| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor - Musical | James Naughton | City of Angels |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor - Musical | Scott Wise | Jerome Robbins' Broadway |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor - Musical | Richard Muenz | The Pajama Game |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor - Musical | David Carroll | Grand Hotel |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor - Musical | Jason Alexander | Jerome Robbins' Broadwa |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor - Musical | Bob Gunton | Sweeney Todd |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor - Play | Stephen McHattie | Ghetto |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor - Play | Paul Provenza | Only Kidding |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor - Play | Peter Friedman | The Heidi Chronicles |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor - Play | Nathan Lane | The Lisbon Traviata |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor - Play | Niall Buggy | Aristocrats |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor - Play | Philip Bosco | Lend Me a Tenor |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor - Play | Mikhail Baryshnikov | Metamorphosis |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress - Musical | Faith Prince, Debbie Shapiro | Jerome Robbins' Broadway |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress - Musical | Beth Fowler | Sweeney Todd |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress - Musical | Toni DiBuono | The Forbidden City |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress - Musical | Roxie Lucas | The Forbidden City City |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress - Musical | Geraldine James | The Merchant of Venice |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress - Musical | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | Twelfth Night |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress - Play | Joanna Allen | The Heidi Chronicles |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress - Play | Geraldine James | The Merchant of Venice |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress - Play | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | Twelfth Night |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress - Play | Pauline Collins | Shirley Valentine |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress - Play | Gloria Foster | The Forbidden City |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Book of a Musical | Larry Gelbart | City of Angels |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Tommy Tune | Grand Hotel |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Florence Klotz | City of Angels |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Santo Loquasto | Grand Hotel |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | William Levy Long | Lend Me a Tenor |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Jennifer Arnold | The Lady in Question |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Robert Locke | The Lady in Question |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director - Musical | Michael Blakemore | City of Angels |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director - Musical | Tommy Tune | Grand Hotel |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director - Play | Robin Lefevre | Aristocrats |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director - Play | Jerry Zaks | Lend Me a Tenor |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director - Play | Simon Callow | Shirley Valentine |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director - Play | Adrian Nobel | The Art of Success |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director - Play | Dan Sullivan | The Heidi Chronicles |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Rene Auberjonois | City of Angels |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Jonathan Hadary | Gypsy |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Michael Jeter | Grand Hotel |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Fyvush Finkel | Cafe Crown |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Matt McGrath | Dalton's Back |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Peter Frechette | Eastern Standard |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Gordon Joseph Weiss | Ghetto |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Edmund Lewis | Without Apologies |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Simon Jones | Privates on Parade |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Dustin Hoffman | The Merchant of Venice |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Danielle Du Clos | Aspects of Love |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Randy Graff | City of Angels |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Jane Krakowski | Grand Hotel |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Crista Moore | Gypsy |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Margaret Colin | Aristocrats |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Jayne Atkinson | The Art of Success |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Joanne Camp | The Heidi Chronicles |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Frances Conroy | The Secret Rapture |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Stephanie Roth | Artist Descending a Staircase |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Tovah Feldshuh | Lend Me a Tenor |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Tharon Musser | Artist Descending a Staircase |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Jane Reisman, Neil Peter Jampolis | Black and Blue |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Paul Gallo | City of Angels |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Jules Fisher | Grand Hotel |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Paul Gallo | Lend Me a Tenor / Micacolo D'Amore |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Mary Jo Dondlinger | Sweeney Todd |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | David Zippel | City of Angels |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Robert Wright, Maury Yeston, George Forrest | Grand Hotel |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Richard Maltby Jr. | Closer Than Ever |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Cy Coleman | City of Angels |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | David Shire | Closer Than Ever |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Astor Piazzolla | Dangerous Games |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Robert Wright, Maury Yeston, George Forrest | Grand Hotel |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | Black and Blue | Black and Blue |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | City of Angels | City of Angels |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | Jerome Robbins' Broadway | Jerome Robbins' Broadway |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding New Play | Jim Geoghan | Only Kidding |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding New Play | Willy Russell | Shirley Valentine |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding New Play | Wendy Wasserstein | The Heidi Chronicles |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding New Play | David Hare | The Secret Rapture |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding New Play | Terence McNally, Terence McNally | The Lisbon Traviata |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding One Person Show | Mandy Patinkin | Dress Casual |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding One Person Show | Robert Morse | Tru |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestration | Billy Byers | City of Angels |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestration | Rodolfo Alchourron, James Kowal | Dangerous Games |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestration | Peter Matz | Grand Hotel |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival | Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Gypsy | Gypsy |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | John Lee Beatty | Aristocrats |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Santo Loquasto | Cafe Crown / Italian American Reconciliation |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Tony Walton | Grand Hotel |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Tony Walton | Lend Me a Tenor |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | James Morgan | Sweeney Todd |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Thomas Lynch | The Heidi Chronicles |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Edward Gianfrancesco | The Widow's Blind Date |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Robin Wagner | City of Angels |
| Drama Desk Awards | Special Awards | Bernard Gersten, Gregory Mosher, John McGlinn, Manhattan Theatre Club, Paul Gemignani | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Special Awards | Jerome Robbins | Jerome Robbins |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Unique Theatrical Experience | Barry McGovern | I'll Go On |
| Drama Desk Awards | Unique Theatrical Experience | Bill Irwin | Largely New York |
| Drama League Awards | Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre | Mandy Patinkin | |
| Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Pauline Collins | Shirley Valentine |
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| Drama League Awards | Unique Contribution to the Theatre | Joseph Papp | New York Shakespeare Festival |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Actor | Ian McKellen | Othello |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Comedy | Alan Ayckbourn | Henceforward... |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Director | Nicholas Hytner | Ghetto |
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Play | Yehoshua Sobol | Ghetto |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright | Stephen Jeffreys | Valued Friends |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Lebedev Special Award | Stephen Sondheim | |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress | Felicity Kendal | Ivanov |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress | Felicity Kendal | Much Ado About Nothing |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical | | Miss Saigon |
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| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Marjorie Slaiman | Enrico IV |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Smaranda Branescu | Macbeth |
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| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Smaranda Branescu | Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Director, Resident Production | Kim Rubinstein | Baby With the Bathwater |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Director, Resident Production | Leslie Bravman | Jacobson Eleemosynary |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Director, Resident Production | Michael Kahn | Macbeth |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Director, Resident Production | Liviu Ciulei | Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Director, Resident Production | Joe Banno | Tartuffe |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Director, Resident Production | Douglas C. Wager | The Cocoanuts |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Brock Peters | Driving Mrs. Daisy |
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| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Brock Peters | Driving Mrs. Daisy |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | John Lithgow, B. D. Wong | M. Butterfly |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Tim Curry | Me and My Girl |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Victor Garber | Wenceslas Square |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production | Sammy Cahn | Words and Music |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Mitchell Greenberg | 0bable Frequency |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Casey Biggs | Elmer Gantry |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Robert C. Torri | La Cage Aux Folles |
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| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Martin Vidnovic | Side by Side by Sondheim |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Charles Janasz | The Cocoanuts |
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| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical | Stephen Mellor | The Cocoanuts |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Production | Brian Hemmingsen | Endgame |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Production | Stanley Anderson | Enrico IV |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Production | Brian Bedford | Merchant of Venice |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Production | Tom Hewitt | Ring Round the Moon |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Production | Michael Willis | The Boys Next Door |
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| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Production | Floyd King | The Mystery of Irma Vep (A Penny Dreadful) |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Tina Fabrique | Abyssinia |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Madeline Kahn | Born Yesterday |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Julie Harris | Driving Miss Daisy |
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| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Lily Tomlin | The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life In The Universe |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Non-Resident Production | Dana Ivey | Wencelas Square |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Sharon Scruggs | Elmer Gantry |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Jane Pesci-Townsend | Revenge of Mrs. Foggybottom |
