Nominations in 14 categories and 2 special awards were announced today by the Off-Broadway League for the 2010 Lucille Lortel Awards recognizing outstanding achievement Off-Broadway. This year’s ceremony will benefit The Actors Fund. Leading the pack with six nominations each are The Glass Menagerie, The Pride, and When the Rain Stops Falling. A full list of nominees follows below.

OUTSTANDING PLAY

• Clybourne Park; Playwrights Horizons, Producer; Written by Bruce Norris.
• The Brother/Sister Plays; The Public Theater in association with McCarter Theatre, Producers; Written by Tarell Alvin McCraney.
• The Orphans' Home Cycle; Signature Theatre Company and Hartford Stage, Producers; Written by Horton Foote.
• The Temperamentals; Daryl Roth, Stacy Shane and Martian Entertainment, Producers; Written by Jon Marans.
• When The Rain Stops Falling; Lincoln Center Theater, Producer; Written by Andrew Bovell

OUTSTANDING MUSICAL

• Click, Clack, Moo; Theatreworks USA, Producer; Book by Billy Aronson, Lyrics by Kevin Del Aguila, Music by Brad Alexander, Based on the book by Doreen Cronin with illustrations by Betsy Lewin.
• Everyday Rapture; Second Stage Theatre, Producer; Written by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott.
• The Scottsboro Boys; Vineyard Theatre, Producer; Book by David Thompson, Lyrics and Music by John Kander and Fred Ebb.
• The Toxic Avenger; Jean Cheever and Tom Polum, Producers; Book and Lyrics by Joe DiPietro, Music and Lyrics by David Bryan, Based on Lloyd Kaufman's The Toxic Avenger.
• Yank! A WWII Love Story; The York Theatre Company, Maren Berthelsen/Pamela Koslow/Stuart Wilk, Matt Schicker, Hugh Hayes, Jim Kierstead and Sondra Healy/Shidan Majidi, Producers; Music by Joseph Zellnik, Book and Lyrics by David Zellnik.

OUTSTANDING SOLO SHOW

• A Boy and His Soul; Vineyard Theatre, Producer; Written and performed by Colman Domingo.
• Let Me Down Easy; Second Stage Theatre, Producer; Written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith.
• Nightingale; Manhattan Theatre Club, Producer; Written and performed by Lynn Redgrave.The Lady With All the Answers; Cherry Lane Theatre, Producer; Written by David Rambo, Performed by Judith Ivey.
• Zero Hour; Kurt Peterson and Edmund Gaynes, in association with The Peccadillo Theater Company, Producers; Written and performed by Jim Brochu.

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL

• A Lie of the Mind; The New Group, Producer; Written by Sam Shepard.
• Candida; The Irish Repertory Theatre and Alexis Doyle, Producers; Written by George Bernard Shaw.
• Measure for Measure; Theatre for a New Audience, Producer; Written by William Shakespeare.
• The Emperor Jones; The Irish Repertory Theatre, Producer; Written by Eugene O'Neill
• The Glass Menagerie; Roundabout Theatre Company, Producer; Written by Tennessee Williams.

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR
Walter Bobbie, Venus in Fur
David Cromer, When the Rain Stops Falling
Gordon Edelstein, The Glass Menagerie
Pam MacKinnon, Clybourne Park
Joe Mantello, The Pride

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
Jeffry Denman, Yank! A WWII Love Story
Ken Roberson, A Boy and His Soul
Wendy Seyb, Click, Clack, Moo
Wendy Seyb, The Toxic Avenger
Susan Stroman, The Scottsboro Boys

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR
Hugh Dancy, The Pride
Patch Darragh, The Glass Menagerie
Brandon Victor Dixon, The Scottsboro Boys
John Douglas Thompson, The Emperor Jones
Michael Urie, The Temperamentals

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS
Nina Arianda, Venus in Fur
Jayne Houdyshell, Coraline
Judith Ivey, The Glass Menagerie
Cristin Milioti, Stunning
Sherie Rene Scott, Everyday Rapture

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR
Keith Carradine, A Lie of the Mind
Adam James, The Pride
David Pittu, Equivocation
Jeremy Shamos, Clybourne Park
C.J. Wilson, Happy Now?

