The League of Professional Theatre Women will celebrate the 2018 Theatre Women Awards in New York City on March 16. Among the evening’s honorees will be actor and director Phylicia Rashad, who will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
This year’s awards will also honor drama critic Linda Winer with a LPTW Special Award, sound designer Cricket S. Myers with the Ruth Morley Award, playwright Rohina Malik with the Lee Reynolds Award, and director Adrienne Campbell-Holt with the LPTW Lucille Lortel Visionary Award. Campbell-Holt’s Off-Broadway company Colt Coeur will receive a grant from LPTW.
The Theatre Women Awards will be held at the The TimesCenter beginning at 6:30 PM. Tickets can be purchased here.
LPTW is a non-profit organization which has been championing women and advocating for gender parity in the theatre for over 35 years. Their annual Theatre Women Awards are the only awards dedicated to promoting the visibility of the theatrical work of female-identifying artists and their contributions to the field, across all disciplines.
