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The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway. They are presented by the Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of New York theater writers for out-of-town newspapers, digital and national publications, and other media beyond Broadway. The awards were first presented during the 1949–50 theater season.
History
[edit]The Outer Critics Circle was founded as the Outer Circle during the Broadway season of 1949–50 by an assortment of theater critics led by John Gassner, a reviewer, essayist, dramaturg, and professor of theater. These critics were writing for academic publications, special interest journals, monthlies, quarterlies, and weekly publications outside the New York metro area, and were looking for a forum where they could discuss the theater in general, particularly the current New York season. The creation of the OCC was also a reaction to the New York Drama Critics Circle, which did not allow critics of lesser-known publications to join their ranks alongside writers of major New York and national publications. The first awards (for 1949–50) were: The Cocktail Party (Play); The Consul (Musical); Sheila Guyse, Performances in Supporting Roles for Lost in the Stars, and Daniel Reed, Performances in Supporting Roles for Come Back, Little Sheba.
In the early 1960s, the awards and forums of the OCC were supervised by Broadway veteran Charles K. Freeman and Joseph Kay, Manhattan reporter/critic for the Kansas City Star. This team was succeeded by Marjorie Gunner, who guided the group for 25 years before retiring in 2004. Simon Saltzman, a New Jersey–based theater critic, served as president until 2018, when he was succeeded by David Gordon of TheaterMania.
In addition to Gordon (president) and Saltzman (now President Emeritus), the Board of Directors currently includes Richard Ridge (Vice President), Joseph Cervelli (Recording Secretary), Patrick Hoffman (Corresponding Secretary), David Roberts (treasurer), Harry Haun (Historian), Cynthia Allen (Web Editor), Janice Simpson (Member), Doug Strassler (member), Dan Rubins (member), and Stanley L. Cohen (advisor).
Categories
[edit]Awards are currently[when?] given in the following categories:
- Outstanding Broadway Play
- Outstanding Broadway Musical
- Outstanding Off-Broadway Play
- Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical
- Outstanding New Score
- Outstanding Revival of a Play
- Outstanding Revival of a Musical
- Outstanding Actor in a Play
- Outstanding Actress in a Play
- Outstanding Actor in a Musical
- Outstanding Actress in a Musical
- Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
- Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
- Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
- Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
- Outstanding Solo Performance
- Outstanding Direction of a Play
- Outstanding Direction of a Musical
- Outstanding Choreography
- Outstanding Set Design
- Outstanding Costume Design
- Outstanding Lighting Design
- Outstanding Projection Design
- Outstanding Sound Design
- Outstanding Orchestrations
- John Gassner Award (presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Winners and nominees
[edit]2008–2009 season
[edit]Billy Elliot the Musical and Shrek the Musical each received ten nominations, the most of any show. The winners were announced on May 11, 2009, with an awards dinner on May 21 at Sardi's Restaurant.[1]
Billy Elliot the Musical won seven awards, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical, followed by Shrek the Musical with four. The award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical was a tie between Sutton Foster and Josefina Scaglione. Brian d'Arcy James won for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. Outstanding New Broadway Play was won by God of Carnage.
