Outer Critics Circle: 2014 Award winners

The winners of the Outer Critics Circle Awards, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, were announced on 12 May 2014. The award ceremony will take place on 22 May 2014 at Sardi's Restaurant.

The Award for Outstanding New Broadway Musical was won by A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder which also won in three other categories, and the Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-broadway) went to Hedwig and the Angry Inch. The awards offered a relatively even spread of winners this year, celebrating a wide range of productions over the 2013/14 season.

Robert Schenkkan's All The Way won the coveted Outstanding New Broadway Play Award, with Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie receiving the award for Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway).

As previously announced, Billy Porter, Victoria Clark, Terrence Mann, Andrea Martin and Shuler Hensley will serve as gala award presenters at the upcoming 64th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony on 22 May 2014 at Sardi's.

Celebrating its 64th season of bestowing awards of excellence in the field of theatre, the Outer Critics Circle, is an association with members affiliated with more than ninety newspapers, magazines, web sites, radio and television stations, and theatre publications in America and abroad.

A Special Achievements Award went to:

• Bill Berloni of Bill Berloni Theatrical Animals in recognition of this season's outstanding performances by his dogs in Annie, The Open House, The Threepenny Opera, Bullets Over Broadway and Lady Day.

Outstanding New Broadway Play:

• Act One
• All The Way
• Casa Valentina
• Outside Mullingar
• The Realistic Joneses

Outstanding New Broadway Musical:

• After Midnight
• Aladdin
• Beautiful The Carole King Musical
• A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
• Rocky

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play:

• Appropriate
• Choir Boy
• The Explorer's Club
• The Heir Apparent
• Stage Kiss

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical:

• Far From Heaven
• Fun Home
• Murder For Two
• Storyville
• What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined

Outstanding Book of Musical:
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Aladdin
• Beautiful The Carole King Musical
• Fun Home
• A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
• Rocky

Outstanding New Score:
(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

• Aladdin
• The Bridges of Madison County
• Fun Home
• A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
• If/Then

Outstanding Revival of a Play:
(Broadway or Off- Broadway)

• The Cripple of Inishmaan
• The Glass Menagerie
• Machinal
• Twelfth Night
• The Winslow Boy

Outstanding Revival of a Musical:
(Broadway or Off- Broadway)

• Cabaret
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
• Les Miserables
• Violet

Outstanding Director of a Play:

• Tim Carroll: Twelfth Night
• Michael Grandage: The Cripple of Inishmaan
• Lindsay Posner: The Winslow Boy
• Bill Rauch: All the Way
• Lyndsey Turner: Machinal

Outstanding Director of a Musical:

• Warren Carlyle: After Midnight
• Laurence Connor & James Powell: Les Miserables
• Sam Gold: Fun Home
• Alex Timbers: Rocky
• Darko Tresnjak: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Choreography:

• Warren Carlyle: After Midnight
• Peggy Hickey: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
• Steven Hoggett & Kelly Devine: Rocky
• Casey Nicholaw: Aladdin
• Susan Stroman: Bullets Over Broadway

Outstanding Set Design: (Play or Musical)

• Christopher Barreca: Rocky
• Beowulf Boritt: Act One
• Bob Crowley: Aladdin
• Es Devlin: Machinal
• Alexander Dodge: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Costume Design: (Play or Musical)

• Gregg Barnes: Aladdin
• Linda Cho: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
• William Ivey Long: Bullets Over Broadway
• Jenny Tiramani: Twelfth Night
• Isabel Toledo: After Midnight

Outstanding Lighting Design:
(Play or Musical)

• Kevin Adams: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Howell Binkley: After Midnight
• Paule Constable: Les Miserables
• Natasha Katz: Aladdin
• Philip S. Rosenberg: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Actor in a Play:

• Bryan Cranston in All The Way
• Ian McKellen in No Man's Land
• Brian F.O'Byrne in Outside Mullingar
• Mark Rylance in Twelfth Night
• Tony Shalhoub in Act One

Outstanding Actress in a Play:

• Tyne Daly in Mothers and Sons
• Rebecca Hall in Machinal
• Jessica Hecht in Stage Kiss
• Cherry Jones in The Glass Menagerie
• Estelle Parsons in The Velocity of Autumn

Outstanding Actor in a Musical:

• Michael Cerveris in Fun Home
• Neil Patrick Harris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Andy Karl in Rocky
• Jefferson Mays in A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
• Bryce Pinkham in A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Actress in a Musical:

• Sutton Foster in Violet
• Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
• Jessie Mueller in Beautiful The Carole King Musical
• Kelli O'Hara in The Bridges of Madison County
• Michelle Williams in Cabaret

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play:

• Paul Chahidi in Twelfth Night
• Michae Cyril Creighton in Stage Kiss
• John McMartin in All The Way
• Alessandro Nivola in The Winslow Boy
• Brian J. Smith in The Glass Menagerie

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play:

• Barbara Barrie in I Remember Mama
• Andrea Martin in Act One
• Sophie Okonedo in A Raisin in The Sun
• Anika Noni Rose in A Raisin in the Sun
• Mare Winningham in Casa Valentina

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical:

• Danny Burstein in Cabaret
• Nick Cordero in Bullets Over Broadway
• Joshua Henry in Violet
• James Monroe Iglehard in Aladdin
• Jarrod Spector in Beautiful The Carole King Musical

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical:

• Judy Kuhn in Fun Home
• Anika Larsen in Beautiful The Carole King Musical
• Sydney Lucas in Fun Home
• Marin Mazzie in Bullets Over Broadway
• Lisa O'Hare in A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder

Outstanding Solo Performance:

• Jim Brochu in Character Man
• Debra Jo Rupp in Becoming Dr. Ruth
• Ruben Santiago-Hudson in How I Learned What I Learned
• Alexandra Silber in Arlington
• John Douglas Thompson in Satchmo at the Waldorf

John Gassner Award:
(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)

• Scott Z. Burns: The Library
• Eric Dufault: Year of the Rooster
• Madeleine George: The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence
• Steven Levenson: The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin
• Lauren Yee: The Hatmaker's Wife

List of Awards by show:

Total Nominations by Production:

A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder - 4 Awards
Bullets Over Broadway - 3 Awards
The Glass Menagerie - 3 Awards
All the Way - 2 Awards
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - 2 Awards

The Nominating Committee attended all of this season's Broadway productions prior to the OCC Award cut-off date.