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Last night's Barrymore Awards celebrated the achievements of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia and its member organizations. The results are online here. Congratulations to all the winners and nominees.

The prime rib was cold, the asparagus was undercooked, the salad was limp, the red wine was chilled, the cosmopolitans were made from what could only have been Kool-Aid... And yet nobody seemed to care for very long. It was Philadelphia theatre's biggest night, and all those in attendance were there to celebrate, not to complain. (Well, except for us. We were okay with complaining. We were also there as critics.) The actors were (for the most part) well-dressed, the bar was open, people were still talking Phillies, and there was much schmoozing to be done. It was the 2007 Barrymore Awards (the Tonys of Philadelphia), and Phillyist was there, cheering on the winners. And the losers. We can't very well jeer them, as they're all far more talented than we can ever hope to be. Nobody who won was expecting an award or had anything prepared (or so they claimed), but that's okay: the evening went relatively smoothly, and the evening clocked in at a little under three hours long.

us to write two papers on our historical figure of choice. I wasn't cheating the system or anything.)

Waiting to hear award show results? They might not be the Oscars, but the Barrymore Awards, Philadelphia theatre’s answer to the Tonys, were announced last Monday. Both Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Arden did remarkably well this year, each scooping an Outstanding Production award. PTC won Outstanding Production of a Play for their touching rendition of Take Me Out, the Broadway smash about a gay baseball player’s coming out (and did we mention everyone gets naked? Here’s hoping for a revival); the Arden won Outstanding Production of a Musical for the darkly comic Sweeney Todd. Terry Nolan also picked up best direction for Sweeney. Maria Mileaf had a surprising win over Jim Christy, director of Take Me Out, for her direction of The Story, a tale of race and journalism at PTC. Jim probably wasn’t too miffed, though – he picked up a lifetime achievement award.

The Philadelphia Theatre Alliance held a press conference this week to celebrate Philadelphia theater. That's code for "announcing a lot of stuff."