We’re thrilled to announce the nominees for the 14th Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, honoring commercial and not-for-profit productions that opened Off Broadway during the 2024-2025 season.

Awards will be presented in five competitive categories: Best New Musical, Best New Play, Best Revival, Best Solo Performance, and Best Unique Theatrical Experience.

In addition to the competitive awards, Legend of Off-Broadway Awards will be presented to David Greenspan and Scott Morfee for their extraordinary contributions over many years. William Finn, Morgan Jenness, and Linda Lavin will be posthumously inducted into the Off Broadway Hall of Fame.  The Friend of Off-Broadway Award will be presented to Helen Shaw, theatre critic and writer at The New Yorker.

The 2025 Off Broadway Alliance Awards nominations & honorees are:

BEST MUSICAL

• All the World’s a Stage
• Drag the Musical
• Forbidden Broadway
• Music City
• The Big Gay Jamboree

BEST PLAY

• Becoming Eve
• Here There Are Blueberries
• Table 17
• The Light and the Dark
• The Welkin

BEST REVIVAL

• Cats: The Jellicle Ball
• Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
• Ghosts
• Hold On to Me Darling
• Orlando

BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE

• 300 Paintings
• Grandiloquent
• Hold Me in the Water
• I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan
• Vanya

BEST UNIQUE THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE

• Ain’t Done Bad
• Mama, I’m A Big Girl Now!
• Mindplay
• My First Ex-Husband
• Odd Man Out

LEGEND OF OFF BROADWAY

• David Greenspan
• Scott Morfee

OFF BROADWAY HALL OF FAME

• William Finn
• Morgan Jenness
• Linda Lavin

FRIEND OF OFF BROADWAY

• Helen Shaw

Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees and honorees!

“How To Produce Your Off Broadway Show”
A Three-Part Panel Discussion Series
April 6 at 11:30AM
May 4 at 11:30AM
June 1 at 11:30AM  

We’re pleased to inform you that the Off Broadway Alliance’s popular Sunday Seminar Series is returning for spring 2025! 

Join our panelists and the Off-Broadway community for an informative three-part series of seminars exploring the topic “How to Produce Your Off Broadway Show.”

Each seminar will take place on the first Sunday of the month and will run from 11:30AM to 1PM, followed by an hour of networking with complimentary bagels and coffee.

All three seminars will be held on the 4th floor of The Theater Center (210 West 50th Street), and check-in will begin at 11:00AM. Attendees are encouraged to pre-submit questions for the panelists when they submit their reservations. Questions will be asked live at the seminar.

Admission is $5 and pre-registration is a must.
To register, please click here.

Read on for more information on each individual seminar!

Sunday, April 6: Seminar #1:
Artistic and Financial Planning. 

Learn how to produce a workshop or reading and then hire your General Manager and Attorney so you can create a budget and raise some money.

Sunday, May 4: Seminar #2:
Finding a Venue and Assembling a Creative Team

Finding the right venue, deciding how many perfs per week to do, hiring a director, choreographer, designers.

Sunday, June 1:
Seminar #3: Marketing and Promotion

Branding and Messaging, defining unique selling points. Advertising and paid promotion, social media and press opportunities.

We look forward to seeing you at this spring’s Sunday Seminars!