The John Gassner Award (presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright) was won by Gina Gionfriddo for Becky Shaw, and the Special Achievement Award was given to the three actors who share the role of Billy Elliot, David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish in Billy Elliot the Musical.[2]
2009–2010 season
[edit]Nominees for the 2009–2010 season were announced on April 26, 2010, by siblings Sutton Foster and Hunter Foster, with winners announced on May 17.[3] Seven nominations each were received by the musical Memphis and the revival of The Royal Family, the most of any production. The Scottsboro Boys was nominated for six awards, including Best Off-Broadway musical. Shows receiving five nominations were The Addams Family, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Orphans' Home Cycle, and Promises, Promises. Finian's Rainbow, La Cage aux Folles, Lend Me A Tenor, and Sondheim on Sondheim each received four nominations.[4]
The Outstanding New Broadway Musical award was won by Memphis, which won a total of four awards. Other winners included: Outstanding New Broadway Play for Red and Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play for The Orphans' Home Cycle, which won two awards. The Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical was a tie, won by Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and The Scottsboro Boys. La Cage aux Folles won four awards: Outstanding Revival of a Musical, Outstanding Actor In A Musical (Douglas Hodge), Director (Terry Johnson), and Costume Design (Matthew Wright). Montego Glover (Memphis) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (A Little Night Music) tied for Outstanding Actress In A Musical.[5]
2010–2011 season
[edit]The nominees, announced on April 26, 2011, included nine nominations for the musical Sister Act, the most of any show. Anything Goes received eight nominations. The Special Achievement Awards were also announced: Ellen Barkin, Outstanding Broadway Debut in The Normal Heart; and Adrian Kohler with Basil Jones for Handspring Puppet Company Puppet Design, Fabrication and Direction for War Horse.[6]
The winners were:[7]
| Award Category | Winner(s) | Work / Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Outstanding New Broadway Musical | The Book of Mormon | (also won Outstanding New Score) |
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | War Horse | |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | Other Desert Cities | by Jon Robin Baitz |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | The Kid | book by Michael Zam, music by Andy Monroe, lyrics by Jack Lechner |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Anything Goes | |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | The Normal Heart | |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker | for Book of Mormon |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris | for War Horse |
| Outstanding Choreographer | Kathleen Marshall | for Anything Goes |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner | for Priscilla Queen of the Desert |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Paule Constable | for War Horse |
| Outstanding Set Design | Neil Murray | for Brief Encounter |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Sutton Foster | |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Josh Gad | |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | Mark Rylance | |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | Nina Arianda and Frances McDormand | (tie) |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Brian Bedford | |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Elizabeth Rodriguez | |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Laura Benanti | |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Adam Godley |
2011–2012 season
[edit]The nominees included nine nominations for the new musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, the most of any production, with the musicals Newsies and Once each receiving seven nominations and the revival of Follies receiving five. The Public Theater received an honorary award "on its 50th anniversary presenting free theatre at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park."[8]
Winners include One Man, Two Guvnors as Outstanding New Broadway Play, Once as Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Sons of the Prophet by Stephen Karam as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play, and Michael John LaChiusa's Queen of the Mist as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical. The Submission by Jeff Talbot received the John Gassner Award.[9]
2012–2013 season
[edit]The nominees included 11 nominations for the revival of the musical Pippin, nine nominations for Kinky Boots, eight nominations (each) for Chaplin: The Musical and Cinderella and six nominations (each) for Golden Boy and The Nance.[10]
Winners include Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike as Outstanding New Broadway Play, Kinky Boots as Outstanding New Broadway Musical, My Name is Asher Lev as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and Here Lies Love as Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was named Outstanding Revival of a Play and Pippin as Outstanding Revival of a Musical. My Name is Asher Lev by Aaron Posner received the John Gassner Award. The Special Achievement Award was presented to the Irish Repertory Theatre.[10]
2013–2014 season
[edit]The nominees included 11 nominations for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, 8 nominations for the new musical Aladdin, and 7 nominations for the new musical Fun Home; the dramas Twelfth Night received 5 nominations, Act One 4 nominations, and All the Way 4 nominations.[11] Winners of multiple awards were A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (including New Musical) with 4; Bullets Over Broadway and The Glass Menagerie with 3 each; and All the Way (including New Play) and Hedwig and the Angry Inch with 2 each. Three plays tied for the John Glassner Award: Eric Dufault, Year of the Rooster; Madeleine George, The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence; and Steven Levenson, The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin.[12]
| Honorees[13] | |
|---|---|
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | * All the Way |
| Outstanding New Broadway Musical | * A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | * Appropriate
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| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | * Fun Home
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| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) |
* Robert L. Freedman – A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder |
| Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) |
* Jason Robert Brown (music and lyrics) – The Bridges of Madison County
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| Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway) |
* The Glass Menagerie
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| Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) |
* Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | * Tim Carroll – Twelfth Night
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| Outstanding Director of a Musical | * Warren Carlyle – After Midnight
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| John Gassner Playwright Award | * Scott Z. Burns – The Library
