91st Drama League Awards

The 91st Drama League Awards were held on May 16, 2025, recognizing excellence in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions during the 2024–25 season. Nominations were announced on April 22, 2025, with Maybe Happy Ending receiving the most nominations with 10. It won the most awards of the night with two wins, tied with Sunset Blvd. and Oh, Mary!.

Winners and nominees

The 2024-2025 Drama League Awards nominations were announced on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, by current stars of The Great Gatsby and Cabaret, respectively, Sarah Hyland and Orville Peck. The awards ceremony took place on Friday, May 16, 2025, at the The Ziegfeld Ballroom, hosted by journalist Frank DiLella. Special awards recipients included:

  • Kate Navin and Audible Theatre - Contribution to the Theatre Award
  • Lea Salonga - Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Award
  • Whitney White - Founders Award for Excellence in Directing
  • Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron - Gratitude Award

Winners included Oh, Mary, which received Outstanding Production of a Play and Outstanding Director of a Play for Sam Pinkleton; Maybe Happy Ending, which won Outstanding Production of a Musical and Outstanding Director of a Musical for Michael Arden; a tie between Eureka Day and Vanya for Outstanding Revival of a Play; and Sunset Blvd., which won Outstanding Revival of a Musical along with the Distinguished Performance awarded to Nicole Scherzinger.

Category

Winner and nominees

Outstanding Production of a Play

* Oh, Mary by Cole Escola

  • The Antiquities by Jordan Harrison
  • Becoming Eve by Em Weinstein
  • English by Sanaz Toossi
  • Good Bones by James Ijames
  • Good Night, and Good Luck by George Clooney and Grant Heslov
  • Here There Are Blueberries by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
  • John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower
  • Liberation by Bess Wohl
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, adapted by Kip Williams
  • Purpose by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Stranger Things: The First Shadow by Kate Trefry
  • Walden by Amy Berryman

Outstanding Production of a Musical

*Maybe Happy Ending

  • BOOP! The Musical
  • Buena Vista Social Club
  • Dead Outlaw
  • Death Becomes Her
  • Drag: The Musical
  • Just in Time
  • Macbeth in Stride
  • Operation Mincemeat
  • Real Women Have Curves
  • Smash
  • Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Outstanding Revival of a Play (tie)

*Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector and Vanya by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Simon Stephens

  • The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
  • Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
  • Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
  • Home by Samm-Art Williams
  • Othello by William Shakespeare
  • Romeo + Juliet by William Shakespeare
  • A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
  • Wine in the Wilderness by Alice Childress
  • Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang

Outstanding Revival of a Musical

*Sunset Blvd.

  • Cats: The Jellicle Ball
  • Floyd Collins
  • Gypsy
  • The Last Five Years
  • Once Upon a Mattress
  • The Marriage of Figaro
  • Pirates! The Penzance Musical
  • Urinetown

Outstanding Direction of a Play

*Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary!

  • Knud Adams, English
  • Saheem Ali, Good Bones
  • David Cromer, Good Night, and Good Luck
  • Tyne Rafaeli, Becoming Eve
  • Anna D. Shapiro, Eureka Day
  • Danya Taymor, John Proctor is the Villain
  • Whitney White, Liberation
  • Kip Williams, The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Sam Yates, Vanya

Outstanding Direction of a Musical

*Michael Arden, Maybe Happy Ending

  • Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her
  • Robert Hastie, Operation Mincemeat
  • Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
  • Jamie Lloyd, Sunset Blvd.
  • Jerry Mitchell, BOOP! The Musical
  • Susan Stroman, Smash
  • Alex Timbers, Just In Time
  • Annie Tippe, Three Houses
  • Sergio Trujillo, Real Women Have Curves
  • George C. Wolfe, Gypsy

Distinguished Performance

*Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Blvd.

  • Tala Ashe, English
  • Brooks Ashmanskas, Smash
  • Stori Ayers, Home
  • Natalie Venetia Belcon, Buena Vista Social Club
  • George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck
  • Kit Connor, Romeo + Juliet
  • Tatianna Córdoba, Real Women Have Curves
  • Darren Criss, Maybe Happy Ending
  • Kieran Culkin, Glengarry Glen Ross
  • André De Shields, Cats: The Jellicle Ball
  • Tommy Dorfman, Becoming Eve
  • Robert Downey, Jr., McNeal
  • Adam Driver, Hold On to Me Darling
  • Andrew Durand, Dead Outlaw
  • Cole Escola, Oh, Mary!
  • Mia Farrow, The Roommate
  • Tom Francis, Sunset Blvd.
  • Amber Gray, Eureka Day
  • David Greenspan, I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan
  • Jonathan Groff, Just In Time
  • Jake Gyllenhaal, Othello
  • Ryan J. Haddad, Hold Me In The Water
  • Megan Hilty, Death Becomes Her
  • Robyn Hurder, Smash
  • LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Purpose
  • Nick Jonas, The Last Five Years
  • Ramin Karimloo, Pirates! The Penzance Musical
  • Gracie Lawrence, Just In Time
  • Beth Leavel, Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
  • Justina Machado, Real Women Have Curves
  • Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat
  • Louis McCartney, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
  • Idina Menzel, Redwood
  • Paul Mescal, A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Jinkx Monsoon, Pirates! The Penzance Musical
  • Marjan Neshat, English
  • Sandra Oh, The Welkin
  • Lily Rabe, Ghosts
  • Jasmine Amy Rogers, BOOP! The Musical
  • Lea Salonga, Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends
  • Andrew Scott, Vanya
  • Helen J. Shen, Maybe Happy Ending
  • Jennifer Simard, Death Becomes Her
  • Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Ephraim Sykes, Our Town
  • Alaska Thunderfuck, Drag: The Musical
  • Adrienne Warren, The Last Five Years
  • Denzel Washington, Othello
  • Joy Woods, Gypsy
  • Kara Young, Purpose and Table 17

Special awards

Recipient

Award

Kate Navin and Audible Theatre

Contribution to the Theatre Award

Lea Salonga

Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Award

Whitney White

Founders Award for Excellence in Directing

Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron

Gratitude Award

References

Drama League Awards Category:2025 theatre awards