OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE 2017 WINNERS: Best of Broadway and Off Broadway

Kudos and Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 Outer Critics Circle Award for the best of Broadway and Off Broadway! 

The winners will be honored at the OCC Awards Ceremony at Sardis on May 25.

Here is the list of winners and other nominees in each category. 

Outstanding New Broadway Play

Oslo
A Doll's House, Part 2

Indecent

Sweat

Outstanding New Broadway Musical

Come From Away
Anastasia

A Bronx Tale — The Musical

Groundhog Day

Holiday Inn

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play

If I Forget

Incognito

A Life

Linda

Love, Love, Love

John Gassner Award

(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)

Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl

Men on Boats

Tell Hector I Miss Him

Vietgone

The Wolves

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical

The Band's Visit

Hadestown

Himself and Nora

Kid Victory

Spamilton

Outstanding Revival of a Play

(Broadway or off-Broadway)

Jitney
The Front Page

The Little Foxes

Othello

The Price

Outstanding Revival of a Musical

(Broadway or off-Broadway)

Hello, Dolly!
Finian's Rainbow

Miss Saigon

Sunset Boulevard

Sweeney Todd

Outstanding Actor in a Play

Kevin Kline, Present Laughter
Michael Emerson, Wakey, Wakey

Daniel Craig, Othello

David Oyelowo, Othello

David Hyde Pierce, A Life

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play

Danny DeVito, The Price
Michael Aronov, Oslo

Nathan Lane, The Front Page

Richard Thomas, The Little Foxes

Richard Topol, Indecent

Outstanding Actress in a Play

Laura Linney, The Little Foxes
Janie Dee, Linda

Sally Field, The Glass Menagerie

Allison Janney, Six Degrees of Separation

Laurie Metcalf, A Doll's House, Part 2

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play

Cynthia Nixon, The Little Foxes
Johanna Day, Sweat

Jayne Houdyshell, A Doll's House, Part 2

Katrina Lenk, Indecent

Nana Mensah, Man From Nebraska

Outstanding Actor in a Musical

Andy Karl, Groundhog Day
Christian Borle, Falsettos

Nick Cordero, A Bronx Tale

David Hyde Pierce, Hello, Dolly!

Tony Shalhoub, The Band's Visit

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical

Gavin Creel, Hello, Dolly!
John Bolton, Anastasia

Jeffry Denman, Kid Victory

Shuler Hensley, Sweet Charity

Andrew Rannells, Falsettos

Outstanding Actress in a Musical

Bette Midler, Hello, Dolly!
Christy Altomare, Anastasia

Christine Ebersole, War Paint

Katrina Lenk, The Band's Visit

Patti LuPone, War Paint

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

Jenn Colella, Come From Away
Kate Baldwin, Hello, Dolly!

Stephanie J. Block, Falsettos

Caroline O'Connor, Anastasia

Mary Beth Peil, Anastasia

Outstanding Solo Performance

Simon McBurney, The Encounter
Ed Dixon, Georgie: My Adventures With George Rose

Marin Ireland, On the Exhale

Sarah Jones, Sell/Buy/Date

Judith Light, All the Ways to Say I Love You

Outstanding Book of a Musical

(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Come From Away
Terrence McNally, Anastasia

Itamar Moses, The Band's Visit

Chazz Palminteri, A Bronx Tale

Danny Rubin, Groundhog Day

Outstanding New Score

(Broadway or off-Broadway)

David Yazbek, The Band's Visit
Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Anastasia

Alan Menken and Glenn Slater, A Bronx Tale

Tim Minchin, Groundhog Day

Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Come From Away

Outstanding Director of a Play

Rebecca Taichman, Indecent
Lila Neugebauer, The Wolves

Jack O'Brien, The Front Page

Daniel Sullivan, The Little Foxes

Kate Whoriskey, Sweat

Outstanding Director of a Musical

Christopher Ashley, Come From Away

David Cromer, The Band's Visit

Darko Tresnjak, Anastasia

Matthew Warchus, Groundhog Day

Jerry Zaks, Hello, Dolly!

Outstanding Choreographer

Warren Carlyle, Hello, Dolly!
Andy Blankenbuehler, Bandstand

Kelly Devine, Come From Away

Savion Glover, Shuffle Along

Denis Jones, Holiday Inn

Outstanding Scenic Design

(Play or Musical)

Mimi Lien, Natasha, Pierre, and The Great Comet of 1812
Alexander Dodge, Anastasia

Nigel Hook, The Play That Goes Wrong

Scott Pask, The Little Foxes

Douglas W. Schmidt, The Front Page

Outstanding Costume Design

(Play or Musical)

Catherine Zuber, War Paint
Linda Cho, Anastasia

Susan Hilferty, Present Laughter

Santo Loquasto, Hello, Dolly!

Ann Roth, Shuffle Along

Outstanding Lighting Design

(Play or Musical)

Bradley King, Natasha, Pierre and Great Comet of 1812
Christopher Akerlind, Indecent

Donald Holder, Anastasia

Natasha Katz, Hello, Dolly!

Kenneth Posner, War Paint

Outstanding Projection Design

(Play or Musical)

Aaron Rhyne, Anastasia
Duncan McLean, Privacy

Jared Mezzochi, Vietgone

Benjamin Pearcy for 59 Productions, Oslo

Tal Yarden, Indecent

Outstanding Sound Design

(Play or Musical)

Gareth Owen, Come From Away
Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin, The Encounter

Nicholas Pope, Natasha, Pierre and Great Comet of 1812

Nevin Steinberg, Bandstand

Matt Stine, Sweeney Todd

Outstanding Orchestrations

(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Larry Hochman, Hello, Dolly!
Doug Besterman, Anastasia

Larry Blank, Holiday Inn

Bill Elliott and Greg Anthony Rassen, Bandstand

Jamshied Sharifi, The Band's Visit


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