Outstanding Play Nell Benjamin, “The Explorers Club” Steven Levenson, “Core Values” Conor McPherson, “The Night Alive” Richard Nelson, “Regular Singing” Bruce Norris, “Domesticated” Robert Schenkkan, “All the Way” John Patrick Shanley, “Outside Mullingar” ![]() The 59th annual awards will be held June 1 at the Town Hall, hosted by Tony and Drama Desk award-winning actor Laura Benanti (“Gypsy,” “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown”). “Of Mice and Men,” “If/Then,” and “Machinal” all walked away with two noms each. Screen-to-stage adaptations “Aladdin” and “Rocky” walked away with seven nominations (both Adam Jacobs and Andy Karl received their own nods, as did Neil Patrick Harris for “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”) Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” nabbed six, including one for onstage gangster Nick Cordero. “The Bridges of Madison County” is close on its heels with nine nominations. “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” is sitting pretty with 12 taps, including for best musical and two for best actor in a musical (Jefferson Mays and Bryce Pinkham). In true Drama Desk tradition, shows that opened in the 2013–2014 season on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway are placed in the same competitive categories. ![]() This year, the theater community brought so many impressive productions to the stage, the Drama Desk Board authorized an increase in the number of allowed nominees in select categories. Academy Award winners Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez (“Frozen”) and two-time Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Fran Drescher announced the 2014 Drama Desk Award nominees this morning at 54 Below in New York City.
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