50/50 Applause Awards 2017
Theatres, Plays and Playwrights
Asterisks Indicate Consecutive Year Recipients (1 asterisk for each consecutive year)
| Theater | Plays Produced 2016/17 | Playwrights |
| Alberta Theatre Projects | ||
| Calgary, AB Canada | Waiting for the Parade | John Murrell |
| http://atplive.com/ | Fortune Falls | Beth Graham, Jonathan Christenson |
| Slipper - A Distinctly Calgarian Cinderella Story | Rebecca Northan | |
| Cathy Jones: Stranger to Hard Work | Cathy Jones | |
| Gracie | Joan MacLeod | |
| 1979 | Michael Healey | |
| Arena Stage | ||
| Washington, D.C., USA | Born for This: Bebe Winans Story | Charles Randolph-Wright, Bebe Winans |
| www.arenastage.org | The Little Foxes | Lillian Hellman-adapted by Gaye Taylor Upchurch |
| Carousal | Oscar Hammerstein II | |
| Roe | Lisa Loomer | |
| Watch on the Rhine | Lillian Helman | |
| Intelligence | Jacqueline E. Lauton | |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry | |
| Smart people | Lydia Diamond | |
| Arts Club Theatre | ||
| Vancouver, BC Canada | Baskerville | Ken Ludwig |
| artsclub.com | The Flick | Annie Baker |
| Avenue Q | Jeff Whitty | |
| The Day Before Christmas | Stacey Kaser, Allison Kelly | |
| Men in White | Anosh Irani | |
| Bittergirl: The Musical | Annabel Fitzsimmons, Alison Laurence, Mary Francis Moore | |
| **Aurora Theatre Company | ||
| Berkeley, CA USA | Dear Master | Dorothy Bryant |
| http://www.auroratheatre.org/ | Leni | Sarah Greenman |
| Splendour | Abi Morgan | |
| Borderlands Theatre | ||
| Tucson, Arizona USA | Nogales | Montaya |
| borderlandtheatre.org | La Pasterela | Milta Ortiz |
| Guera | Lisandra Tena | |
| Shooting Columbus | Collective | |
| **Book It Rep Theatre | ||
| Seattle, WA USA | A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Ozeki |
| Book-itrepertorytheatre.org | Treasure Island | Bryan Burd |
| A Moveable Feast | Jane Jones, Judd Parkins | |
| **Cadence Theatre Company in partnership with Virginia Rep | ||
| Richmond, VA USA | John | Annie Baker |
| www.cadencetheatre.org | Violet | Jeanine Tesori, Brian Crawley |
| The Gun Show | E.M. Lewis | |
| Rabbit Hole | David Lindsay-Abaire | |
| Carousel Theatre for Young People | ||
| Vancouver, BC Canada | Sultans of the Street | Anusree Roy |
| www.carouseltheatre.ca | A Charlie Brown Christmas | Eric Schaeffer |
| Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat | Katie Mitchell | |
| Good Day and Good Night | Kayla Dunbar, Dustin Freeland | |
| Goodnight Moon and the Runaway Bunny | Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd | |
| **Center Stage | ||
| Baltimore, MD USA | Les Liaison Dangereuses | Christopher Hamton |
| www.centerstage.org | The White Snake | Mary Zimmerman |
| That Face | Polly Stenham | |
| Jazz | Namnie Kelly adapted from Toni Morrison | |
| Central Works | ||
| Berkeley, CA USA | Hearts of Palm | Patricia Milton |
| centralworks.org | Into The Beautiful North | Karen Zacarias |
| Years in the Hundreds | Jesse Potterveld | |
| Edward King | Gary Graves | |
| **Checkpoint Theatre | ||
| Singapore ASIA | #UnicornMoment | Oon Shu An |
| www.checkpoint-theatre.org | The Last Bull: A Life in Flamenco | Huzir Sulaiman |
| Recalling Mother | Claire Wong, Noorlinah Mohamed | |
| Normal | Faith Ng | |
| **City Theatre Company | ||
| Pittsburgh, PA USA | Hand to God | Robert Askins |
| http://www.citytheatrecompany.org/ | Feeding the Dragon | Sharon Washington |
| The Royale | Marco Ramirez | |
| The Guard | Jessica Dickey | |
| Wild with Happy | Colman Domingo | |
| Ironbound | Martyna Majok | |
