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The Youngstown Area Community Theatre Awards is a subsidary of The Youngstown Area Community Theatre Alliance

THE YOUNGSTOWN AREA COMMUNITY THEATRE AWARDS
were born out of a void which existed at the Youngstown Playhouse. The Playhouse had their own awards program for many years, known as The Arthur Awards. During a period of transition, at the Playhouse, the Arthur Awards were ignored and forgotten for two seasons. This was interpreted by many at the Playhouse as a major step backward at the local community theatre. For the actors and technicians who had spent countless hours, during those two seasons, producing and presenting Playhouse productions, the feeling was one of severe loss of recognition and gratitude for their work. A small dedicated group of actors and technicians got together to discuss the situation and decided to establish an independent awards program to pick up the slack from those two seasons and thus honor those who had worked so hard. Thus was born The Marquee Awards. The first presentation honored the two "lost" Playhouse seasons not as a replacement for The Arthurs, but rather as a temporary "stand-in." The first ceremony was so successful, however, that The Marquee Awards Committee decided to re-organize and enlarge the awards to encompass all of the local community theatres in Eastern Ohio and the immediate county of Western Pennsylvania. The Arthur Awards eventually returned to the Playhouse and have served to honor their productions as they always had in the past.