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| Outstanding Choreography | * Warren Carlyle – After Midnight
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| Outstanding Actor in a Play | * Bryan Cranston – All The Way |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | * Cherry Jones – The Glass Menagerie
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| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | * Brian J. Smith – The Glass Menagerie
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| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (tie) | * Andrea Martin – Act One and Mare Winningham – Casa Valentina (tie) |
| Outstanding Actor in a Musical (tie) | * Michael Cerveris – Fun Home and Jefferson Mays – A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (tie) |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | * Audra McDonald – Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | * Nick Cordero – Bullets Over Broadway |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | * Marin Mazzie – Bullets Over Broadway |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | * John Douglas Thompson – Satchmo at the Waldorf
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| Outstanding Set Design (Play or Musical) |
* Christopher Barreca – Rocky
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| Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical) |
* Gregg Barnes – Aladdin |
| Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical) |
* Kevin Adams – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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2014–2015 season
[edit]The nominees included Something Rotten! – 12, On the Twentieth Century – 9, An American in Paris – 8, Wolf Hall – 7, It Shoulda Been You – 6, The Audience – 6, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – 6, Hamilton – 5, The Elephant Man – 5, The King and I – 5, The Visit – 5, On The Town – 4, You Can't Take It with You – 4, The Heidi Chronicles – 3 and The Last Ship – 3.[14]
Multiple winners: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (5, including Outstanding New Broadway Play), An American in Paris (3, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical), Hamilton (3, including Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical), The King and I (3), The Audience (2), On the 20th Century (2) and You Can't Take It With You (2).[15]
The John Gassner Award winner was The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar.
| Honorees[16] | |
|---|---|
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | * The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| Outstanding New Broadway Musical | * An American in Paris |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | * Between Riverside and Crazy
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| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | * Hamilton
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| Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * You Can't Take It With You
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| Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * The King and I |
| John Gassner Playwriting Award | * Ayad Akhtar – The Invisible Hand
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| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Lin-Manuel Miranda – Hamilton |
| Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Lin-Manuel Miranda – Hamilton
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| The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director of a Play | * Marianne Elliott – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | * Christopher Wheeldon – An American in Paris |
| Outstanding Choreography | * Christopher Wheeldon – An American in Paris |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | * Alex Sharp – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time as Christopher Boone
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| Outstanding Actress in a Play | * Helen Mirren – The Audience as Queen Elizabeth II
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| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | * Richard McCabe – The Audience as Harold Wilson
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| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | * Annaleigh Ashford – You Can't Take It With You as Essie Carmichael
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| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | * Robert Fairchild – An American in Paris as Jerry Mulligan
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| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | * Kristin Chenoweth – On the Twentieth Century as Lily Garland / Mildred Plotka
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| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | * Andy Karl – On the Twentieth Century as Bruce Granit
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| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | * Ruthie Ann Miles – The King and I as Lady Thiang
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| Outstanding Solo Performance | * Jim Dale – Just Jim Dale
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| Outstanding Set Design | * Bunny Christie – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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| Outstanding Costume Design | * Catherine Zuber – The King and I |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | * Paule Constable – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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2015–2016 season
[edit]The nominees included American Psycho and She Loves Me – 8; Bright Star and On Your Feet! – 7; Dear Evan Hansen – 6; Eclipsed, Lazarus, Long Day's Journey Into Night and Spring Awakening – 5; and The Humans, A View From the Bridge and Waitress – 4.[17]
Multiple winners: She Loves Me – 4; Long Day's Journey Into Night – 3. The Outstanding New Broadway Musical was Bright Star, and the Outstanding New Broadway Play was The Humans; Outstanding Revival of a Play was Long Day's Journey Into Night and Outstanding Revival of a Musical was She Loves Me. The John Gassner Award winner was Marco Ramirez for The Royale.[18]
| Honorees[19] | |
|---|---|
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | * The Humans by Stephen Karam
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| Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Bright Star |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | * The Christians by Lucas Hnath |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | * Dear Evan Hansen
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| Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * She Loves Me |
| John Gassner Award (Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright) | * The Royale by Marco Ramirez
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| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Steven Levenson — Dear Evan Hansen |
| Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Steve Martin and Edie Brickell — Bright Star |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | * Ivo van Hove — A View from the Bridge
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| Outstanding Director of a Musical | * Michael Arden — Spring Awakening |
| Outstanding Choreographer | * Sergio Trujillo — On Your Feet!
