Awards

Pacific Resident Theatre has continuously set a standard for excellence in LA Theater over our nearly 40-year history. Our ensemble of actors has been consistently recognized for their efforts of bringing quality performance to our stages and our design and direction endeavors follow suit. We would like to thank the critics of Los Angeles for their continued support and high-praise. PRT is proud to maintain a calibre of distinction through our productions. We are determined to carry these accomplishments forward.

THE BESPOKE OVERCOAT
 by Wolf Mankowitz
Stage Raw – Recommended

I AM SOPHIE
 by Corinne Shor
Stage Raw – Recommended

SAFE AT HOME: AN EVENING WITH ORSON BEAN 
  by Orson Bean
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
Stage Raw Awards – Best Solo Show
LADCC Award – Best Solo Show
Top 10 Stage Raw Recommended

THE HOMECOMING
  by Harold Pinter
Ovation – Recommended
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
LA Weekly Pick of the Week
LA Weekly and KCRW Top 5 of 2015
Stage Raw – Recommended
KCRW – Recommended
Stage Raw – Recommended
Stage Raw Awards – 3 Nominations
Broadway World Awards – 4 Wins

SWEET THURSDAY
  adapted from John Steinbeck by Robb Derringer and Matt McKenzie
LA Weekly Pick of the Week

SWEET THURSDAY
  adapted from John Steinbeck by Robb Derringer and Matt McKenzie
LA Weekly Pick of the Week

THE BROWNING VERSION
  by Terence Rattigan
LA Times 10 Best Plays of 2019
LADCC Award – Best Direction
LADCC Award – Best Lead
LADCC Award – Best Featured Performance
Ovation Award – Best Leading Actor
LA Weekly Pick of the Week
Backstage – Critic’s Pick

HOGAN’S GOAT
  by William Alfred
Ovation Award Nomination – Costume Design

THE HASTY HEART
  by Jogn Patrick
LADCC Award – Best Revival
LA Times – Recommended
LA Weekly Pick of the Week
Backstage West – Critic’s Pick
3 Garland Award Nominations

DEATH OF THE SALESMAN
  by Arthur Miller
LA Times – Recommended
LADCC Nomination – Best Performance
Ovation Nomination – Best Performance

WHEN THEY SPEAK OF RITA
  by Daisy Foote
Ovation Award Nomination – Best Supporting Actor
LA Times – Recommended
LA Weekly – Recommended
Backstage West – Critic’s Pick

OF MICE AND MEN
  by John Steinbeck
LA Times – Recommended
Backstage West – Critic’s Pick

ORPHEUS DESCENDING
  by Tennessee Williams
LADCC Award – Best Production
LADCC Award – Best Direction
LADCC Award – Best Performance
Backstage West – 2 Garland Awards
5 Maddy Awards
LA Weekly Career Achievement

A DELICATE BALANCE
  by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
LA Times – Recommended
LA Weekly – Recommended
Backstage West – Pick of the Week
Backstage West – 1 Garland Awards

ANNA CHRISTIE
  by Eugene O’Neill
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
LA Weekly – Pick of the Week
Backstage West – Critic’s Pick

EVERYDAY LIFE
  by Rainer Maria Rilke
LADCC Award – 3 Nominations
LA Times – Best Bets
Backstage West – Critic’s Pick

A QUESTION OF MERCY
  by David Rabe
LA Times – Critic’s Choice

OTHERWISE ENGAGED
  by Simon Gray
LA Times – Critic’s Choice

THE MASTER BUILDER
  by Henrik Ibsen
Garland Award – Performance
LA Weekly – Recommended
LA Weekly Award  Nomination

A CHRISTMAS MEMORY: ONE CHRISTMAS
  by Truman Capote
LA Times – Best Bets

INDISCRETIONS
  by John Cocteau
Ovation Award – 5 Nominations
LADCC Award – 3 Nominations
LADCC Award – Best Performance
Garland Award – Best Production
Garland Award – Best Direction
Garland Award – Best Ensemble
LA Weekly – Best Ensemble
LA Weekly – Best Production

