The 25th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards

The winners of the 25th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards were announced on 2 May 2010 at a ceremony co-hosted by Bryan Batt and Bebe Neuwirth at Terminal 5.

Te Kander and Ebb musical The Scottsboro Boys directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, produced by the Vineyard Theatre was named Outstanding musical. Horton Foote's The Orphans' Home Cycle, directed by Michael Wilson and produced by the Signature Theatre Company and Hartford Stage was named Best play.

The most decorated production of the evening was Andrew Bovell's When the Rain Stops Falling, directed by David Cromer and produced by Lincoln Center Theatre, which received a total of five awards. This was followed by The Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, directed by Gordon Edelstein, and the Kander and Ebb musical, The Scottsboro Boys, which each gained two awards.

MCC Theater's production of Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride, was one of the evenings biggest disappointments, having been nominated in six categories it won in only one - Outstanding Featured Actor (Adam James), followed by The New Group's production of Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind, directed by Ethan Hawke, which received four nominations but walked away empty handed.

Two special awards were presented at the ceremony:

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Daryl Roth
  
• Outstanding Body of Work: Lincoln Center Theater

Outstanding Play:

• Clybourne Park
  written by Bruce Norris.
  Produced by Playwrights Horizons.
• The Brother/Sister Plays
  Written by Tarell Alvin McCraney.
  Produced by The Public Theater in association with McCarter Theatre.
• The Orphans' Home Cycle
  Written by Horton Foote.
  Produced by Signature Theatre Company and Hartford Stage.
• The Temperamentals
  Written by Jon Marans.
  Produced by Daryl Roth, Stacy Shane and Martian Entertainment.
• When The Rain Stops Falling
  Written by Andrew Bovell.
  Produced by Lincoln Center Theater.

Outstanding Musical:

• Click, Clack, Moo
  Book by Billy Aronson, Lyrics by Kevin Del Aguila, Music by Brad Alexander. Based on the book by Doreen Cronin with illustrations by Betsy Lewin.
  Produced by Theatreworks USA.
• Everyday Rapture
  by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott.
  Produced by Second Stage Theatre.
• The Scottsboro Boys
  Book by David Thompson, Lyrics and Music by John Kander and Fred Ebb.
  Produced by Vineyard Theatre.
• The Toxic Avenger
  Music and Lyrics by David Bryan, Based on Lloyd Kaufman's The Toxic Avenger
  Produced by Jean Cheever and Tom Polum.
• Yank! A WWII Love Story
  Music by Joseph Zellnik, Book and Lyrics by David Zellnik
  Produced by The York Theatre Company, Maren Berthelsen/Pamela Koslow/Stuart Wilk, Matt Schicker, Hugh Hayes, Jim Kierstead and Sondra Healy/Shidan Majidi.

Outstanding Solo Show:

• A Boy and His Soul
  Written and Performed by Colman Domingo.
  Produced by Vineyard Theatre.
• Let Me Down Easy
  Written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith.
  Produced by Second Stage Theatre.
• Nightingale
  Written and performed by Lynn Redgrave.
  Produced by Manhattan Theatre Club.
• The Lady With All the Answers
  Written by David Rambo.
  Produced by Cherry Lane Theatre.
  Performed by Judith Ivey.
• Zero Hour
  Written and performed by Jim Brochu.
  Produced by Kurt Peterson and Edmund Gaynes, in association with The Peccadillo Theater Company.

Outstanding Revival:

• A Lie of the Mind
  Written by Sam Shepard.
  Produced by The New Group.
• Candida
  Written by George Bernard Shaw.
  Produced by The Irish Repertory Theatre and Alexis Doyle.
• Measure for Measure
  Written by William Shakespeare.
  Produced by Theatre for a New Audience.
• The Emperor Jones
  Written by Eugene O'Neill.
  Produced by The Irish Repertory Theatre.
• The Glass Menagerie
  Written by Tennessee Williams.
  Produced by Roundabout Theatre Company.

Outstanding Director:

• Walter Bobbie; Venus in Fur.
• David Cromer; When the Rain Stops Falling.
• Gordon Edelstein; The Glass Menagerie.
• Pam MacKinnon; Clybourne Park.
• Joe Mantello; The Pride.

Outstanding Choreographer:

• Jeffry Denman; Yank! A WWII Love Story.
• Ken Roberson; A Boy and His Soul.
• Wendy Seyb; Click, Clack, Moo.
• Wendy Seyb; The Toxic Avenger.
• Susan Stroman; The Scottsboro Boys.

Outstanding Lead Actor:

• Hugh Dancy; The Pride.
• Patch Darragh; The Glass Menagerie.
• Brandon Victor Dixon; The Scottsboro Boys.
• John Douglas Thompson; The Emperor Jones.
• Michael Urie; The Temperamentals.

Outstanding Lead Actress:

• Nina Arianda; Venus in Fur.
• Jayne Houdyshell; Coraline.
• Judith Ivey; The Glass Menagerie.
• Cristin Milioti; Stunning.
• Sherie Rene Scott; Everyday Rapture.

Outstanding Featured Actor:

• Keith Carradine; A Lie of the Mind.
• Adam James; The Pride.
• David Pittu; Equivocation.
• Jeremy Shamos: Clybourne Park.
• C.J. Wilson; Happy Now?

Outstanding Featured Actress:

• Tracee Chimo; Circle Mirror Transformation.
• Mary Beth Hurt; When the Rain Stops Falling.
• Laurie Metcalf; A Lie of the Mind.
• Nancy Opel; The Toxic Avenger.
• Andrea Riseborough; The Pride.

Outstanding Scenic Design:

• David Korins; When the Rain Stops Falling.
• David Korins; Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them.
• Derek McLane; A Lie of the Mind
• Michael Yeargan; The Glass Menagerie.
• David Zinn; The Pride

Outstanding Costume Design:

• Miranda Hoffman; Stunning.
• Martin Pakledinaz; The Glass Menagerie.
• Clint Ramos; So Help Me God!
• Ilona Somogyi; Clybourne Park.
• Anita Yavich; Venus in Fur

Outstanding Lighting Design:

• Mark Barton; Circle Mirror Transformation.
• Paul Gallo; The Pride.
• Peter Kaczorowski;The Brother/Sister Plays.
• Tyler Micoleau; When the Rain Stops Falling
• Rui Rita; The Orphans' Home Cycle.

Outstanding Sound Design:

• Kurt Fischer; The Toxic Avenger.
• John Gromada; The Orphans' Home Cycle.
• Fitz Patton; When the Rain Stops Falling.
• Shane Rettig; A Lie of the Mind.
• Ryan Rumery and Christian Frederickson; The Emperor Jones.

The Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were created in 1985 by the Off-Broadway League. The Lortel Awards recognize excellence Off-Broadway by honoring the invaluable contribution of artists to the theatre community.

Representatives of the Off-Broadway League, Actors' Equity Association, Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers, the Lucille Lortel Foundation in addition to theatre journalists and academics and other Off-Broadway professionals serve on the Voting Committee.