The Lucille Lortel 2017 Awards - And the Winners are...

The winners of The 32nd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for outstanding achievement Off-Broadway were revealed at last night's awards ceremony at NYU Skirball Center.

J.T. Rogers' Oslo (currently playing at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater until June 18, 2017) was the big winner of the night with a total of four wins, including "Outstanding Play," whilst Atlantic Theater Company's The Band's Visit won "Outstanding Musical," and Barrow Street Theatre's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street picked up the award for "Outstanding Revival."

The following special awards were also presented at this year's ceremony:

• Lifetime Achievement Award: William Ivey Long
• Edith Oliver Service to Off-Broadway Award: Harold Wolpert
• Playwrights' Sidewalk Inductee: Lynn Nottage

The 2017 winners by category are listed below: (**Winners are listed in bold font**)

Outstanding Play

• Indecent
  written by Paula Vogel
• Oslo
  Written by J.T. Rogers
• Underground Railroad Game
  Written by Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard
• Vietgone
  Written by Qui Nguyen
• The Wolves
  Written by Sarah DeLappe

Outstanding Musical

• The Band's Visit
  Music and Lyrics by David Yazbek, Book by Itamar Moses, Based on the screenplay by Eran Kolirin
• Dear Evan Hansen
  Book by Steven Levenson, Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
• Hadestown
  Written by Anaïs Mitchell
• Ride the Cyclone
  Book, Music, and Lyrics by Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond
• The Total Bent
  Text by Stew, Music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald

Outstanding Revival

• The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
  Written by Suzan-Lori Parks
• Othello
  Written by William Shakespeare
• Signature Plays: Edward Albee's The Sandbox, María Irene Fornés' Drowning, and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro
  Written by Edward Albee, María Irene Fornés, and Adrienne Kennedy
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler, Adaptation by Christopher Bond
• Sweet Charity
  Book by Neil Simon, Music by Cy Coleman, Lyrics by Dorothy Fields

Outstanding Solo Show

• Chris Gethard: Career Suicide
  Written and Performed by Chris Gethard
• Latin History for Morons
  Written and Performed by John Leguizamo
• Notes From The Field
  Created, Written, and Performed by Anna Deave
• The Outer Space
  Book and Lyrics by Ethan Lipton, Music by Ethan Lipton, Vito Dieterle, Eben Levy, and Ian M. Riggs Performed by Ethan Lipton

Outstanding Director

• Will Davis: Men on Boats
• Anne Kauffman: A Life
• Lila Neugebauer: The Wolves
• Bartlett Sher: Oslo
• Rebecca Taichman: Indecent

Outstanding Choreographer

• Joshua Bergasse: Sweet Charity
• David Dorfman: Indecent
• Georgina Lamb: Sweeney Todd
• David Neumann: Hadestown
• David Neumann: The Total Bent

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play

• Reed Birney: Man From Nebraska
• Michael Emerson: Wakey, Wakey
• Lucas Hedges: YEN
• Joe Morton: Turn Me Loose
• David Hyde Pierce: A Life

Outstanding Lead Actress in a play

• Johanna Day: Sweat
• Jennifer Ehle: Oslo
• Jennifer Kidwell: Underground Railroad Game
• Kecia Lewis: Marie and Rosetta
• Maryann Plunkett: Women of a Certain Age

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical

• Ato Blankson-Wood: The Total Bent
• Shuler Hensley: Sweet Charity
• Patrick Page: Hadestown
• Ben Platt: Dear Evan Hansen
• Jeremy Secomb: Sweeney Todd

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical

• Sutton Foster: Sweet Charity
• Amber Gray: Hadestown
• Jo Lampert: Joan of Arc: Into the Fire
• Katrina Lenk: The Band's Visit
• Siobhan McCarthy: Sweeney Todd

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play

• Michael Aronov: Oslo
• Charlie Cox: Incognito
• Matthew Maher: Othello
• Justice Smith: YEN
• Paco Tolson: Vietgone

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play

• Jocelyn Bioh: Everybody
• Hannah Cabell: The Moors
• Randy Graff: The Babylon Line
• Ari Graynor: YEN
• Nana Mensah: Man From Nebraska

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical

• Nathan Lee Graham: The View UpStairs
• Gus Halper: Ride the Cyclone
• Joel Perez: Sweet Charity
• Ari'el Stachel: The Band's Visit
• Chris Sullivan: Hadestown

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  Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

  • Asmeret Ghebremichael: Sweet Charity
  • Rachel Bay Jones: Dear Evan Hansen
  • Betsy Morgan: Sweeney Todd
  • Emily Rohm: Ride the Cyclone
  • Karen Ziemba: Kid Victory

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  Outstanding Scenic Design

  • Scott Davis: Ride the Cyclone
  • Rachel Hauck: Hadestown
  • Laura Jellinek: A Life
  • Mimi Lien: Signature Plays
  • Jason Sherwood: The View UpStairs

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  Outstanding Costume Design

  • Montana Blanco: The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA the Negro Book of the Dead
  • Tilly Grimes: Underground Railroad Game
  • Susan Hilferty: Love, Love, Love
  • Sarah Laux: The Band's Visit
  • Emily Rebholz: Indecent

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  Outstanding Lighting Design

  • Mark Barton: Signature Plays
  • Jane Cox: Othello
  • Greg Hofmann: Ride the Cyclone
  • Amy Mae: Sweeney Todd
  • Ben Stanton: YEN

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  Outstanding Sound Design

  • Mikhail Fiksel: A Life
  • Robert Kaplowitz: Hadestown
  • Stowe Nelson: Small Mouth Sounds
  • Nevin Steinberg: Wakey, Wakey
  • Matt Stine: Sweeney Todd

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  Outstanding Projection Design

  • Elaine McCarthy: Notes From The Field
  • Duncan McLean: Privacy
  • Jared Mezzochi: Vietgone
  • Peter Nigrini: Dear Evan Hansen
  • Peter Nigrini: Wakey, Wakey

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  The 2017 Lucille Lortel Awards voting committee was appointed by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, Actors' Equity Association, the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers, and the Lucille Lortel Foundation, and includes theatre journalists, academics and other Off-Broadway professionals.

  Awarded since 1986, the Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the League by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation.