The Drama League announces the nominees for THE 88TH ANNUAL DRAMA LEAGUE AWARDS

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Apr 25

The Drama League have today announced the 2022 Drama League Awards nominees.

Honoring achievements on and Off-Broadway, the nominations were announced this morning at the official announcement event held at the New York Library for the Performing Arts.

The nominations announcement begins a month of celebrations leading up to the 88TH Annual Drama League Awards, which will be held at the Ziegfeld Ballroom (141 West 54th Street, New York City) on 20 May at 12pm. Tickets and tables to the star-studded event are available for purchase here.

The Drama League previously announced the 2022 Special Recognition Award Recipients: Tony® Award winner Hugh Jackman will receive the Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theater Award; director Lileana Blain-Cruz will receive the Founders Award for Excellence in Directing; Tony® Award winner Billy Crystal will receive the Contribution to the Theater Award; and Tony® Award winner Willette Murphy Klausner will receive the Gratitude Award.

The nominees for Outstanding Production of Play are: Clyde’s (Second Stage Theater), Confederates (Signature Theatre), Dana H. (Lyceum Theatre), English (Atlantic Theater Company and Roundabout Theatre Company), Hangmen (John Golden Theatre), The Lehman Trilogy (Nederlander Theatre), Merry Wives (The Public Theater/Free Shakespeare in the Park), The Minutes (Studio 54), POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive (Shubert Theatre), Prayer For The French Republic (Manhattan Theatre Club), and Selling Kabul (Playwrights Horizons).

For Outstanding Revival of a Play, the nominees are: American Buffalo (Circle in the Square Theatre), Cyrano de Bergerac (Brooklyn Academy of Music), for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (Booth Theatre), How I Learned To Drive (Manhattan Theatre Club), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Minetta Lane Theatre), Skeleton Crew (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Skin Of Our Teeth (Lincoln Center Theater), Take Me Out (Second Stage Theater), and Trouble in Mind (Roundabout Theatre Company).

Nominated for Outstanding Production of a Musical are: David Byrne’s American Utopia (St James Theatre), The Hang (HERE Arts Center), Kimberly Akimbo (Atlantic Theater Company), MJ: The Musical (Neil Simon Theatre), Mr. Saturday Night (Nederlander Theatre), Mrs Doubtfire (Stephen Sondheim Theatre), Oratorio For Living Things (Ars Nova), SIX (Brooks Atkinson Theatre), and A Strange Loop (Lyceum Theatre), Suffs (The Public Theater).

For Outstanding Revival of a Musical, we have: Assassins (Classic Stage Company), Company (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre), Caroline, Or Change (Roundabout Theatre Company), Funny Girl (August Wilson Theatre), and The Music Man (Winter Garden Theatre).

The nominees for Outstanding Direction of a Play are: Knud Adams for English, Saheem Ali for Merry Wives, Stori Ayers for Confederates, Camille A. Brown for for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Matthew Dunster for Hangmen, Jamie Lloyd for Cyrano de Bergerac, Sam Mendes for The Lehman Trilogy, Tyne Rafaeli for Selling Kabul, Taylor Reynolds for Tambo & Bones, Les Waters for Dana H., and Kate Whoriskey for Clyde’s.

For Outstanding Direction of a Musical, the nominees are: John Doyle for Assassins, Marianne Elliott for Company, Lee Sunday Evans for Oratorio for Living Things, Michael Mayer for Funny Girl, Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage for SIX, Leigh Silverman for Suffs, Niegel Smith for The Hang, Christopher Wheeldon for MJ The Musical and Jerry Zaks for The Music Man.

Nominees for the coveted Distinguished Performance Award are as follows: Uzo Aduba for Clyde's, Simon Russell Beale for The Lehman Trilogy, Shoshana Bean for Mr. Saturday Night, Gabby Beans for The Skin of Our Teeth, Victoria Clark for Kimberly Akimbo, Sharon D. Clarke for Caroline, or Change, Billy Crystal for Mr. Saturday Night, Matt Doyle for Company, Rachel Dratch for POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive, Edie Falco for Morning Sun, Tyler Fauntleroy for Tambo & Bones, Beanie Feldstein for Funny Girl, Jesse Tyler Ferguson for Take Me Out, Sutton Foster for The Music Man, Myles Frost for MJ: The Musical, Adrianna Hicks for SIX, Marin Ireland for Morning Sun, Nikki M. James for SUFFS, Ron Cephas Jones for Clyde's, Joaquina Kalukango for Paradise Square, LaChanze for Trouble in Mind, L Morgan Lee for A Strange Loop, Jane Lynch for Funny Girl, Taylor Mac for The Hang, Brittney Mack for SIX, Ebony Marshall-Oliver for 7 Minutes, Elizabeth Marvel for Long Day's Journey Into Night, James McAvoy for Cyrano de Bergerac, Rob McClure for Mrs. Doubtfire, Kenita R. Miller for for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Bonnie Milligan for Kimberly Akimbo, David Morse for How I Learned to Drive, Deirdre O'Connell for Dana H., Sarah Jessica Parker for Plaza Suite, Phylicia Rashad for Skeleton Crew, Ruben Santiago-Hudson for Lackawanna Blues, Arturo Luis Soria for Ni Mi Madre, Jaquel Spivey for A Strange Loop, Cecily Strong for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Will Swenson for Assassins, Julie White for POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying To Keep Him Alive, Jesse Williams forTake Me Out, and Michelle Wilson for Confederates.