42nd Street

Village Theatre

From the nomination panel: Outstanding dancing and staging. Fantastic casting and a wonderful show overall. Didn’t realize tap dancing feet could move that fast… wow!

Candide

5th Avenue Theatre

From the nomination panel: Simply a perfect production of a challenging and daunting musical. Expertly crafted, exquisite performances, and beautifully played. The perfect cornerstone to a city-wide Bernstein celebration. This will never be an easy musical to produce, but the 5th proved it was a worthwhile one.

THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, PART ONE – RECIPIENT

*People’s Choice Nominee

Book-It Repertory Theatre

From the nomination panel: Engaging and complex subject matter, extraordinary actors, great text, and outstanding direction. So good I saw it twice, and will go back in the fall to do it all over again.

Electra

Seattle Shakespeare Company

From the nomination panel: A brilliantly conceived collaboration of direction, design and acting. I assume Sheila Daniels knew exactly what she was doing with this, and with Marya Sea Kaminski in the lead role, Daniels had an amazing actor to play out our contemporary national psychodrama onstage.

The Laramie Project

Strawberry Theatre Workshop

From the nomination panel: All around an amazing show. All elements were fabulous. Became greater than the sum of its parts. Ultimately and best of all, the result was that it told the story well and clearly.

Ruined

Intiman Theatre

From the nomination panel: This piece was spectacular from start to finish. Kate Whoriskey’s vision for theater is new and exciting and I am glad she is now calling Seattle and the Intiman her home. It does exactly what theater should and can do. It made me proud to be from Seattle. Moving. Beautiful. Haunting. Relevant.