Tom Hanks, Bette Midler, Alec Baldwin and 57 Others Earn 2013 Drama League Nominations

Nominations for the 79th annual Drama League Awards have been announced. The awards ceremony will take place May 17 at the Marriot Marquis, hosted by David Hyde Pierce. The Drama League Awards recognize distinguished productions, performances and exemplary career achievements in Broadway and off-Broadway theater. As previously announced the Drama League's 2012 Distinguished Contributions and Achievements in Theatre honors will go to Bernadette Peters, Jerry Mitchell, Madison Square Garden Entertainment and the Rockettes. One winner is selected for the Distinguished Performer Award. Recipients can only receive the award once during his or her career. A full list of nominations is below.

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A BROADWAY OR OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
The Assembled Parties

I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers

Lucky Guy
The Nance

Old Hats

The Testament of Mary

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

The Whale



OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A BROADWAY OR OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
Dogfight

Here Lies Love

Kinky Boots
Matilda The Musical

Motown: The Musical

Murder Ballad

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812



OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A BROADWAY OR OFF-BROADWAY PLAY
As You Like It

Golden Boy

Macbeth
The Piano Lesson

The Trip to Bountiful

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?



OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A BROADWAY OR OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL
Annie

Marry Me a Little

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Passion

Pippin

Cinderella



DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE AWARD

Alec Baldwin, Orphans

Danny Burstein, Talley's Folly

Bobby Cannavale, The Big Knife and Glengarry Glen Ross

Bertie Carvel, Matilda The Musical

Tracee Chimo, Bad Jews

Lilla Crawford, Annie

Alan Cumming, Macbeth

Brandon J. Dirden, The Piano Lesson
Brandon Victor Dixon, Motown: The Musical

Jesse Eisenberg, The Revisionist

Edie Falco, The Madrid

America Ferrera, Bethany

Jake Gyllenhaal, If There is I Haven't Found it Yet

Tom Hanks, Lucky Guy

Jessica Hecht, The Assembled Parties and Harvey

Shuler Hensley, The Whale

Bill Irwin, Old Hats

Judith Ivey, The Heiress

Brian d'Arcy James, Giant

Scarlett Johansson, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Judy Kuhn, Passion

Nathan Lane, The Nance

Valisia LeKae, Motown: The Musical

Tracy Letts, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Judith Light, The Assembled Parties

Constantine Maroulis, Jekyll and Hyde

Andrea Martin, Pippin

Rob McClure, Chaplin

Lindsay Mendez, Dogfight

Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place

Bette Midler, I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers

Patina Miller, Pippin

Amy Morton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Donna Murphy, Into the Woods

Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Jim Norton, The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Seth Numrich, Golden Boy

Laura Osnes, Cinderella

Tina Packer, Women of Will

David Hyde Pierce, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Billy Porter, Kinky Boots

Lily Rabe, As You Like It

Vanessa Redgrave, The Revisionist

Chita Rivera, The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Paul Rudd, Grace

Roslyn Ruff, The Piano Lesson

Stark Sands, Kinky Boots

Tony Shalhoub, Golden Boy

Michael Shannon, Grace

Fiona Shaw, The Testament of Mary

Ryan Silverman, Passion

Phillipa Soo, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

Tom Sturridge, Orphans

Holland Taylor, Ann

Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful

Michael Urie, Buyer and Cellar

Courtney B. Vance, Lucky Guy

Anthony Warlow, Annie
Stephen Tyrone Williams, My Children! My Africa!

Vanessa Williams, The Trip to Bountiful


The Drama League wishes to recognize the superb contributions to the season of its previous Distinguished Performance Award winners that include: Norbet Leo Butz, Dead Accounts

Kathleen Chalfant, Red Dog Howls

Stockard Channing, The Exonerated

Patti Lupone, The Anarchist

Bebe Neuwirth, Golden Age

Francis Sternhagen, The Madrid