plays by Rachel Axler (Archaeology, 2009) and Tanya Barfield (Pecan Tan, 2005). Achievements 2014 Best Theatre Company (Best of Ithaca 2014). 2011 Best Theatre Company (Best of Ithaca 2011). 2008 Syracuse Live Theater Award, Best Production of the Summer Season (Souvenir by Stephen Temperley, directed by Sara Lampert Hoover). Since 2007, the Kitchen Theatre Company has received operating support from the Shubert Organization, a national foundation dedicated to sustaining and advancing the live performing arts in the United States. 2006 Best Small Business of the Year Award, Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce. The Kitchen was the first not-for-profit recipient of this award. 2005 Syracuse Live Theatre Award, Best Actor in a Season (Karl Gregory in Fully Committed by Becky Mode). 2005 Syracuse Live Theater Award, Best Actress of the Summer Season (Rachel Lampert in The Soup Comes Last). References Theatre companies in New York (state)