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AND THE NOMINEES ARE......
nominees Jefferson Mays and Bryce Pinkham A Gentleman's Guide to Love and
Murder.
AND THE NOMINEES ARE………… Time to get serious as the pre-Tony theater organizations summon their voters to decide the winners of this very varied and wonderful theater season With no obvious frontrunners the race is wide open
The 2013-2014 Tony Award nominations. JUNE 8 AT 8/7C Please see the full list below. Best Play Act One Best Musical After Midnight a revue Best Revival of a Play The Cripple of Inishmaan Best Revival of a Musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch Best Book of a Musical Aladdin Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Aladdin Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Samuel
Barnett, Twelfth Night Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Tyne Daly, Mothers and Sons Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical Neil
Patrick Harris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical Mary
Bridget Davies, A Night with Janis Joplin Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Reed
Birney, Casa Valentina Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play Sarah
Greene, The Cripple of Inishmaan Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical Danny
Burstein, Cabaret Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical Linda
Emond, Cabaret Best Scenic Design of a Play Beowulf
Boritt, Act One Best Scenic Design of a Musical Christopher
Barreca, Rocky Best Costume Design of a Play Jane
Greenwood, Act One Best Costume Design of a Musical Linda Cho, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Best Lighting Design of a Play Paule
Constable, The Cripple of Inishmaan Best Lighting Design of a Musical Kevin
Adams, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Best Sound Design of a Play Alex
Baranowski, The Cripple of Inishmaan Best Sound Design of a Musical Peter
Hylenski, After Midnight Best Direction of a Play Tim
Carroll, Twelfth Night Best Direction of a Musical Warren
Carlyle, After Midnight Best Choreography Warren
Carlyle, After Midnight Best Orchestrations Doug
Besterman, Bullets Over Broadway Awards and Honors in Non-competitive Categories Special
Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre Regional
Theatre Award Isabelle
Stevenson Award Tony
Honors for Excellence in the Theatre Tony Nominations by Production A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder - 10
(see accompanying article “Talkin’ Tonys” in this issue)
The first to announce in the race to the Tony’s is the Outer Critics Circle
Cicely Tyson and Williams announced the nominations for the 64th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards — celebrating productions both on and Off-Broadway — April 22 at the Friars Club. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder earned 11 nominations, the most of any production of the season. Other productions that fared well include the new Broadway Disney musical Aladdin and the recent, critically acclaimed Public Theater production of Fun Home — a Pulitzer Prize finalist — which received, respectively, eight and seven nominations. The Broadway debut of Rocky, the new musical based on the film of the same name, earned six nominations. The Outer Critics Circle's members are affiliated with more than 90 newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and Internet and theatre publications in America and abroad. Winners will be announced May 12. The annual Gala Awards Dinner and presentation will be held May 22 at Sardi's. The full list of nominees follows
Outer Critics Circle 2013-2014 Award Nominations
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY Act One All the Way Casa Valentina Outside Mullingar The Realistic Joneses
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL After Midnight Aladdin Beautiful The Carole King Musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder Rocky
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY Appropriate Choir Boy The Explorer’s Club The Heir Apparent Stage Kiss
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL Far From Heaven Fun Home Murder For Two Storyville What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined
OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Aladdin Beautiful The Carole King Musical Fun Home A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder Rocky
OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Aladdin The Bridges of Madison County Fun Home A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder If / Then
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY (Broadway or Off-Broadway) The Cripple of Inishmaan The Glass Menagerie Machinal Twelfth Night The Winslow Boy
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Cabaret Hedwig and the Angry Inch Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill Les Misérables Violet
