Winners were selected in 24 categories.
Former Outer Critics Circle Award winners Judy Kaye, Audra McDonald, Michael McGrath, Donna Murphy, and Tonya Pinkins will serve as gala award presenters at the upcoming 63rd Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony on May 23 at 4pm. It is to take place at the legendary Sardi’s Restaurant.
As previously announced, based on recommendations by the Outer Critics Circle executive committee, a special achievement award will be given to Irish Repertory Theatre (Charlotte Moore, artistic director, and Ciarán O’Reilly, producing director) in recognition of 25 years of producing outstanding theater.
Winners are indicated with an asterisk below.
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY
Grace
Lucky Guy
The Nance
The Testament of Mary
*Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL
Chaplin: The Musical
A Christmas Story
Hands on a Hardbody
*Kinky Boots
Matilda the Musical
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
Bad Jews
Cock
*My Name is Asher Lev
Really Really
The Whale
OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
February House
Dogfight
Giant
*Here Lies Love
Murder Ballad
OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL
(Broadway or off-Broadway)
Cinderella
Chaplin: The Musical
Dogfight
Kinky Boots
*Matilda the Musical
OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE
(Broadway or off-Broadway)
Chaplin: The Musical
Dogfight
Hands on a Hardbody
Here Lies Love
*Kinky Boots
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY
(Broadway or off-Broadway)
Golden Boy
Orphans
The Piano Lesson
The Trip to Bountiful
*Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
(Broadway or off-Broadway)
Annie
Cinderella
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Passion
*Pippin
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
Pam MacKinnon, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Nicholas Martin, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
*Jack O’Brien, The Nance
Bartlett Sher, Golden Boy
Michael Wilson, The Trip to Bountiful
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Warren Carlyle, Chaplin: The Musical
Scott Ellis, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots
*Diane Paulus, Pippin
Alex Timbers, Here Lies Love
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
Warren Carlyle, Chaplin: The Musical
Peter Darling, Matilda the Musical
Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots
Josh Rhodes, Cinderella
*Chet Walker, Pippin
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
John Lee Beatty, The Nance
*Rob Howell, Matilda the Musical
David Korins, Here Lies Love
Scott Pask, Pippin
Michael Yeargan, Golden Boy
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Amy Clark & Martin Pakledinaz, Chaplin: The Musical
Gregg Barnes, Kinky Boots
Dominique Lemieux, Pippin
*William Ivey Long, Cinderella
William Ivey Long, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
(Play or Musical)
Ken Billington, Chaplin: The Musical
Paul Gallo, Dogfight
Donald Holder, Golden Boy
Kenneth Posner, Cinderella
*Kenneth Posner, Pippin
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Tom Hanks, Lucky Guy
Shuler Hensley, The Whale
*Nathan Lane, The Nance
Tracy Letts, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
David Hyde Pierce, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Tracee Chimo, Bad Jews
Amy Morton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Vanessa Redgrave, The Revisionist
Joely Richardson, Ivanov
*Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Bertie Carvel, Matilda the Musical
Santino Fontana, Cinderella
Rob McClure, Chaplin: The Musical
*Billy Porter, Kinky Boots
Matthew James Thomas, Pippin
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Lilla Crawford, Annie
Valisia LeKae, Motown The Musical
Lindsay Mendez, Dogfight
*Patina Miller, Pippin
Laura Osnes, Cinderella
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Danny Burstein, Golden Boy
Richard Kind, The Big Knife
Jonny Orsini, The Nance
Tony Shalhoub, Golden Boy
*Tom Sturridge, Orphans
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Cady Huffman, The Nance
Judith Ivey, The Heiress
Judith Light, The Assembled Parties
*Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Vanessa Williams, The Trip to Bountiful
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Will Chase, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dan Lauria, A Christmas Story
Raymond Luke, Motown The Musical
*Terrence Mann, Pippin
Daniel Stewart Sherman, Kinky Boots
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Annaleigh Ashford, Kinky Boots
Victoria Clark, Cinderella
Charlotte d’Amboise, Pippin
*Andrea Martin, Pippin
Keala Settle, Hands on a Hardbody
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
Bette Midler, I’ll Eat You Last
Martin Moran, All the Rage
Fiona Shaw, The Testament of Mary
*Holland Taylor, Ann
Michael Urie, Buyer & Cellar
JOHN GASSNER AWARD
(presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Ayad Akhtar, Disgraced
Paul Downs Colaizzo, Really Really
Joshua Harmon, Bad Jews
Samuel D. Hunter, The Whale
*Aaron Posner, My Name is Asher Lev
SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Irish Repertory Theatre
Charlotte Moore, artistic director, and Ciarán O’Reilly, producing director,
in recognition of 25 years of producing outstanding theater
Winners tally (2 or more):
Pippin — 7
Kinky Boots — 3
Matilda the Musical — 2
My Name is Asher Lev — 2
The Nance — 2
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike — 2
NOTE: The nominating committee attended all of this season’s Broadway productions prior to the Outer Critics Circle Awards cutoff date. The Other Place was considered and nominated last season when it was produced Off-Broadway.
