We Theater Bloggers Honor the Season's Best

The Independent Theater Bloggers Association, the group of theater watchers who regularly express ourselves online, announced the winners of our third annual theater awards yesterday.  Last year, we formally named the awards The Patrick Lee Theater Blogger Awards in honor of our colleague Patrick Lee, one of the group’s founding members and its first awards director, who died suddenly last June. But that’s a mouthful and I think Patrick, a straight-talker and a concise writer, would get a kick out of its pithier nickname, “The Patricks.”

He also might have championed a few other choices for this year's honors (just as I did) but I think he—and you—will still find all the winners to be fully deserving.  

The cast and creators of the acclaimed [title of show] (Jeff Bowen, Heidi Blickenstaff, Susan Blackwell and Hunter Bell) took time out from working on their new show, Now. Here. This, which opens at the Vineyard Theatre next month, to announce the recipients of the 2011 Patricks:

Thanks to Jesse North of stagerush.com for the filming

You can also see the full list of winners here:
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY

Jerusalem

OUTSTANDING BROADWAY MUSICAL REVIVAL

Anything Goes

OUTSTANDING BROADWAY PLAY REVIVAL

The Normal Heart

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL

The Kid

OUTSTANDING OFF-BROADWAY REVIVAL (PLAY OR MUSICAL)

Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches

OUTSTANDING SOLO SHOW/PERFORMANCE (ALL VENUE CATEGORIES)

Michael Shannon, Mistakes Were Made

CITATIONS FOR OUTSTANDING OFF-OFF BROADWAY SHOW

Feeder: A Love Story

Invasion!

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Belarus Free Theater's Discover Love

Black Watch

ReWrite

UNIQUE OFF-OFF BROADWAY EXPERIENCE

Sleep No More

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE

The Scottsboro Boys

CITATIONS FOR EXCELLENCE BY INDIVIDUAL PERFORMERS

Nina Arianda, Born Yesterday

Laura Benanti, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Reed Birney, A Small Fire

Christian Borle, Peter and the Starcatcher

Norbert Leo Butz, Catch Me If You Can

Bobby Cannavale, The Motherfucker with the Hat

Colman Domingo, The Scottsboro Boys

Sutton Foster, Anything Goes

Josh Gad, The Book of Mormon

Hamish Linklater, The School for Lies

Joe Mantello, The Normal Heart

Arian Moayed, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

Lily Rabe, The Merchant of Venice

Mark Rylance, Jerusalem

Michael Shannon, Mistakes Were Made

Benjamin Walker, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

CITATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN OFF-OFF BROADWAY THEATRE

La Mama