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Gentleman's Guide, Bullets Over Broadway, and More Are 2014 Outer Critics Circle Award Winners

”The Glass Menagerie” and ”All the Way” also win big.

Outer Critics Circle Award winner Marin Mazzie as Helen Sinclair in
Bullets Over Broadway.
Outer Critics Circle Award winner Marin Mazzie as Helen Sinclair in
Bullets Over Broadway.
(© Paul Kolnik)

Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators for media covering New York theater, announced today its award winners for the 2013-14 season in 24 categories.

Outer Critics Circle Award winners Billy Porter, Victoria Clark, Terrence Mann, Andrea Martin, and Shuler Hensley will serve as gala award presenters at the upcoming 64th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony on May 22nd at Sardi's Restaurant.

In addition to this year's competitive awards, a special achievement award will be given to animal rescuer, trainer, and coach Bill Berloni of Bill Berloni Theatrical Animals "in recognition of this season's outstanding performances by his dogs in Annie, The Open House, The Threepenny Opera, Bullets Over Broadway, and Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, as well as for the 300 dogs he has found in homeless shelters and made into theater stars over his career."

Celebrating its 64th season of bestowing awards of excellence in the field of theater, the Outer Critics Circle is an association of members affiliated with more than 90 newspapers, magazines, websites, radio and television stations, and theater publications in America and abroad.

(Winners names are indicated by an asterisk.)

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 and 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 and Murder
Rocky


OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE – The Marjorie Gunner Award
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Aladdin
* The Bridges of Madison County
Fun Home
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and 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 — The Lucille Lortel Award
* 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 and Murder

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
* Warren Carlyle, After Midnight
Peggy Hickey, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Steven Hoggett and 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 and Murder

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Gregg Barnes, Aladdin
Linda Cho, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
* William Ivey Long, Bullets Over Broadway
Jenny Tiramani, Twelfth Night
Isabel Toledo, After Midnight

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
* Kevin Adams, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Howell Binkley, After Midnight
Paule Constable, Les Misérables
Natasha Katz, Aladdin
Philip S. Rosenberg, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and 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 and Murder
Bryce Pinkham, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and 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 (tie)
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 and 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 (three-way tie)
(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

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Bill Berloni of Bill Berloni Theatrical Animals in recognition of this season’s outstanding performances by his dogs in Annie, The Open House, The Threepenny Opera, Bullets Over Broadway, and Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as for the 300 dogs he has found in homeless shelters and made into theater stars over his illustrious career.

Winners tally for two or more:

A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder — 4
Bullets Over Broadway — 3
The Glass Menagerie — 3
All the Way — 2
Hedwig and the Angry Inch — 2

2013-14 Outer Critics Circle executive/nominating committee
Simon Saltzman (president)
Mario Fratti (vice-president)
Patrick Hoffman (corresponding secretary)
Stanley L. Cohen (treasurer)
Glenn Loney (historian & member-at-large)
Rosalind Friedman (recording secretary)
Aubrey Reuben and Harry Haun (members-at-large)

Zachary Quinto, Cherry Jones, Brian J. Smith, and Celia Keenan-Bolger in the Outer Critics Circle Award-winning revival of The Glass Menagerie.
Zachary Quinto, Cherry Jones, Brian J. Smith, and Celia Keenan-Bolger in the Outer Critics Circle Award-winning Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie.
(© Michael J. Lutch)