A Closer Look at the Latest Standings in the 2025 BroadwayWorld Ballots

(Photos: Sarah Whiting. Design: Pedro Juan Fonseca)

Six Points Theater gains momentum with 13 standout nominations.

by Pedro Juan Fonseca, an actor, writer, filmmaker,

and Manager of Marketing and Communications at Six Points Theater

We are now in full fan-vote mode. You can choose your favorite Twin Cities Theater production at: broadwayworld.com/minneapolis/awards/

Our 30th Season is enjoying a wide presence with 13 individual nominations across 7 categories that stretch from new work, to design, to work for young audiences. We're not leading any races outright, but we're happy to show up again and again.

Unlike other awards, where committees whisper in conference rooms, this is democracy with (sorta) decent Wi-Fi. The categories are set by the site’s editors, and everything is decided by whoever can keep the most tabs open on their browser. But it also means these standings show what audiences care enough to click for.

Below, a breakdown of how Six Points Theater is faring in the current percentages (and what those numbers actually mean!). All data comes from BroadwayWorld’s latest published standings as of December 8, 2025. 

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Best New Play or Musical

Six Points titles in this category:

Just For Us – 4%

Survivors – 3%

The Messenger – 3%

We are the only company with 3 different shows--all new works--in this category, standing right behind The Ruins: A Play Through Music at the Guthrie, currently leading with 15%, followed by Breach and School Pictures at 9%. 

Just For Us sits in the 4% band, tied with 5 other titles, which places it in the middle of an 18-show field. Survivors and The Messenger each have 3%, slightly down but still ahead of the bottom group.

Best Direction of a Play

Six Points titles in this category:

Warren C. Bowles, Survivors – 3%

Craig Johnson, An Act of God – 3%

Faye M. Price, The Messenger – 1%

Once again, Six Points is the only theater with 3 contenders in this category, gaining recognition for every core play we produced in 2024-2025.

Directors Bowles and Johnson sit in the 3% cluster, tied with 5 other directors in the middle of the pack. Price is on the board at 1%, tied with 1 other nominee, which counts for something when the ballot stretches 25 directors long. Buffalo Community Theater’s Murder on the Nile leads this lineup at 10%, with the Guthrie’s The Mousetrap close behind at 9%. 

This kind of spread implies that audiences, rather than rallying behind just one production, are comfortable following us across all the different tonal lanes we explore throughout the season.

Best Play

Six Points titles in this category:

An Act of God – 2%

The percentage is modest but it's notable that a smaller, text-driven comedy is sharing space with big-name titles, staying visible within an 8-show cluster at the lower half of this category.

Duluth Playhouse's The Play That Goes Wrong currently leads this 25-show logjam at 14%, followed by the Guthrie’s The Mousetrap at 12%.

Best Performer in a Play

Six Points titles in this category:

Sally Wingert, An Act of God – 2%

Percentages are scattered from 9% down to 1% for 25 actors. Wingert is tied with 11 other performers, placing her in the broad, busy middle. Which is still a feat given that this is one of the few categories that bridges professional, community, mid-size, and flagship institutions in one field.

At the top sit Alyson Enderle for The Play That Goes Wrong at 9%, and Truman Bednar for Treasure Island at 8%.

Best Supporting Performer in a Play

Six Points titles in this category:

Zach Christensen, Survivors – 4%

Ashley Horiuchi, The Messenger – 3%

Anya Naylor, Survivors – 3%

Six Points ensembles stick together. Featuring actors from both Survivors and The Messenger, no other company has 3 supporting-actor contenders in this field.

Christensen is tied for 7th in the top third of this slate. Horiuchi and Naylor are part of a block which stretches from roughly 10th through 17th place.

Nancy Lipinski for Murder on the Nile leads at 7%, with several Guthrie and Walking Shadow actors in the next tier.

Best Scenic Design of a Play or Musical

Six Points titles in this category:

Brady Whitcomb, Just For Us – 2%

Whitcomb is tied with 6 other designers here. Inver Grove Heights’s West Side Story leads at 11%, with Fun Home at Theater Latté Da close behind at 8%, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame at 7%.

This is naturally where larger houses can flex production value in a field packed with large-cast musicals and mid-size companies. So, a small-scale solo piece earning recognition for Whitcomb’s metaphorical, geometrical, lighted mosaic design means audiences were moved by the text and the room.

You can see Brady's evocative scene design work once again in our upcoming production of The Happiest Man on Earth, opening Tuesday, January 27, 2026.

Best Theatre for Young Audiences Production

Six Points titles in this category:

Survivors – 3%

Survivors shares this category with Señorita Mariposa and Return to Oz, in the 10-to-12 range out of 14 nominees. Treasure Island at Children’s Theatre Company leads with 20%, and 9 to 5 at Eagan Summer Community Theatre trails with 19%.

Those numbers put it in the lower third, but for a Holocaust education piece from a smaller company to place in that mix indicates some audiences carry their field-trip memories back to the ballot with them.

Why the Ranking?

It's easy to think of these BroadwayWorld regional recognitions as clickable sentences on a website; a popularity contest with charts. We think they provide a framework for us to hear from our community.

We're honored that:

• You're being bold by following us across theater styles and genres of contemporary work.

• You're celebrating Directors and Designers just as much as you appreciate Actors.

• You're giving visibility to a mid-sized Jewish theater with a specific mission.