Six Tony winners vying for Best Actress

Scroll down to the item "Eleven Characters In Search of a Tony." It describes how the Best Actress in a Play category this season is a race between six Tony winners and some other major award winners as well. Pretty impressive!

And in the same column, comic Rita Rudner gives dish from her days on Broadway in "Follies" and "Annie."

http://www.out.com/michael-musto/2015/8/24/stonewall-survivor-spills-all-it-was-70-people-color

For those who don't want to scroll through the article, these are the 11 actresses that the writer of the article identifies as nomination contenders for Leading Actress in a Play (I reorganized them into alphabetical order for impartiality):

• Nina Arianda (Fool for Love)

• Annaleigh Ashford (Sylvia)

• Eve Best (Old Times)

• Kiera Knightley (Therese Racquin)

• Jessica Lange (Long Day’s Journey into Night)

• Linda Lavin (Our Mother’s Brief Affair)

• Andrea Martin (Noises Off)

• Laurie Metcalf (Misery)

• Sophie Okonedo (The Crucible)

• Cicely Tyson (The Gin Game)

• Nicola Walker (A View From The Bridge)

Updated On: 8/24/15 at 02:44 PM