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| Outstanding Actor in a Play | * Frank Langella — The Father |
| Outstanding Actress in a Play | * Jessica Lange — Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | * Michael Shannon — Long Day's Journey Into Night
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| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (tie) | * Pascale Armand — Eclipsed and Judith Light — Thérèse Raquin (tie) |
| Outstanding Solo Performance | * James Lecesne — The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
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| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | * Danny Burstein — Fiddler on the Roof
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| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | * Cynthia Erivo — The Color Purple |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | * Christopher Fitzgerald — Waitress |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | * Jane Krakowski — She Loves Me |
| Outstanding Set Design (Play or Musical) | * David Rockwell — She Loves Me
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| Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical) | * Jeff Mahshie — She Loves Me
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| Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical) | * Justin Townsend — American Psycho the Musical |
| Outstanding Projection Design (Play or Musical) | * Finn Ross — American Psycho the Musical
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| Special Achievement Awards | James Houghton, Signature Theatre Company |
2016–2017 season
[edit]The nominees included Anastasia – 13; Hello, Dolly! – 10; The Band's Visit and Come from Away – 7; Groundhog Day – 5; A Bronx Tale – 4; Falsettos, Holiday Inn, and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 – 3; and Miss Saigon, Sunset Boulevard – 1.[20]
Multiple winners: Come from Away and Hello, Dolly! – 4; The Band's Visit and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 – 2. The Outstanding New Broadway Musical was Come from Away, and the Outstanding New Broadway Play was Oslo; Outstanding Revival of a Play was Jitney and Outstanding Revival of a Musical was Hello, Dolly!. The John Gassner Award winner was Bess Wohl for Small Mouth Sounds.[21]
| Honorees[22][23] | |
|---|---|
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | * Oslo |
| Outstanding New Broadway Musical | * Come From Away |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | * If I Forget
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| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | * The Band's Visit
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| Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Jitney |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Hello, Dolly! |
| John Gassner Playwright Award | * Bess Wohl – Small Mouth Sounds
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| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Irene Sankoff, David Hein – Come From Away |
| Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * David Yazbek – The Band's Visit |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | * Rebecca Taichman – Indecent |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | * Christopher Ashley – Come From Away |
| Outstanding Choreographer | * Warren Carlyle – Hello, Dolly!
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| Outstanding Orchestrations | * Larry Hochman – Hello, Dolly!
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| Outstanding Actor in a Play | * Kevin Kline – Present Laughter
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| Outstanding Actress in a Play | * Laura Linney – The Little Foxes |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | * Danny DeVito – The Price
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| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | * Cynthia Nixon – The Little Foxes
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| Outstanding Solo Performance | * Simon McBurney – The Encounter
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| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | * Andy Karl – Groundhog Day |
| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | * Bette Midler – Hello, Dolly! |
| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | * Gavin Creel – Hello, Dolly! |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | * Jenn Colella – Come From Away
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| Outstanding Set Design (Play or Musical) | * Mimi Lien – Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
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| Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical) | * Catherine Zuber – War Paint
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| Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical) | * Bradley King – Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 |
| Outstanding Projection Design (Play or Musical) | * Aaron Rhyne – Anastasia
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| Outstanding Sound Design (Play or Musical) | * Gareth Owen – Come From Away
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2017–2018 season
[edit]The nominees included SpongeBob SquarePants – 11; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – 10; My Fair Lady – 9; Mean Girls – 8; Angels in America, Carousel, and Once on This Island – 6; Three Tall Women – 5; Frozen and Prince of Broadway – 4; Farinelli and the King and Travesties – 3.[24]
The award winners were announced on May 7, 2018. Multiple winners are: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with six awards, including Outstanding New Broadway Play, and My Fair Lady with five awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical. SpongeBob SquarePants won the Outstanding New Broadway Musical, with two additional awards. Jocelyn Bioh, for School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play won the John Gassner Award.[25]
| Honorees[26] | |
|---|---|
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | * Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Part One and Part Two |
| Outstanding New Broadway Musical | * SpongeBob SquarePants |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | * Admissions
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| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | * Desperate Measures |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Angels in America |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * My Fair Lady |
| John Gassner Playwriting Award | * Jocelyn Bioh, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
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| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Tina Fey, Mean Girls |
| Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Various Artists, SpongeBob SquarePants |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | * John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical (tie) | * Tina Landau, SpongeBob SquarePants and Bartlett Sher, My Fair Lady (tie)
