Theater Award Season Starting Soon

I've barely recovered from film awards season and now it's time for NYC theater award madness to start. April is the really crazy time when all the shows open to make the Tony Award cut-off date. Here's a rundown of this mad month and the subsequent pertinent dates:

April 1--Lucky Guy opens
April 3--Lortel Award nominations for Off-Broadway announced
April 4--Kinky Boots opens
April 11-Matilda opens
April 14--Motown the Musical opens
April 15--The Nance opens
April 16--The Big Knife opens
April 17--The Assembled Parties opens
April 18--Jekyll & Hyde opens; Orphans opens (yes, two openings on one night because Shia LaBeouf left/quit/was fired from Orphans, delaying rehearsals)
April 21--Macbeth opens
April 22--Outer Critics Circle Awards nominations announced by Laila Robbins and Robert Cuccioli at the Friars Club press conference; Lortel nominees reception; The Testament of Mary opens.
April 23--The Trip to Bountiful opens
April 24--I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers opens
April 25--Pippin opens
April 26--Drama Desk Award nominees announced by Jan Maxwell and John Lloyd Young at 54 Below
April 30--Tony Award nominees announced, hosts and place TBA
May 1--Tony nominees press event
May 5--Lortel Awards at NYU Skirball Center
May 13--OCC winners announced by press release
May 19--Drama Desk Awards at Town Hall
May 20--Obie Awards at Webster Hall
May 23--OCC Awards presented at Sardi's
June 9--Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall

NYC Theater Awards Compendium

After compiling my personal list of awards in the last blog, here is a compendium of every major theater award and nomination in NYC for 2012-13. Winners are capitalized and nominees are in lower case. Where some awards disagree as to which category a performer belongs in, I placed them in one according to my own judgment. Guide to abbreviations=Astaire=Astaire Award; CD=Clarence Derwent Award; DD=Drama Desk; DL=Drama League; LL=Lucille Lortel Award; OBIE=Obie Award; OCC=Outer Critics Circle; RS=Richard Seff Award; TONY=Tony Award; TW=Theatre World Award. The most nominated performer this season was Jeremy Jordan who was up for Astaire, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, and Tonys and won a Theatre World Award.

Outstanding Actor in a Play

Steven Boyer, "Hand to God" (OBIE)

James Corden, "One Man, Two Guvnors" (DD, OCC, TONY)

Hugh Dancy, "Venus in Fur" (dd)

Gabriel Ebert, "4000 Miles" (OBIE)

Claybourne Elder, "One Arm" (dd)

Jim Fletcher (Sustained Achievement OBIE)

Santino Fontana, "Sons of the Prophet" (dd, LL, OBIE, occ)

Joseph Franchini, "The Navigator" (dd)

Russell Harvard, "Tribes" (occ, ll, TW)

Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Death of a Salesman" (dd, occ, tony)

Frank Langella, "Man and Boy" (tony)

Hamish Linklater, "The School for Lies" (ll, occ)

John Lithgow, "The Columnist" (tony)

Jay O. Sanders, "Titus Andronicus" (ll)

Kevin Spacey, "Richard III" (dd)

Nick Westrate, "Unnatural Acts," "Love's Labour's Lost," "Galileo" (special DD Award)

Outstanding Actress in a Play

Nina Arianda, "Venus in Fur" (TONY)

Tracie Bennett, "End of the Rainbow" (DD, OCC, tony, TW)

Cherise Booth, "Milk Like Sugar" (OBIE)

Stockard Channing, "Other Desert Cities" (tony)

Tyne Daly, "Master Class" (occ)

Sanaa Lathan, "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" (dd, LL)

Linda Lavin, "The Lyons" (dd, OBIE, occ, tony)

Jennifer Lim, "Chinglish" (dd, TW)

Kim Martin-Cotten, "A Moon for the Misbegotten" (dd)

Carey Mulligan, "Through a Glass Darkly" (dd, ll)

Cynthia Nixon, "Wit" (tony)

Nicole Ari Parker, "A Streetcar Named Desire" (occ)

Joely Richardson, "Side Effects" (dd)

Laila Robins, "The Lady from Dubuque" (occ, RS)

Mary Louise Wilson, "4000 Miles" (OBIE)

Outstanding Actor in a Musical

Matthew Broderick, "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (astaire, tony)

Danny Burstein, "Follies" (astaire, DD, OCC, tony)

Kevin Earley, "Death Takes a Holiday" (dd)

Raul Esparza, "Leap of Faith" (dd, occ)

Hugh Jackman, "Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway" (astaire)

Jeremy Jordan, "Newsies" (astaire, dd, occ, tony, TW)

Steve Kazee, “Once” (occ, TONY)

Norm Lewis, "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" (dd, occ, tony)

Ricky Martin, "Evita" (astaire, dd)

Ron Raines, "Follies" (tony)

Outstanding Actress in a Musical

Miche Braden, "The DeviI's Music: The Life & Blues of Bessie Smith" (dd, ll)

Jan Maxwell, "Follies" (astaire, dd, occ, tony)

Audra McDonald, "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" (DD, DL, OCC, TONY)

Cristin Milioti, "Once" (occ, tony)

Patti Murin, "Lysistrata Jones" (astaire)

Kelli O'Hara, "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (astaire, dd, occ, tony)

