We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 13th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards!

Competitive awards are given in six categories – Best New Musical, Best New Play, Best Revival, Best Unique Theatrical Experience, Best Solo Performance, and Best Family Show – and this year, the winners will be honored with a ceremony on Tuesday, June 18th at Sardi’s.

As previously announced, this year’s awards will also honor Marylouise Burke, Len Cariou, and Suzan-Lori Parks as Legends of Off Broadway. Playwright/performer Christopher Durang, writer Michael Feingold, and producer Edgar Lansbury will be posthumously inducted into the Off Broadway Hall of Fame, and Adam Feldman of Time Out New York will receive the Friend of Off Broadway Award.

Read on for a complete list of winners and nominees!

Best New Musical
Buena Vista Social Club
WINNER – Dead Outlaw
Lizard Boy
The Connector
The Gardens of Anuncia

Best New Play
Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors
Infinite Life
Job
WINNER – Oh, Mary!
Stereophonic 

Best Revival
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Pericles
The Habit of Art
Translations
WINNER – Tuesdays With Morrie 

Best Solo Performance
Patrick Page, All the Devils Are Here
Rachel Bloom, Death, Let Me Do My Show
John Rubinstein, Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground
Jes Tom, Less Lonely
WINNER – Wade McCollum, Make Me Gorgeous!

Best Unique Theatrical Experience
WINNER – Dungeons & Dragons The Twenty-Sided Tavern
Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors
Mind Mangler: A Night of Tragic Illusion
Stalker
The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers 

Best Family Show
Cat Kid Comic Club
WINNER – El Otro Oz
Pinocchio

Legend of Off-Broadway Award
Marylouise Burke
Len Cariou
Suzan-Lori Parks

Off-Broadway Hall of Fame Inductees
Christopher Durang
Michael Feingold
Edgar Lansbury

The 11th Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards took place on June 21st, 2022 at Sardi’s, honoring commercial and not-for-profit productions that opened Off Broadway during the 2021-2022 season. The ceremony was hosted by the renowned actor, singer, dancer, and writer Brenda Braxton. In each of the five categories, the winners are: Harmony, Best New Musical; Sanctuary City, Best New Play; Assassins, Best Revival; Oratorio for Living Things, Best Unique Theatrical Experience; and Little Girl Blue, Best Solo Performance.

In addition to the competitive awards, Legend of Off Broadway Awards were presented to Richard Nelson and Albert Bergeret for their extraordinary contributions over many years. Ed Bullins, Arthur French and Lisa Banes will be posthumously honored with induction into the Off Broadway Hall of Fame, and the Friend of Off-Broadway Award will be presented to Tom and Michael D’Angora for their heroic rescues of beloved Off Broadway theatres and watering holes during the crises of the last two years.

Please enjoy these video highlights from the 2019 OBA Awards, and click here to see more videos from the event.

All videos provided by Jeremy Handelman/Off the Leash Productions.

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

2022 Off Broadway Alliance Awards

(This year’s winners in each category shown in bold below)

BEST NEW MUSICAL         

• KimberlyAkimbo
• Harmony              
• Black No More
• Intimate Apparel
• Coal Country

BEST NEW PLAY                 

• Prayer for the French Republic
• Sanctuary City
• Jane Anger
• English
• A Sherlock Carol
• Trial on the Potomac

BEST REVIVAL                     

• Assassins     
• Sistas the Musical
• Merry Wives
• The Daughter-in-Law
• Warren’s Profession

BEST UNIQUE THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE   

• Oratorio for Living Things
• The Hang
• Islander
• Blindness
• Barococo

BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE

• Little Girl Blue
• Just for Us
• Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord
• Is There Still Sex in the City?
• How the Hell Did I Get Here?