Drama Desk Award Winners

MUSICALS

MUSICAL: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL: Hedwig & the Angry Inch
ACTOR: (tie) Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig & the Angry Inch; Jefferson Mays, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
ACTRESS: Jessie Mueller, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
FEATURED ACTOR: James Monroe Iglehart, Aladdin
FEATURED ACTRESS: Anika Larsen, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
DIRECTOR: Darko Tresnjak, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
MUSIC: The Bridges of Madison County- Jason Robert Brown
LYRICS: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder- Robert L. Freedman & Steven Lutvak
BOOK: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder- Robert L. Freedman
CHOREOGRAPHY: After Midnight- Warren Carlyle

PLAYS

PLAY: All the Way- written by Robert Schenkkan
REVIVAL OF A PLAY: Twelfth Night
ACTOR: Bryan Cranston, All the Way
ACTRESS: Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
FEATURED ACTOR: Reed Birney, Casa Valentina
FEATURED ACTRESS: Celia Keenan-Bolger, The Glass Menagerie
DIRECTOR: Tim Carroll, Twelfth Night
MUSIC IN A PLAY: The Glass Menagerie- Nico Muhly

OTHER

REVUE: After Midnight
SOLO PERFORMANCE: John Douglas Thompson, Satchmo at the Waldorft
UNIQUE THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE: Cirkopolis

TECHS

SET DESIGN: Rocky- Christopher Barreca
COSTUME DESIGN: Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical- William Ivey Long
LIGHTING DESIGN: Rocky- Christopher Akerlind
PROJECTION DESIGN: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder- Aaron Rhyne
SOUND DESIGN (MUSICAL): Beautiful: The Carole King Musical- Brian Ronan
SOUND DESIGN (PLAY): Machinal- Matt Tierney

Precursor to next weeks' Tony Awards, the Drama Desks have been awarded to the best of Broadway.  As a theater lover, but non-New Yorker, are there any readers who can share any insight of the 2014 winners?