The remaining best play nominee is the Beirut-set drama 'Someone Who'll Watch Over Me,' which features 'The Crying Game's' Stephen Rea, who is also up for best actor. Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson were nominated for acting awards for 'Anna Christie.'

Madeline Kahn and Jane Alexander were both nominated for best actress in 'Sisters,' and the show also got a best director nomination for Daniel Sullivan (whose 'The Flying Karamazov Brothers in The Brothers Karamazov' is now at Arena Stage). The much-admired Roundabout Theatre production of Eugene O'Neill's 'Anna Christie' is also up for five, including best revival. The second runner-up is Wendy Wasserstein's comedy 'The Sisters Rosensweig' with five nominations, including best play. Tug Yourgrau's 'Jacob Zulu,' an anti-apartheid drama up for best play, got strong reviews but closed early. 'Angels' has no really strong competition. As widely expected, Ron Leibman was nominated for best leading actor for his voracious, galvanizing performance as Roy Cohn. Wolfe), best scenic design and two best featured actor awards (Joe Mantello and Stephen Spinella). Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Angels' is up for best play, best direction (by George C.

It's a competition between rock and old-fashioned show tunes, between Pete Townshend of the Who and the longtime musical comedy team of John Kander and Fred Ebb, between the regional theater's Des McAnuff and Mr. Among plays, the flat-out leader was, not surprisingly, 'Angels in America: Millennium Approaches,' which received nine nominations, followed by 'The Song of Jacob Zulu' with six.Īmong other categories, 'Tommy' and 'Spider Woman' are up for best musical, best book of a musical, best original score and best director. 'The Who's Tommy' and 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' headed the field of the 1992-93 Tony Award nominations announced yesterday at Sardi's in New York, with 11 nominations each.

Blood Rock by Anthony Francis