Theater News

2000 Outer Critics Circle Nominations

New York City
The Outer Critics Circle, an organization of writers on the New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications, and other media beyond Broadway, has announced the nominees for its 1999-2000 season awards. In this, its 50th anniversary year, the Outer Critics Circle will present honors in 22 categories as well as Special Achievement Awards to Barry Humphries of Dame Edna: The Royal Tour and to Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly of True West. Winners in the following categories will be announced on Monday, May 1, and the awards ceremony will take place on Thurday, May 25 at Sardi’s, 234 West 44th Street.

OUTSTANDING BROADWAY PLAY

Copenhagen
The Green Bird
True West
Waiting in the Wings

OUTSTANDING OFF BROADWAY PLAY

An Experiment With an Air Pump
Dinner With Friends
Dirty Blonde
The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Amadeus
The Real Thing
Uncle Vanya

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY

Stephen Dillane (The Real Thing)
Derek Jacobi (Uncle Vanya)
Michael Sheen (Amadeus)
David Suchet (Amadeus)

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Rosemary Harris (Waiting in the Wings)
Eillen Heckart (The Waverly Gallery)
Laura Linney (Uncle Vanya)
J. Smith-Cameron (Fuddy Meers)

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Bob Dishy (The Price)
Roy Dotrice (A Moon for the Misbegotten)
Daniel Gerroll (An Experiment With an Air Pump)
Simon Jones (Waiting in the Wings)

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Frances Conroy (The Ride Dowm Mt. Morgan)
Jennifer Ehle (The Real Thing)
Cindy Katz (Amadeus)
Lizbeth Mackay (The Price)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY

Michael Blakemore (Copenhagen)
Peter Hall (Amadeus)
David Leveaux (The Real Thing)
Daniel Sullivan (Dinner With Friends & A Moon for the Misbegotten)

OUTSTANDING BROADWAY MUSICAL

Contact
James Joyce’s The Dead
Saturday Night Fever
Swing!

OUTSTANDING OFF BROADWAY MUSICAL

After the Fair
Jolson & Co.
The Bomb-itty of Errors
The Wild Party (MTC/Off Broadway)

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL

Jesus Christ Superstar
Kiss Me, Kate
Putting it Together
The Music Man

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Craig Bierko (The Music Man)
James Carpinello (Saturday Night Fever)
Taye Diggs (The Wild Party MTC/Off Broadway)
Brian Stokes Mitchell (Kiss Me, Kate)

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Toni Collette (The Wild Party/B’way)
Heather Headley (Aida)
Rebecca Luker (The Music Man)
Marin Mazzie (Kiss Me, Kate)

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Michael Berresse (Kiss Me, Kate)
Boyd Gaines (Contact)
Stephen Spinella (James Joyce’s The Dead)
Tony Vincent (Jesus Christ Superstar)

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Blair Brown (James Joyce’s The Dead)
Ruth Willamson (The Music Man>)
Deborah Yates (Contact)
Karen Ziemba (Contact)

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL

Gabriel Barre (The Wild Party MTC/Off B’way)
Michael Blakemore (Kiss Me, Kate)
Richard Nelson (James Joyce’s The Dead)
Susan Stroman (Contact & The Music Man)

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY

Mark Dendy (The Wild Party MTC/Off B’way)
Kathleen Marshall (Kiss Me, Kate)
Susan Stroman (Contact & The Music Man)
Lynn Taylor-Corbett (Swing!)

OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN

John Lee Beatty (An Experiment With an Air Pump)
William Dudley (Amadeus)
Thomas Lynch (The Music Man)
Robin Wagner (Kiss Me, Kate)

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGNAmadeus)
Constance Hoffman (The Green Bird)
William Ivey Long (The Music Man)
Martin Pakledinaz (Kiss Me, Kate)

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
Paule Constable (Amadeus)
Donald Holder (The Green Bird)
Peter Kaczorowski (Contact)
Kenneth Posner (The Wild Party MTC/Off B’way)

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE

Olympia Dukakis (Rose)
Mark Linn-Baker (Chesapeake)
Mark Setlock (Fully Committed)
Marc Wolf (Another American Asking and Telling)

JOHN GASSNER PLAYWRITING AWARD

Charles Busch (The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife)
David Lindsay-Abaire (Fuddy Meers)
Kenneth Lonergan (The Waverly Gallery)
John Vail Thorne (The Exact Center of the Universe)