Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
Denzel Washington – Fences as Troy Maxson
Jude Law – Hamlet as Hamlet
Alfred Molina – Red as Mark Rothko
Liev Schreiber – A View from the Bridge as Eddie Carbone
Christopher Walken – A Behanding in Spokane as Carmichael
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Viola Davis – Fences as Rose Maxson
Valerie Harper – Looped as Tallulah Bankhead
Linda Lavin – Collected Stories as Ruth Steiner
Laura Linney – Time Stands Still as Sarah Goodwin
Jan Maxwell – The Royal Family as Julie Cavendish
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
Douglas Hodge – La Cage aux Folles as Albin
Kelsey Grammer – La Cage aux Folles as Georges
Sean Hayes – Promises, Promises as Chuck Baxter
Chad Kimball – Memphis as Huey Calhoun
Sahr Ngaujah – Fela! as Fela Kuti
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Catherine Zeta-Jones – A Little Night Music as Desiree Armfeldt
Kate Baldwin – Finian’s Rainbow as Sharon McLonergan
Montego Glover – Memphis as Felicia Farrell
Christiane Noll – Ragtime as Mother
Sherie Rene Scott – Everyday Rapture as Herself
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
Eddie Redmayne – Red as Ken
David Alan Grier – Race as Henry Brown
Stephen McKinley Henderson – Fences as Jim Bono
Jon Michael Hill – Superior Donuts as Franco
Stephen Kunken – ENRON as Andy Fastow
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Scarlett Johansson – A View from the Bridge as Catherine
Maria Dizzia – In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) as Mrs. Daldry
Rosemary Harris – The Royal Family as Fanny Cavendish
Jessica Hecht – A View from the Bridge as Beatrice
Jan Maxwell – Lend Me a Tenor as Maria
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
Levi Kreis – Million Dollar Quartet as Jerry Lee Lewis
Kevin Chamberlin – The Addams Family as Uncle Fester
Robin de Jesús – La Cage aux Folles as Jacob
Christopher Fitzgerald – Finian’s Rainbow as Og
Bobby Steggert – Ragtime as Younger Brother
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Katie Finneran – Promises, Promises as Marge MacDougall
Barbara Cook – Sondheim on Sondheim as Various Characters
Angela Lansbury – A Little Night Music as Madame Armfeldt
Karine Plantadit – Come Fly Away as Kate
Lillias White – Fela! as Funmilayo Kuti