| Company One Theatre | ||
| Boston, MA USA | The T Party | Natsu Onoda Power |
| companyone.org | We're Gonna Die: The Afterlife Remount | Young Jean Lee, Tim Simmonds, Mike Hanf, Nick Jenkins, Benedict Kupstas |
| Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. | Alice Birch | |
| Really | Jackie Sibblies Drury | |
| Peerless | Jiehae Park | |
| **Curious Theatre Company | ||
| Denver, CO USA | Water By the Spoonful | Quiara Alegria Hudes |
| www.curioustheatre.org | Hand to God | Robert Askins |
| The Happiest Song Plays Last | Quiara Alegria Hudes | |
| Constellations | Nick Payne | |
| The Luckiest People | Meridith Friedman | |
| Building the Wall | Robert Schenkkan | |
| Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre | ||
| Summit, NJ USA | The How and the Why | Sarah Treem |
| www.dreamcatcherrep.org | Shipwrecked! | Donald Margulies |
| Things Being What They Are | Wendy MacLeod | |
| Entity Theatre | ||
| Munich Germany | Aladdin | Anne Wollstein |
| www.entitytheatre.com | As You Like It | William Shakespeare (abridged version by Conny Loder) |
| Numbers | Mar Gomez Glez | |
| Globe Theatre | ||
| Regina, SK Canada | Million Dollar Quartet | Colin Escott, Floyd Mutrux |
| Globetheatrelive.com | Peter and the Star Catcher | Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater, Book by Doug Wright |
| Disney’s The Little Mermaid | Stephanie Graham | |
| Salt Baby | Falen Johnson | |
| Key Change | Nicky Lawrence | |
| Last Wife | Kate Hennig | |
| **Great Canadian Theatre Company | ||
| Ottawa, Ontario Canada | The Last Wife | Kate Hennig |
| http://www.gctc.ca | The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble | Beth Graham |
| Trudeau Stories | Brooke Johnson | |
| Les Passants | Luc Moquin | |
| 1979 | Michael Healey | |
| *****HERE Arts Center | ||
| New York, NY USA | Ship of Fools | Jessica Scott |
| http://here.org/ | Chiflón, El Silencio del Carbón | Santiago Tobar, Dominga Gutiérrez |
| Casablanca Box | Sara Farrington | |
| Dark Circus | Romain Bermond, Jean-Baptiste Maillet | |
| The Reception | Sean Donovan, Sebastián Calderón Bentin | |
| History Theatre | ||
| Saint Paul, MN USA | Teen Idol: The Bobby Vee Story | Bob Beverage |
| www.historytheatre.com | Orphan Train | Patty Lynch, Composer: Charlie Maguire |
| The Highwaymen | Josh Wilder | |
| The Things They Carried | Jim Stowell | |
| The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin | Jessica Huang | |
| Sweet Land, the musical | Perrin Post, Laurie Flanigan Hegge, composer: Dina Maccabee | |
| Glensheen | Jeffrey Hatcher, composer: Chan Polling | |
| Tales Along the Minnesota Trail | Laurie Flanigan Hegge, composer Marya Hart | |
| Imago Theatre | ||
| Portland, OR USA | The reunion | Carol Triffle |
| www.imagotheatre.com | Medea | Ben Power |
| La Belle | Carol Triffle, Jerry Mouawad & Devin Stinson | |
| Key City Public Theatre | ||
| Port Townsend, WA USA | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Wm. Shakespeare |
| www.keycitypublictheatre.org | 4000 Miles | Amy Herzog |
| Spirit of the Yule | Linda Dowdell, Denise Winter | |
| The Aliens | Annie Baker | |
| An Enemy of the People | Henrik Ibsen | |
| Murder Ballad | Julia Jordan, Juliana Nash | |
| **Know Theatre of Cincinnati | ||
| Cincinnati, OH USA | Girlfriend | Todd Almond |
| www.knowtheatre.com | Pulp | Joseph Zettelmaier |
| Darkest Night at the Gnarly Stump | Lauren Hynek, Elizabeth Martin | |
| Dragon Play | Jenny Connell Davis | |
| Heavier Than... | Steve Yockey | |
| Listen for the Light | Kara Lee Korthron | |
