1973 Award Winners

• Special Citations
  • Richard Foreman (Ontological-Hysteric Theatre),
  • The San Francisco Mime Troupe, "The Dragon Lady's Revenge"
  • City Center Acting Company,
  • Workshop of the Player's Art (WPA),
• Set Design
  • No award given,
• Obie Committee
  • Mel Gussow, Marilyn Stasio, and Michael Smith,
• Music
  • No award given,
• Distinguished Plays
  • Sam Shepard, The Tooth of Crime
  • Ronald Tavel, Bigfoot
  • J.E. Gaines, What if it Had Turned Up Heads?
• Distinguished Performances
  • Hume Cronyn, Krapp's Last Tape
  • Mari Gorman, The Hot l Baltimore
  • James Hilbrandt, A Boy Named Dog
  • Stacy Keach, Hamlet
  • Christopher Lloyd, Kaspar
  • Charles Ludlam, "Corn" and "Camille"
  • Lola Pashalinski, Corn
  • Alice Playten, Lemmings
  • Roxie Roker, The River Niger
  • Jessica Tandy, Not I
  • Douglas Turner Ward, The River Niger
  • Sam Waterston, Much Ado About Nothing
• Distinguished Direction
  • Jack Gelber, The Kid
  • William E. Lathan, What if it Had Turned Up Heads?
  • Marshall W. Mason, The Hot l Baltimore
• Costumes
  • No award given,
• Best Foreign Play
  • Samuel Beckett, Not I
  • Peter Handke, Kaspar
• Best American Play
  • Lanford Wilson, The Hot l Baltimore
  • Joseph A. Walker, The River Niger