Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival

The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival is an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor excellence in revivals of Off-Broadway play or musical productions since 1991.

Award winners and nominees

Key

1990s

Year

Production

Author

Producers

Ref.

1991

Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare

Lincoln Center Theater

1992

Boesman and Lena

Athol Fugard

New Federal Theatre

1993

Henry V

William Shakespeare

The Public Theater

1994

Owners'' /Traps''

Caryl Churchill

Off-Broadway production

1995

Merrily We Roll Along

Stephen Sondheim and George Furth

York Theatre Company

1996

Entertaining Mr. Sloane

Joe Orton

Roundabout Theatre Company

1997

June Moon

George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner

Drama Dept.

1998

All My Sons

Arthur Miller

Roundabout Theatre Company

1999

The Mystery of Irma Vep

Charles Ludlam

Actors Theatre of Louisville

2000s

Year

Production

Author

Producers

Ref.

2000

The Torch-Bearers

George Kelly

Roundabout Theatre Company

2001

Tiny Alice

Edward Albee

Second Stage Theatre

for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf

Ntozake Shange

DIA Theatrical, Inc.

Juno and the Paycock

Sean O’Casey

Roundabout Theatre Company

What the Butler Saw

Joe Orton

The New Group

2002

Cymbeline

William Shakespeare

Theatre for a New Audience

Crimes of the Heart

Beth Henley

Second Stage Theatre

Hobson's Choice

Harold Brighouse

Atlantic Theatre Company

Pirates of Penzance

W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, Michael Scheman and Steven Gross

On Deck Entertainment / Brett Singer & Diane Krausz

2003

Fifth of July

Lanford Wilson

Signature Theatre Company

Burn This

Lanford Wilson

Signature Theatre Company / Jack M. Dalgleish, Stephanie Joel / The Joseph Papp Public Theater / New York Shakespeare Festival

Comedians

Trevor Griffiths

The New Group

Don Juan

Molière and Christopher Hampton

Theatre for a New Audience

2004

No award given.

2005

Counsellor-at-Law

Elmer Rice

Peccadillo Theater Company

Engaged

W. S. Gilbert

Theatre for a New Audience

Finian's Rainbow

E.Y. Harburg, Fred Saidy, and Burton Lane

Irish Repertory Theatre

Hedda Gabler

Henrik Ibsen and Christopher Hampton

New York Theatre Workshop

Hurlyburly

David Rabe

The New Group

2006

The Trip to Bountiful

Horton Foote

Signature Theatre Company

Abigail’s Party

Mike Leigh

The New Group

Celebration and The Room

Harold Pinter

Atlantic Theater Company

Funnyhouse of a Negro

Adrienne Kennedy

The Classical Theatre of Harlem

Mrs. Warren's Profession

George Bernard Shaw

Irish Repertory Theatre

2007

Two Trains Running

August Wilson

Signature Theatre Company

King Hedley II

August Wilson

Signature Theatre Company

Landscape of the Body

John Guare

The Voysey Inheritance

Harley Granville-Barker and David Mamet

Atlantic Theater Company

2008

Ohio State Murders

Adrienne Kennedy

Theatre for a New Audience

Beckett Shorts

Samuel Beckett

New York Theatre Workshop

Dividing the Estate

Horton Foote

Primary Stages and Jamie deRoy

The Misanthrope

Molière and Tony Harrison

New York Theatre Workshop

Seussical

Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, and Eric Idle

Theatreworks USA

2009

Our Town

Thornton Wilder

Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian, Tom Wirtshafter, Ted Snowdon, Eagle Productions, Dena Hammerstein, Pam Pariseau, The Weinstein Company, Burnt Umber Productions, and Producers

Enter Laughing The Musical

Joseph Stein, Stan Daniels, and Carl Reiner

York Theatre Company

Othello

William Shakespeare

Theatre for a New Audience

The Cripple of Inishmaan

Martin McDonagh

Atlantic Theater Company and Druid Theatre Company

The Glass Cage

J.B. Priestley

Mint Theater Company

2010s

Year

Production

Author

Producers

Ref.