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| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Deidra L. Johnson | Sanctuary D.C. |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Kim Criswell | Side by Side by Sondheim |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Musical | Karen Akers | Side by Side by Sondheim |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production | Jennifer Mendenhall | Aunt Dan and Lemon |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production | Brigid Cleary | House of Blue Leaves |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production | Franchelle Stewart Dorn | MacBeth |
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| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production | Grainne Cassidy | Sharon and Billy |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production | Shirley Knight | The Cherry Orchard |
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| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production | Kelly McGillis | The Merchant of Venice |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding New Play | Ford's Theatre | |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding New Play | Mel Marvin, John Bishop | Elmer Gantry |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding New Play | David Henry Hwang | M. Butterfly |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding New Play | David Lemos | More Than Names |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding New Play | Larry L. King | The Night Hank Williams Died |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding New Play | Heather McDonald | The Rivers and Ravines |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Russell Metheny | Eleemosynary |
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| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Michael Yeargan | MacBeth |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Adrianne Lobel | Playboy of the West Indies |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Liviu Ciulei | Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production | Thomas Lynch | The Coocanuts |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Production | Ernie Meier | Baby With the Bathwater |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Production | Edward Gero | Macbeth |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Production | Philip Goodwin | Merchant of Venice |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Production | Christopher Hurt | On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning |
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| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Production | L. Peter Callender | Playboy of the West Indies |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Production | John Michael Higgins | The Butterfingers Angel |
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| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production | June Hansen | An Ideal Husband |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production | Sarah Marshall | Baby With the Bathwater |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production | Lilia Skala | Les Blancs |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production | Patricia Conolly | Ring Round the Moon |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production | Michaeleen O'Neil | Safe Sex |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production | Kathryn Kelley | The Glass Menagerie |
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| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Fannie Green, Arena Stage | Abyssinia |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Stephen Root | Driving Miss Daisy |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Queen Esther Marrow | Harlem Suite |
| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Erick Devine | Me and My Girl |
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| Helen Hayes Awards | Outstanding Supporting Performer, Non-Resident Production | Bruce Norris | Wenceslas Square |
| Henry Hewes Awards | Costume Design | Susan Young | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Henry Hewes Awards | Lighting Design | Jennifer Tipton | Jerome Robbins' Broadway |
| Henry Hewes Awards | Lighting Design | Jennifer Tipton | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
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| Henry Hewes Awards | Lighting Design | Jennifer Tipton | The Rimers of Eldritch |
| Henry Hewes Awards | Lighting Design | Jennifer Tipton | Waiting For Godot |
| Henry Hewes Awards | Noteworthy/Unusual Effects | Alison Yerxa | The Warrior Ant |
| Henry Hewes Awards | Scenic Design | Jerome Sirlin | 1,000 Airplanes On The Roof |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year | Sheila Hancock | Prin |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year | Jane Lapotaire | Shadowlands |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Director of the Year | Richard Eyre | Racing Demon and The Voysey Inheritance |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Washington Stage Guild, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre | |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Martin Pakledinaz | The Cocoanuts |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | William Pucilowsky | The Constant Wife |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production | Susan Hirschfeld | The Merchant of Venice |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Director, Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Director, Non-Resident Production | National Theatre, Arena Stage, Kennedy Center, Kennedy Center | |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Director, Non-Resident Production | Tazewell Thompson | Abyssinia |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Director, Non-Resident Production | Ron Lagomarsino | Driving Miss Daisy |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Director, Non-Resident Production | Mike Ockrent | Me and My Girl |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Director, Non-Resident Production | Jane Wagner | The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life In The Universe |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Director, Non-Resident Production | Jerry Zaks | Wenceslas Square |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Horizons Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Round House Theatre | |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Nancy Schertler | Aunt Dan and Lemon |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Daniel MacLean Wagner | Eleemosynary |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Stephen Strawbridge | Macbeth |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Daniel MacLean Wagner | On The Verge or the Geography of Yearning |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Nancy Schertler | Playboy of the West Indies |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design, Resident Production | Allen Lee Hughes | Six Characters In Search of an Author |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Non-Resident Production | National Theatre | Ain't Misbehavin' |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Centre Management | Cirque du Soleil |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | Driving Miss Daisy |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Non-Resident Production | National Theatre | Me and My Girl |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Non-Resident Production | Kennedy Center | Wenceslas Square |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Resident Musical | Arena Stage | Cocoanuts |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Resident Musical | Ford's Theatre | Elmer Gantry |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Resident Musical | Studio Theatre | Gifts of the Magi |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Resident Musical | No-Neck Monsters Theatre Company | Sanctuary D.C. |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Resident Musical | Olney Theatre | Side Side Sondheim |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Resident Production | Round House Theatre | Baby With the Bathwater |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Resident Production | Arena Stage | Cherry Orchard |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Resident Production | Studio Theatre | Colored Museum |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Resident Production | Shakespeare Theatre | Macbeth |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Resident Production | Arena Stage | Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Production | Stanley Anderson | Crucible |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Production | Alan Wade | No End of Blame |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production | Nancy Paris | North Shore Fish |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Production | Franchelle Stewart Dorn | The Winter's Tale |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Peat Marwick Award for Distinguished Service to the Washington Theatre Community | R. Robert Linowes | |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | The American Express Tribute | Mary Martin | |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | The Washington Post Award for Distinguished Community Service | WETA,Channel 26 | Around TownWETA, Channel 26, for Around Town |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | The Washington Post Award for Distinguished Community Service | Horizons Theatre | Eleemosynary |
| Lucille Lortel Awards | Outstanding Body of Work | Playwrights Horizons | |
| Lucille Lortel Awards | Outstanding Director | John Tillinger | Love Letters |
| Lucille Lortel Awards | Outstanding Play | Steven Baruch, Richard Frankel, Roger L. Stevens, Thomas Viertel | The Cocktail Hour |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Foreign Play | Brian Friel | Aristocrats1988-1989 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Play | Wendy Wasserstein | The Heidi Chronicles1988-1989 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Special Citation | Bill Irwin | Largely New York1988-1989 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Actor - Musical | Jason Alexander | Jerome Robbins' Broadway1988-89 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Actor - Play | Kevin Conway | Other People's Money1988-89 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Actress - Musical | Ruth Brown | Black and Blue1988-89 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Actress - Play | Pauline Collins | Shirely Valentine1988-89 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Broadway Musical | | Jerome Robbins' Broadway1988-89 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Broadway Play | | The Heidi Chronicles1988-89 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Costume Design | William Ivey Long | Lend Me a Tenor1988-89 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Debut Performance | Peter Frechette | Eastern Standard1988-89 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Debut Performance | Toni diBuono | Forbidden Broadway 1988/19891988-89 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Lighting Design | Paul Gallo | Lend Me a Tenor1988-89 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Set Design | Tony Walton | Lend Me a Tenor1988-89 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | John Gassner Playwriting Award | Jerry Sterner | Other People's Money1988-89 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Special Award | Jewish Repertory Theatre | Chu Chem1988-89 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Special Award | The Cast | Lend Me A Tenor1988-89 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Special Awards | Jewish Repertory Theatre | Cantorial1988-89 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Special Awards | Mikhail Baryshnikov | Metamorphosis1988-89 season |
| Pulitzer Prize for Drama | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | David Henry Hwang | M. Butterfly |
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| Pulitzer Prize for Drama | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Wendy Wasserstein | The Heidi Chronicles |
| Pulitzer Prize for Drama | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | August Wilson | The Piano Lesson |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Kyra Sedgwick | Ah, Wilderness!Season 1988–1989 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Loren Dean | Amulets Against the Dragon ForcesSeason 1988–1989 |
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| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Joan Cusack | Brilliant TracesSeason 1988–1989 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Peter Frechette, Dylan Baker | Eastern StandardSeason 1988–1989 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Jennie Moreau | EleemoysynarySeason 1988–1989 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Paul Provenza, Howard Spiegel | Only KiddingSeason 1988–1989 |
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| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Eric Stoltz | Our TownSeason 1988–1989 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Joan Cusack | RoadSeason 1988–1989 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pauline Collins | Special AwardSeason 1988–1989 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Sharon McNight | StarmitesSeason 1988–1989 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Sally Mayes | Welcome to the ClubSeason 1988–1989 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Joanne Whalley-Kilmer | What the Butler SawSeason 1988–1989 |
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Cholly Atkins, Henry LeTang, Frankie Manning, Fayard Nicholas | Black and Blue |
| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Kimi Okada, Bill Irwin | Largely New York |
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Alan Johnson | Legs Diamond |
| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Michele Assaf | Starmites |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Claudio Segovio | Black and Blue |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Hector Orezzoli | Black and Blue |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Willa Kim | Legs Diamondproduction took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | William Ivey Long | Lend Me a Tenor |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Jane Greenwood | Our Town |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Claudio Segovia, Hector Orezzoli | Black and Blue |
