Stereophonic and Hell's Kitchen Lead 2024 Tony Award Nominations; Read the Full List

Renée Elise Goldsberry and Jesse Tyler Ferguson announced the 2024 Tony Award nominations this morning live from Sofitel New York. The Alicia Keys musical Hell’s Kitchen and David Adjmi’s rock-and-roll drama Stereophonic lead the field, with 13 Tony Award nominations each. The Outsiders is next, with 12 nominations, followed by Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club with nine nominations. Among the nominations for Stereophonic—the most-nominated play in Tony history, besting the 12 nominations earned by Jeremy O. Harris' Slave Play in 2020—five were for its actors: Will Brill, Eli Gelb, Juliana Canfield, Sarah Pidgeon and Tom Pecinka. Also in the running for Best Score and Best Orchestrations, Stereophonic stands out as a play with music in categories otherwise comprising musicals. 

The Wicked diaspora had a strong showing as well, with former Elphabas Eden Espinosa, Shoshana Bean and Lindsay Mendez each earning nominations. Mendez's Merrily We Roll Along castmates Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe (a first-time nominee) also earned nods for their performances in Maria Friedman's revival, which earned a total of seven nominations. Four of the five nominees for Best Direction of a Musical (including Friedman) are women, while three of the five nominees for Best Direction of a Play are women.

In a first for the awards, there are seven nominees in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical. The playwright Amy Herzog, meanwhile, is up for two awards: Best Play for Mary Jane and Best Revival of a Play for An Enemy of the People. In the design categories, Tom Scutt picked up two separate nominations for his costume design and scenic design for Cabaret, while the costume designer Dede Ayite earned three nominations, for Appropriate and Jaja’s African Hair Braiding in the Best Costume Design of a Play category and Hell’s Kitchen in the Best Costume Design of a Musical category. The lighting designers Isabella Byrd and Natasha Katz also picked up two nominations each: Byrd for An Enemy of the People and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club and Katz for Grey House and Hell’s Kitchen.

Read the full list of nominees below.

BEST MUSICAL
Hell’s Kitchen
Illinoise
The Outsiders
Suffs
Water for Elephants

BEST PLAY
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Mary Jane
Mother Play
Prayer for the French Republic
Stereophonic

BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Gutenberg! The Musical!
Merrily We Roll Along
The Who's Tommy

BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
Appropriate
An Enemy of the People
Purlie Victorious

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Eden Espinosa, Lempicka
Kelli O’Hara, Days of Wine and Roses
Maleah Joi Moon, Hell’s Kitchen
Maryann Plunkett, The Notebook
Gayle Rankin, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Brody Grant, The Outsiders
Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along
Eddie Redmayne, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Dorian Harewood, The Notebook
Brian d'Arcy James, Days of Wine and Roses

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY
Betsy Aidem, Prayer for the French Republic
Jessica Lange, Mother Play
Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane
Sarah Paulson, Appropriate
Amy Ryan, Doubt: A Parable

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY
William Jackson Harper, Uncle Vanya
Leslie Odom, Jr., Purlie Victorious
Liev Schreiber, Doubt: A Parable
Jeremy Strong, An Enemy of the People
Michael Stuhlbarg, Patriots

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY
Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Doubt: A Parable
Juliana Canfield, Stereophonic
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Mother Play
Sarah Pidgeon, Stereophonic
Kara Young, Purlie Victorious

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY
Will Brill, Stereophonic
Eli Gelb, Stereophonic
Jim Parsons, Mother Play
Tom Pecinka, Stereophonic
Corey Stoll, Appropriate

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Shoshana Bean, Hell’s Kitchen
Amber Iman, Lempicka
Nikki M. James, Suffs
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Monty Python’s Spamalot
Kecia Lewis, Hell’s Kitchen
Lindsay Mendez, Merrily We Roll Along
Bebe Neuwirth, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Roger Bart, Back to the Future: The Musical
Joshua Boone, The Outsiders
Brandon Victor Dixon, Hell’s Kitchen
Sky Lakota-Lynch, The Outsiders
Daniel Radcliffe, Merrily We Roll Along
Steven Skybell, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Kristoffer Diaz, Hell's Kitchen
Bekah Brunstetter, The Notebook
Adam Rapp and Justin Levine, The Outsiders
Shaina Taub, Suffs
Rick Elice, Water for Elephants