2010

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

Roundabout Theatre Company and Long Wharf Theatre

A Lie of the Mind

Sam Shepard

The New Group

Candida

George Bernard Shaw

Irish Repertory Theatre and Alexis Doyle

Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare

Theatre for a New Audience

The Emperor Jones

Eugene O’Neill

Irish Repertory Theatre

2011

Angels in America

Tony Kushner

Signature Theatre Company

The Collection & A Kind of Alaska

Harold Pinter

Atlantic Theater Company

The Little Foxes

Lillian Hellman

New York Theatre Workshop

The Misanthrope

Moliere and Richard Wilbur

The Pearl Theatre Company

Three Sisters

Anton Chekhov and Paul Schmidt

Classic Stage Company

2012

The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov and John Christopher Jones

Classic Stage Company

Blood Knot

Athol Fugard

Signature Theatre Company

The Lady from Dubuque

Edward Albee

Look Back in Anger

John Osborne

Roundabout Theatre Company

The Maids

Jean Genet and Bernard Frechtman

Red Bull Theater

2013

The Piano Lesson

August Wilson

Signature Theatre Company

All In The Timing

David Ives

Primary Stages and Jamie deRoy

My Children! My Africa!

Athol Fugard

Signature Theatre Company

Passion

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine

Classic Stage Company

Talley's Folly

Lanford Wilson

Roundabout Theatre Company

2014

Good Person of Szechwan

Bertolt Brecht and John Willett

The Foundry Theatre

Hand to God

Robert Askins

MCC Theater

London Wall and The Model Apartment

John van Druten and Donald Margulies

Mint Theater Company and Primary Stages

The Weir

Conor McPherson

Irish Repertory Theatre

2015

Into the Woods

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine

Roundabout Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre Center, and Fiasco Theater

Fashions for Men

Ferenc Molnár

Mint Theater Company

Indian Ink

Tom Stoppard

Roundabout Theatre Company and American Conservatory Theater

Sticks and Bones

David Rabe

The New Group

The Wayside Motor Inn

A.R. Gurney

Signature Theatre Company

2016

The Robber Bridegroom

Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman

Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Daryl Roth

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

John Ford

Red Bull Theater

Cloud Nine

Caryl Churchill

Atlantic Theater Company

Mother Courage And Her Children

Bertolt Brecht and John Willett

Classic Stage Company

Women Without Men

Hazel Ellis

Mint Theater Company

2017

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler, and Christopher Bond

Rachel Edwards, Jenny Gersten, Seaview Productions, Nate Koch, Fiona Rudin, Barrow Street Theatre, Jean Doumanian, Rebecca Gold, and Tooting Arts Club

The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World AKA the Negro Book of the Dead

Suzan-Lori Parks

Signature Theatre Company

Othello

William Shakespeare

New York Theatre Workshop

Signature Plays: The Sandbox, Drowning, and Funnyhouse of a Negro

Edward Albee, María Irene Fornés, and Adrienne Kennedy

Signature Theatre Company

Sweet Charity

Neil Simon, Cy Coleman, and Dorothy Fields

The New Group and Kevin McCollum

2018

Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train

Stephen Adly Guirgis

Signature Theatre Company

Fucking A

Suzan-Lori Parks

Signature Theatre Company

In The Blood

The Government Inspector

Jeffrey Hatcher and Nikolai Gogol

Red Bull Theater

Torch Song

Harvey Fierstein

Second Stage Theater and Richie Jackson

2019

Carmen Jones

Oscar Hammerstein II and Georges Bizet

Classic Stage Company and Alan D. and Barbara Marks, Eric Falkenstein, and Covent Garden Productions

Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine

Lynn Nottage

Signature Theatre Company

Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish

Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Shraga Friedman

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene and Paul & Rodica Burg, UJA-Federation of New York, Stanley & Marion Bergman Family Charitable Fund, The David Berg Foundation, Paul & Peggy Bernstein, Mark & Audrey Mlotek, Mark E. Seitelman Law Offices, in association with Esti & Barry Brahver and Sheila Nevins

Happy Birthday, Wanda June

Kurt Vonnegut

Wheelhouse Theater Company

The Shadow of a Gunman

Sean O’Casey

Irish Repertory Theatre

2020s

Year

Production

Author

Producers

Ref.

