2021 Nominees

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NOMINEES FOR THE 49TH ANNUAL VIVIAN ROBINSON AUDELCO RECOGNITION AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN BLACK THEATRE | A 49-Year Retrospective of Black Theatre Excellence

AMAS MUSICAL THEATRE (1968 TO PRESENT)
Bubbling Brown Sugar (1973-1975)
Dunbar (1979-1980)
From My Hometown (2002-2003)
Little Ham (2001-2002)
Peanut Man (1985-1986)
Rollin On The T.O.B.A. (1998- 1999)
Struttin (1988-1989)


AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIO (1966) / 127TH STREET REPERTORY ENSEMBLE (1973) / JAZZ THEATRE OF HARLEM (1986)
Dream On Monkey Mountain (1982)
Equus (1982)
Moon On A Rainbow Shawl (1984)
Raisin In The Sun (1979)
Tabernacle (1985)
Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright (1981)

BLACK SPECTRUM (1970 TO PRESENT)
Amen Corner (1992)
Black Love (1982)
Blues From An Alabama Sky (2004)
Healing Zone (2007)
Reunion In Bartersville (2018)
The Piano Lesson (2003)
Timeless: Mystery Of The Dark Water (2016)


BILLIE HOLIDAY THEATRE (1972 TO PRESENT)

Brothers From The Bottom (2015)
Freeda Peoples (2002)
Inacent Black and the Five Brothers (1979)
The Legend Of Buster Neal (2011)
Vampire And The Dentist (1978)
Young Gifted And Broke (1977)
Old Settler (2017)

CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM (1999 TO PRESENT)
Ain’t Supposed To Die A Natural Death (2006)
Detroit ’67 (2013)
The Blacks (2003)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2002)
Seed (2011)
The Tempest (2016)
Trojan Women (2008)


CROSSROADS THEATRE COMPANY (1972 TO PRESENT)
Black Eagles (1991)
Fly  (2009)
Jitney (1997)
Sheila’s Day (1989)
Spunk (1989)
The Colored Museum (1986)
Two Hah Hah’s and A Homeboy (1995)


FRANK SILVERA WRITERS WORKSHOP (1973 TO PRESENT)

Every Moment (1986)
Father’s Day (1990)
Fried Chicken And Invisibility (1983)
The Last Street Play (1975)
Sisyphus And The Blue-Eye Cyclops (1990)
Tut-Anhk-Amen: The Boy King (1982)
What Ever Happened To Amos And Andy (1982)


H.A.D.L.E.Y PLAYERS (1979 to PRESENT)
A Bolt From The Blue (1997)
Gladys’ Dilemma (2010)
Home (2005)
Open House (1974)
Old Settler (2005)
The Guest At Central Park (2006)
Who’s Mamma’s Baby Who’s Daddy’s Child (1985)


HARLEM REPERTORY THEATRE (2004 TO PRESENT)
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (2008)
Dream Girls (2012)
In The Heights (2016)
Pippin (2019)
Sweet Charity (2019)
The Colored Museum (2018)
The Wiz (2014)


HARLEM THEATER COMPANY (1987 TO 2004)
Bury The Dead (1989)
Dishin’ With Tish (1997)
Goobie Dust (1999)
Love Child (2003)
Solutions And More (1988)
Ti-Jean and His Brothers (1991)
Waiting Until Dark (2002)


LAYON GRAY AMERICAN THEATRE COMPANY (2010 TO PRESENT)

All American Girls (2011)
Black Angels Over Tuskegee (2010)
Black Sparta Dahomey Warriors (2018)
Diary Of A Catholic School Dropout (2013)
Kings Of Harlem (2014)
Webeime (2008)
Searching For Willie Lynch (2015)


MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB (1970 TO PRESENT)
Drowning Crow (2004)
New Englanders (2019)
Ruined (2009)
Sugar In Our Wounds (2018)
Talented Tenth (1989)
The Past Is Past (1975)
Whipping Man (2011)


NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE (1968 TO PRESENT)
Affinity (1985)
Black Codes From The Underground (1992)
Do Wop Love (1993)
Iced Out, Shackled And Chained (2010)
Soljourney Into Truth (1977)
Fruits Of Miss Morning (1988)
Carnaval (2014)


NEGRO ENSEMBLE COMPANY (1967 TO PRESENT)
A Day Of Absence (1969)
A Lovely Malfunction (2015)
A Soldier’s Play (1981)
Mississippi Delta (1987)
River Niger (1972)
The Waiting Room (2007)
War Party (1986)


NEW FEDERAL THEATRE (1971 TO PRESENT)
Black Girl (1973)
Do Lord Remember Me (1976)
Dutchman (2015)
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf (1975)
The Chickens Come Home To Roost (1981)
The Trial Of One Short Sighted Woman/Mammy Louise/Safreeta Mae  (1999)
What The Wine-Cellars Buy (1973)


NEW HERITAGE THEATRE GROUP (1964 TO PRESENT)
Black Wall Street (2014)
Can I Be Me? (2007)
Fat Tuesday (1975)
On Strivers Row (1974)
Monsieur Baptiste The Con Man (1981)
Roshamon (1979)
Woza Albert (1984)


