Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
Samuel Barnett – Twelfth Night as Viola
Bryan Cranston – All the Way as President Lyndon B. Johnson
Chris O’Dowd – Of Mice and Men as Lennie Small
Mark Rylance – Richard III as Richard III
Tony Shalhoub – Act One as Older Moss Hart / Barnett Hart / George S. Kaufman
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Tyne Daly – Mothers and Sons as Katherine Gerard
Audra McDonald – Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill as Billie Holiday
LaTanya Richardson Jackson – A Raisin in the Sun as Lena Younger
Cherry Jones – The Glass Menagerie as Amanda Wingfield
Estelle Parsons – The Velocity of Autumn as Alexandra
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
Neil Patrick Harris – Hedwig and the Angry Inch as Hedwig
Ramin Karimloo – Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
Andy Karl – Rocky the Musical as Rocky Balboa
Jefferson Mays – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder as the D’Ysquith family
Bryce Pinkham – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder as Monty Navarro
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Mary Bridget Davies – A Night with Janis Joplin as Janis Joplin
Sutton Foster – Violet as Violet Karl
Idina Menzel – If/Then as Elizabeth Vaughn
Jessie Mueller – Beautiful: The Carole King Musical as Carole King
Kelli O’Hara – The Bridges of Madison County as Francesca Johnson
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
Reed Birney – Casa Valentina as Charlotte
Paul Chahidi – Twelfth Night as Maria
Stephen Fry – Twelfth Night as Malvolio
Mark Rylance – Twelfth Night as Olivia
Brian J. Smith – The Glass Menagerie as Jim O’Connor
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Sarah Greene – The Cripple of Inishmaan as Helen McCormick
Celia Keenan-Bolger – The Glass Menagerie as Laura Wingfield
Sophie Okonedo – A Raisin in the Sun as Ruth Younger
Anika Noni Rose – A Raisin in the Sun as Beneatha Younger
Mare Winningham – Casa Valentina as Rita
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
Danny Burstein – Cabaret as Herr Schultz
Nick Cordero – Bullets Over Broadway as Cheech
Joshua Henry – Violet as Flick
James Monroe Iglehart – Aladdin as the Genie
Jarrod Spector – Beautiful: The Carole King Musical as Barry Mann
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Linda Emond – Cabaret as Fräulein Schneider
Lena Hall – Hedwig and the Angry Inch as Yitzhak
Anika Larsen – Beautiful: The Carole King Musical as Cynthia Weil
Adriane Lenox – After Midnight as Various Characters
Lauren Worsham – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder as Phoebe D’Ysquith
