced at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle and at the Goodman Th eatre in Chicago, went on to win more Tonys than any other production in 2005 when it arrived at New York's Lincoln Center Theater. Billy Crystal also shone in his one-man Broadway smash 700 Sundays, originally developed at the La Jolla Playhouse. Theatre World's outstandingfeatures include: * A color section of highlights. * A listing of all the major theatrical works * The longest running shows on and Off-Broadway listings. * Biographical data, obituaries, and a comprehensive index.

Acknowledgements     1
Broadway Highlights     3
Broadway
Productions that opened June 1, 2004 - May 31, 2005     21
Productions from past seasons that played through this season     85
Productions from past seasons that closed during this season     99
Off-Broadway
Productions that opened June 1, 2004 - May 31, 2005     109
Productions from past seasons that played through this season     155
Productions from past seasons that closed during this season     163
Company Series     171
Off-Off-Broadway
Productions that opened June 1, 2004 - May 31, 2005     209
Company Series     225
Professional Regional Companies     255
Awards
2005 Theatre World Award Winners     287
Theatre World Awards: May 23, 2005     290
Previous Theatre World Award Recipients     294
Major Theatrical Awards     297
American Theatre Wing's Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards and Past Tony Award Winners
Village Voice Obie Awards and Past Obie Best New Play Winners
Drama Desk Awards
Outer Critics Circle Awards
Pulitzer Prize Award Winners for Drama
New York Drama Critics' Circle Award Winners
Lucille Lortel Awards and Past Lucille Lortel Award Winners
American Theatre Critics/Steinberg New Play Awards and Citations; and ATCA/Steinberg New Play Awardsand Citations
Astaire Awards
Carbonell Awards
Clarence Derwent Awards
Connecticut Critics' Circle Awards
Drama League Awards
Dramatist Guild Awards
Elliot Norton Awards
George Freedley Memorial Award
George Jean Nathan Award
George Oppenheimer Award
Helen Hayes Awards
Henry Hewes Design Awards
Joseph Jefferson Awards
Joseph Kesselring Prize
Kennedy Center Honors and Mark Twain Prize
M. Elizabeth Osborn Award
Musical Theatre Hall of Fame
National Medals of the Arts
New Dramatists Lifetime Achievement Award
Ovation Awards
Richard Rodgers Awards
Robert Whitehead Award
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
William Inge Theatre Festival Award
The Theatre Hall of Fame
Theatre Hall of Fame Founders Award
Margo Jones Citizen of the Theater Medal
Longest Running Shows on Broadway     313
Longest Running Shows Off-Broadway     331
Obituaries: June 1, 2004 - May 31, 2005     339
Index     351
Contributors Biographies     401