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Jerome Robbins | Jerome Robbins' Broadway |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Larry Carpenter | Starmites |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Peter Mark Schifter | Welcome to the Club |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Bill Irwin | Largely New York |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Jerry Zaks | Lend Me a Tenor |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Gregory Mosher | Our Town |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Daniel Sullivan | The Heidi Chronicles |
| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Neil Peter Jampolis, Jane Reisman | Black and Blue |
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Jennifer Tipton | Jerome Robbins' Broadway |
| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Nancy Schertler | Largely New York |
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Brian Nason | Metamorphosis |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Donald K. Donald, Mel Howard | Black and Blue |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Emanuel Azenberg, Byron Goldman, Byron Goldman, Suntory International Corp., Roger Berlind | Jerome Robbins' Broadway |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | The Shubert Organization | Jerome Robbins' Broadway |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Steven Warnick, Mary Keil, Hinks Shimberg | Starmites |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Savion Glover, Bunny Briggs | Black and Blue |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Scott Wise | Jerome Robbins' Broadway |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Scott Wentworth | Welcome to the Club |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Peter Frechette | Eastern Standard |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Gordon Joseph Weiss | Ghetto |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Eric Stoltz | Our Town |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Boyd Gaines | The Heidi Chronicles |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Jason Alexander | Jerome Robbins' Broadway |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Gabriel Barre, Brian Lane Green | Starmites |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Bill Irwin | Largely New York |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Philip Bosco | Lend Me a Tenor |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Victor Garber | Lend Me a Tenor |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Mikhail Baryshnikov | Metamorphosis |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Debbie Shapiro | Jerome Robbins' Broadway |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Faith Prince, Jane Lanier | Jerome Robbins' Broadway |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Julie Wilson | Legs Diamond |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Tovah Feldshuh | Lend Me a Tenor |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Penelope Ann Miller, Penelope Ann Miller | Our Townproduction took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Christine Baranski | Rumorsproduction took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Joanne Camp | The Heidi Chronicles |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Ruth Brown | Black and Blue |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Linda Hopkins | Black and Blue |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Charlotte d'Amboise | Jerome Robbins' Broadway |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Sharon McNight | Starmites |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Madeline Kahn | Born Yesterday |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Pauline Collins | Shirley Valentine |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Kate Nelligan | Spoils of Warproduction took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Joan Allen | The Heidi Chronicles |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | Peter Stein | Falstaff |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | Ingmar Bergman | Hamlet |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Obie Committee | Gordon Rogoff, Julius Novick, Erika Munk, Robert Massa, Ross Wetzsteon, Michael Feingold, Eileen Blumenthal, Margo Jefferson, Martha Coigney | |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Obie Grant | Cucaracha Warehouse Theater, The Living Theater | |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Everett Quinton | A Tale of Two Cities |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Niall Buggy | Aristocrats |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Fyvush Finkel | Cafe Crown |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Tim McDonnell | Diary of a Madman |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Paul Hecht | Enrico IV |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Mark Blum | Gus and Al |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | William Converse-Roberts | Love's Labor's Lost |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Nancy Marchand | The Cocktail Hour |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Gloria Foster | The Forbidden City |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Lonny Price | The Immigrant |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Mo Gaffney, Kathy Najimy | The Kathy and Mo Show |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Rocco Sisto | The Winter's Tale |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Will Patton | What Did He See? |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Playwriting Workshop | GRANT Intar Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Laboratory, The Frank Silva Workshop | |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Special Citations | Dance Theater Workshop | |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Special Citations | Leo Bassi | Nero's Last Folly |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Special Citations | Rachel Rosenthal | Rachel's Brain |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Special Citations | Janie Geiser | Stories From Here |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Special Citations | Paul Zaloom | The House of Horror |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Special Citations | Tamamatsu Yoshida | The Warrior Ant |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Special Citations for the Young Playwrights Festival | The Dramatists Guild | The Young Playwrights Festival |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Sustained Achievement | Irene Worth | |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Sustained Excellence of Costume Design | Susan Young, Susan Young, Gabriel Berry | |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Sustained Excellence of Direction | Rene Buch | |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Sustained Excellence of Set Design | Donald Eastman | |
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