Late pioneering composer-lyricist William Finn will be posthumously inducted onto the Playwrights' Sidewalk in front of Off-Broadway's Lortel Theatre as part of this year's Lucille Lortel Awards, which have set the date for a May 3 ceremony. The honors recognize the best in Off-Broadway theatre.

Finn's honor is one of two special awards being announced prior to this year's competitive categories, along with a Lifetime Achievement Award for National Asian American Theatre Company co-founder Mia Katigbak.

Tony winner Finn, who died last year at the age of 73, made the bulk of his career Off-Broadway, becoming one of the industry's leading voices in the '70s and '80s with musicals like In Trousers, March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland, A New Brain, and Elegies. His one-act March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland were later combined to become the two-act musical Falsettos, which played Broadway runs in 1992 and 2016. Finn also contributed music and lyrics to the 2005 musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, currently back in NYC via an Off-Broadway revival at New World Stages after playing earlier runs Off-Broadway and on the Main Stem.

Katigbak, along with co-founding NAATCO, has acted in Deep Blue Sound, Uncle Vanya, and Infinite Life Off-Broadway, along with NAATCO productions of Henry VI, Scenes From a Marriage, and Awake and Sing!

The Lortel Awards will reveal nominations April 1.

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