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS
Tracee Chimo, Circle Mirror Transformation
Mary Beth Hurt, When the Rain Stops Falling
Laurie Metcalf, A Lie of the Mind
Nancy Opel, The Toxic Avenger
Andrea Riseborough, The Pride

OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN
David Korins, When the Rain Stops Falling
David Korins, Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them
Derek McLane, A Lie of the Mind
Michael Yeargan, The Glass Menagerie
David Zinn, The Pride

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Miranda Hoffman, Stunning
Martin Pakledinaz, The Glass Menagerie
Clint Ramos, So Help Me God!
Ilona Somogyi, Clybourne Park
Anita Yavich, Venus in Fur

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
Mark Barton, Circle Mirror Transformation
Paul Gallo, The Pride
Peter Kaczorowski, The Brother/Sister Plays
Tyler Micoleau, When the Rain Stops Falling
Rui Rita, The Orphans' Home Cycle

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN
Kurt Fischer, The Toxic Avenger
John Gromada, The Orphans' Home Cycle
Fitz Patton, When the Rain Stops Falling
Shane Rettig, A Lie of the Mind
Ryan Rumery and Christian Frederickson, The Emperor Jones

SPECIAL AWARDS
Outstanding Body of Work: Lincoln Center Theater
Lifetime Achievement Award: Daryl Roth

Now in its 25th year, the Lortel Awards will be handed out on Sunday, May 2, 2010 at Terminal 5, 610 West 56th Street, between 11th & 12th Avenues in New York City. Cocktails begin at 6 PM EST and the Awards Ceremony begins at 8 PM EST. With the “Off-Broadway Comes Home” theme, this 25th anniversary show features live performances from outstanding talent that started Off-Broadway, celebrity presenters, a curated gallery of historic programs, production stills, costumes, props from the last 25 years of Off-Broadway and several surprises, all in a new Midtown location, Terminal 5.

This year, members of the general public are welcome to view the ceremony that begins at 8 PM. Public tickets will be $75 and will be available starting on April 1, 2010 at www.ticketcentral.com.

A cocktail reception honoring the nominees will take place on Monday, April 19th, 2010 at 5PM EST Matthew Weingarten’s Inside Park at St. Bart’s, located at 325 Park Avenue at 50th Street.

Representatives of the Off-Broadway League, Actors’ Equity Association, Stage Directors & Choreographers Society and the Lucille Lortel Foundation in addition to theatre journalists, academics and other Off-Broadway professionals serve on the Voting Committee. The 2010 Voting Committee is comprised of Terry Berliner, John Clinton Eisner, Kurt Everhart, Peter Filichia, Jeffrey Fiske, George Forbes, Susan Gallin, Eleanor Goldhar, Melanie Herman, Linda Herring, Walt Kiskaddon, Renee Lasher, Russell Lehrer, Niclas Nagler, Barbara Pasternack, Richard Price, Mark Rossier, David Savran, and Barbara Toy.

The Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation. Additional support provided by Theatre Development Fund. Support also provided by Inside Park. The Lortel Awards website, www.LortelAward.com, will have updates and news about the ceremony, hosts and media releases. To follow the Lortel Awards on Twitter, please go to: twitter.com/LortelAward; Facebook at the Lucille Lortel Awards Group.

NOMINATIONS BY SHOW
The Glass Menagerie 6
The Pride 6
When The Rain Stops Falling 6
A Lie of the Mind 5
Clybourne Park 4
The Toxic Avenger 4
The Emperor Jones 3
The Orphans' Home Cycle 3
The Scottsboro Boys 3
Venus in Fur 3
A Boy and His Soul 2
Circle Mirror Transformation 2
Click, Clack, Moo 2
Everyday Rapture 2
Stunning 2
The Brother/Sister Plays 2
The Temperamentals 2
Yank! A WWII Love Story 2
Candida 1
Coraline 1
Equivocation 1
Happy Now? 1
Let Me Down Easy 1
Measure for Measure 1
Nightingale 1
So Help Me God! 1
The Lady With All the Answers 1
Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them 1
Zero Hour 1