The Lighting and Scenic Design Nominees
The American Theatre Wing’s 75th Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards® will mark 75 years of excellence on Broadway during their live broadcast from Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday, June 12, 2022, televised on CBS, and streaming live and on demand on Paramount+. The nominees in 26 competitive categories were selected by an independent committee of 29 theater professionals appointed by the Tony Awards Administration Committee. The 2022 Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, will be voted on by 650 designated Tony voters within the theater community.
This year there are 5 nominations for Best Lighting Design of a Play; 6 nominations for Best Lighting Design of a Musical; 6 nominations for Best Scenic Design of a Play; and 5 nominations for Best Scenic Design of a Musical. Here is a look at the 14 different shows that were recognized with lighting design and scenic/projection design Tony nominations.
A Strange Loop
Received 11 Tony nominations including for Scenic Designer Arnulfo Maldonado, and for Lighting Designer Jen Schriever.
Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, blisteringly funny masterwork exposes the heart and soul of a young artist grappling with desires, identity, and instincts he both loves and loathes as he wrestles with the thoughts in his head, brought to life on stage by a hilarious, straight-shooting ensemble. Playing at the Lyceum Theatre since opening on April 26, 2022.
American Buffalo
Received 4 Tony nominations including for Scenic Designer Scott Pask.
It’s a timely American truth: crime and business are two sides of the same coin. David Mamet’s classic about loyalty and greed stars Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, and Darren Criss as three small-time hustlers who want a bigger cut of the American dream. The show, directed by Tony nominee Neil Pepe, opened on April 14, 2022, at the Circle in the Square Theatre.
Company
Received 9 Tony nominations including for Scenic Designer Bunny Christie, and for Lighting Designer Neil Austin.
It’s Bobbie’s 35th birthday party, and all her friends are there in this revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical comedy. The cast includes the legendary two-time Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone. The party started on Dec. 9, 2021, at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
Flying Over Sunset
Received 4 Tony nominations including single nomination for both Scenic Designer Beowulf Boritt and Projection Designers 59 Productions, and for Lighting Designer Bradley King.
Set in the 1950’s, the fictional musical is inspired by the lives of writer Aldous Huxley; playwright, diplomat, and congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce; and film legend Cary Grant. At a crossroads in their lives the three come together and take an LSD trip. The show ran Dec. 13, 2021-Jan.16, 2022, at Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre.
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Received 7 Tony nominations including for Lighting Designer Jiyoun Chang.
This fearlessly new, fiercely now reinvention of Ntozake Shange’s iconic work is a celebration of the power of Black womanhood, as seven women share their stories and find strength in each other’s humor and passion. The show ran April 20-June 5, 2022, at the Booth Theatre.
Hangmen
Received 5 Tony nominations including for Scenic Designer Anna Fleischle, and for Lighting Designer Joshua Carr.
Set in both a prison and a small pub in the northern English town of Oldham, Martin McDonagh’s seventh Broadway play follows an executioner when hangings are abolished in 1965 England. The show runs April 21-June 18, 2022, at the John Golden Theatre.
The Lehman Trilogy
Received 8 Tony nominations including for Scenic Designer Es Devlin, and for Lighting Designer Jon Clark.
Weaving together nearly two centuries of family history, this epic theatrical event is the quintessential story of western capitalism, rendered through the lens of a single immigrant family, which played Oct. 14, 2021-Jan. 2, 2022, at the Nederlander Theatre.
Macbeth
Received 3 Tony nominations including for Lighting Designer Jane Cox.
Daniel Craig returns to Broadway as Macbeth in an all-new production of this tale of malice, matrimony, and murder, directed by Tony Award winner Sam Gold. The ultimate ‘power’ couple took to the stage April 28 exiting July 10, 2022, at the Longacre Theatre.
MJ
Received 10 Tony nominations including single nomination for both Scenic Designer Derek McLane and Projection Designer Peter Nigrini, and one for Lighting Designer Natasha Katz.
Centered around the making of Michael Jackson’s 1992 Dangerous World Tour, MJ goes beyond the singular moves and signature sound of the star, offering a look at the creative mind that catapulted Jackson into legendary status. It opened on Feb. 1, 2022, at the Neil Simon Theatre.
Paradise Square
Received 10 Tony nominations including for Scenic Designer Allen Moyer, and for Lighting Designer Donald Holder.
Set in 1863 New York where free Blacks and Irish immigrants live and love together in Lower Manhattan’s notorious Five Points slum. Paradise Square depicts an overlooked true-life moment when hope and possibility shone bright. It opened on April 3, 2022, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Received 3 Tony nominations including for Scenic Designer Beowulf Boritt.
A riotous comedy about the women in charge of the man in charge of the free world who work to fix things when the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis. Directed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman, it’s playing at the Shubert Theatre April 27-August 14, 2022.
SIX: The Musical
Received 8 Tony nominations including for Lighting Designer Tim Deiling.
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. From Tudor Queens to Pop Princesses, the six wives of Henry VIII take the mic to reclaim their identities in an exuberant celebration of 21st century girl power playing at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre since opening on Oct. 3, 2021.
Skeleton Crew
Received 3 Tony nominations including single nomination for both Scenic Designer Michael Carnahan and Projection Designer Nicholas Hussong.
Set in 2008, inside a small Detroit automotive factory on the brink of foreclosure, where a tight knit family of workers face uncertainty they reckon with personal loyalties, survival instincts and their hopes for humanity. The play ran Jan. 26-Feb. 20, 2022, at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Skin of Our Teeth
Received 6 Tony nominations including for Scenic Designer Adam Rigg, and for Lighting Designer Yi Zhao.
Thornton Wilder’s 1942 Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows the Antrobus family as they confront the challenges of nothing less than the apocalypse, dinosaurs, war, a woolly mammoth, the Ice Age and raising two kids in suburban New Jersey. It ran April 25-May 29, 2022 at Lincoln Center Theater’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre.