Boys of Winter IRNE 2008 Nominated!

Congratulations Dean Kaner & Crew!

IRNE AWARDS 2008 - The Independent Reviewers of New England Awards (IRNE'S) will take place on Monday, April 6, 2009, at 7:30pm at the Boston Center for the Arts. Here are the IRNE Nominations for productions January 1 through December 31, 2008.

SMALL THEATER CATEGORIES - Best New Play

THE BOYS OF WINTER by Barry Brodsky, Dean Kaner & Eric Small (BKS Prods.)

THE OIL THIEF by Joyce Van Dyke (Boston Playwrights' Theatre)

ACCORDING TO TIP by Dick Flavin (New Repertory Theatre)

Boys of Winter is a rock solid story and the runner up for The Last Play Standing 2. I am truly happy for Dean and his crew and happy for the crew from A.C.T. Company the work they did to put this play in motion was fantastic! Does this validate the process of the LPS? I told someone a long time that "once is luck and anything more then that is .... something else." The finalist's from the LPS 1 & 2 have set a benchmark for the new play scripts. Going forward since the average scores from LPS 1 & 2 were higher then LPS 3 the LPS 4 will only select those plays for the final round that have a score equal to or greater then the scores from the LPS 1 & 2. Again hats off to Dean and the Boys of Winter, If everything works out I may be directing the Boys of Winter in Chicago sometime this year, keep your fingers crossed. But If I don't and you hear of a production of the Boys of Winter buy a ticket I guarantee you will not be disappointed!