Tony winners Bebe Neuwirth and Patina Miller (both on the CBS series Madam Secretary) announced the 2017 Drama League nominations April 19 at Sardi's. The 83rd annual ceremony, hosted by Audra McDonald and Will Swenson, will take place May 19 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square.
The Drama League Awards are the oldest theatrical honors in America, having been first presented in 1922 and subsequently formalized in 1935. At the center of the awards is the Distinguished Performance Award, which goes to one artist a year, and can only be won once in an artist’s lifetime.
Included in the nominees for this year's Distinguished Performance Award are Dear Evan Hansen stars Ben Platt and Rachel Bay Jones, Tony winner Sutton Foster for the Off-Broadway revival of Sweet Charity, and The Great Comet headliners Josh Groban and Denée Benton. All three productions also received nominations for their respective categories.
See below for the list of nominees. Check back for updates:
THE DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE AWARD
Denée Benton, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Reed Birney, Man From Nebraska
Cate Blanchett, The Present
Ato Blankson-Wood, The Total Bent
Christian Borle, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Falsettos
Leon Addison Brown, Master Harold and the Boys
Kate Burton, Present Laughter
Daniel Craig, Othello
Johanna Day, Sweat
Marcia DeBonis, Small Mouth Sounds
Danny DeVito, The Price
Jennifer Ehle, Oslo
Carson Elrod, The Liar
Michael Emerson, Wakey Wakey
Sally Field, The Glass Menagerie
Sutton Foster, Sweet Charity
Gideon Glick, Significant Other
Josh Groban, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Harriet Harris, The Roads To Home
Corey Hawkins, Six Degrees of Separation
Allison Janney, Six Degrees of Separation
Rachel Bay Jones, Dear Evan Hansen
Sarah Jones, Sell/Buy/Date
Andy Karl, Groundhog Day
Kevin Kline, Present Laughter
John Leguizamo, Latin History for Morons
Kecia Lewis, Marie and Rosetta
Judith Light, All The Ways To Say I Love You
Laura Linney, The Little Foxes
Jefferson Mays, Oslo
Simon McBurney, The Encounter
Laurie Metcalf, A Doll's House, Part 2
Joe Morton, Turn Me Loose
Cynthia Nixon, The Little Foxes
Eva Noblezada, Miss Saigon
Caroline O'Connor, Anastasia
Laura Osnes, Bandstand
Aisling O'Sullivan, The Beauty Queen of Leenane
David Hyde Pierce, A Life and Hello, Dolly!
Ben Platt, Dear Evan Hansen
Daniel Radcliffe, Privacy
Amy Ryan, Love, Love, Love
Nora Schell, Spamilton
Jeremy Secomb, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Anna Deveare Smith, Notes From The Field
John Douglas Thompson, Jitney and A Doll's House/The Father
Kate Walsh, If I Forget
Michelle Wilson, Sweat
(Note: As Bette Midler is set to receive this year's Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Award, the Hello, Dolly! star was considered ineligible for the Distinguished Performance Award category.)
Read: HELLO, DOLLY! STAR BETTE MIDLER WILL BE HONORED BY THE DRAMA LEAGUE