ARDELE
  by Jean Anouilh
LADCC Award – Best Performance
LA Weekly – Pick of The Week
Backstage West – Critic’s Pick
Drama-Logue Awards – 6 Awards including Best Production and Best Direction

THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD
  by J.M. Synge
LADCC Award – 2 Nominations
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
LA Reader – Critic’s Choice
LA Weekly – Pick of the Week
Drama-Logue Awards – 2 Awards including Best Production and Best Performance

STORIES OF THE SEASON
  by Robert Alan Beuth & George Harrison
LA Times – Best of the Weekend

BARBARIANS
  by Maxim Gorki
LA Times – Best of the Weekend
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
Drama-Logue Award – Best Performance
Daily News – 4 Stars

WHEN WILL I DANCE?
  by Claire Braz Valentine
LA Times – Critic’s Choice

ALIENS
  by Steven Morris
LA Times – Critic’s Choice

CAMINO ROYALE
  by Tennessee Williams
Marquis Award
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
Drama-Logue – 4 Awards including Best Production & Best Direction

THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER
  byThorton Wilder
LA Times – Best of the Weekend

SOUTH CENTRAL RAIN
  by Jamie Baker
LADCC Award – Best Production
LADCC Award – Best Direction
Drama-Logue Award – Best Performance
LA Weekly – Best Ensemble

THANKSGIVING
  by Jim McClure
Drama-Logue Award – 2 Awards including Best Performance

A PERMANENT IMAGE
 by Samuel D. Hunter
Stage Raw – Recommended

ANDY WARHOL’S TOMATO
 by Vince Melocchi
L.A. Times – Critic’s Choice
Ovation – Recommended
Stage Raw – Recommended

ALRIGHT THEN
  with Orson Bean and Alley Mills
LA Times – Critic’s Choice

THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE
  by Tennessee Williams
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
LA Weekly – Recommended
Stage Raw – Recommended
Broadway World – Recommended
ReviewPlays.com – Recommended
StageSceneLA – Recommended

THE CHERRY ORCHARD
  by Tennessee Williams
Stage Raw – Recommended
LADCC Nomination – Featured Performance
LA Weekly’s Best Plays of 2014

NORA
  adapted from Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” by Ingmar Bergman tran. by Frederick J & Lisa-Lone Marker
Backstage Critic’s Pick
Backstage Best Performance 2012
LA Weekly Go!

JULIA
  by Vince Melocchi
Transferred from PRT to Off-Broadway
3 LA Weekly Award Nominations
LA Weekly Pick of the Week
Backstage – Critic’s Pick
Ovation – Recommended
3 Stars in “The Week” Magazine

LIONS
  by Vince Melocchi
Ovation Nomination – Best Playwright of an Original Play
LA Weekly Pick of the Week

TIME OF YOUR LIFE
  by William Saroyan
LADCC Nomination – Best Revival
LA Times – Critic’s Choice

ALICE-SIT-BY-THE-FIRE
  by James M. Barrie
LA Times – Recommended

ANATOL
  by Arthur Schnitzler
LADCC Award – Best Director
LADCC Award – Best Lead Performance
LA Weekly Award – Best Costume
LA Weekly Award – Best Supporting Female
LA Times – Recommended
LA Weekly – Recommended

THE BLUE DAHLIA
  adapted by Dan Conner from Raymond Chandler
LA Times – Recommended
LA Weekly – Recommended
Backstage West – Critic’s Pick
LA Weekly Award Nomination – Best Revival
LA Weekly Award Nomination – Best Production Design
Daily News – Recommended

ROCKET TO THE MOON
  by Clifford Odets
LA Weekly Award – Best Featured Actor
LADCC – Best Revival
LADCC Nomination – Best Direction
LA Times – Recommended
LA Weekly – Pick of the Week

