Rachel McAdams, the Alicia Keys musical, Liev Schreiber and more earned Tony Award nominations Tuesday morning.
Ariana DeBose, who won an Oscar for Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of the Broadway classic West Side Story, will host this year’s Tonys on June 16.
Some of the highest-profile categories were announced Tuesday on CBS, read by Renee Elise Goldsberry and Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
The rest of the nominations were announced later that same day, via the official Tony Awards YouTube page.
One of the nominees for best musical is Hell’s Kitchen, a jukebox musical that features songs by Alice and is loosely based on her life.
Rachel McAdams (pictured on the Mary Jane stage), Alicia Keys, Liev Schreiber and more stars earned Tony Award nominations Tuesday morning.
The other nominees for best musical include Suffs, a show about the suffrage movement that has Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai among its producers.
Illinoise, a jukebox musical from the play of Sufjan Stevens, and The Outsider, based on the classic young adult novel of the same name, also compete for the top prize.
The nominations for best musical were completed by Water For Elephants, an adaptation of the successful novel that was previously made into a film starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon.
Rachel McAdams was nominated for best lead actress in a play in honor of her work in Mary Jane, starring the mother of a son with cerebral palsy.
She takes on Sarah Paulson for Appropriate, a dark comedy about a man’s adult children who fight over his estate after his death.
Jessica Lange is also nominated for Mother Play, playing the mother of teenagers played by Tony winner Celia Keenan-Bolger and The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons.
So is Betsy Aiden in Prayer For The French Republic, a dark comedy by Joshua Harmon about rising anti-Semitism in France.
Rounding out Rachel’s category is Amy Ryan for the lead role in John Patrick Shanley’s classic drama Doubt: A Parable, which was made into an acclaimed film starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Viola Davis.
Liev Schreiber is nominated for best lead actor in a play for Doubt: A Parable, for the role of the priest accused of sexually abusing a child.
He takes on a formidable group of actors, including Succession star Jeremy Strong, in a revival of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy Of The People.
William Jackson Harper is also nominated in that category for Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, as is Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch and Michael Stuhlbarg for Patriots.
Jim Parsons for Mother Play is nominated for best featured actor in a play, against Corey Stoll for Appropriate and Will Brill, Eli Gelb and Tom Pecinka, all three for the play Stereophonic about a rising rock band in the ’70s .
