Backstage Pass with Lia Chang

Judges for 2010-2011 Village Voice Obie Awards include Feingold, Soloski, Als, Hwang, Yionoulis and Propst; Ceremony on 5/16

Lia Chang: The 2010-2011 Village Voice Obie Awards will be held on Monday, May 16, 2011 at Webster Hall in New York. The Voice‘s chief theater critic, Michael Feingold, will chair the 56th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards committee. Joining him will be Voice critic Alexis Soloski and four guest judges: Critic Hilton Als of The New Yorker; playwright David Henry Hwang, a three-time Obie Award winner for his plays F.O.B., Golden Child, and Yellow Face; director Evan Yionoulis, an Obie award winner for her production of Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain; and critic Andy Propst, of TheaterMania, AmericanTheaterWeb.com (and also a frequent Voice contributor), who will again serve as secretary to the committee.