| Runaways | Elizabeth Swados | |
| ****Latino Theater Company | ||
| Los Angeles, CA USA | Juarez: A Documentary Mythology | Ruben Polendo |
| www.thelatc.org | A Mexican Trilogy: Faith, Hope, and Charity | Evelina Fernandez |
| A Latina Christmas Special | Dyana Yanez | |
| La Virgen De Guadalupe Dios Inantzin | Evelina Fernandez | |
| The Cruise | Jonathan Ceniceros | |
| Rules of Seconds | John Pollono | |
| The Sweetheart Deal | Diane Rodriguez | |
| Manhattan Theatre Club | ||
| New York, NY USA | Heisenberg | Simon Stephens |
| https://www.manhattantheatreclub.com | Jitney | August Wilson |
| The Little Foxes | Lillian Hellman | |
| Vietgone | Qui Nguyen | |
| Linda | Penelope Skinner | |
| Cost of Living | Martyna Majok | |
| Marin Theatre Company | ||
| Mill Valley, CA USA | August: Osage County | Tracy Letts |
| www.marintheatre.org | Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley | Lauren Gunderson, Margot Melcon |
| Native Son | Nambi Kelley | |
| peerless | Jiehae Park | |
| Guards at the Taj | Rajiv Joseph | |
| The Legend of Georgia McBride | Matthew Lopez | |
| Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company | ||
| Houston, TX USA | The Maids | Jean Genet |
| mildredsumbrella.com | Dry Land | Ruby Rae Speigel |
| The Johns | Mary Bonnet | |
| A Heroine Free Summer | Janet Lowery | |
| Northlight Theatre | ||
| Skokie, IL USA | The City of Conversation | Anthony Giardina |
| northlight.org | Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley | Lauren Gunderson, Margot Melcon |
| Faceless | Selina Fillinger | |
| By the Water | Sharyn Rothstein | |
| Relativity | Mark St. Germain | |
| ****off the WALL productions (at Carnegie Stage) | ||
| Carnegie, PA USA | Mother Lode | Virginia Wall Gruenert |
| www.insideoffthewall.com | An Accident | Lydia Stryk |
| Lungs | Duncan MacMillan | |
| The Pink Unicorn | Elise Forier Edie | |
| 4.48 Psychosis | Sarah Kane | |
| Open Stage of Harrisburg | ||
| Harrisburg, PA USA | Fun Home | Lisa Kron |
| www.openstagehbg.com | A Christmas Carol | Rachel Landon |
| The Santaland Diaries | David Seders | |
| Akeelah And The Bee | Cheryl L. West | |
| The Flick | Annie Baker | |
| Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties | Jen Silverman | |
| Little Women | Laura Dugan | |
| **Pacific Theatre | ||
| Vancouver, BC Canada | A Good Way Out | Cara Norrish |
| www.pacifictheatre.org | Suitcase Stories | Maki Yi |
| Holy Mo: A Christmas Show | Lucia Frangione | |
| Corleone: A Shakespearean Godfather | David Mann | |
| Valley Song | Athol Fugard | |
| Outside Mullingar | John Patrick Shanley | |
| **Plan-B Theatre Company | ||
| Salt Lake City, UT USA | The Edible Complex | Melissa Leilani Larson |
| planbtheatre.org | On Big Union | Debora Threedy |
| Radio Hour Episode 11: Yuletide | Matthew Ivan Bennett | |
| Virtue | Tim Slover | |
| Not One Drop | Morag Shepherd | |
| PlayMakers Repertory Company | ||
| Chapel Hill, NC USA | Detroit '67 | Dominique Morisseau |
| www.playmakersrep.org | The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| The May Queen | Molly Smith Metzler | |
| Intimate Apparel | Lynn Nottage | |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | |
| My Fair Lady | Alan Jay Lerner | |
| Playwrights Horizons | ||
| New York, NY USA | Aubergine | Julia Cho |
| www.Playwrightshorizons.com | A Life | Adam Block |
| Rancho Viejo | Dan Le Franc | |
| The Light Years | Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen | |
| The Profane | Zayd Dohrn | |
| Bella:An American Tall Tale | Kirsten Childs | |
| **Prairie Theatre Exchange | ||
| Winnipeg, MB Canada | The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble | Beth Graham |
| pte.mb.ca | Mom's the Word | Linda A. Carson, Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard and Deborah Williams. |
| The Flats | Ginny Collins | |
| Elle | Severn Thompson (ad. from Douglas Glover ) | |
| The Birds and the Bees | Mark Crawford | |
| MunschBusters! | Debbie Patterson, (ad. from Robert Munsch ) | |
| Public Theatre | ||
| New York, NY USA | SWEAT | Lynn Nottage |
| https://www.publictheater.org | Party People | Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, Steven Sapp, William Ruiz aka Ninja |
| Tiny Beautiful Things | Nia Vardalos | |
| **Rep Stage (Howard Community College) | ||
| Columbia, MD USA | The Other Place | Sharr White |
| www.repstage.org | American Hero | Bess Wohl |
| H2O | Jane Martin | |
| Dorian's Closet | Richard Mailman | |
| ***Round House Theatre | ||
| Bethesda, MD USA | Angels in America | Tony Kushner |
| www.roundhousetheatre.org | Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley | Lauren Gunderson, Margot Melcon |
| Caroline, Or Change | Tony Kushner, Jeanine Tesori | |
| OR, | Liz Duffy Adams | |
| Beach Week | Diana Metzger | |
| How I Learned What I Learned | August Wilson | |
| **Royal Court Theatre | ||
| London, England UK | Pigs And Dogs | Caryl Churchill |
| http://royalcourttheatre.com | Father Comes Home From The Wars | Suzan-Lori Parks |
| The Sewing Group | E V Crowe | |
| Torn | Nathaniel Martello-White | |
| Harrogate | Al Smith | |
| The Children | Lucy Kirkwood | |
| Wish List | Katherine Soper | |
| Escaped Alone | Caryl Churchill | |
| Killilogy | Gary Owen | |
| Royal Manitoba Theatre Company | ||
| Winnipeg, MB Canada | The Audience | Peter Morgan |
| www.rmtc.org | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night | Simon Stephens |
| Black Coffee | Agatha Christie | |
| Bittergirl | Anabel Fitzsimmons, Alison Lawrence, Mary Francis Moore | |
| Million Dollar Quartet | Floyd Mutux | |
| Sarah Ballenden | Maureen Hunter | |
| Seattle Repertory Theatre | ||
| Seattle, WA USA | A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberg |
| https://www.seattlerep.org/ | Roz and Ray | Karen Hartman |
| King Charles III | Mike Bartlett | |
| Vietgone | Qui Nguyen | |
| Voody Sez | David Luttken | |
| Dry Powder | Sarah Burgess | |
| Well | Lisa Kron | |
| Here Lies Love | David Byrne, Fatboy Slim | |
| Signature Theatre | ||
| New York, NY USA | The Book of the Dead | Susan-Lori Parks |
| www.signaturetheatre.org | The Death of the last Black Man in the Whole Wide World:The Negro | Susan-Lori Parks |
| Everybody | BrandonJacobs-Jenkins | |
| Antibodies | Annie Baker | |
| Wakey-Wakey | Will Eno | |
| South Coast Rep (JAS) | ||
| Costa Mesa, CA USA | A Doll's House, part 2 | Luca Hnath |
| www.scr.org | The Roomate | Jen Silverman |
| Orange | Aditi brennan Kapil | |
| Distict Merchants | Aaron Posner | |
| State Theatre Company of South Australia | ||
| Adelaide, South Australia | Straight White Men | Young Jean Lee |
| www.statetheatrecompany.com.au | Red Cross Letters | Verity Laughton |
| The 39 Steps | Patrick Barlow | |
| Rumpelstiltskin | Julianne O'Brien, Rosemary Myers | |
| Tartuffe | Philip Kavanagh adaptation of Moliere | |
| The Secret River | Andrew Bovell | |
| Long Tan | Verity Laughton | |
| Mr Burns - A Post Electric Play | Anne Washburn | |
| Sista Girl | Alexis West, Elena Carapetis | |
| 1984 | Robert Icke, Duncan MacMillan | |
