Our chief theater critic makes his picks.
Though the official Tony Awards nominations aren’t scheduled to be announced until Thursday, I give you my unofficial ones right now. If it were up to me, these would be the nominees.
They include some, marked with an asterisk, that because they were seen Off Broadway or were otherwise ineligible, the real Tonys won’t include. Call it theatrical license that I do so anyway. Also bucking the rule book is my Best Ensemble category, which I argue for every year even though choosing among the Broadway riches is all but impossible.
Best Play
“Cult of Love”
“English”
“The Hills of California”
“John Proctor Is the Villain”
“Oh, Mary!”
Best Musical
“Dead Outlaw”
“Death Becomes Her”
“Maybe Happy Ending”
“Smash”
“Swept Away”
Best Play Revival
“Eureka Day”
“Our Town”
“Vanya”*
“Yellow Face”
Best Musical Revival
Cats: The Jellicle Ball*
“Floyd Collins”
“Gypsy”
“Once Upon a Mattress”
Best Actor in a Play
Cole Escola, “Oh, Mary!”
Jake Gyllenhaal, “Othello”
Louis McCartney, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”
Jim Parsons, “Our Town”
Andrew Scott, “Vanya”*
Best Actress in a Play
Laura Donnelly, “The Hills of California”
Susannah Flood, “Liberation”*
Deirdre O’Connell, “Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp.”*
Lily Rabe, “Ghosts”*
Sarah Snook, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Best Actor in a Musical
Darren Criss, “Maybe Happy Ending”
John Gallagher Jr., “Swept Away”
Jonathan Groff, “Just in Time”
Joshua Henry, “Ragtime”*
Jeremy Jordan, “Floyd Collins”
Best Actress in a Musical
Megan Hilty, “Death Becomes Her”
Audra McDonald, “Gypsy”
Jasmine Amy Rogers, “Boop! The Musical”
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