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATRE
Adam Guettel, Days of Wine and Roses
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, Here Lies Love
Will Butler, Stereophonic
Shaina Taub, Suffs
Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Justin Levine, The Outsiders

BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY
dots, Appropriate
dots, An Enemy of the People
Derek McLane, Purlie Victorious
David Zinn, Jaja's African Hair Braiding
David Zinn, Stereophonic

BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
AMP featuring Tatiana Kahvegian, The Outsiders
Robert Brill and Peter Nigrini, Hell's Kitchen
Takeshi Kata, Water for Elephants
David Korins, Here Lies Love
Riccardo Hernández and Peter Nigrini, Lempicka
Tim Hatley and Finn Ross, Back to the Future: The Musical
Tom Scutt, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club

BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY
Dede Ayite, Appropriate
Dede Ayite, Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Enver Chakartash, Stereophonic
Emilio Sosa, Purlie Victorious
David Zinn, An Enemy of the People

BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Dede Ayite, Hell's Kitchen
Linda Cho, The Great Gatsby
David Israel Reynoso, Water for Elephants
Tom Scutt, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Paul Tazewell, Suffs

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY
Isabella Byrd, An Enemy of the People
Amith Chandrashaker, Prayer for the French Republic
Jiyoun Chang, Stereophonic
Jane Cox, Appropriate
Natasha Katz, Grey House

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Brandon Stirling Baker, Illinoise
Isabella Byrd, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Natasha Katz, Hell's Kitchen
Bradley King and David Bengali, Water for Elephants
Brian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim, The Outsiders

BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY
Justin Ellington and Stefania Bulbarella, Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Leah Gelpe, Mary Jane
Tom Gibbons, Grey House
Bray Poor and Will Pickens, Appropriate
Ryan Rumery, Stereophonic

BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
M.L. Dogg and Cody Spencer, Here Lies Love
Kai Harada, Merrily We Roll Along
Nick Lidster for Autograph, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Gareth Owen, Hell's Kitchen
Cody Spencer, The Outsiders

BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Daniel Aukin, Stereophonic
Anne Kauffman, Mary Jane
Kenny Leon, Purlie Victorious
Lila Neugebauer, Appropriate
Whitney White, Jaja's African Hair Braiding

BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Maria Friedman, Merrily We Roll Along
Michael Greif, Hell's Kitchen
Leigh Silverman, Suffs
Jessica Stone, Water for Elephants
Danya Taymor, The Outsiders

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Annie-B Parson, Here Lies Love
Camille A. Brown, Hell's Kitchen
Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman, The Outsiders
Justin Peck, Illinoise
Jesse Robb and Shana Carroll, Water for Elephants

BEST ORCHESTRATIONS
Timo Andres, Illinoise
Will Butler and Justin Craig, Stereophonic
Justin Levine, Matt Hinkley and Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance), The Outsiders
Tom Kitt and Adam Blackstone, Hell's Kitchen
Jonathan Tunick, Merrily We Roll Along

Tony Nominations by Production
Hell's Kitchen - 13
Stereophonic - 13
The Outsiders - 12
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club - 9
Appropriate - 8
Merrily We Roll Along - 7
Water for Elephants - 7
Purlie Victorious - 6
Suffs - 6
An Enemy of the People - 5
Jaja's African Hair Braiding - 5
Here Lies Love - 4
Illinoise - 4
Mary Jane - 4
Mother Play - 4
Days of Wine and Roses - 3
Doubt: A Parable - 3
Lempicka - 3
The Notebook - 3
Prayer for the French Republic - 3
Back To The Future: The Musical - 2
Grey House - 2
The Great Gatsby - 1
Gutenberg! The Musical! - 1
Monty Python's Spamalot - 1
Patriots - 1
Uncle Vanya - 1
The Who's Tommy - 1