Tony Committee Decides to Take No Further Action on WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Infraction

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? has been nominated for four Tony Awards this year, including Best Revival of a Play,and as BroadwayWorld reported yesterday, the show has been under scrutiny for a possible infraction of the Tony Award committee's strict set of rules. The infraction, the New York Post reports, is due to a brochure that was sent to award voters that had not been approved by the manager of the Tony Administration, Jean Kroeper Murphy.

The Tony committee met yesterday, May 23, to discuss possible penalties for the offense- which could have included suspending VIRGINA WOOLF producers' Tony Votes or disqualifying the show's nominations.

UPDATE: Executive Director of the American Theatre Wing, Heather Hitchens, and Executive Director of The Broadway League, Charlotte St. Martin, released the following statement on the results of the meeting: "The Tony Awards Administration Committee met, considered the infraction and have issued a serious warning to the producers of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The infraction which involved using abbreviated quotes from the critical reviews, were consistent with the overall intent of those reviews, and therefore the committee determined that no further action would be taken on this issue."

Directed by Tony Award nominee Pam MacKinnon (Clybourne Park), WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? featured the original Steppenwolf cast led by Tracy Letts and Amy Morton, the playwright and the star August: Osage County.

"Jerry Frankel, Susan Gallin, Mary Lu Roffe and myself - the lead producers of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' - apologize to Nelle Nugent and 'The Trip to Bountiful' and the other nominees, 'Orphans' and 'Golden Boy,'" Richards told the Post. "An honest mistake was made."