Outer Critics Circle Awards 2018... And the Winners are...

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child leads the pack with 6 wins, followed by My Fair Lady with 5 wins and SpongeBob SquarePants with 4 wins.

The winners for the 2018 Outer Critics Circle Awards were revealed today! The 68th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards ceremony will be held at Sardi's on May 24, with Jenn Colella, Jim Dale, Christine Ebersole and Martha Plimpton serving as gala award presenters.

The Broadway premiere of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child leads the pack with an impressive total of six wins (including "Outstanding New Broadway Play"), whilst Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady managed to scoop five wins (including "Outstanding Revival of a Musical"), closely followed by the Broadway premiere of SpongeBob SquarePants with four wins (including "Outstanding New Broadway Musical").

It should be noted that the critically acclaimed Broadway premiere of The Band's Visit was not eligible this year, as the previous off-Broadway engagement at Atlantic Theater Company already received multiple Outer Critics Circle Awards last year.

The 2018 winners by category are:

Outstanding New Broadway Play

WINNER:

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

NOMINEES:

The Children

Farinelli and the King

Junk

Outstanding New Broadway Musical

WINNER:

SpongeBob SquarePants

NOMINEES:

Escape to Margaritaville

Frozen

Mean Girls

Prince of Broadway

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play

WINNER:

Admissions

NOMINEES:

Cost of Living

Hangmen

The Low Road

Mlima's Tale

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical

WINNER:

Desperate Measures

NOMINEES:

Cruel Intentions

Jerry Springer - The Opera

Miss You Like Hell

Woody Sez

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

WINNER:

Tina Fey, Mean Girls

NOMINEES:

Quiara Alegría Hudes, Miss You Like Hell

Kyle Jarrow, SpongeBob SquarePants

Peter Kellogg, Desperate Measures

Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

WINNER:

SpongeBob SquarePants (Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman, John Legend, Panic! at the Disco, Plain White T's, They Might Be Giants, T.I., Domani and Lil' C, Jonathan Coulton, and Tom Kitt)

NOMINEES:

David Friedman and Peter Kellogg, Desperate Measures

Imogen Heap, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Erin McKeown and Quiara Alegría Hudes, Miss You Like Hell

Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, Frozen

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

WINNER:

Angels in America

NOMINEES:

Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train

Lobby Hero

Three Tall Women

Travesties

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

WINNER:

My Fair Lady

NOMINEES:

Carousel

Once on This Island

Pacific Overtures

Outstanding Actor in a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

WINNER:

Andrew Garfield, Angels in America

NOMINEES:

Sean Carvajal, Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train

Tom Hollander, Travesties

Gregg Mozgala, Cost of Living

Michael Urie, The Government Inspector

Outstanding Actress in a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

WINNER:

Glenda Jackson, Three Tall Women

NOMINEES:

MaameYaa Boafo, School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play

Jessica Hecht, Admissions

Lauren Ridloff, Children of a Lesser God

Katy Sullivan, Cost of Living

Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

WINNER:

Ethan Slater, SpongeBob SquarePants

NOMINEES:

Harry Hadden-Paton, My Fair Lady

Joshua Henry, Carousel

David M. Lutken, Woody Sez

Conor Ryan, Desperate Measures

Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

WINNER:

Lauren Ambrose, My Fair Lady

NOMINEES:

Erika Henningsen, Mean Girls

Hailey Kilgore, Once on This Island

Taylor Louderman, Mean Girls

Patti Murin, Frozen

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

WINNER:

Nathan Lane, Angels in America

NOMINEES:

Anthony Boyle, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Johnny Flynn, Hangmen

David Morse, The Iceman Cometh

Paul Sparks, At Home at the Zoo

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

WINNER:

Laurie Metcalf, Three Tall Women

NOMINEES:

Jamie Brewer, Amy and the Orphans

Denise Gough, Angels in America

Harriet Harris, The Low Road

Mary Testa, The Government Inspector

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

WINNER:

Norbert Leo Butz, My Fair Lady

NOMINEES:

Alexander Gemignani, Carousel

Gavin Lee, SpongeBob SquarePants

Nick Wyman, Desperate Measures

Tony Yazbeck, Prince of Broadway

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

WINNER:

Lindsay Mendez, Carousel

NOMINEES:

Kerry Butler, Mean Girls

Lauren Molina, Desperate Measures

Ashley Park, Mean Girls

Emily Skinner, Prince of Broadway

Outstanding Solo Performance (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

WINNER:

Billy Crudup, Harry Clarke

NOMINEES:

Eve Ensler, In the Body of the World

Alison Fraser, Squeamish

John Lithgow, Stories by Heart

Sharon Washington, Feeding the Dragon

Outstanding Director of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

WINNER:

John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 

NOMINEES:

Jo Bonney, Cost of Living

Marianne Elliott, Angels in America

Patrick Marber, Travesties

Joe Mantello, Three Tall Women

Outstanding Director of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

WINNERS (TIE):

Tina Landau, SpongeBob SqaurePants and Bartlett Sher, My Fair Lady

NOMINEES:

Michael Arden, Once on This Island

Bill Castellino, Desperate Measures

Casey Nicholaw, Mean Girls

Outstanding Choreographer

WINNER:

Justin Peck, Carousel

NOMINEES:

Camille A. Brown, Once on This Island

Christopher Gattelli, My Fair Lady

Christopher Gattelli, SpongeBob SquarePants

Steven Hoggett, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Outstanding Set Design (Play or Musical)

WINNER:

Christine Jones, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

NOMINEES:

Miriam Buether, Three Tall Women

Myung Hee Cho, In the Body of the World

Michael Yeargan, My Fair Lady

David Zinn​, SpongeBob SquarePants

Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical)

WINNER:

Catherine Zuber, My Fair Lady

NOMINEES:

Katrina Lindsay, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Clint Ramos, Once on This Island

Paloma Young, Time and the Conways

David Zinn, SpongeBob SquarePants

Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical)

WINNER:

Neil Austin, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

NOMINEES:

Kevin Adams, SpongeBob SquarePants

Paule Constable, Angels in America

Paul Russell, Farinelli and the King

Lap Chi Chu, Mlima's Tale

Outstanding Projection Design (Play or Musical)

WINNER:

Finn Ross and Ash Woodward, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

NOMINEES:

Tim Reid, 1984

Finn Ross, Frozen

Finn Ross, In the Body of the World

Finn Ross and Adam Young, Mean Girls

Outstanding Sound Design (Play or Musical)

WINNER:

Gareth Fry, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

NOMINEES:

Kate Marvin, [Porto]

Fitz Patton, Napoli, Brooklyn

Marc Salzberg, My Fair Lady

Darron L. West, Mlima's Tale

Outstanding Orchestrations

WINNER:

Jonathan Tunick, Carousel

NOMINEES:

Jason Robert Brown, Prince of Broadway

Tom Kitt, SpongeBob SquarePants

AnnMarie Milazzo and Michael Starobin, Once on This Island

Claire Van Kampen, Farinelli and the King

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

WINNER:

Jocelyn Bioh, School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play

NOMINEES:

Kate Benson, [Porto]

Lindsey Ferrentino, Amy and the Orphans

Meghan Kennedy, Napoli, Brooklyn

Dominique Morisseau, Pipeline

^{(Harry Potter and the Cursed Child photo by Manuel Harlan, SpongeBob SquarePants photo by Joan Marcus)}