The Outer Critics Circle,
now celebrating its 66th year of recognizing outstanding achievement in
Broadway and Off-Broadway theater, will be identifying the winners of the 2016
awards on Monday, May 9.
Here is the list of nominees
in each of the categories, along with my choices.
Outstanding New
Broadway Play
Eclipsed
The Father
The Humans
King Charles III
Thérèse Requin
Outstanding New
Off-Broadway Play
The Christians
Familiar
Gloria
Hold
On To Me Darling
The Legend of Georgia
McBride
John Gassner
Playwriting Award for American Play
Lindsey Ferrentino: Ugly
Lies The Bone
Lauren Gunderson: I And
You
Martyna Majok: Ironbound
Marco Ramirez: The
Royale
Anna
Ziegler: Boy
Outstanding Revival of
a Play
Blackbird
The
Crucible
Fool for Love
Long Day's Journey Into
Night
A View From The Bridge
Outstanding Actor in a
Play
Reed
Birney: The Humans
Gabriel Byrne: Long
Day's Journey Into Night
Frank Langella: The
Father
Mark Strong: A View
From The Bridge
Ben Whishaw: The Crucible
Outstanding Actress in
a Play
Jayne
Houdyshell: The Humans
Jessica Lange: Long
Day's Journey Into Night
Lupita Nyong'o: Eclipsed
Nicola Walker: A View
from the Bridge
Michelle Williams: Blackbird
Outstanding Featured
Actor in a Play
Sanjit De
Silva: Dry Powder
Matt McGrath: The Legend
of Georgia McBride
Jim Norton: The
Crucible
Robert Sella: Sylvia
Michael Shannon: Long
Day's Journey Into Night
Outstanding Featured
Actress in a Play
Pascale
Armand: Eclipsed
Zainab Jah: Eclipsed
Judith Light: Thérèse Requin
Seycon Sengbloh: Eclipsed
Myra Lucretia Taylor: Familiar
Outstanding
Solo Performance
Mike Bisbiglia: Thank
God For Jokes
Kathleen Chalfont: Rose
Anne Hathaway:
Grounded
James Lecesne:
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
Daphne Rubin-Vega:
Empanada Loca
Outstanding Director of
a Play
Evan Cabnet: Gloria
Mike Donahue: The
Legend of Georgia McBride
Rupert Goold: King
Charles III
Joe
Mantello: The Humans
Ivo van Hove: A View
From The Bridge
Outstanding New
Broadway Musical
American Psycho
Bright Star
On Your Feet!
Tuck Everlasting
Waitress
Outstanding New
Off-Broadway Musical
Cagney
Daddy Long Legs
Dear
Evan Hansen
Lazarus
Southern Comfort
Outstanding Revival of
a Musical
The Color Purple
Dames At Sea
Fiddler On The Roof
She Loves Me
Spring
Awakening
Outstanding Actor in a
Musical
Alex Brightman:
School of Rock
Danny Burstein: Fiddler
on the Roof
Robert Creighton:
Cagney
Ben Platt: Dear
Evan Hansen
Benjamin Walker: American
Psycho
Outstanding Actress in
a Musical
Laura Benanti: She
Loves Me
Carmen Cusack: Bright
Star
Cynthia
Erivo: The Color Purple
Jessie Mueller: Waitress
Ana Villafañe: On
Your Feet!
Outstanding Featured
Actor in a Musical
Nicholas Barasch: She
Loves Me
Roger Bart: Disaster!
Michael Esper: Lazarus
Christopher
Fitzgerald: Waitress
Terrence Mann: Tuck
Everlasting
Outstanding Featured
Actress in a Musical
Danielle Brooks: The
Color Purple
Andrea
Burns: On Your Feet!
Sophia Anne Caruso: Lazarus
Jane Krakowski: She
Loves Me
Heléne Yorke: American
Psycho
Outstanding Director of
a Musical
Michael
Arden: Spring Awakening
Walter Bobbie: Bright
Star
Scott Ellis: She Loves
Me
Rupert Goold: American
Psycho
Michael Greif: Dear Evan
Hansen
Outstanding Book of a
Musical
Bright Star
Daddy Long Legs
Dear
Evan Hansen
Lazarus
On Your Feet!
Outstanding New Score
American Psycho
Bright Star
Daddy Long Legs
Dear
Evan Hansen
Waitress
Outstanding
Choreographer
Joshua Bagasse: Cagney
Spencer Liff: Spring
Awakening
Josh Rhodes: Bright
Star
Randy Skinner: Dames At
Sea
Sergio
Trujillo: On Your Feet!
Outstanding Costume
Design
ESosa:
On Your Feet!
Jane Greenwood: Bright Star
Katrina Lindsay:
American Psycho
Jeff Mahshie: She
Loves Me
Tom Scutt: King Charles
III
Outstanding Set Design
Beowulf Buritt: Thérèse Requin
David Korins: Misery
Mimi
Lien: John
David Rockwell: She
Loves Me
Walt Spangler: Tuck
Everlasting
Outstanding Lighting
Design
Donald Holder: She
Loves Me
Natasha Katz: Long
Day's Journey Into Night
Kenneth Posner: On Your
Feet!
Ben Stanton: Spring
Awakening
Justin
Townsend: American Psycho
Outstanding
Projection Design
Lucy MacKinnon: Spring
Awakening
Peter Nigrini: Grounded
Peter Nigrini: Dear
Evan Hansen
Finn
Ross: American Psycho
Tal Yarden: Lazarus
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