Tony Awards 2024 nominations: the complete list
The 2024 Tony Awards celebrating theater will take place on Sunday, 16 June. Here is the complete list of nominees.
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, or the Tonys return to celebrates achievements in live Broadway theater performances during the 2023-24 season. The Tony Awards have been an important part of the Broadway community since their inception in 1947. Winning a Tony is considered one of the highest honors in the theater industry.
The nominees for the 2024 Tonys were announced live on CBS Mornings Tuesday by former winners Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry.
Who’s up for a Tony Award in 2024?
Ariana DeBose will host the ceremony for the third year running. This year’s event takes place Sunday, June 16 at the David H. Koch Theater at the Lincoln Center in New York City. It will air live on CBS from 8 p.m. until 11 p.m. ET. and a livestream will be available on demand on Paramount+.
The musical Hell’s Kitchen, featuring music and lyrics from 16-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys, only opened on 20 April but has picked up 13 Tony Award nominations. It will face strong competition from Stereophonic, written by David Adjmi and directed by Daniel Aukin, which also has 13 nominations.
Stereophonic tells the trials and tribulations of an up and coming rock band recording their debut album while on the verge of stardom in the mid-70s. The play, which features original music by Arcade Fire’s Will Butler, premiered at the Golden Theater on 3 April.
Battling it out for the Best Musical award will be: Hell’s Kitchen, The Outsiders, Illinoise, Suffs and Water for Elephants. Among the actors who have been nominated are: Daniel Radcliffe (Merrily We Roll Along), Jeremy Strong (An Enemy of the People), Rachel McAdams (Mary Jane) and Sarah Paulson for Appropriate.
2024 Tony Nomination List: Complete
Here is your complete list of this year’s Tony nominees.
Best Play
- Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Author: Jocelyn Bioh - Mary Jane
Author: Amy Herzog - Mother Play
Author: Paula Vogel - Prayer for the French Republic
Author: Joshua Harmon - Stereophonic
Author: David Adjmi
Best Musical
- Hell’s Kitchen
- Illinoise
- The Outsiders
- Suffs
- Water for Elephants
Best Book of a Musical
- Hell’s Kitchen - Kristoffer Diaz
- The Notebook - Bekah Brunstetter
- The Outsiders - Adam Rapp with Justin Levine
- Suffs - Shaina Taub
- Water for Elephants - Rick Elice
Best Original Score
- Days of Wine and Roses - Music & Lyrics - Adam Guettel
- Here Lies Love - Lyrics - David Byrne - Music- David Byrne and Fatboy Slim
- The Outsiders - Music & Lyrics - Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Justin Levine
- Stereophonic - Music & Lyrics - Will Butler
- Suffs - Music & Lyrics - Shaina Taub
Best Revival of a Play
- An Enemy of the People - New Version- Amy Herzog
- Appropriate - Author - Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
- Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
Best Revival of a Musical
- Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
- Gutenberg! The Musical! - Book, Music & Lyrics - Scott Brown & Anthony King
- Merrily We Roll Along
- The Who’s Tommy
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
- William Jackson Harper for Uncle Vanya
- Leslie Odom, Jr. for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
- Liev Schreiber for Doubt: A Parable
- Jeremy Strong for An Enemy of the People
- Michael Stuhlbarg for Patriots
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
- Betsy Aidem for Prayer for the French Republic
- Jessica Lange for Mother Play
- Rachel McAdams for Mary Jane
- Sarah Paulson for Appropriate
- Amy Ryan for Doubt: A Parable
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
- Brody Grant for The Outsiders
- Jonathan Groff for Merrily We Roll Along
- Dorian Harewood for The Notebook
- Brian d’Arcy James for Days of Wine and Roses
- Eddie Redmayne for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
- Eden Espinosa for Lempicka
- Maleah Joi Moon for Hell’s Kitchen
- Kelli O’Hara for Days of Wine and Roses
- Maryann Plunkett for The Notebook
- Gayle Rankin for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
- Will Brill for Stereophonic
- Eli Gelb for Stereophonic
- Jim Parsons for Mother Play
- Tom Pecinka for Stereophonic
- Corey Stoll for Appropriate
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
- Quincy Tyler Bernstine for Doubt: A Parable
