NEWS: 2023 Tony Award Winners Announced – Twin Cities Arts Reader

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Best New Play: Leopoldstadt

Best New Musical: Kimberly Akimbo

Best Play Revival: Topdog/Underdog

Best Musical Revival: Parade

Best Leading Actor in a Play: Sean Hayes, Good Night, Oscar

Best Leading Actress in a Play: Jodie Comer, Prima Facie

Best Leading Actress in a Musical: Victoria Clark, Kimberly Akimbo

Best Leading Actor in a Musical: J. Harrison Ghee, Some Like It Hot

Best Featured Actor in a Play: Brandon Uranowitz, Leopoldstadt

Best Featured Actress in a Play: Miriam Silverman, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window

Best Featured Actor in a Musical: Alex Newell, Shucked

Best Featured Actress in a Musical: Bonnie Milligan, Kimberly Akimbo

Best Direction of a Play: Patrick Marber, Leopoldstadt

Best Direction of a Musical: Michael Arden, Parade

Best Book of a Musical: David Lindsay-Abaire, Kimberly Akimbo

Best Original Score: Kimberly Akimbo, music by Jeanine Tesori; lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire

Best Choreography: Casey Nicholaw, Some Like It Hot

Best Orchestrations: Charlie Rosen and Bryan Carter, Some Like It Hot

Best Scenic Design of a Play: Tim Hatley and Andrzej Goulding, Life of Pi

Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Beowulf Boritt, New York, New York

Best Costume Design of a Play: Brigitte Reiffenstuel, Leopoldstadt

Best Costume Design of a Musical: Gregg Barnes, Some Like It Hot”

Best Sound Design of a Play: Carolyn Downing, Life of Pi

Best Sound Design of a Musical: Nevin Steinberg, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Lighting Design of a Play: Tim Lutkin, Life of Pi

Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Natasha Katz, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement: Joel Grey and John Kander

Isabelle Stevenson Award: Jerry Mitchell

Regional Theater Tony Award: Pasadena Playhouse

Tony Award for Excellence in Theater Education: Jason Zembuch Young

Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theater: Lisa Dawn Cave, Victoria Bailey, and Robert Fried

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Amy Donahue

Amy Donahue is a staff reviewer at the Twin Cities Arts Reader. She interned with the magazine during the summer of 2017, served as a guest contributor while studying abroad in Europe that fall, and has moved up to regular old reviewing. She served as interim Editor-in-Chief in 2023.

She admits to being at least 50% terrified of contemporary German opera.