Tony Award Winners

MUSICALS

MUSICAL: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL: Hedwig & the Angry Inch
ACTOR: Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig & the Angry Inch
ACTRESS: Jesse Mueller, Beautiful-- The Carole King Musical
FEATURED ACTOR: James M. Inglehart, Aladdin
FEATURED ACTRESS: Lena Hall, Hedwig & the Angry Inch
DIRECTION: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder-  Darko Tresnjak
BOOK: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder- Robert L. Friedman
SCORE: The Bridges of Madison County- Jason Robert Brown
CHOREOGRAPHY: After Midnight- Warren Carlyle
COSTUME DESIGN: A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder- Linda Cho
LIGHTING DESIGN: Hedwig & the Angry Inch- Kevin Adams

PLAYS

PLAY: All the Way
REVIVAL OF A PLAY: A Raisin in the Sun
ACTOR: Bryan Cranston, All the Way
ACTRESS: Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
FEATURED ACTOR: Mark Rylance, Twelfth Night
FEATURED ACTRESS: Sophie Okenedo, A Raisin in the Sun
DIRECTION: A Raisin in the Sun- Kenny Leon
COSTUME DESIGN: Twelfth Night- Jenny Tiramani
LIGHTING DESIGN: The Glass Menagerie- Natasha Katz

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Jane Greenwood
REGIONAL THEATER AWARD: Signature Theater
ISABELLE STEVENSON AWARD: Rosie O'Donnell
TONY HONORS FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE THEATRE: Joseph P. Benincasa, Joan Marcus, Charlotte Wilcox

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?

Tony Award Winners

Kinky Boots

MUSICALS
Musical: Kinky Boots 
Revival of a Musical: Pippin
Direction: Diane Paulus, Pippin
Actor: Billy Porter, Kinky Boots 
Actress: Patina Miller, Pippin
Featured Actor: Gabriel Ebert, Matilda: The Musical
Featured Actress: Andrea Martin, Pippin- Previously won 2 Emmy Awards and a Tony. 
Book of a Musical: Matilda: The Musical- Dennis Kelly
Score: Kinky Boots- Cyndi Lauper- Lauper is has a Tony, Emmy and now a Tony-- thus just an Oscar away from becoming an EGOT.  Quick Hollywood producers...

New Broadway musicals continue their ongoing mission to adapt ever single motion picture to the stage as Kinky Boots, a microscopic and easily forgettable 2005 film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Joel Edgerton about a drag queen who saves a nearly at ruin shoe factory, dominates the 2013 musical field.  It's competition- adaptations of A Christmas Story and Bring it On, as well as Matilda: The Musical, which itself was a movie, but the stage show is more of an adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's novel.
 

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

PLAYS
Play: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike- written by Christopher Durang
Revival of a Play: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Direction: Pam McKinnon, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Actor: Tracy Letts, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?- The Tony winning and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of August: Osage County (he also wrote Bug and Killer Joe) won on his first nomination for acting, playing one of the most famous characters the American theater has brought and beating Tom Hanks (who made his Broadway debut in the late Nora Ephron play Lucky You this season) in the process.
Actress: Cicely Tyson, A Trip to Bountiful- Legendary Tyson adds a Tony to go along with her 3 Emmy Awards and Screen Actors Guild Award.
Featured Actor: Courtney B. Vance, Lucky You
Featured Actress: Judith Light, The Assembled Parties- Has won 2 Daytime Emmy Awards and now, 2 Tony Awards (she won last year for the play Other Desert Cities.)

Full list here.

The show was hosted, impeccably, by Neil Patrick Harris.