The winners for the 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards have been announced. Leading the pack are this year’s Outstanding New Play, Stereophonic, with 4 total wins, and Outstanding New Musical, Suffs, with 3 wins. Off-Broadway’s Dead Outlaw and Primary Trust each also received 3 wins this year, and the John Gassner Award for New American Play went to the Broadway-bound Oh, Mary!
The Outer Critics Circle is the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers and national publications. The awards ceremony for the winners will be held on Thursday, May 23, 2024 at Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for The Performing Arts.
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Here’s the full list of the 2024 Outer Critics Circle nominees and winners:
Outstanding New Broadway Play
Stereophonic
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Mother Play
Patriots
The Shark is Broken
Outstanding New Broadway Musical
Suffs
Days of Wine and Roses
The Great Gatsby
The Outsiders
Water for Elephants
Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Primary Trust
Dig
King of the Jews
King James
Swing State
Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical
Dead Outlaw
Buena Vista Social Club
Illinoise
Teeth
The Connector
John Gassner Award (presented to a new American play, preferably by a new playwright)
Oh, Mary! by Cole Escola
Job by Max Wolf Friedlich
Manahatta by Mary Kathryn Nagle
The Apiary by Kate Douglas
Wet Brain by John J. Caswell Jr.
Outstanding Revival of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Cabaret
Here Lies Love
Spamalot
The Who’s Tommy
Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Appropriate
An Enemy of the People
Doubt
Mary Jane
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Purlie Victorious
Outstanding Book of a Musical
Shaina Taub – Suffs
Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury – Illinoise
Anna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson – Teeth
Itamar Moses – Dead Outlaw
Jonathan Marc Sherman – The Connector
Outstanding New Score
Shaina Taub – Suffs
Jason Robert Brown – The Connector
Will Butler – Stereophonic
Adam Guettel – Days of Wine and Roses
David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna – Dead Outlaw
Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play
Jessica Lange – Mother Play
Rachel McAdams – Mary Jane
Sarah Paulson – Appropriate
Jeremy Strong – An Enemy of the People
Michael Stuhlbarg – Patriots
Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play
Kara Young – Purlie Victorious
Billy Eugene Jones – Purlie Victorious
Celia Keenan-Bolger – Mother Play
Alex Moffat – The Cottage
Jim Parsons – Mother Play
Sarah Pidgeon – Stereophonic
Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical
Kelli O’Hara – Days of Wine and Roses
Ali Louis Bourzgui – The Who’s Tommy
Brian d’Arcy James – Days of Wine and Roses
Casey Likes – Back to the Future
Maryann Plunkett – The Notebook
Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical
Kecia Lewis – Hell’s Kitchen
Roger Bart – Back to the Future
Justin Guarini – Once Upon a One More Time
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer – Spamalot
Bebe Neuwirth – Cabaret
Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play
Cole Escola – Oh, Mary!
William Jackson Harper – Primary Trust
Mary Beth Fisher – Swing State
Marie Mullen – The Saviour
Paul Sparks – Waiting for Godot
Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play
Jay O. Sanders – Primary Trust
Gus Birney – Our Class
April Matthis – Primary Trust
Conrad Ricamora – Oh, Mary!
Bubba Weiler – Swing State
Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical
Andrew Durand – Dead Outlaw
Jeb Brown – Dead Outlaw
Alyse Alan Louis – Teeth
Ben Levi Ross – The Connector
Ricky Ubeda – Illinoise
Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical
Judy Kuhn – I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Thom Sesma – Dead Outlaw
Ben Cook – Illinoise
Hannah Cruz – The Connector
Julia Knitel – Dead Outlaw
Jessica Molaskey – The Connector
Outstanding Solo Performance
Patrick Page – All the Devils are Here
Eddie Izzard – Hamlet
Mona Pirnot – I Love You So Much I Could Die
Robert Montano – Small
John Rubenstein – Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground
Outstanding Direction of a Play
Daniel Aukin – Stereophonic
Knud Adams – Primary Trust
Robert Falls – Swing State
Kenny Leon – Purlie Victorious
Lila Neugebauer – Appropriate
Outstanding Direction of a Musical
Jessica Stone – Water for Elephants
David Cromer – Dead Outlaw
Michael Greif – Days of Wine and Roses
Daisy Prince – The Connector
Leigh Silverman – Suffs
Outstanding Choreography
Justin Peck — Illinoise
Jesse Robb and Shana Carroll – Water for Elephants
Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman – The Outsiders
Lorin Latarro – The Who’s Tommy
Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck – Buena Vista Social Club
Outstanding Scenic Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Paul Tate DePoo III – The Great Gatsby
David Zinn – Stereophonic
Paul Tate DePoo III – The Cottage
Dots – Appropriate
David Korins – Here Lies Love
Outstanding Costume Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Linda Cho – The Great Gatsby
Dede Ayite – Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Enver Chakartash – Stereophonic
Enver Chakartash – Teeth
Sydney Maresca – The Cottage
Outstanding Lighting Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Brian MacDevitt – The Outsiders
Bradley King – Water for Elephants
Justin Townsend – Here Lies Love
Tim Lutkin and Hugh Vanstone – Back to the Future
Amanda Zieve – The Who’s Tommy
Outstanding Video or Projection Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Peter Nigrini – The Who’s Tommy
David Bengali – Water for Elephants
Paul Tate DePoo III — The Great Gatsby
Finn Ross – Back to the Future
Ash J. Woodward – Patriots
Outstanding Sound Design (Play or Musical)
Ryan Rumery – Stereophonic
Tom Gibbons – Grey House
Gareth Owen – Back to the Future
Gareth Owen – The Who’s Tommy
M.L. Dogg and Cody Spencer – Here Lies Love
Outstanding Orchestrations
Marco Paguia – Buena Vista Social Club
Timo Andres – Illinoise
Adam Guettel and Jamie Lawrence – Days of Wine and Roses
Michael Starobin – Suffs
Erik Della Penna, Dean Sharenow, and David Yazbek – Dead Outlaw
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