1996-1997 48th Outer Critics Circle Awards

                                       Best Broadway Play                                        
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
An American Daughter
Stanley
Taking Sides

Best Broadway Musical
The Life
Jekyll & Hyde
Steel Pier
Titanic

Best Off Broadway Play
How I Learned to Drive
A Question of Mercy
Bunny Bunny
Stonewall Jackson's House

Best Off Broadway Musical
Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
The Green Heart
Violet

Best Actor - Play
Christopher Plummer - Barrymore
Frank Langella - Present Laughter
David Morse - How I Learned to Drive
Anthony Sher - Stanley

Best Actress - Play
Janet McTeer - A Doll's House
Dana Ivey - The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Kate Nelligan - An American Daughter
Mary-Louise Parker - How I Learned to Drive

Best Actor - Musical
Robert Cuccioli - Jekyll & Hyde
Sam Harris - The Life
Gregory Harrison - Steel Pier
James Naughton - Chicago

Best Actress - Musical
Bebe Neuwirth - Chicago
Linda Eder - Jekyll & Hyde
Pamela Isaacs - The Life
Karen Ziemba - Steel Pier

Best Featured Actor - Play
Terry Beaver - The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Edward Herrmann - Psychopathia Sexualis
Brian Kerwin - The Little Foxes
Brian Murray - The Little Foxes

Best Featured Actress - Play
Deborah Findlay - Stanley
Allison Janney - Present Laughter
Jan Maxwell - A Doll's House
Celia Weston - The Last Night of Ballyhoo

Best Featured Actor - Musical
Joel Grey - Chicago
Chuck Cooper - The Life
Stanley Bojarski - When Pigs Fly
Kevin Ramsey - The Life

Best Featured Actress - Musical
Lillias White - The Life
Alix Korey - No Way to Treat a Lady
Marcia Lewis - Chicago
Debra Monk - Steel Pier

Best Director - Play
John Caird - Stanley
Ron Lagomarsino - The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Anthony Page - A Doll's House
Daniel Sullivan - An American Daughter

Best Director - Musical
Walter Bobbie - Chicago
Michael Blakemore - The Life
Scott Ellis - Steel Pier
Richard Jones - Titanic
Robin Phillips - Jekyll & Hyde

Best Revival - Play
A Doll's House
Present Laughter
The Gin Game
The Little Foxes

Best Revival - Musical
Chicago
Candide
Juan Darien
No Way to Treat A Lady

Best Set Design
David Gallo - Bunny Bunny
Stewart Laing - Titanic
John Lee Beatty - The Little Foxes
Tony Walton - Steel Pier

Best Costume Design
Howard Crabtree - Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly
Jane Greenwood - The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Stewart Laing - Titanic
Peter Kaczorowski - Steel Pier

Best Lighting Design
Paul Gallo - Titanic
Peter Kaczorowski - Steel Pier
Ken Billington - Chicago
Beverly Emmons - Jekyll & Hyde

Best Choreography
Ann Reinking - Chicago
Joey McKneely - The Life
Joey Pizzi - Jekyll & Hyde
Susan Stroman - Steel Pier

Best Solo Performance
Felix A. Pire - Men on the Verge of a His-panic Breakdown