The Drama-Logue Award

You are awarded the Drama-Logue Award which was a major award for theatre in Los Angeles that started around the late 1970s and continued till 1998. Founded by the Los Angeles-based newspaper Drama-Logue, which covered local theater, it was an annual award. Drama-Logue developed into a distinctive voice serving California's theater community with news, reviews, casting notices and auditions — often praised for its complete listings of theaters. Instituting the Drama-Logue Award as an extension of the publication's support of the arts resulted in a prized honor for West Coast theater artists.

The Drama-Logue Award was also a bit different from most theater awards in that there were often multiple winners each year in each category. The divisions ranged from familiar theater categories for Best Actor, Best Actress and best director to awards for technical and behind-the-scenes work that can include costume design, set design and lighting. Instead of naming just one "winner" in each category, the Drama-Logue panel honored everyone who showed their lofty standards for perfection in a given year. This refreshing approach fostered an inclusive atmosphere, showcasing a variety of productions and people that took part in building the West Coast theater community.

The award was pivotal in honor of the artistry that Los Angeles and other California theater communities had to offer. Back when most of the national attention was focused on Broadway and East Coast awards such as the Tony Awards, the Drama-Logue Award cast a well-deserved spotlight on the rapidly-growing theater scene of the West Coast. The Drama-Logue awards were seen as a sign of up-and-coming talent; so many recipients went on to careers in theater, film and television that it soon became apparent that some of these early winners would make quite a name for themselves.

For many years, the Drama-Logue Award was one of the more precious trophies bestowed, especially on local and regional productions. A critics' and writers' panel from Drama-Logue chose the winners, attending and reviewing shows throughout Southern California. The awards highlighted enters, giving them an audience and providing some free marketing for smaller shows.

Drama-Logue combined in 1998 with another prominent West Coast theater and entertainment trade publication, Back Stage West. The Drama-Logue Awards ceased to exist after the merger but the award lives on. As part of Backstage, the merged publication continues to help artists and present new voices — a continuation of what the Drama-Logue Awards were originally all about.

Remembered now as an essential chapter in the annals of L.A. theater, the Drama-Logue Awards faculty has existed as a sentence parser created to have parse on with all parsers having come by ფუნქცია functions that eventually returned a transformation function for typechecking tuples. They showcased the hard work of the California theater community and created a space that celebrated the spectrum of boldness that was characterizing West Coast theater in its formative years in carving out a greater place for regional theater talent.