Winners have been announced for the 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards.

The awards are voted on by Outer Critics Circle members, who are writers on New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers and US publications.

This year’s big winners include Stereophonic, which scored 4 Wins including Outstanding New Broadway Play; and Suffs, which picked up 3 awards including Outstanding New Broadway Musical.

Dead Outlaw and Primary Trust also both won 3 awards.

The nominations were announced last month. None of the British projects or talent nominated, including Rebecca Frecknall’s revival of Cabaret, Rupert Goold’s production of Patriots, or Eddie Redmayne and Gareth Owen, picked up any awards.

A ceremony for the winners will be held on 23 May 23 2024 in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for The Performing Arts.

2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards – Full list of winners

Outstanding New Broadway Play

Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions
Patriots
Stereophonic – WINNER
The Shark Is Broken

Outstanding New Broadway Musical

Days of Wine and Roses
Suffs – WINNER
The Great Gatsby
The Outsiders
Water for Elephants

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical

Buena Vista Social Club
Dead Outlaw – WINNER
Illinoise
Teeth
The Connector

Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play

Dig
King of the Jews
King James
Primary Trust – WINNER
Swing State

John Gassner Award for New American Play (preferably by a new playwright)

Job
Manahatta
Oh, Mary! – WINNER
The Apiary
Wet Brain

Outstanding Revival of a Musical

Cabaret
Here Lies Love
I Can Get It for You Wholesale – WINNER
Monty Python’s Spamalot
The Who’s Tommy

Outstanding Revival of a Play

An Enemy of the People
Appropriate – WINNER
Doubt: A Parable
Mary Jane
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch

Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play

Jessica Lange – Mother Play – WINNER
Rachel McAdams – Mary Jane
Sarah Paulson – Appropriate
Jeremy Strong – An Enemy of the People
Michael Stuhlbarg – Patriots

Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play

Billy Eugene Jones – Purlie Victorious
Celia Keenan-Bolger – Mother Play
Alex Moffat – The Cottage
Jim Parsons – Mother Play
Sarah Pidgeon – Stereophonic
Kara Young – Purlie Victorious – WINNER

Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical

Ali Louis Bourzgui – The Who’s Tommy
Brian d’Arcy James – Days of Wine and Roses
Casey Likes – Back to the Future
Kelli O’Hara – Days of Wine and Roses – WINNER
Maryann Plunkett – The Notebook

Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical

Roger Bart – Back to the Future
Justin Guarini – Once Upon a One More Time
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer – Spamalot
Kecia Lewis – Hell’s Kitchen – WINNER
Bebe Neuwirth – Cabaret

Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical

Jeb Brown – Dead Outlaw
Andrew Durand – Dead Outlaw – WINNER
Alyse Alan Louis – Teeth
Ben Levi Ross – The Connector
Ricky Ubeda – Illinoise

Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Musical (tie)

Ben Cook – Illinoise
Hannah Cruz – The Connector
Julia Knitel – Dead Outlaw
Judy Kuhn – I Can Get It For You Wholesale – WINNER
Jessica Molaskey – The Connector
Thom Sesma – Dead Outlaw – WINNER

Outstanding Lead Performer in an Off-Broadway Play (tie)

Cole Escola – Oh, Mary! – WINNER
Mary Beth Fisher – Swing State
William Jackson Harper – Primary Trust – WINNER
Marie Mullen – The Saviour
Paul Sparks – Waiting for Godot

Outstanding Featured Performer in an Off-Broadway Play

Gus Birney – Our Class
April Matthis – Primary Trust
Conrad Ricamora – Oh, Mary!
Jay O. Sanders – Primary Trust – WINNER
Bubba Weiler – Swing State

Outstanding Solo Performance

Eddie Izzard – Hamlet
Patrick Page – All the Devils are Here – WINNER
Mona Pirnot – I Love You So Much I Could Die
Robert Montano – Small
John Rubenstein – Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground

Outstanding Book of a Musical

Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury – Illinoise
Anna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson – Teeth
Itamar Moses – Dead Outlaw
Jonathan Marc Sherman – The Connector
Shaina Taub – Suffs – WINNER

Outstanding Score

Jason Robert Brown – The Connector
Will Butler – Stereophonic
Adam Guettel – Days of Wine and Roses
David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna – Dead Outlaw
Shaina Taub – Suffs – WINNER

Outstanding Orchestrations

Timo Andres – Illinoise
Adam Guettel and Jamie Lawrence – Days of Wine and Roses
Marco Paguia – Buena Vista Social Club – WINNER
Michael Starobin – Suffs
Erik Della Penna, Dean Sharenow, and David Yazbek – Dead Outlaw

Outstanding Direction of a Musical

David Cromer – Dead Outlaw
Michael Greif – Days of Wine and Roses
Daisy Prince – The Connector
Leigh Silverman – Suffs
Jessica Stone – Water for Elephants – WINNER

Outstanding Direction of a Play

Knud Adams – Primary Trust
Daniel Aukin – Stereophonic – WINNER
Robert Falls – Swing State
Kenny Leon – Purlie Victorious
Lila Neugebauer – Appropriate

Outstanding Choreography (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

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
Justin Peck — Illinoise – WINNER

Outstanding Scenic Design (tie)

David Korins – Here Lies Love
David Zinn – Stereophonic – WINNER
Dots – Appropriate
Paul Tate dePoo III – The Cottage
Paul Tate dePoo III – The Great Gatsby – WINNER

Outstanding Costume Design

Dede Ayite – Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Enver Chakartash – Stereophonic
Enver Chakartash – Teeth
Linda Cho – The Great Gatsby – WINNER
Sydney Maresca – The Cottage

Outstanding Lighting Design

Bradley King – Water for Elephants
Brian MacDevitt – The Outsiders – WINNER
Justin Townsend – Here Lies Love
Tim Lutkin and Hugh Vanstone – Back to the Future
Amanda Zieve – The Who’s Tommy

Outstanding Sound Design

Tom Gibbons – Grey House
Gareth Owen – Back to the Future
Gareth Owen – The Who’s Tommy
Ryan Rumery – Stereophonic – WINNER
M.L. Dogg and Cody Spencer – Here Lies Love

Outstanding Video/Projections

David Bengali – Water for Elephants
Paul Tate dePoo III — The Great Gatsby
Peter Nigrini – The Who’s Tommy – WINNER
Finn Ross – Back to the Future
Ash J. Woodward – Patriots

Notes:

Broadway Productions Considered in Full: Grey House, Once Upon a One More Time, The Cottage, Back to the Future, The Shark Is Broken, Purlie Victorious, Melissa Etheridge: My Window, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Gutenberg! The Musical!, I Need That, Monty Python’s Spamalot, How to Dance in Ohio, Appropriate, Days of Wine and Roses, Doubt, The Notebook, An Enemy of the People, Water for Elephants, The Who’s Tommy, The Outsiders, Lempicka, The Wiz, Suffs, Stereophonic, Hell’s Kitchen, Cabaret, The Heart of Rock and Roll, Patriots, Uncle Vanya, The Great Gatsby, Mother Play

Only New Elements of the Following Productions Were Considered: Just for Us, Here Lies Love, Merrily We Roll Along, Harmony, Prayer for the French Republic, Mary Jane

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