PRELUDE TO A KISS
  by Craig Lucas
Backstage West – Critic’s Pick
Maddy Award, Performance

BIG LOVE
  by Charles L. Mee
LA Times – 10 Best of the Year
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
LA Weekly – Pick of the Week
LA Weekly Nomination Best Production
LA Weekly Nomination Best Direction
LA Weekly Nomination Best Ensemble

LADCC AWARD
  Special Polly Warfield Award Outstanding Season – 2001

LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER
  by D.H. Lawrence
LADCC Award – Best Performance
LADCC Award Nomination – Best Production
LADCC Award Nomination – Best Direction

LADCC AWARD
  Special Polly Warfield Award Outstanding Season – 1999

THE SWAN
  by Ferene Molnar
LADCC Award – Best Scenic Design
Garland Award – Performance
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
3 LADCC Award Nominations

DIVORCONS
  by Emile de Najdac & Victorien Sardou
Backstage West – Critic’s Pick

SPECIAL GARLAND AWARD
  Best Track Record of 1997

IVANOV
  by Anton Chekhov
LA Times – Best Bets

A CHRISTMASD MEMORY: ONE CHRISTMAS
  by Truman Capote
LA Times Best of the Weekend
LA Weekly Pick of the Week

THE QUICK-CHANGE ROOM
  by Nagel Jackson
*Transferred from PRT to off-Broadway
LADCC Award – 3 Best Performances
LADCC Award – 6 Nominations
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
Backstage West – Critic’s choice
Garland Award – Best Performance
Drama-Logue Awards – 3 Awards including Best Production

MARGARET HARTFORD AWARD FOR CONTINUOUS ACHIEVEMENT IN THEATER FROM LADCC

THERE’S ONE IN EVERY MARRIAGE
  by Georges Feydeau
Drama Logue Award – Best Performance

SITTING MAN
  by Carol Kaplan
LA Reader – Critic’s Choice
Drama-Logue Award – 4 Awards including Best Direction & Best Performance

THE BEGGAR’S OPERA
  by John Gay
LADCC Award – 5 Awards including Best Direction, Bes Production, & Best Musical Direction
LA Weekly – Nominated Production of the Year
Drama-Logue Award – 3 Awards including Best Production

UNDER THE GASLIGHT
  by Augustin Daly
LADCC Award – Best Production
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
LA Reader – Critic’s Choice
Drama-Logue Award – 3 Awards
Drama-Logue Award – Critic’s Choice

ROMANOFFS
  by R.C. Morris & T.R. Oglesby
Drama-Logue Award – Best Performance

SLAUGHTERHOUSE ON TANNER’S CLOSE
  by Daniel O’Conner
LADCC Award – Best Production
LA Weekly – 3 Awards including Best Production
Drama-Logue Award – 7 Awards including Best Production & Best Direction

SMART LOVE
 by Brian Letscher
L.A. Times – Critic’s Choice

RHINOCEROUS
  by Eugene Ionesco
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
Ovation – Recommended
Stage Raw Top 10
LADCC Nomination – Best Revival
Stage Raw Awards – 9 Nominations

HENRY V
  by William Shakespeare
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
Ovation Award – Best Director
LADCC Award – Best Director
Ovation Awards – 3 Nominations
Stage Raw Awards – 3 Nominations
Ovation – Recommended
LA Weekly GO!
KCRW Best of 2014

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
  by Arthur Miller
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
LADCC Nomination – Best Revival
4 LA Weekly Award Nominations

BARRIE: BACK TO BACK
  by J.M. Barrie
LA Times – Critic’s Pick
LA Weekly – Critic’s Choice
Backstage – Critic’s Choice

BECKY’S NEW CAR
  by Steven Dietz translated by Frederick J. & Lisa-Lone Marker
LA Times – Critic’s Pick
LA Weekly – Critic’s Choice
Backstage – Critic’s Choice