- Juliana Canfield for Stereophonic
- Celia Keenan-Bolger for Mother Play
- Sarah Pidgeon for Stereophonic
- Kara Young for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
- Roger Bart for Back to the Future: The Musical
- Joshua Boone for The Outsiders
- Brandon Victor Dixon for Hell’s Kitchen
- Sky Lakota-Lynch for The Outsiders
- Daniel Radcliffe for Merrily We Roll Along
- Steven Skybell for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
- Shoshana Bean for Hell’s Kitchen
- Amber Iman for Lempicka
- Nikki M. James for Suffs
- Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer for Monty Python’s Spamalot
- Kecia Lewis for Hell’s Kitchen
- Lindsay Mendez for Merrily We Roll Along
- Bebe Neuwirth for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Best Scenic Design of a Play
- dots for An Enemy of the People
- dots for Appropriate
- Derek McLane for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
- David Zinn for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
- David Zinn for Stereophonic
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
- Robert Brill and Peter Nigrini for Hell’s Kitchen
- AMP featuring Tatiana Kahvegian for The Outsiders
- Takeshi Kata for Water for Elephants
- David Korins for Here Lies Love
- Riccardo Hernández and Peter Nigrini for Lempicka
- Tim Hatley and Finn Ross for Back to the Future: The Musical
- Tom Scutt for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Best Costume Design of a Play
- Dede Ayite for Appropriate
- Dede Ayite for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
- Enver Chakartash for Stereophonic
- Emilio Sosa for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
- David Zinn for An Enemy of the People
Best Costume Design of a Musical
- Dede Ayite for Hell’s Kitchen
- Linda Cho for The Great Gatsby
- David Israel Reynoso for Water for Elephants
- Tom Scutt for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
- Paul Tazewell for Suffs
Best Lighting Design of a Play
- Isabella Byrd for An Enemy of the People
- Amith Chandrashaker for Prayer for the French Republic
- Jiyoun Chang for Stereophonic
- Jane Cox for Appropriate
- Natasha Katz for Grey House
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
- Brandon Stirling Baker for Illinoise
- Bradley King and David Bengali for Water for Elephants
- Isabella Byrd for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
- Natasha Katz for Hell’s Kitchen
- Brian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim for The Outsiders
Best Sound Design of a Play
- Justin Ellington and Stefania Bulbarella for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
- Leah Gelpe for Mary Jane
- Tom Gibbons for Grey House
- Bray Poor and Will Pickens for Appropriate
- Ryan Rumery for Stereophonic
Best Sound Design of a Musical
- Nick Lidster for Autograph for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
- Kai Harada for Merrily We Roll Along
- Gareth Owen for Hell’s Kitchen
- M.L. Dogg and Cody Spencer for Here Lies Love
- Cody Spencer for The Outsiders
Best Direction of a Play
- Daniel Aukin for Stereophonic
- Anne Kauffman for Mary Jane
- Kenny Leon for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
- Lila Neugebauer for Appropriate
- Whitney White for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Best Direction of a Musical
- Maria Friedman for Merrily We Roll Along
- Michael Greif for Hell’s Kitchen
- Leigh Silverman for Suffs
- Jessica Stone for Water for Elephants
- Danya Taymor for The Outsiders
Best Choreography
- Camille A. Brown for Hell’s Kitchen
- Jesse Robb and Shana Carroll for Water for Elephants
- Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman for The Outsiders
- Annie-B Parson for Here Lies Love
- Justin Peck for Illinoise
Best Orchestrations
- Timo Andres for Illinoise
- Tom Kitt and Adam Blackstone for Hell’s Kitchen
- Will Butler and Justin Craig for Stereophonic
- Justin Levine, Matt Hinkley and Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) for The Outsiders
- Jonathan Tunick for Merrily We Roll Along
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
- Jack O’Brien for Jack O’Brien
- George C. Wolfe for George C. Wolfe
Special Tony Award
- Abe Jacob
- Alex Edelman
- Nikiya Mathis
Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre
- Colleen Jennings-Roggensack
- Dramatists Guild Foundation
- Judith O. Rubin
- The Samuel J. Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts
- Wendall K. Harrington
- The Wilma Theater