NEW LAFAYETTE THEATRE (1968 TO 1973)
A Son Come Home (1968)
In New England Winter (1969)
House Party (1973)
Malcolm (1971)
Miss Marie (1973)
The Pig Pen (1970)
We Righteous Bombers (1968)


NUYORICAN POETS CAFE (1971 TO PRESENT)
The Circle Unbroken Is A Hard Bop (1993)
Don’t Explain (1991)
Election Machine/Jack Pot Melting (1996)
Julius Caesar Set In Africa (1990)
Life During Wartime (1992)
Nuyorican Nights (1982)
Shango De Ima (1994)


PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS
A Cool Dip In The Barren (2010)
Booty Call (2014)
Familiar (2016)
Fear Itself (1999)
If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be A Muhfucka (2019)
Langston In Harlem (2010)
Milk Like Sugar (2011)


RICHARD ALLEN CENTER (1968 TO PRESENT)
Black Circles Around Angela (1970)
Forever My Darlin’ (1985)
Linda Means Wait (2003)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1970)
Voices Of The Spirits In My Soul (2006)
May Edward Chin (2010)
Welcome Home Marian Anderson (2003)


SIGNATURE THEATRE (1996 TO PRESENT)
Fabulations Or The Re-Education Of Undine (2018)
First Breeze Of Summer (2008)
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (2019)
Our Lady Of Kibeho (2014)
Paradise Blues (2018)
Stop.Reset (2013)
Zooman And The Sign (2009)


TAKE WING AND SOAR PRODUCTIONS (2003 TO PRESENT)
Antony & Cleopatra (2011)
Hamlet (2007)
King Lear (2009)
Pecong (2010)
Richard III (2003)
The Darker Face Of The Earth (2006)
The Importance Of Being Earnest (2013)

THE MORNINGSIDE PLAYERS
Fences (2015)
Heiress (2010)
Old Settler (2014)
Raisin In The Sun (2011)

THE MOVEMENT THEATRE Company (2007 TO PRESENT)
And She Would Stand Like This (2017)
Bintu (2010)
Black Boy And The War (2011)
Hope Speaks (2011)
Last Laugh (2013)
Look Upon Lowliness (2013)
What To Send Up When It Goes Down (2018)

THE PUBLIC THEATER (1954 TO PRESENT)
Ain’t No Mo’ (2019)
Black Terror (1971)
Bring In ‘Da Noise, Bring In ‘Da Funk (1995)
Eclipsed (2015)
Jonin (1985)
Spell #7 (1979)
Topdog/Underdog (2001)

UJAAMA BLACK THEATER (1977 TO PRESENT)
Barack Obama Sr. (2011)
Please Don’t Take My Rhythms And Blues (1983)
The Gospel Of The Harlem Renaissance (1982)
This Ain’t No Place (1985)
Tribute To Malcolm X (1988)
Why Don’t You Read A Book Today (2009)

URBAN ARTS CORPS (1967 TO 1980’S)
Alice (1978)
But Never Jam Today (1979)
Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope (1971)
The Boogie-Woogie Rumble Of A Dream Deferred (1983)
When Hell Freezes Over I’ll Skate (1979)
Your Arms Too Short To Box With God (1975)

SOLO PERFORMANCES (FEMALE)
A Song For You… The Civil Rights Journey Of A Negro Woman: Lena Calhoun Horne (Wendi Joy Franklin-2002)
Eartha Kitt (Deirdra McDowell-2019)
Fires In The Mirror (Anna Deavere Smith-1992)
Love To All, Lorraine (Elizabeth Van Dyke-1992)
Peculiar Patriot (Liza Jesse Peterson-2017)
Shaneequa Chronicles (Stephanie Berry-2010)
Zora (Phylicia Rashad-1981)

SOLO PERFORMANCES (MALE)
Emergency (Daniel Beaty-2006)
Freight: 5 Incarnations Of Abel Green (J Alphonse Nicholson-2017)
The Huey P. Newton Story (Roger Guenveur Smith-1996)
Lackawanna Blues (Ruben Santiago-Hudson-2001)
Lyrics From The Lockdown (Bryonn Bain-2012)
Marcus Garvey (Ron Bobb Semple-1988)
Monk (Rome Neal-2000)

MUSICALS (1970’S TO 1999)
Blues For A Gospel Queen (Billie Holiday Theatre-1986)
Champeen (New Federal Theatre-1983)
Deadwood Dick (Black Spectrum Theatre-1979)
Empress Of The Blues (Frank Silvera Writers Workshop-1979)
God’s Trombones (New Federal Theatre-1989)
Raising Hell (Billie Holiday Theatre-1996)
Song Of Sheba (National Black Theatre-1989)
The Legacy (National Black Theatre-1987)

MUSICALS (2000’S TO 2019)
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Faison Firehouse Theatre-2014)
Caroline Or Change (The Public Theater-2006)
Choir Boy (Manhattan Theatre Club-2019)
Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope (New York City Center-2018)
5 Guys Named Moe (Black Spectrum Theatre-2007)
Great Men Of Gospel (New Federal Theatre-2004)
Oya (National Black Theatre-2001)
Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons-2019)


49TH ANNUAL VIVIAN ROBINSON
AUDELCO RECOGNITION AWARDS
“THE VIV” for Excellence in Black Theatre

“A 49-Year Retrospective of Black Theatre Excellence”

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