65th Tony Awards Stevenson Award is awarded to Eve Ensler, founder of V-Day. The Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre is given to animal trainer William Berloni, The Drama Book Shop (West 40th Street in Manhattan), and Sharon Jensen and Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts. The Special Tony Award is given to Handspring Puppet Company, "for creating lifelike horses (manipulated by three actor-puppeteers)". The Regional Theatre Tony Award is presented to Lookingglass Theatre Company (Chicago, Illinois). Source: Tony Awards "The Book of Mormon" received 14 nominations, the most of any production, and won nine, including Best Musical; "The Scottsboro Boys" received 12
Theatre Under The Stars (Houston) for non-profit musical theatre performing arts organizations. With the merger, TUTS Education now provides extended on-site programming as well as off-site programming for children in schools, hospitals and other community-based sites. Founded in 2002 and named in honor of native Houstonian and ten time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune, the awards honor the best and brightest in Houston's high school musical theatre programs. Annually, forty-five high schools located within fifty miles of downtown Houston produce a full-length musical in order to compete in 15 categories: Leading Actor, Leading Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Featured Performer, Ensemble, Scenic Design, Lighting Design,