2024-2025 Theatre World Award Winners Announced

The Theatre World Awards Board of Directors has announced the Honorees for an Outstanding Debut Performance in a Broadway or Off-Broadway Production. Also announced, Shailene Woodley  will receive the 16th Annual Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence in the Theater and  Leslie Uggams will receive the 12th Annual John Willis Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, and George Clooney will receive a 2025 TWA Special Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut as Performer & Playwright. The 79th Annual Theatre World Awards Ceremony will be held Mon June 2 at 7:00 PM at Hard Rock Café Times Square (1501 B'way). Hosted annually by Peter Filichia, the ceremony will be produced by Theatre World Awards, Inc. Board of Directors/Dale Badway. The Musical Director is Michael Lavine.  The 2025 Honorees are Alana Arenas, Purpose, Kit Connor, Romeo & Juliet, Patsy Ferran, A Streetcar Named Desire, Tom Francis, Sunset Boulevard, Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat, Paul Mescal, A Streetcar Named Desire, Louis McCartney, Stranger Things, Marjan Neshat, English, Jasmine Amy Rogers, Boop!, Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Boulevard, Helen J Shen, Maybe Happy Ending and Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray.  The honorees are chosen by the Theatre World Awards Committee which is comprised of Linda Armstrong (Amsterdam News), David Cote (The Observer), Joe Dziemianowicz (New York Theatre Guide), Peter Filichia (Broadway Radio), David Finkle (New York Stage Review), Elysa Gardner (The New York Sun), Harry Haun (Observer.com), Cary Wong (The Interested Bystander), and Frank Scheck (New York Stage Review/ The Hollywood Reporter). The Theatre World Awards, Inc. Board of Directors is headed by  Badway (President) with Tom Lynch (Vice-President), Michael Kostel (Vice-President), Stephen Wilde (Secretary), The late Honorable Ilene Zatkin-Butler (Treasurer), James Sheridan, Karen Johnston, and Jeffrey Grove. Press contact: Richard Hillman Public Relations (646/234-5716)...