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

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