2020

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf

Ntozake Shange

The Public Theater

A Bright Room Called Day

Tony Kushner

The Public Theater

Fires in the Mirror

Anna Deavere Smith

Michael Benjamin Washington and Signature Theatre Company

Little Shop of Horrors

Howard Ashman and Alan Menken

Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens, Hunter Arnold, Mickey Liddell, Caiola Productions, Curt Cronin, John Joseph, DDM Productions, DeSantis-Baugh Productions, Elizabeth Dewberry & Ali Ahmet Kocabiyik, Wendy Federman, Roy Furman, Deborah Gree, Kayla Greenspan, Marguerite Hoffman, Sally Cade Holmes, Latitude Link, Seriff Productions, Silva Theatrical Group, Eric Gelb/Oliver Roth

MAC BETH

William Shakespeare and Erica Schmidt

Red Bull Theater

2021

No ceremony held due to COVID-19 pandemic.

2022

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

Anna Deavere Smith

Signature Theatre Company

Assassins

Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman, and Charles Gilbert, Jr.

Classic Stage Company

The Chinese Lady

Lloyd Suh

Ma-Yi Theater Company, The Public Theater and Barrington Stage Company

2023

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

The Public Theater

A Bright New Boise

Samuel D. Hunter

Signature Theatre Company

Endgame

Samuel Beckett

Irish Repertory Theatre

A Man of No Importance

Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, and Lynn Ahrens

Classic Stage Company

Merrily We Roll Along

Stephen Sondheim and George Furth

New York Theatre Workshop

2024

Translations

Brian Friel

Irish Repertory Theatre

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea

John Patrick Shanley

Play Hooky Productions, Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jayne Baron Sherman, Stella La Rue, Roth-Manella Productions, Sony Music Masterworks, Jillian Robbins, David Binder, Folk Productions, Antonio Marion, Daniel Schwartz, Wessex Grove, Stephanie Choate, Hillary Wyatt

I Can Get It for You Wholesale

Jerome Weidman, Harold Rome, and John Weidman

Classic Stage Company

Philadelphia, Here I Come!

Brian Friel

Irish Repertory Theatre

Sunset Baby

Dominique Morisseau

Signature Theatre Company

2025

Our Class

Tadeusz Słobodzianek and Norman Allen

MART Foundation, Arlekin Players Theatre, and Jadow Productions

Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave

Samuel Beckett

Irish Repertory Theatre

Ghosts

Henrik Ibsen and Mark O’Rowe

Lincoln Center Theater

Hold on to Me Darling

Kenneth Lonergan

Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jillian Robbins, Stella La Rue, Hillary Wyatt, Richard Batchelder, Jane Bergere, Fentybaer, Lamf Protozoa, LD Entertainment, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Madison Wells Live, Oren Michels, Benjamin Nelson, Roth-Manella Productions, Cynthia Stroum, David Thomas Tao, Tom Tuft, Bruce & Peggy Wanta, Karen Brooks, Wessex Grove

Wine in the Wilderness

Alice Childress

Classic Stage Company

2026

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin

Barbara Whitman, Aaron Glick, Timothy Bloom, James L. Nederlander, Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Debra Martin Chase, Rachel Sussman, Patrick Catullo, Ryan Solomon, David Stone

Bus Stop

William Inge

Classic Stage Company, National Asian American Theatre Company, and Transport Group

Gruesome Playground Injuries

Rajiv Joseph

Seaview, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jillian Robbins, Adam Zell, Stella La Rue, Willette & Manny Klausner, Joan Rechnitz, Kyle Valentine, Bergère Cohen Productions, Steinfast & Moellenberg, Imaginespace, No Guarantees, Melissa Chamberlain & Michael McCartney, deRoy & Trezza, Lucille Lortel Theatre

Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare

Red Bull Theatre

The Weir

Conor McPherson

Irish Repertory Theatre

Theatres with multiple wins

6 wins
  • Roundabout Theatre Company
  • Signature Theatre Company
3 wins
  • The Public Theater
2 wins
  • Theatre for a New Audience
  • Classic Stage Company

Theatres with multiple nominations

22 nominations
  • Signature Theatre Company
10 nominations
  • Roundabout Theatre Company
  • Irish Repertory Theatre
9 nominations
  • Classic Stage Company
7 nominations
  • The New Group
6 nominations
  • The Public Theater
  • Atlantic Theatre Company
  • Theatre for a New Audience
  • New York Theatre Workshop
4 nominations
  • Mint Theater Company
  • Red Bull Theater
3 nominations
  • Second Stage Theatre
  • Primary Stages
2 nominations
  • Lincoln Center Theater
  • York Theatre Company

Titles with multiple nominations

2 nominations
  • Measure for Measure
  • Othello
  • Merrily We Roll Along
  • for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
  • The Misanthrope

See also

  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play
  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival