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Ryman Auditorium (originally Union Gospel Tabernacle and renamed Grand Ole Opry House for a period) is a historic 2,362-seat live-performance venue and museum located at 116 Rep. John Lewis Way North, in the downtown core of Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It is best known as the home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974.
The Academy Awards of Merit, [ 1] commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit given for "Excellence within the American and international film industry ". They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States in recognition of excellence in ...
The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, an Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award given to the best new (non- musical) play on Broadway, as determined by Tony Award voters. There was no award in the Tonys' first year. The award goes to the authors and the producers of the play. Plays that have appeared in previous ...
Joseph Jefferson Award ( Chicago, US) LA Weekly Theater Award (Los Angeles, US) (defunct) Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award (Los Angeles, US) NAACP Theatre Awards (US) National High School Musical Theatre Awards (US) Ovation Awards (Los Angeles, US) Sarah Siddons Award (for female actresses in Chicago theatre)
The Obie Awards were initiated by critic Jerry Tallmer and Edwin (Ed) Fancher, publisher of The Village Voice, who handled the financing and business side of the project. They were first given in 1956 under the direction of Tallmer. Initially, only off-Broadway productions were eligible; in 1964, off-off-Broadway productions were made eligible.
The Tony Award for Best Musical is given annually to the best new Broadway musical, as determined by Tony Award voters. The award is one of the ceremony's longest-standing awards, having been presented each year since 1949. The award goes to the producers of the winning musical. A musical is eligible for consideration in a given year if it has ...
New York Times crossword puzzle maker David Kwong is likably clever in his interactive Zoom show for Geffen Playhouse. But does it work as theater? Review: Crossword master David Kwong tries to ...
The Tony Awards are the New York theatre industry's equivalent to the Emmy Awards for television, the Grammy Awards for music, and the Academy Awards (Oscars) for film, and a person who has won all four is said to have won the EGOT. The Tony Awards are the U.S. equivalent of the United Kingdom's Laurence Olivier Awards and France's Molière ...