The Country House, currently playing on Broadway headlined by Blythe Danner, was one of the big winners at the 2014 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards. The ceremony, hosted by Kate Burton and Katie Lowes, took place at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse on November 2.
35 awards were bestowed on 18 different Southern California theater companies. Geffen Playhouse garnered three awards for The Country House and one for Slowgirl; Skylight Theatre Company won four for The Wrong Man; Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts picked up two for Parfumerie and two for Maurice Hines is Tappin’ Thru Life; La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts won two for Floyd Collins and one for Broadway fave's James Barbour's performance in Les Misérables; Echo Theater Company garnered two for Backyard and one for Firemen; The Theatre @ Boston Court won three for Everything You Touch.
Other companies honored were Pacific Resident Theatre, Chance Theater, Fugitive Kind Theater, 3-D Theatricals, Musical Theatre West, IAMA Theatre Company, A Noise Within, Actors Co-op, Actors’ Gang, MainStreet Theatre Company and Center Theatre Group. The Fountain Theatre received the Best Season Award.