BLACKBIRD, WAY TO HEAVEN, et al. Nominated for LA Weekly Theatre Awards

Nominations have just been announced for the L.A. Weekly Thetare Awards, which will take place on April 2. The full list of nominees is as follows:

PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR

Blackbird, Rogue Machine at Theatre/Theater

Day Drinkers, Odyssey Theatre

Small Engine Repair, Rogue Machine at Theatre/Theater

The War Cycle: Gospel According to the First Squad, Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble at Powerhouse Theatre

Way to Heaven, Odyssey Theatre

REVIVAL PRODUCTION OF THE YEAR (of a 20th- or 21st-century work)

All My Sons, Matrix Theatre Company

4.48 Psychosis, City Garage at Bergamot Station, Track 16 Gallery

Camino Real, Theatre @ Boston Court/CalArts School of Theater

The Crucible, Theatre Banshee

A House Not Meant to Stand, Fountain Theatre

Peace in Our Time, Antaeus Company

Room Service, Open Fist Theatre Company

MUSICAL OF THE YEAR

Bash'd, Celebration Theatre

Cyclops: A Rock Opera, Psittacus Productions/Pasadena Playhouse

Gypsy, West Coast Ensemble at Theatre of Arts

Hey, Morgan!, Black Dahlia Theatre

Re-Animator The Musical, Steve Allen Theater

DIRECTION

Lindsay Allbaugh, 100 Saints You Should Know, Elephant Theater Company

Bernardo Bernardo, The Romance of Magno Rubio, PAE Live/Good Shepherd Ambulance Company at [Inside] the Ford

Andrew Block, Small Engine Repair

Robin Larsen, Blackbird

Paul Plunket, Endgame, Sacred Fools Theater Company

Ron Sossi, Way to Heaven

DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL

Louis Butelli, Cyclops: A Rock Opera

Stuart Gordon, Re-Animator The Musical

Richard Israel, Gypsy

Ameenah Kaplan, Bash'd

Matt Shackman, Hey, Morgan!

Rick Sparks, I Love Lucy Live on Stage, Greenway Court Theatre

COMEDY DIRECTION

Sean Branney, The Walworth Farce, Theatre Banshee

Bart DeLorenzo, Day Drinkers

Bart DeLorenzo, Margo Veil, Evidence Room at Odyssey Theatre

Denise Devin, Turbo Tartuffe, Zombie Joe's Underground

Bjorn Johnson and Ron Orbach, Room Service

Rob Mersola, Love Sucks, Springtime 4 and East 4th Street Productions at Coast Playhouse

MUSICAL DIRECTION

Peter Adams, Re-Animator The Musical

DJ Jedi, Bash'd

Richard Levinson, Peace in Our Time

Wayne Moore, I Love Lucy Live on Stage

David O, The Cradle Will Rock, Blank Theatre Company at Stella Adler Theatre

ENSEMBLE

The Crucible

Hermetically Sealed, Katselas Theatre Company at Skylight Theatre

9 Circles, Bootleg Theater

Small Engine Repair

The Romance of Magno Rubio

What's Wrong With Angry?, Celebration Theatre

The War Cycle: Gospel According to the First Squad

MUSICAL ENSEMBLE

Bash'd

The Cradle Will Rock

Having It All, NoHo Arts Center

I Love Lucy Live on Stage

Re-Animator The Musical

COMEDY ENSEMBLE

D Is for Dog, Rogue Artists Ensemble at Studio/Stage

Day Drinkers

Margo Veil

Pulp Shakespeare, Theatre Asylum

Room Service

Turbo Tartuffe

The Walworth Farce

LEADING FEMALE PERFORMANCE

Michelle Clunie, The Mercy Seat, Vs. Theatre Company at [Inside] the Ford

Maria Gobetti, Sex and Education, Victory Theatre Center

Sandy Martin, A House Not Meant to Stand

Amanda Weir, Room Service

Jacqueline Wright, House of Gold, Ensemble Studio Theatre/L.A. at the Atwater Village Theatre

LEADING MALE PERFORMANCE

Jon Jon Briones, The Romance of Magno Rubio

Matthew Goodrich, Camino Real

Jim Hanna, Othello, The Production Company at Lex Theatre

John D. Johnston, Dirt, Rogue Machine and Firefly: Theater & Films at Theatre/Theater

Brian Norris, The Woodpecker, Mutineer Theatre Company at Studio/Stage

Leon Russom, Endgame

Norbert Weisser, Way to Heaven

SUPPORTING FEMALE PERFORMANCE

Kate Huffman, 100 Saints You Should Know

Lynne Odell, Alceste, Theatre of NOTE

Julia Prud'homme, Alceste

Lisa Richards, A House Not Meant to Stand

Pamela Roylance, 100 Saints You Should Know

Tamara Zook, The Woodpecker

SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE

Ram?n DeOcampo, The Malcontent, Antaeus Company

David Fraioli, Endgame

Michael McGee, Way to Heaven

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