1956 / Actor (Musical)
Ray Walston, Damn Yankees
Stephen Douglass, Damn Yankees
William Johnson, Pipe Dream
1956 / Actor (Play)
Paul Muni, Inherit the Wind
Ben Gazzara, A Hatful of Rain
Boris Karloff, The Lark
Michael Redgrave, Tiger at the Gates
Edward G. Robinson, Middle of the Night
1956 / Actress (Musical)
Gwen Verdon, Damn Yankees
Carol Channing, The Vamp
Nancy Walker, Phoenix '55
1956 / Actress (Play)
Julie Harris, The Lark
Barbara Bel Geddes, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Gladys Cooper, The Chalk Garden
Ruth Gordon, The Matchmaker
Siobhan McKenna, The Chalk Garden
Susan Strasberg, The Diary of Anne Frank
1956 / Actor (Featured Role – Musical)
Russ Brown, Damn Yankees
Mike Kellin, Pipe Dream
Will Mahoney, City Center's Finian's Rainbow
Scott Merrill, The Threepenny Opera
1956 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)
Ed Begley, Inherit the Wind
Anthony Franciosa, A Hatful of Rain
Andy Griffith, Not Time for Sergeants
Anthony Quayle, Tamburlaine the Great
Fritz Weaver, The Chalk Garden
1956 / Actress (Featured Role – Musical)
Lotte Lenya, The Threepenny Opera
Rae Allen, Damn Yankees
Pat Carroll, Catch a Star
Judy Tyler, Pipe Dream
1956 / Actress (Featured Role – Play)
Una Merkel, The Ponder Heart
Diane Cilento, Tiger at the Gates
Anne Jackson, Middle of the Night
Elaine Stritch, Bus Stop
1956 / Choreographer
Bob Fosse, Damn Yankees
Robert Alton, The Vamp
Boris Runanin, Phoenix '55 / Pipe Dream
Anna Sokolow, Red Roses for Me
1956 / Conductor and Musical Director
Hal Hastings, Damn Yankees
Salvatore Dell'Isola, Pipe Dream
Milton Rosenstock, The Vamp
1956 / Costume Designer
Alvin Colt, Pipe Dream
Mainbocher, The Great Sebastians
Alvin Colt, The Lark / Phoenix '55 / Pipe Dream
Helene Pons, The Diary of Anne Frank / Heavenly Twins / A View from the Bridge
1956 / Director [Play or Musical]
Tyrone Guthrie, The Matchmaker
Joseph Anthony, The Lark
Harold Clurman, Bus Stop / Pipe Dream / Tiger at the Gates
Tyrone Guthrie, The Matchmaker / Six Characters in Search of an Author / Tamburlaine the Great
Garson Kanin, The Diary of Anne Frank
Elia Kazan, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Albert Marre, The Chalk Garden
Herman Shumlin, Inherit the Wind
1956 / Musical
Damn Yankees by George Abbot and Douglass Wallop. Music by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. Produced by Frederick Brisson, Robert Griffith, and Harold S. Prince in association with Albert B. Taylor.
Pipe Dream. Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Richard Rodgers. Produced by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
1956 / Play
The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Produced by Kermit Bloomgarden.
Bus Stop by William Inge. Produced by Robert Whitehead and Roger L. Stevens.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. Produced by The Playwrights' Company,
Tiger at the Gates by Jean Giraudoux, adapted by Christopher Fry. Produced by Robert L. Joseph, The Playwrights' Company, and Henry M. Margolis.
The Chalk Garden by Enid Bagnold. Produced by Irene Mayer Selznick.
1956 / Producer (Musical)
Frederick Brisson, Robert Griffith, and Harold S. Prince (Harold Prince) in association with Albert B. Taylor, Damn Yankees
1956 / Producer (Play)
Kermit Bloomgarden, The Diary of Anne Frank
1956 / Scenic Designer
Peter Larkin, Inherit the Wind / No Time for Sergeants
Boris Aronson, The Diary of Anne Frank / Bus Stop / Once Upon a Tailor / A View from the Bridge
Ben Edwards, The Ponder Heart / Someone Waiting / The Honeys
Jo Mielziner, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / The Lark / Middle of the Night / Pipe Dream
Raymond Sovey, The Great Sebastians
1956 / Stage Technician
Harry Green, electrician and sound man, Middle of the Night / Damn Yankees