Daniel Radcliffe, Chris Rock & 61 More Nominated for 2011 Drama League Awards

Nominees have been announced for the 77th annual Drama League Awards, which will be presented at a luncheon to be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Marquis Hotel on May 20. Kathleen Turner (High) will host the awards, presented in five competitive categories, including the Distinguished Performance Award. As always, the 63 acting nominees, plus seven past winners, will be seated on a dais and given the opportunity to speak to the crowd.

The nominees are as follows:

Distinguished Production of a Play
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Richard Rodgers Theatre
The Diary of a Madman, Brooklyn Academy of Music
The Dream of the Burning Boy, Roundabout Theatre Company
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Second Stage Theatre
Gatz, Elevator Repair Service/The Public Theater
Good People, Manhattan Theatre Club
Jerusalem, Music Box Theatre
Kin, Playwrights Horizons
The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Other Desert Cities, Lincoln Center Theater
Sleep No More, Punchdrunk/The McKittrick Hotel
War Horse, Lincoln Center Theater

Distinguished Production of a Musical
The Book of Mormon, Eugene O'Neill Theatre
Catch Me If You Can, Neil Simon Theatre
Elf, Al Hirschfeld Theatre
In Transit, Primary Stages
The People in the Picture, Roundabout Theatre Company
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Palace Theatre
Sister Act, Broadway Theatre

Distinguished Revival of a Play
Angels in America, Signature Theatre Company
Arcadia, Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Born Yesterday, Cort Theatre
The Collection and A Kind of Alaska, Atlantic Theatre Company
The House of Blue Leaves, Walter Kerr Theatre
The Importance of Being Earnest, Roundabout Theatre Company
La Bête, Music Box Theatre
The Little Foxes, New York Theatre Workshop
The Merchant of Venice, The Public Theater/Broadhurst Theatre
The Normal Heart, John Golden Theatre

Distinguished Revival of a Musical
Anything Goes, Roundabout Theatre Company
Hello Again, The Transport Group
How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Al Hirschfeld Theatre

Distinguished Performance Award
Nina Arianda, Born Yesterday
Vanessa Aspillaga, underneathmybed
Daniel Beaty, Through the Night
Brian Bedford, The Importance of Being Earnest
Jim Belushi, Born Yesterday
Laura Benanti, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Reed Birney, The Dream of the Burning Boy
Desmin Borges, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
Christian Borle, Angels in America and Peter and the Starcatcher
Andre Braugher, The Whipping Man
Charles Busch, The Divine Sister
Bill Camp, Notes From the Underground
Bobby Cannavale, The Motherf**ker With the Hat
Victoria Clark, Sister Act
Billy Crudup, Arcadia and The Metal Children
Colin Donnell, Anything Goes
Lisa Emery, The Collection and A Kind of Alaska
*Ensemble, Sleep No More (one or two actors will represent the cast)
*Ensemble, Hello Again (one or two actors will represent the cast)
Raul Esparza, Arcadia
Edie Falco, The House of Blues Leaves and This Wide Night
Halley Feiffer, Tigers Be Still
Sutton Foster, Anything Goes
Josh Gad, The Book of Mormon
Laura Heisler, Kin
John Benjamin Hickey, The Normal Heart
Marin Ireland, In the Wake and The Three Sisters
John Larroquette, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Dan Lauria, Lombardi
John Leguizamo, Ghetto Klown
Judith Light, Lombardi
Joe Mantello, The Normal Heart
Elizabeth Marvel, The Little Foxes and Other Desert Cities
Frances McDormand, Good People
Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place
Patina Miller, Sister Act
Arian Moayed, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Donna Murphy, The People in the Picture
Seth Numrich, War Horse
Al Pacino, The Merchant of Venice
Estelle Parsons, Good People
Alison Pill, This Wide Night
Lily Rabe, The Merchant of Venice
Daniel Radcliffe, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Andrew Rannells, The Book of Mormon
Martin Rayner, Freud’s Last Session
Vanessa Redgrave, Driving Miss Daisy
Paul Reubens, The Pee-wee Herman Show
Chris Rock, The Motherf**ker With the Hat
Mark Rylance, Jerusalem and La Bete
Michael Shannon, Mistakes Were Made
Fiona Shaw, John Gabriel Borkman
Tony Sheldon, Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Scott Shepherd, Gatz
Christopher Sieber, The Kid
Alexandra Socha, The Dream of the Burning Boy
Paul Sparks, Dusk Rings a Bell
Ben Stiller, The House of Blue Leaves
Will Swenson, Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Kathleen Turner, High
Aaron Tveit, Catch Me If You Can
Robin Williams, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Tom Wopat, Catch Me If You Can

Previous winners of the Distinguished Performance Award will be invited to sit on the dais in honor of their work in the current season. They include Norbert Leo Butz (Catch Me If You Can), Stockard Channing, (Other Desert Cities), Cherry Jones (Mrs. Warren's Profession), James Earl Jones (Driving Miss Daisy), Patti LuPone (Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown), Brian Stokes Mitchell (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) and Geoffrey Rush (The Diary of a Madman). Also ineligible are Broadway transfers of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Brief Encounter, The Scottsboro Boys and Time Stands Still, which were nominated for the 2010 awards.

As previously announced, non-competitive awards will be given to Whoopi Goldberg (the Unique Contribution to the Theatre Award), Liza Minnelli (Distinguished Acheivement in Musical Theatre Award) and Susan Stroman (Julia Hansen Award for Excellence in Directing).