| Storycrafter Studio | ||
| North Miami, FL USA | The Wish Maker | Cynthia Joyce Clay |
| storycrafterstudio.org | Fortune's Ire | Guillermo Ramon |
| Beware the Jabberwocky | Cynthia Joyce Clay, Pamela Marshall | |
| Tasmanian Theatre | ||
| Hobart, Tasmania | Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee |
| Tastheatre.com | Antarctica | Dana Bergstrom |
| E-Baby | Jane Cafarella | |
| ***Teatro Paraguas | ||
| Santa Fe, NM USA | Revolution | Alix Hudson |
| www.teatroparaguas.org | Enfrascada | Tanya Saracho |
| The Motherf**ker with the Hat | Stephen Adly Guirgus | |
| The Belfry Theatre | ||
| Victoria, BC Canada | Mom's the Word | Linda A. Carson, Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, |
| www.belfry.bc.ca | Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard, Deborah Williams | |
| The Last Wife | Kate Hennig | |
| I Think I'm Fallin' | Michael Shamata, Tobin Stokes | |
| This Little Light | Erin Macklem, Brad L'Ecuyer | |
| Gracie | Joan MacLeod | |
| Alice Munro Stories | Alice Munro | |
| Taking Off | Deborah Williams | |
| ***The Bread & Roses Theatre | ||
| London, England UK | Dirty Butterfly | Debbie Tucker Green |
| www.breadandrosestheatre.co.uk | The Vagina Monologues | Eve Ensler |
| The Taming of the Shrew | William Shakespeare | |
| The Kingfisher Theater | ||
| Rochester, NY USA | Creditors | August Strindberg |
| Thekingfishertheater.org | The Devil, the Witch, and the Blacksmith | Kevin Dedes, Amy Canfield |
| Votes for Women! | Elizabeth Robins | |
| **Theater Alliance | ||
| Washington, DC USA | brownsville song (b-side for tray) | Kimber Lee |
| www.theateralliance.com | Black Nativity | Langston Hughes |
| Mnemonic | Complicite | |
| Still Life with Rocket | Mollye Maxner, with contributions from the cast and team | |
| ***Theatre Passe Muraille | ||
| Toronto, Ontario Canada | Brave New World | Adapted by Matthew Thomas Walker |
| http://passemuraille.ca/ | Secrets of s Black Boy | Darren Anthony |
| Alien Creature | Linda Griffiths | |
| John & Waleed | John Millard, Waleed Abdulhamid | |
| Stupidhead!: A Musical Comedy | Katherine Cullen, Britta Johnson | |
| Sound of the Beast | Donna-Michelle St. Bernard | |
| University of Nebraska Omaha Theatre | ||
| Omaha, Nebraska USA | Shakespeare's Dog | Leon Rooke |
| UNO Theatre | War of the Roses, Part 1: Foreign Flames | William Shakespeare, Vincent Carlson-Brown |
| The Guard | Jessica Dickey | |
| Tales of the Lost Formicans | Constance Congdon | |
| The Shape of Things | Neil LaBute | |
| Stop Kiss | Diana Son | |
| University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Theatre Co. | ||
| Chattanooga, TN USA | Eurydice | Sarah Ruhl |
| www.utc.edu/theatre-speech | Hay Fever | Noel Coward |
| Luna Gale | Rebecca Gilman | |
| Oklahoma! | Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers | |
| Victory Gardens Theater | ||
| Chicago, IL USA | Hand To God | Robert Askins |
| www.victorygardens.org | Roz and Ray | Karen Hartman |
| A Wonder In My Soul | Marcus Gardley | |
| Queen | Madhuri Shekar | |
| Native Gardens | Karen Zacarias | |
| ***Windy City Playhouse | ||
| Chicago, IL USA | This | Melissa James Gibson |
| www.windycityplayhouse.com | Apartment 3A | Jeff Daniels |
| Bootycandy | Robert O'Hara | |
| King Liz | Fernanda Coppel | |
| Yale Repertory Theatre | ||
| New Haven, CT USA | Scenes from a Court Life | Sara Ruhl |
| YaleRepertoryTheatre@Yale.edu | Seven Guitars | August Wilson |
| Imogen Says Nothing | Aditi Brennan Kapil | |
| Assassins | John Weidman | |
| Mary Jane | Amy Herzog | |