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| Outstanding Choreography | * Justin Peck, Carousel |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | * Jonathan Tunick, Carousel |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play (tie) | * Sean Carvajal, Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train as Angel Cruz and Andrew Garfield, Angels in America as Prior Walter / Man in the Park (tie)
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| Outstanding Actress in a Play | * Glenda Jackson, Three Tall Women as A
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| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | * Nathan Lane, Angels in America as Roy Cohn / Prior 2 / The Angel Antarctica
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| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | * Laurie Metcalf, Three Tall Women as B
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| Outstanding Solo Performance | * Billy Crudup, Harry Clarke as Harry Clarke
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| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | * Ethan Slater, SpongeBob SquarePants as SpongeBob SquarePants
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| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | * Lauren Ambrose, My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle
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| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | * Norbert Leo Butz, My Fair Lady as Alfred P. Doolittle
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| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | * Lindsay Mendez, Carousel as Carrie Pipperidge
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| Outstanding Set Design | * Christine Jones, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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| Outstanding Costume Design | * Catherine Zuber, My Fair Lady |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | * Neil Austin, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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| Outstanding Projection Designer (Play or Musical) | * Finn Ross, Ash J Woodward Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (video designer)
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| Outstanding Sound Design (Play or Musical) | * Gareth Fry, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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2018–2019 season
[edit]The Outer Critics Circle Award winners for the 2018–19 season include Hadestown (Musical), The Ferryman (Play), Girl From the North Country (Off-Broadway Musical), and White Noise (Off-Broadway Play).
| Honorees[27] | |
|---|---|
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | * The Ferryman |
| Outstanding New Broadway Musical | * Hadestown |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | * White Noise
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| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | * Girl from the North Country
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| Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * All My Sons
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| Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish) |
| John Gassner Playwriting Award | * Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell, The Lifespan of a Fact
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| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Robert Horn, Tootsie
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| Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Anaïs Mitchell, Hadestown
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| Outstanding Director of a Play | * Sam Mendes, The Ferryman
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| Outstanding Director of a Musical | * Rachel Chavkin, Hadestown
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| Outstanding Choreography | * Warren Carlyle, Kiss Me, Kate |
| Outstanding Orchestrations | * Daniel Kluger, Oklahoma! |
| Outstanding Actor in a Play | * Bryan Cranston, Network as Howard Beale
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| Outstanding Actress in a Play | * Elaine May, The Waverly Gallery as Gladys Green
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| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | * Benjamin Walker, All My Sons as Chris Keller
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| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | * Celia Keenan-Bolger, To Kill a Mockingbird as Scout Finch
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| Outstanding Solo Performance | * Mike Birbiglia, Mike Birbiglia's The New One
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| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | * Santino Fontana, Tootsie as Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels
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| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | * Stephanie J. Block, The Cher Show as Star
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| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | * André De Shields, Hadestown as Hermes
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| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | * Amber Gray, Hadestown as Persephone
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| Outstanding Set Design | * David Korins, Beetlejuice
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| Outstanding Costume Design | * Bob Mackie, The Cher Show |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | * Bradley King, Hadestown
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| Outstanding Projection Designer (Play or Musical) | * Peter England, King Kong
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| Outstanding Sound Design (Play or Musical) | * Peter Hylenski, King Kong
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2019–2020 season
[edit]| Honorees[28] | |
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| Outstanding New Broadway Play |
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| Outstanding New Broadway Musicals | |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play |
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| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical |
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| Outstanding Revival of a Play
(Broadway or Off-Broadway) |
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| Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | |
| John Gassner Award |
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| Outstanding Book of a Musical
(Broadway or Off-Broadway) |
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| Outstanding New Score
(Broadway or Off-Broadway) |
