| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Howard McGillin | Anything Goes |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | David Carroll | Chess |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | George Merritt | Lost in the Stars |
| Outstanding Actor - Musical | Michael Crawford | Phantom of the Opera |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Delroy Lindo | Joe Turner's Come and Gone |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | John Kavanagh | Juno & the Paycock |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | John Lithgow | M Butterfly |
| Outstanding Actor - Play | Ron Silver | Speed the Plow |
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| Outstanding Actor - Play | Joe Mantegna | Speed the Plow |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Judy Kuhn | Chess |
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| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Bernadette Peters | Into the Woods |
| Outstanding Actress - Musical | Sarah Brightman | Phantom of the Opera |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Glenda Jackson | Macbeth |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Amy Irving | The Road to Mecca |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Stockard Channing | Women in Mind |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Colleen Dewhurst | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
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| Outstanding Actress - Play | Robin Bartlett | Reckless |
| Outstanding Actress - Play | Nancy Marchand | The Cocktail Hour |
| Outstanding Book of a Musical | James Lapine | Into the Woods |
| Outstanding Choreography | Grover Dale | Mail |
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| Outstanding Choreography | Gillian Lynne | Phantom of the Opera |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Ann Hould-Ward | Into the Woods |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Willa Kim | Legs Diamond |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Maria Bjornson | Phantom of the Opera |
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| Outstanding Costume Design | Joseph G. Aulisi | Rumors |
| Outstanding Costume Design | Eiko Ishioka | M Butterfly |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | James Lapine | Into the Woods |
| Outstanding Director - Musical | Harold Prince | Phantom of the Opera |
| Outstanding Director - Play | W.H. Macy | Boy's Life |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Lloyd Richards | Joe Turner's Come and Gone |
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| Outstanding Director - Play | John Dexter | M Butterfly |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Norman Rene | Reckless |
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| Outstanding Director - Play | Gregory Mosher | Speed the Plow |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Jock O'Brian | The Cocktail Hour |
| Outstanding Director - Play | Lynne Meadow | Woman in Mind |
| Outstanding Ensemble Performance | Boy's Life | Boy's Life |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Musical | Harry Goz | Chess |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Ed Hall | Joe Turner's Come and Gone |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | B.D. Wong | M Butterfly |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Eric Stoltz | Our Town |
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| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Athol Fugard | The Road to Mecca |
| Outstanding Featured Actor - Play | Bill Irwin | Waiting for Godot |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Musical | Judy Kaye | Phantom of the Opera |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Frances McDormand | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Kimberly Scott, Kimberleigh Aarn | Joe Turner's Come and Gone |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Penelope Ann Miller | Our Town |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Alice Playten | Spoils of War |
| Outstanding Featured Actress - Play | Holland Taylor | The Cocktail Hour |
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| Outstanding Lighting Design | David Hersey | Chess |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Kevin Rigdon | Our Town |
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| Outstanding Lighting Design | Andrew Bridge | Phantom of the Opera |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Jennifer Tipton | Waiting for Godot / Long Day's Journey Into Night / Jerome Robbins' Broadway |
| Outstanding Lighting Design | Pat Collins | Woman in Mind |
| Outstanding Lyrics | Barry Harman | Romance/Romance |
| Outstanding Music | Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus | Chess |
| Outstanding Music | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Phantom of the Opera |
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| Outstanding Music | Mbongeni Ngema, Hugh Masekela | Sarafina |
| Outstanding Musical | Into the Woods | Into the Woods |
| Outstanding Musical | Phantom of the Opera | Phantom of the Opera |
| Outstanding New Play | Howard Korder | Boy's Life |
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| Outstanding New Play | August Wilson | Joe Turner's Come and Gone |
| Outstanding New Play | David Henry Hwang | M Butterfly |
| Outstanding New Play | Craig Lucas | Reckless |
| Outstanding New Play | David Mamet | Speed the Plow |
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| Outstanding New Play | A.R. Gurney | The Cocktail Hour |
| Outstanding New Play | Jon Robin Baitz | The Film Society |
| Outstanding New Play | Athol Fugard | The Road to Mecca |
| Outstanding New Play | Alan Ayckbourn | Women in Mind |
| Outstanding Orchestration | Jonathan Tunick | Into the Woods |
| Outstanding Orchestration | David Cullen, Andrew Lloyd Webber | Phantom of the Opera |
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| Outstanding Revival | Juno & the Paycock | Juno & the Paycock |
| Outstanding Revival | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
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| Outstanding Revival | Lost in the Stars | Lost in the Stars |
| Outstanding Revival | Our Town | Our Town |
| Outstanding Set Design | Tony Straiges | Into the Woods |
| Outstanding Set Design | Scott Bradley | Joe Turner's Come and Gone |
| Outstanding Set Design | Eiko Ishioka | M Butterfly |
| Outstanding Set Design | Maria Bjornson | Phantom of the Opera |
| Outstanding Set Design | Loy Arcenas | Reckless |
| Special Awards | The Yale Repertory Theatre, Actors Equity Association, Michael Feinstein, The Theatre on Film and Tape Collection | The Yale Repertory Theatre |
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| Unique Theatrical Experience | Tom Mardirosian | Save from Obscurity |
