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Also Known As Antoinette Perry Awards
Notable Honorees Bruce Springsteen • Elia Kazan • Bob Fosse • Matthew Broderick • Julie Taymor • Idina Menzel • Vanessa Redgrave • Denzel Washington • Branden Jacobs-Jenkins • Ryan Murphy • Al Pacino • Andrew Lloyd Webber • John Lithgow • Mandy Patinkin • Kevin Spacey • Nathan Lane • Allison Janney • Viola Davis • Bernadette Peters • Martin Short • Mark Rylance • Hugh Jackman • Billy Crudup • Sam Mendes • Laurence Fishburne • Sarah Paulson • Andrew Garfield • Bette Midler • Henry Fonda • Bryan Cranston • Tracy Letts • Lin-Manuel Miranda • Mary-Louise Parker • Audra McDonald • Alan Arkin • Stephen Daldry • Glenn Close • Phylicia Rashad • Christopher Plummer • Yasmina Reza • Frances McDormand • Jodie Comer • Nicholas Hytner • James Earl Jones • Lily Tomlin • Stephen Sondheim • Audrey Hepburn • Tim Rice • Jeremy Strong • Michael Grandage • Barry Manilow • Liza Minnelli • Rita Moreno • Geoffrey Rush • Joel Grey • Sutton Foster • Daniel Radcliffe • Catherine Zeta-Jones • Brian Dennehy • Ellen Burstyn • Marcia Gay Harden • Marvin Hamlisch • Patti LuPone • Ralph Fiennes • Justin Peck • Bill T. Jones • Tony Shalhoub • Kevin Kline • Jason Alexander • John Legend • Dick Van Dyke • Trey Parker • Angela Lansbury • Alan Bennett • Jason Robards • Harry Belafonte • Matt Stone • Neil Patrick Harris • Glenda Jackson • Marianne Elliott • Susan Stroman • Hal Holbrook • Ian McKellen • Jane Alexander • Savion Glover • Mary Tyler Moore • Walter Matthau • Patricia Neal • Edward Gorey • Alan Menken • Judy Holliday • Edward Albee • Cicely Tyson • Robert Schenkkan • Peter Falk • Harvey Fierstein • Carol Channing • Robert Falls • Lauren Bacall • Irene Worth • Chita Rivera • Aline Frankau Bernstein • Michael Gough • Sandy Dennis • Tony Kushner • Mary Martin • Jeremy Irons • Ethel Merman • Claude Rains • Rex Harrison • David Rabe • Nigel Hawthorne • Jack Albertson • Archibald MacLeish • Mary Zimmerman • Gertrude Berg • Harold Prince • Uta Hagen • Ruth Brown • Edie Adams • Dudley Moore • Anne Bancroft • Paul Scofield • Alan Ayckbourn • Robert Goulet • George Rose • Terrence McNally • Julie Harris • Wendy Wasserstein • James Kirkwood • Phil Silvers • Michael Bennett • James Whitmore • Natasha Richardson • Joseph Stein • Betty Comden • Bea Arthur • Jason Miller • John Kander • Jerry Herman

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