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY Tim Carroll Twelfth Night Michael Grandage The Cripple of Inishmaan Lindsay Posner The Winslow Boy Bill Rauch All the Way Lyndsey Turner Machinal
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL Warren Carlyle After Midnight Laurence Connor & James Powell Les Misérables Sam Gold Fun Home Alex Timbers Rocky Darko Tresnjak A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER Warren Carlyle After Midnight Peggy Hickey A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder Steven Hoggett & Kelly Devine Rocky Casey Nicholaw Aladdin Susan Stroman Bullets Over Broadway
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN (Play or Musical) Christopher Barreca Rocky Beowulf Boritt Act One Bob Crowley Aladdin Es Devlin Machinal Alexander Dodge A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN (Play or Musical) Gregg Barnes Aladdin Linda Cho A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder William Ivey Long Bullets Over Broadway Jenny Tiramani Twelfth Night Isabel Toledo After Midnight
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN (Play or Musical) Howell Binkley After Midnight Paule Constable Les Misérables Natasha Katz Aladdin Philip S. Rosenberg A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY Bryan Cranston All the Way Ian McKellen No Man’s Land Brían F. O’Byrne Outside Mullingar Mark Rylance Twelfth Night Tony Shalhoub Act One
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY Tyne Daly Mothers and Sons Rebecca Hall Machinal Jessica Hecht Stage Kiss Cherry Jones The Glass Menagerie Estelle Parsons The Velocity of Autumn
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Michael Cerveris Fun Home Neil Patrick Harris Hedwig and the Angry Inch Andy Karl Rocky Jefferson Mays A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder Bryce Pinkham A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL Sutton Foster Violet Audra McDonald Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill Jessie Mueller Beautiful The Carole King Musical Kelli O’Hara The Bridges of Madison County Michelle Williams Cabaret
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY Paul Chahidi Twelfth Night Michael Cyril Creighton Stage Kiss John McMartin All the Way Alessandro Nivola The Winslow Boy Brian J. Smith The Glass Menagerie
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY Barbara Barrie I Remember Mama Andrea Martin Act One Sophie Okonedo A Raisin in the Sun Anika Noni Rose A Raisin in the Sun Mare Winningham Casa Valentina
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Danny Burstein Cabaret Nick Cordero Bullets Over Broadway Joshua Henry Violet James Monroe Iglehart Aladdin Jarrod Spector Beautiful The Carole King Musical
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL Judy Kuhn Fun Home Anika Larsen Beautiful The Carole King Musical Sydney Lucas Fun Home Marin Mazzie Bullets Over Broadway Lisa O’Hare A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE Jim Brochu Character Man Debra Jo Rupp Becoming Dr. Ruth Ruben Santiago-Hudson How I Learned What I Learned Alexandra Silber Arlington John Douglas Thompson Satchmo at the Waldorf
JOHN GASSNER AWARD (Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright) Scott Z. Burns The Library Eric Dufault Year of the Rooster Madeleine George The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence Steven Levenson The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin Lauren Yee The Hatmaker’s Wife
Photo Source: Courtesy of The Drama League THE DRAMA LEAGUE THE DRAMA LEAGUE ANNOUNCES 2014 AWARD NOMINEES FOR 80th ANNUAL AWARDS
CEREMONY SET FOR FRIDAY, MAY 16th AT THE MARRIOTT MARQUIS TIMES SQUARE
HOSTED BY JESSE TYLER FERGUSON
New York, NY (April 23, 2014) – The Drama League (Executive Director, Gabriel Shanks) has announced the 2014 Drama League Awards Nominees for Distinguished Play, Distinguished Revival of a Play, Distinguished Musical, Distinguished Revival of a Musical, and Distinguished Performance Award. The nominations were announced at a ceremony hosted by Judith Light and Christopher Sieber this morning at Sardi’s Restaurant and streamed live at www.BroadwayWorld.com.
The nominations announcement begins the month of celebrations leading up to the 80th Annual Drama League Awards, which will be held at the Marriott Marquis Times Square (1535 Broadway) on Friday, May 16, 2014 at 11:30am. Tickets for The Drama League Awards, which includes pre-event cocktails and the star-studded afternoon luncheon ceremony hosted by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, are available by calling (212) 244-9494 or visiting www.dramaleague.org.
First awarded in 1922 and formalized in 1935, The Drama League Awards are the oldest theatrical honors in America. GenSpring Family Offices, National Life Group and Financier Patisserie are the 2014 Sponsors of The 80th Annual Drama League Awards.
