Angelina Jolie and Daniel Radcliffe celebrated their first-ever Tony Awards at the Lincoln Center last night. Jolie, who produced The Outsiders: A New Musical, secured the award for Best Musical, marking her halfway to achieving EGOT status. Meanwhile, Radcliffe won Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in Merrily We Roll Along.
The night’s biggest winner was David Adjmi’s Stereophonic, which captured five awards out of its 13 nominations. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate and Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen also performed well, with the former taking home three awards and the latter two.
In addition to these awards, Jack O’Brien and George C. Wolfe received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. Other Special Tony Award recipients included Abe Jacob, Alex Edelman, and Nikiya Mathis. Various organizations and individuals, including Colleen Jennings-Roggensack and The Wilma Theater, were honored for their contributions to theatre excellence.
Full List of Winners:
Best Play
- Mary Jane
- Mother Play
- Prayer for the French Republic
- Stereophonic WINNER
- Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
- Republic
Best Musical
- Suffs
- Water for Elephants
- The Outsiders WINNER
- Hell’s Kitchen
- Illinois
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
- Jonathan Groff for Merrily We Roll Along WINNER
- Brody Grant for The Outsiders
- Dorian Harewood for The Notebook
- Brian d’Arcy James for Days of Wine and Roses
- Eddie Redmayne for Cabaret
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
- Sarah Paulson for Appropriate WINNER
- Rachel McAdams for Mary Jane
- Amy Ryan for Doubt: A Parable
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
- Brian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim for The Outsiders WINNER
- Brandon Stirling Baker for Illinois
- Justin Peck for Illinois
- 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
Best Orchestrations
- Jonathan Tunick for Merrily We Roll Along WINNER
- Timo Andres for Illinois
- 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