FATA MORGANA
  by Ernest Vajda
LADCC Nomination – Best Revival
LADCC Nomination – Best Costume
LADCC Nomination – Best Featured Actor
LA Times – Critic’s Choice

MY ANTONIA
  adapted by Scott Schwartz from the novel by Willa Cather
LA Weekly Award Nomination – Best Director
LA Weekly Award Nomination – Best Production

THE 60’S
  by Trish Soodik
LA Weekly Pick of the Week
Santa Monica Rave Pick of the Week

KEEPING FAITH
  by Alex Peabody
LA Times – Recommended
Backstage West – Recommended

THE TURN OF THE SCREW
  adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the novel of Henry James
LADCC Nomination

HAPPY END
  by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
LA Weekly Award – Musical Direction
LA Weekly Award – Costume Design
LA Weekly Award – Set Design
Backstage West Award – Best Ensemble
Backstage West Award – Best Make-up
LADCC Award – Best Revival
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
LA Weekly Pick of the Week
Backstage West – Critic’s Pick
Ovation Award Nomination – Production
Ovation Award Nomination – Ensemble
Ovation Award Nomination – Costume Design

BETRAYAL
  by Harold Pinter
Backstage West – Critic’s Pick
Backstage West – Garland Award Best Performance

ON APPROVAL
  by Frederick Lonsdale
LA Weekly – Recommended
Backstage West – Critic’s Pick

THE SCARECROW
  by Percy Mackaye
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
Backstage West – Critic’s Pick
Garland Award – Best Production
Garland Award – Best Direction

CHILDREN
  by A.R. Gurney
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
LA Times Top 10 Productions of 1999

TONIGHT AT 8:30
  by Noell Coward
LADCC Award – Best Production
LADCC Award – Best Musical Direction
LADCC Award Nomination – Best Director
LADCC Award Nomination – Best Performance
LA Times – Critic’s Choice

LULU
  by Frank Wedekind adapted by Peter Barnes
LADCC Award – Best Performance
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
LA Weekly – Recommended

CANDIDA
  by George Bernard Shaw
Backstage West – Critic’s Pick

SCOTLAND ROAD
  by Jeffrey Hatcher
Drama-League Award – 3 Awards including Best Production & Best Direction
Garland Award – Best Performance
Backstage West – Critic’s Pick

MR. WARREN’S PROFESSION
  by George Bernard Shaw
LADCC Award – Nomination
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
Drama-Logue Award – Best Production and Best Performance

GOLDEN BOY
  by Clifford Odets
LADCC Award – 3 Nominations
Drama-Logue Award – Best Production and Best Direction

SOUTHERN GIRLS
  bySherri Bailey and Dura Temple
NAACP – 2 Awards

THE VISIT
  by Fredrich Duerrenmatt
LADCC Award – 7 Awards including Best Production & Best Direction
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
LA Reader – Critic’s Choice
Drama-Logue – Critic’s Pick
Backstage West – Critic’s Choice

ONDINE
  by Jean Giraudoux
LADCC Award – 3 Awards including Best Direction & Best Original Score
LADCC Award – 5 Nominations
Drama-Logue Award – Best Production
Robbie Award – Best Production
Robbie Award – Best Performance

STORIES OF THE SEASON
  by Robert Alan Beuth & George Harrison
LA Times – Critic’s Choice
LA Times – Best of the Weekend 

RAYMOND CHANDLER’S “THE BLUE DAHLIA”
  by Daniel O’Connor
LA Weekly – Production of the Year
LA Weekly – Best Direction
LADCC Award – Best Direction

THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER
  by Thorton Wilder
LA Times – Best of the Weekend

JUNE SECOND
  adapted by D. Paul Teuel & Anthony Grumbach from William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury”
Drama-Logue Award – 4 Awards including Best Production

HAPPY END
  by Bertolt Brecht
Drama-Logue Award – Best Production
Drama-Logue Award – Best Direction