Best, Esparza, Langella, Murphy, Sun, et al. Win Outer Critics Awards
The winners of the 57th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards have been announced. A formal ceremony will be held at Sardi’s on Thursday, May 24.
Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes, the stars of Deuce, will receive special awards in recognition of their outstanding and distinguished careers in the theater. The show was deemed ineligible for any regular awards by its producers earlier this month.
The Coast of Utopia topped the list, with six wins including Outstanding Play. Spring Awakening won three awards, including Outstanding Musical. Nilaja Sun received two awards, for Outstanding Solo Performance and the John Gassner Award.
The Outer Critics Circle is comprised of journalists affiliated with more than 90 newspapers, magazines, web sites, radio stations, and television stations in America and abroad.
A complete list of this year’s nominees, with the winners’ names in bold, follows:
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Outstanding New Broadway Play
The Coast of Utopia
Coram Boy
Frost/Nixon
Radio Golf
Outstanding New Broadway Musical
Curtains
LoveMusik
Mary Poppins
Spring Awakening
Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Exits and Entrances
Indian Blood
The Pain and the Itch
The Scene
Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical
In the Heights
Evil Dead The Musical
Floyd and Clea
Gutenberg! The Musical!
Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off Broadway)
Curtains
In the Heights
Mary Poppins
Spring Awakening
Outstanding Revival of a Play
Inherit the Wind
Journey’s End
Talk Radio
The Voysey Inheritance
Outstanding Revival of a Musical
The Apple Tree
A Chorus Line
Company
110 in the Shade
Outstanding Director of a Play (Lucille Lortel Award)
Michael Grandage, Frost/Nixon
David Grindley, Journey’s End
Melly Still, Coram Boy
Jack O’Brien, The Coast of Utopia
Outstanding Director of a Musical
John Doyle, Company
Richard Eyre & Matthew Bourne, Mary Poppins
Thomas Kail, In the Heights
Michael Mayer, Spring Awakening
Outstanding Choreography
Rob Ashford, Curtains
Andy Blankenbuehler, In the Heights
Matthew Bourne & Stephen Mear, Mary Poppins
Carol Leavy Joyce & Graciela Daniele, The Pirate Queen
Outstanding Set Design
Bob Crowley & Scott Pask, The Coast of Utopia
Bob Crowley, Mary Poppins
Ti Green & Melly Still, Coram Boy
Derek McLane, The Voysey Inheritance
Outstanding Costume Design
Bob Crowley, Mary Poppins
Judith Dolan, LoveMusik
Martin Pakledinaz, The Pirate Queen
Catherine Zuber, The Coast of Utopia
Outstanding Lighting Design
Neil Austin, Frost/Nixon
Paule Constable, Coram Boy
Howard Harrison, Mary Poppins
Brian MacDevitt/ Kenneth Posner/ Natasha Katz, The Coast of Utopia
Outstanding Actor in a Play
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Brían F. O’Byrne, The Coast of Utopia
Christopher Plummer, Inherit the Wind
Liev Schreiber, Talk Radio
Outstanding Actress in a Play
Eve Best, A Moon for the Misbegotten
Jennifer Ehle, The Coast of Utopia
Carla Gugino, Suddenly Last Summer
Allison Pill, Blackbird
Outstanding Actor in a Musical
Michael Cerveris, LoveMusik
Raúl Esparza, Company
Gavin Lee, Mary Poppins
David Hyde Pierce, Curtains
Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Ashley Brown, Mary Poppins
Kristen Chenoweth, The Apple Tree
Audra McDonald, 110 in the Shade
Donna Murphy, LoveMusik
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Billy Crudup, The Coast of Utopia
Boyd Gaines, Journey’s End
David Greenspan, Some Men
Stephen Kunken, Frost/Nixon
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Robin Bartlett, Prelude to a Kiss
Jill Clayburgh, The Clean House
Martha Plimpton, The Coast of Utopia
Lily Rabe, Heartbreak House
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
Jason Danieley, Curtains
Daniel Jenkins, Mary Poppins
David Pittu, LoveMusik
Bobby Steggert, 110 in the Shade
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Charlotte d’Amboise, A Chorus Line
Rebecca Luker, Mary Poppins
Orfeh, Legally Blonde
Karen Ziemba, Curtains
Outstanding Solo Performance
Daniel Beatty, Emergence-See
Ed Harris, Wrecks
Jay Johnson, The Two and Only
Nilaja Sun, No Child
John Gassner Award (Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Daisy Foote, Bhutan
Bob Glaudini, Jack Goes Boating
Bruce Norris, The Pain and the Itch
Nilaja Sun, No Child