Laura Osnes, "Bonnie and Clyde" (tony)

Bernadette Peters, "Follies" (dd, tony)

Molly Ranson, "Carrie" (dd, ll)

Elena Roger, "Evita" (astaire)

Mary Testa, "Queen of the Mist" (special DD award, ll)

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play

David Wilson Barnes, "The Big Meal" (ll)

Christian Borle, "Peter and the Starcatcher" (TONY)

Will Brill, “Tribes” (occ)

Bill Camp, "Death of a Salesman" (dd)

Michael Cumpsty, "End of the Rainbow" (tony)

Jim Dale, "The Road to Mecca" (dd)

Adam Driver, "Look Back in Anger" (LL)

Tom Edden, "One Man, Two Guvnors" (DD, occ, tony)

Alvin Epstein, "The Cherry Orchard" (ll)

Andrew Garfield, "Death of a Salesman" (occ, tony)

Bill Irwin, "King Lear" (dd)

Peter Francis James, "The Lady from Dubuque" (ll)

James Earl Jones, "Gore Vidal's The Best Man (OCC, tony)

Jefferson Mays, "Blood and Gifts" (dd, ll, occ)

Chris Perfetti, "Sons of the Prophet" (TW)

Jeff Perry, "Tribes" (ll)

Will Rogers, "Unnatural Acts" (dd)

Jeremy Shamos, "Clybourne Park" (tony)

Morgan Spector, "Russian Transport" (dd)

Finn Wintrock, “Death of a Salesman” (CD, TW)

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play

Stephanie J. Block, "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" (dd)

Anna Camp, "All New People" (dd)

Crystal A. Dickinson ("Clybourne Park") (TW)

Linda Emond, "Death of a Salesman" (tony)

Anita Gillette, "The Big Meal" (ll)

Joanna Gleason, “Sons of the Prophet” (occ)

Kimberly Hebert Gregory, "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" (dd, ll)

Lisa Joyce, "The Ugly One" (dd)

Joaquina Kalukango, "Hurt Village" (dd, TW)

Spencer Kayden, “Don’t Dress for Dinner” (OCC, tony)

Celia Keenan-Bolger, "Peter and the Starcatcher" (tony)

Angela Lansbury, "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" (dd, occ)

Judith Light, "Other Desert Cities" (DD, occ, TONY)

Hetienne Park, "Seminar," "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide" (TW)

Tonya Pinkins, "Hurt Village" (LL)

Susan Pourfar, “Tribes” (CD, Loudon, OBIE)

Condola Rashad, "Stick Fly" (tony)

Daphne Rubin-Vega, "A Streetcar Named Desire" (occ)

Mare Winningham, "Tribes (ll)

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical

Phillip Boykin, "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" (dd, occ, TW, tony)

Ryan Breslin, "Newsies" (astaire)

Matt Cavenaugh, "Death Takes a Holiday" (dd)

Michael Cerveris, "Evita" (dd, tony)

David Alan Grier, "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" (tony)

Robert Hartwell, " Nice Work If You Can Get It" (astaire)

Thayne Jasperson, "Newsies" (astaire)

Andrew Keenan-Bolger, "Newsies" (occ)

Michael McGrath, "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (DD, OCC, TONY)

Leslie Odom, Jr., "Leap of Faith" (ASTAIRE)

Patrick Page, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" (dd, occ, RS)

Andrew Samonsky, "Queen of the Mist" (dd)

Ryan Steele, "Newsies" (astaire)

Chris Sullivan, "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (occ)

Ephriam Sykes, "Newsies" (astaire)

Jason Tam, "Lysistrata Jones" (astaire)

Josh Young, "Jesus Christ Superstar" (TW, tony)

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

Ashley Amber, "Evita" (astaire)

Crystal Joy Brown, "Leap of Faith" (astaire)

Elizabeth A. Davis, "Once" (tony)

Bahiyah Hibah, "Evita" (astaire)

Jayne Houdyshell, "Follies" (occ, tony)

Judy Kaye, "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (DD, OCC, TONY)

Kara Lindsay, "Newsies" (astaire)

Rebecca Luker, "Death Takes a Holiday" (occ)

Marin Mazzie, "Carrie" (dd, ll, occ)

Jessie Mueller, "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" (dd, TW, tony)

Elaine Paige, "Follies" (dd)

Da'Vine Joy Randolph, "Ghost" (occ, tony)

Sarah Sokolovic, "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World" (dd)

Melissa van der Schyff, "Bonnie & Clyde" (dd, occ)

Lisa Nicole Wilkerson, "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" (ASTAIRE)

Solo Performance

Baba Brinkman, "The Rap Guide to Evolution" (dd)

Judy Gold, "My Life as a Sitcom" (occ)

Soli Holum, "Chimera" (dd)

David Greenspan, "The Patsy" (occ)

Jeff Key, "The Eyes of Babylon" (dd)

Daniel Kitson, "It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later" (OBIE)

Ethan Lipton, "No Place to Go" (OBIE)

Cillian Murphy, "Misterman" (dd)

Denis O'Hare, "An Iliad" (dd, LL, OBIE, OCC)

Stephen Spinella, "An Illiad" (dd, LL, OBIE, occ)

Ensemble

Cast of "Sweet and Sad" (DD, OBIE)