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| Outstanding Director of a Play |
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| Outstanding Director of a Musical | |
| Outstanding Choreographer | |
| Outstanding Orchestrations |
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| Outstanding Actor in a Play |
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| Outstanding Actress in a Play |
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| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play |
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| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play |
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| Outstanding Solo Performance |
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| Outstanding Actor in a Musical |
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| Outstanding Actress in a Musical |
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| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | |
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical |
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| Outstanding Scenic Design |
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| Outstanding Costume Design |
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| Outstanding Lighting Design |
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| Outstanding Projection Design |
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| Outstanding Sound Design |
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2021–2022 season
[edit]| Honorees[29] | |
|---|---|
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | *The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power
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| Outstanding New Broadway Musical | *Six |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | *Prayer for the French Republic
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| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | *Kimberly Akimbo
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| Outstanding Revival of a Play
(Broadway or Off-Broadway) |
*Take Me Out
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| Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | *Company |
| John Gassner Award | *Sanaz Toossi, English
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| Outstanding Book of a Musical
(Broadway or Off-Broadway) |
* Kimberly Akimbo, David Lindsay-Abaire, Atlantic Theater Company
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| Outstanding New Score
(Broadway or Off-Broadway) |
* Six, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss |
| Outstanding Director of a Play | * Sam Mendes, The Lehman Trilogy |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | * Jessica Stone, Kimberly Akimbo |
| Outstanding Choreography | * MJ the Musical, Christopher Wheeldon, Anthony Talauega, Richmond Talauega
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| Outstanding Orchestrations | * Jason Howland, Paradise Square
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| Outstanding Actor in a Play | * Simon Russell Beale, The Lehman Trilogy as Haim "Henry" Lehman
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| Outstanding Actress in a Play | * LaChanze, Trouble in Mind as Wiletta Mayer
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| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | * Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Take Me Out as Mason Marzac
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| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | * Uzo Aduba, Clyde's as Clyde
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| Outstanding Solo Performance | * Kristina Wong, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord
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| Outstanding Actor in a Musical | * Jaquel Spivey, A Strange Loop as Usher
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| Outstanding Actress in a Musical | * Victoria Clark, Kimberly Akimbo as Kimberly
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| Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | * Matt Doyle, Company as Jamie
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| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | * Patti LuPone, Company as Joanne
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| Outstanding Set Design | * Adam Rigg, The Skin of Our Teeth' |
| Outstanding Costume Design | * Gabriella Slade, Six' |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | * Jon Clark, The Lehman Trilogy' (lighting designer)
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| Outstanding Projection Designer | * Luke Halls, The Lehman Trilogy
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| Outstanding Sound Design (Play or Musical) | * Nick Powell, Dominic Bilkey, The Lehman Trilogy
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| Category | Honorees |
|---|---|
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | *Tom Stoppard, Leopoldstadt
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| The Marjorie Gunner Award for Outstanding New Broadway Musical | *Some Like It Hot |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | *Downstate
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| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | *'The Harder They Come
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| Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | *Topdog/Underdog
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| Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | *Parade |
| John Gassner Award for New American Play (Preferably by a New Playwright) | *James Ijames, Fat Ham
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| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | *Robert Horn, Shucked
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| Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | *Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Some Like It Hot (composer and lyricist)
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| Outstanding Director of a Play | *Patrick Marber, Leopoldstadt |
| Outstanding Director of a Musical | * 'Michael Arden, Parade" |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play | * Sean Hayes, Good Night, Oscar as Oscar Levant
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| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | *J. Harrison Ghee, Some Like It Hot as Jerry/Daphne
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| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | *Bill Irwin, Endgame as Clov
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| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | *Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along as Franklin Shepard
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| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play | *Brandon Uranowitz, Leopoldstadt as Ludwig / Nathan
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| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical | *Alex Newell, Shucked as Lulu
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| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | * K. Todd Freeman, Downstate as Dee
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| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | * Lindsay Mendez, Merrily We Roll Along as Mary Flynn
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| Outstanding Solo Performance | * Jodie Comer, Prima Facie as Tessa
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| Outstanding Choreography | * Susan Stroman, New York, New York
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| Outstanding Orchestrations | * Bryan Carter, Charlie Rosen, Some Like It Hot
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| Outstanding Set Design | * Beowulf Boritt, New York, New York
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| Outstanding Costume Design | * Gregg Barnes, Some Like It Hot
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| Outstanding Lighting Design | * Tim Lutkin, Life of Pi |
| Outstanding Sound Design (Play or Musical) | * Joshua D. Reid, A Christmas Carol
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| Outstanding Projection Designer (Play or Musical) | * Andrzej Goulding, Life of Pi
|
| Special Achievement Award | B. H. Barry |
2023–2024 season
[edit]| Honorees[31] | |
|---|---|
| Outstanding New Broadway Musical | * Suffs |
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | * Stereophonic, David Adjmi |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | * Dead Outlaw |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | * Primary Trust, Eboni Booth
|
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | * Appropriate |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | * I Can Get It for You Wholesale |
| John Gassner Award (new American play preferably by a new playwright) | * Cole Escola, Oh, Mary! |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Shaina Taub, Suffs
|
| Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Suffs, Shaina Taub
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| Outstanding Direction of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Daniel Aukin, Stereophonic
|
| Outstanding Direction of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Jessica Stone, Water for Elephants
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| Outstanding Choreography (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Justin Peck, Illinoise
|
| Outstanding Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Marco Paguia, Buena Vista Social Club
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| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play | * Jessica Lange, Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | * Kelli O'Hara, Days of Wine and Roses
|
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play (tie) | * Cole Escola, Oh, Mary! and William Jackson Harper, Primary Trust (tie)
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| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | * Andrew Durand, Dead Outlaw
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| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play | * Kara Young, Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical | * Kecia Lewis, Hell's Kitchen |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | * Jay O. Sanders, Primary Trust
|
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical (tie) | * Judy Kuhn, I Can Get It for You Wholesale and Thom Sesma, Dead Outlaw (tie)
|
| Outstanding Solo Performance | * Patrick Page, All the Devils Are Here
|
| Outstanding Scenic Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway) (tie) | * Paul Tate dePoo III, The Great Gatsby and David Zinn, Stereophonic (tie)
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| Outstanding Costume Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Linda Cho, The Great Gatsby
|
| Outstanding Lighting Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Brian MacDevitt, The Outsiders
|
| Outstanding Video/Projections (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Peter Nigrini, The Who's Tommy
|
| Outstanding Sound Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Ryan Rumery, Stereophonic
|
2024–2025 season
[edit]| Honorees[32] | |
|---|---|
| Outstanding New Broadway Musical | * Maybe Happy Ending |
| Outstanding New Broadway Play | * John Proctor Is the Villain |
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical | * DRAG: The Musical
|
| Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play | * Liberation |
| Outstanding Revival of a Musical | * Cats: "The Jellicle Ball" |
| Outstanding Revival of a Play | * Vanya
|
| John Gassner Award (new American play preferably by a new playwright) | * George Clooney and Grant Heslov, Good Night, and Good Luck
|
| Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Will Aronson and Hue Park, Maybe Happy Ending
|
| Outstanding Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Will Aronson and Hue Park, Maybe Happy Ending
|
| Outstanding Direction of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Danya Taymor, John Proctor is the Villain
|
| Outstanding Direction of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | * Michael Arden, Maybe Happy Ending
|
| Outstanding Choreography | * Jerry Mitchell, BOOP! The Musical
|
| Outstanding Orchestrations | * Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber, Just in Time
|
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play | * Laura Donnelly, The Hills of California
|
| Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical | * Jasmine Amy Rogers, BOOP! The Musical |
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | * Adam Driver, Hold On to Me Darling
|
| Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | * Nick Adams, DRAG: The Musical
|
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play | * Francis Jue, Yellow Face |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical | * Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat |
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play | * Michael Rishawn, Table 17
|
| Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical | * André De Shields, Cats: "The Jellicle Ball"
|
| Outstanding Solo Performance | * Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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| Outstanding Scenic Design | * Miriam Buether, Jamie Harrison, and Chris Fisher, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
|
| Outstanding Costume Design | * Gregg Barnes, BOOP! The Musical
|
| Outstanding Lighting Design | * Jon Clark, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
|
| Outstanding Video/Projections | * David Bergman, The Picture of Dorian Gray
|
| Outstanding Sound Design | * Paul Arditti, Stranger Things: The First Shadow |
See also
[edit]References
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