Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play

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Outer Critics Circle Award category theatre award

The Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play is a theater honor presented by the Outer Critics Circle to recognize the best new play produced on Broadway in a given season.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play canonical	6
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Musical	4
OCC Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play	1
Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Broadway Play	1
Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3051588 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play
Context triple: [The Humans, awardReceived, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play]

A. Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
The Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play is a New York theater honor recognizing the best new play produced Off-Broadway in a given season.
B. New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play
The New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play is a prestigious annual honor given by New York theater critics to recognize the most outstanding new play on the American stage.
C. Drama Desk Award
The Drama Desk Award is a prestigious New York theater honor recognizing outstanding achievements in Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions.
D. Tony Award for Best Play
The Tony Award for Best Play is a prestigious annual American theatre honor recognizing the most outstanding new play produced on Broadway.
E. Lucille Lortel Award
The Lucille Lortel Award is a prestigious honor recognizing outstanding achievement in Off-Broadway theatre in New York City.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play
Target entity description: The Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play is a theater honor presented by the Outer Critics Circle to recognize the best new play produced on Broadway in a given season.

A. Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
The Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play is a New York theater honor recognizing the best new play produced Off-Broadway in a given season.
B. New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play
The New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play is a prestigious annual honor given by New York theater critics to recognize the most outstanding new play on the American stage.
C. Drama Desk Award
The Drama Desk Award is a prestigious New York theater honor recognizing outstanding achievements in Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway productions.
D. Tony Award for Best Play
The Tony Award for Best Play is a prestigious annual American theatre honor recognizing the most outstanding new play produced on Broadway.
E. Lucille Lortel Award
The Lucille Lortel Award is a prestigious honor recognizing outstanding achievement in Off-Broadway theatre in New York City.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (25)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Outer Critics Circle Award category ⓘ theatre award ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	OCC Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play ⓘ linked to: Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play
awardCategoryType	playwriting award ⓘ
awardFor	outstanding new play produced on Broadway ⓘ
awardLevel	Broadway ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
eligibility	new plays produced on Broadway ⓘ
field	Broadway theatre ⓘ theatre ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
genre	drama award ⓘ
givenFor	best new Broadway play in a given season ⓘ
hasAwardingBodyType	critics organization ⓘ
inception	1970s ⓘ
location	New York City ⓘ
notableRegion	Broadway theatre district ⓘ linked to: Broadway Theatre District
officialWebsite	https://outercritics.org ⓘ
partOf	Outer Critics Circle Awards ⓘ linked to: Outer Critics Circle Award
presentedBy	Outer Critics Circle ⓘ linked to: Outer Critics Circle Award
presentedInLanguage	English ⓘ
relatedTo	Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play ⓘ Tony Award for Best Play ⓘ
scope	commercial Broadway productions ⓘ
selectionMethod	voting by Outer Critics Circle members ⓘ

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Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Humans → awardReceived → Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play ⓘ

subject linked to: The Humans (play)

Kinky Boots → award → Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Musical ⓘ