This year, the Independent Theater Bloggers Association is proud to announce the 2012 recipients of the Fourth Annual Patrick Lee Theater Blogger Awards. Patrick Lee was one of the ITBA's founding members and passed away suddenly in June 2010.  I had the chance to know Patrick during the early years of the ITBA and he was a passionate and tireless advocate for theater in all its forms. Patrick was the ITBA's first awards director, and was a regular contributor toTheatermania and TDF Stages.

The 2011-2012 Patrick Lee Theater Blogger Award Winners are:

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL

• Once

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY

• Peter and the Starcatcher

OUTSTANDING BROADWAY MUSICAL REVIVAL

• Follies

OUTSTANDING BROADWAY PLAY REVIVAL

• Death of a Salesman

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF BROADWAY PLAY

• Sons of the Prophet

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE

• Peter and the Starcatcher

CITATIONS FOR EXCELLENCE BY INDIVIDUAL PERFORMERS (Across Off-Off Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Broadway)

• Nina Arianda, Venus in Fur
• Christian Borle, Peter and the Starcatcher
• Philip Boykin, The Gershwins' Porgy & Bess
• Danny Burstein, Follies
• James Corden, One Man, Two Guvnors
• Santino Fontana, Sons of the Prophet
• Judy Kaye, Nice Work If You Can Get It
• Judith Light, Other Desert Cities
•  Jan Maxwell, Follies
• Lindsay Mendez, Godspell
• Terri White, Follies

OUTSTANDING OFF-OFF-BROADWAY PLAY

• Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War, The Mad Ones, The New Ohio Theatre
• She Kills Monsters, The Flea Theatre

UNIQUE OFF-OFF BROADWAY EXPERIENCE

• The Tenant, Woodshed Collective

CITATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN OFF-OFF BROADWAY THEATRE

• The Flea Theatre

OUTSTANDING SOLO SHOW/PERFORMANCES (Across Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway)

• Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway
• Denis O'Hare, An Iliad, New York Theatre Workshop
• Zoe Caldwell, Elective Affinities, Soho Rep
• Juan Francisco Villa, Empanada for a Dream, Barrow Group
• Stephen Spinella, An Illiad, New York Theatre Workshop
• Daniel Kitson, It's Always Right Now Until It's Later
• Lorinda Lositza, Triumphant Baby

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL

• Now. Here. This.

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