For more information about the Drama League Awards, please call (212) 244-9494 ext 101, or e-mail events@dramaleague.org, or visit the website at www.dramaleague.org.
2014 DRAMA LEAGUE AWARDS NOMINATIONS
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A BROADWAY OR OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
All That Fall
All The Way
Casa Valentina
Domesticated
Mothers and Sons
Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play
The Open House
The Realistic Joneses
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A BROADWAY OR OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
After Midnight
Aladdin
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
The Bridges of Madison County
Bullets Over Broadway
A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder
Murder For Two
Rocky
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A BROADWAY OR OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Glass Menagerie
Good Person of Szechwan
The Mutilated
Of Mice and Men
A Raisin in the Sun
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Waiting For Godot
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A BROADWAY OR OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
Les Misérables
Violet
PLEASE NOTE: The Roundabout Theatre Company production of Cabaret received The Drama League’s Outstanding Revival of a Musical Award in 1998, during its original engagement. Therefore, it is ineligible for a production nomination this season. However, it was determined that the cast of the production would be eligible for consideration.
DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE AWARD One winner is selected from this category. The recipient can only receive the award once during his or her career.
Reed Birney, Casa Valentina Steven Boyer, Hand to God Zach Braff, Bullets over Broadway Arnie Burton, The Mystery of Irma Vep Michael Cerveris, Fun Home Nick Cordero, Bullets over Broadway Bryan Cranston, All the Way Alan Cumming, Cabaret Tyne Daly, Mothers and Sons Mary Bridget Davies, A Night With Janis Joplin Gabriel Ebert, Casa Valentina Carson Elrod, The Heir Apparent Jesse Tyler Ferguson, The Comedy of Errors Sutton Foster, Violet James Franco, Of Mice and Men Peter Friedman, The Open House Michael C. Hall, The Realistic Joneses Lena Hall, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Joshua Henry, Violet James Monroe Iglehart, Aladdin LaTanya Richardson Jackson, A Raisin in the Sun Ramin Karimloo, Les Misérables Andy Karl, Rocky Adriane Lenox, After Midnight Tracy Letts, The Realistic Joneses Zachary Levi, First Date Sydney Lucas, Fun Home Taylor Mac, Good Person of Szechwan Jefferson Mays, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Idina Menzel, If/Then Laurie Metcalf, Domesticated Jessie Mueller, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Chris O'Dowd, Of Mice and Men Kelli O'Hara, The Bridges of Madison County Estelle Parsons, The Velocity of Autumn Steven Pasquale, The Bridges of Madison County Jeremy Pope, Choir Boy Zachary Quinto, The Glass Menagerie Daniel Radcliffe, The Cripple of Inishmaan Ruben Santiago-Hudson, How I Learned What I Learned Margo Seibert, Rocky Robert Sella, The Mystery of Irma Vep Tony Shalhoub, Act One Jennifer Simard, Disaster! Brian J. Smith, The Glass Menagerie Patrick Stewart, Waiting for Godot John Douglas Thompson, Satchmo at the Waldorf Denzel Washington, A Raisin in the Sun Michelle Williams, Cabaret
The Drama League also wishes to acknowledge the previous recipients of the Distinguished Performance Award who appeared in New York productions this season. As the Award can only be won once in a performer’s lifetime, they are ineligible this season. Their exemplary work, however, is recognized and applauded.
Eileen Atkins, All That Fall Norbert Leo Butz, Big Fish Kathleen Chalfant, Somewhere Fun/Tales From Red Vienna Cherry Jones, The Glass Menagerie Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill Ian McKellen, Waiting For Godot/No Man’s Land Frank Langella, King Lear Mary-Louise Parker, The Snow Geese Mark Rylance, Twelfth Night, Or What You Will/Richard III
The Drama League recently announced the 2014 recipients for Distinguished Contributions and Achievements in the Theatre, as follows: Kennedy Center Honoree, Tony®, and Grammy® Award nominee, Barbara Cook will receive the Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Award in recognition of her contribution to the musical theatre; Key Brand Entertainment/Broadway Across America: John Gore will receive the Unique Contribution to the Theatre Award for their vital work of bringing New York productions to theaters across America; and Tony®, Drama Desk and OBIE Award-winner John Tiffany will receive The Founders Award for Excellence in Directing.
Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Barbara Cook
Unique Contribution to the Theatre Key Brand Entertainment/Broadway Across America
Founders Award for Excellence in Directing John Tiffany
The 80th Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony and Luncheon includes a nominees cocktail reception, luncheon, and awards presentation and will be held at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in the Broadway Ballroom (1535 Broadway) on Friday, May 16, 2014 beginning at 11:30am.
THE DRAMA DESK AWARDS
Fran Drescher, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, and Robert Lopez will
announce the Drama Desk Award nominees in a live streamed event at 54 Below on
April 25 at 11am.
THE DRAMA DESK Drama Desk was founded in 1949 to explore key issues in the theater and to bring together critics and writers in an organization to support the ongoing development of theater in New York. The organization began presenting its awards in 1955, and it is the only critics' organization to honor achievement in the theater with competition among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions in the same categories. The 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards, hosted by Laura Benanti, will take place on Sunday, June 1, 2014, at 8:00 PM at The Town Hall in Manhattan. TheaterMania.com will present the awards ceremony.
The Drama Desk Awards, which are presented annually, honor outstanding achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway. The awards are voted on by theater critics, journalists, editors, and publishers covering theater. The 2013-2014 Drama Desk nominating committee is composed of Barbara Siegel, chairperson; Morgan Jenness; Samuel L. Leiter; Chad McArver; Martha Wade Steketee; and James Wilson. The 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony itself, hosted by Drama Desk Award winner Laura Benanti, will be held at The Town Hall on June 1. For more information, click here. The event will be presented by TheaterMania and, like the nominations, webcast live on TheaterMania.com.
The 2013-2014 Drama Desk Awards nominations were announced this morning at 54 Below.Frozen Oscar winners Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez were present alongsideCinderella star Fran Drescher to read off the nominees. The Drama Desk Awards ceremony,hosted by Laura Benanti , will take place June 1 at New York's Town Hall. Check out the full list of nominations below. The following awards were voted upon by the nominating committee and will be presented by the Drama Desk at its awards ceremony: Each year, the Drama Desk votes on special awards to recognize excellence and significant contributions to the theater. For 2013-2014, these awards are: "To Soho Rep.: For nearly four decades of artistic distinction, innovative production, and provocative play selection." "To Veanne Cox: For her ability to express the eccentricities, strengths, and vulnerabilities of a range of characters, and notably for her comedic flair as evidenced in this season's The Old Friends and The Most Deserving." "To Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, the Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award: For his visionary directorial excellence. This season's The Golden Dragon and The Mysteries exemplify his bold and strikingly original imagination." "To the ensembles of off-Broadway's The Open House and Broadway's The Realistic Joneses and to the creator of both plays, Will Eno: for two extraordinary casts and one impressively inventive playwright." The Open House: Hannah Bos, Michael Countryman, Peter Friedman, Danny McCarthy, and Carolyn McCormick. The Realistic Joneses: Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, and Marisa Tomei. Individual artists and productions singled out for these special awards are not eligible in their competitive categories. The following are the nominations for the competitive categories. Winners will be selected by the voting membership of the Drama Desk. Outstanding
Play Outstanding
Musical Outstanding
Revival of a Play *Shakespeare's Globe Production 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
Director of a Play Outstanding
Director of a Musical Outstanding
Choreography Outstanding
Music Outstanding
Lyrics Outstanding
Book of a Musical Outstanding
Orchestrations Outstanding
Music in a Play Outstanding
Revue Outstanding
Set Design Outstanding
Costume Design Outstanding
Lighting Design Outstanding
Projection Design Outstanding
Sound Design in a Musical Outstanding
Sound Design in a Play Outstanding
Solo Performance Unique
Theatrical Experience PRODUCTIONS
WITH MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS: *Shakespeare's Globe Production For tickets to the 2014 Drama Desk Awards, June 1 at New York's Town Hall, click here. …and the winners are
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