The winners of the 10th Annual OBA Award were announced on Tuesday, May 19th by presenters Charles Busch and Julie Halston, along with OBA President Peter Breger. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no in-person awards ceremony this year. Read on for a complete list of winners and nominees!
Best New Play
Ain’t No Mo
Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven
*Life Sucks
Make Believe
The Confession of Lily Dare
Best Play Revival
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
Much Ado About Nothing
*The Woman in Black
Timon of Athens
Best New Musical
*A Strange Loop
Cambodian Rock Band
Emojiland
Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn
Sing Street
The Secret Life of Bees
Best Musical Revival
Baby
Enter Laughing
Little Shop of Horrors
Rock of Ages
*The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Best Unique Theatrical Experience
*Dana H.
Midsummer: A Banquet
Novenas for a Lost Hospital
Katsura Sunshine’s Rakugo
Best Solo Performance
A Woman in the World (Kathleen Chalfant)
American Moor (Keith Hamilton Cobb)
Bella Bella (Harvey Fierstein)
Gospel of John (Ken Jennings)
*The Day I Became Black (Bill Posley)
Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom (Aedín Moloney)
Best Family Show
Dog Man: The Musical
*She Persisted, the Musical
Taste the Clouds
The Big One-Oh!
Legends of Off Broadway
Gretchen Cryer
Woodie King, Jr.
Eric Krebs
Barbara Zinn Krieger
Off Broadway Hall of Fame
Mark Blum
Wynn Handman
Julia Miles
Friend of Off Broadway
The Drama Bookshop