Michael Grandage, Stephen Fry and Mark Rylance among Tony nominees

This year's Tony Award nominations, which were announced today, feature a strong showing of British talent.

Those gaining nods include director Michael Grandage (for The Cripple of Inishmaan), Twelfth Night stars Mark Rylance, Samuel Barnett, Paul Chadihi and Stephen Fry, and actress Sophie Okonedo.

Grandage – who won Best Director at the WhatsOnStage Awards in February – is joined on the Best Direction of a Play shortlist by fellow Brits Tim Carroll (Twelfth Night) and John Tiffany (The Glass Menagerie). Elsewhere Es Devlin, Christopher Oram and Bob Crowley feature in the Best Scenic Design of a Play category.

This year's most nominated production is musical comedy adaptation A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder – based on the same source for iconic British film Kind Hearts and Coronets – with ten.

The results of the 68th Tony Awards will be announced in a ceremony hosted by Hugh Jackman on 8 June 2014.

See selected categories below – for a full list and further coverage visit TheaterMania.com

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Samuel Barnett – Twelfth Night
Bryan Cranston – All The Way
Chris O’Dowd – Of Mice and Men
Mark Rylance – Richard III
Tony Shalhoub – Act One

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Tyne Daly – Mothers and Sons
LaTanya Richardson Jackson – A Raisin in the Sun
Cherry Jones – The Glass Menagerie
Audra McDonald – Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
Estelle Parsons – The Velocity of Autumn

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Musical

Neil Patrick Harris – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Ramin Karimloo – Les Miserables
Andy Karl – Rocky
Jefferson Mays – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder
Bryce Pinkham – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Musical

Mary Bridget Davies – A Night With Janis Joplin
Sutton Foster – Violet
Idina Menzel – If/Then
Jessie Mueller – Beautiful – The Carole King Musical
Kelli O’Hara – The Bridges of Madison County

Best Revival of a Play

The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Glass Menagerie
A Raisin In The Sun
Twelfth Night

Best Revival of a Musical

Hedwig and the Angry Itch
Les Miserables
Violet

Best Play

Act One
All The Way
Casa Valentina
Mothers and Sons
Outside Mullingar

Best Musical

After Midnight
Aladdin
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical
A Gentleman’s Guide To Love & Murder

Best Scenic Design of a Play

Beowulf Boritt – Act One
Bob Crowley – The Glass Menagerie
Es Devlin – Machinal
Chropsthoer Oram – The Cripple of Inishmaan

Best Direction of a Play

Tim Carroll – Twelfth Night
Michael Grandage – The Cripple of Inishmaan
Kenny Leon – A Raisin in the Sun
John Tiffany – The Glass Menagerie

Best Direction of a Musical

Warren Carlyle – After Midnight
Michael Mayer – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Leigh Silverman – Violet
Darko Tresnjak – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Best Performance by an Actor in Featured Role in a Play

Reed Birney – Casa Valentina
Paul Chahidi – Twelfth Night
Stephen Fry – Twelfth Night
Mark Rylance – Twelfth Night
Brian J Smith – The Glass Menagerie

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role In A Play

Sarah Green – The Cripple of Inishmaan
Celia Keenan Bolger – The Glass Menagerie
Sophie Okenedo – A Raisin in the Sun
Aniki Noni Rose – A Raisin in the Sun
Mare Winningham – Casa Valentina