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 |
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1992 |
Boesman and Lena |
Athol Fugard |
New Federal Theatre |
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1993 |
Henry V |
William Shakespeare |
The Public Theater |
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1994 |
Owners'' /Traps'' |
Caryl Churchill |
Off-Broadway production |
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1995 |
Merrily We Roll Along |
Stephen Sondheim and George Furth |
York Theatre Company |
|
1996 |
Entertaining Mr. Sloane |
Joe Orton |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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1997 |
June Moon |
George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner |
Drama Dept. |
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1998 |
All My Sons |
Arthur Miller |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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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 |
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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. |
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Juno and the Paycock |
Sean O’Casey |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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What the Butler Saw |
Joe Orton |
The New Group |
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2002 |
Cymbeline |
William Shakespeare |
Theatre for a New Audience |
|
Crimes of the Heart |
Beth Henley |
Second Stage Theatre |
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Hobson's Choice |
Harold Brighouse |
Atlantic Theatre Company |
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Pirates of Penzance |
W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, Michael Scheman and Steven Gross |
On Deck Entertainment / Brett Singer & Diane Krausz |
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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 |
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Comedians |
Trevor Griffiths |
The New Group |
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Don Juan |
Molière and Christopher Hampton |
Theatre for a New Audience |
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2004 |
No award given. |
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2005 |
Counsellor-at-Law |
Elmer Rice |
Peccadillo Theater Company |
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Engaged |
W. S. Gilbert |
Theatre for a New Audience |
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Finian's Rainbow |
E.Y. Harburg, Fred Saidy, and Burton Lane |
Irish Repertory Theatre |
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Hedda Gabler |
Henrik Ibsen and Christopher Hampton |
New York Theatre Workshop |
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Hurlyburly |
David Rabe |
The New Group |
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2006 |
The Trip to Bountiful |
Horton Foote |
Signature Theatre Company |
|
Abigail’s Party |
Mike Leigh |
The New Group |
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Celebration and The Room |
Harold Pinter |
Atlantic Theater Company |
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Funnyhouse of a Negro |
Adrienne Kennedy |
The Classical Theatre of Harlem |
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Mrs. Warren's Profession |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish Repertory Theatre |
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2007 |
Two Trains Running |
August Wilson |
Signature Theatre Company |
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King Hedley II |
August Wilson |
Signature Theatre Company |
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Landscape of the Body |
John Guare |
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The Voysey Inheritance |
Harley Granville-Barker and David Mamet |
Atlantic Theater Company |
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2008 |
Ohio State Murders |
Adrienne Kennedy |
Theatre for a New Audience |
|
Beckett Shorts |
Samuel Beckett |
New York Theatre Workshop |
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Dividing the Estate |
Horton Foote |
Primary Stages and Jamie deRoy |
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The Misanthrope |
Molière and Tony Harrison |
New York Theatre Workshop |
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Seussical |
Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, and Eric Idle |
Theatreworks USA |
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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 |
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Othello |
William Shakespeare |
Theatre for a New Audience |
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The Cripple of Inishmaan |
Martin McDonagh |
Atlantic Theater Company and Druid Theatre Company |
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The Glass Cage |
J.B. Priestley |
Mint Theater Company |
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2010s
Year |
Production |
Author |
Producers |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2010 |
The Glass Menagerie |
Tennessee Williams |
Roundabout Theatre Company and Long Wharf Theatre |
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A Lie of the Mind |
Sam Shepard |
The New Group |
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Candida |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish Repertory Theatre and Alexis Doyle |
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Measure for Measure |
William Shakespeare |
Theatre for a New Audience |
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The Emperor Jones |
Eugene O’Neill |
Irish Repertory Theatre |
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2011 |
Angels in America |
Tony Kushner |
Signature Theatre Company |
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The Collection & A Kind of Alaska |
Harold Pinter |
Atlantic Theater Company |
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The Little Foxes |
Lillian Hellman |
New York Theatre Workshop |
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The Misanthrope |
Moliere and Richard Wilbur |
The Pearl Theatre Company |
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Three Sisters |
Anton Chekhov and Paul Schmidt |
Classic Stage Company |
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2012 |
The Cherry Orchard |
Anton Chekhov and John Christopher Jones |
Classic Stage Company |
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Blood Knot |
Athol Fugard |
Signature Theatre Company |
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The Lady from Dubuque |
Edward Albee |
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Look Back in Anger |
John Osborne |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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The Maids |
Jean Genet and Bernard Frechtman |
Red Bull Theater |
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2013 |
The Piano Lesson |
August Wilson |
Signature Theatre Company |
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All In The Timing |
David Ives |
Primary Stages and Jamie deRoy |
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My Children! My Africa! |
Athol Fugard |
Signature Theatre Company |
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Passion |
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine |
Classic Stage Company |
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Talley's Folly |
Lanford Wilson |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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2014 |
Good Person of Szechwan |
Bertolt Brecht and John Willett |
The Foundry Theatre |
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Hand to God |
Robert Askins |
MCC Theater |
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London Wall and The Model Apartment |
John van Druten and Donald Margulies |
Mint Theater Company and Primary Stages |
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The Weir |
Conor McPherson |
Irish Repertory Theatre |
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2015 |
Into the Woods |
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine |
Roundabout Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre Center, and Fiasco Theater |
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Fashions for Men |
Ferenc Molnár |
Mint Theater Company |
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Indian Ink |
Tom Stoppard |
Roundabout Theatre Company and American Conservatory Theater |
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Sticks and Bones |
David Rabe |
The New Group |
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The Wayside Motor Inn |
A.R. Gurney |
Signature Theatre Company |
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2016 |
The Robber Bridegroom |
Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman |
Roundabout Theatre Company in association with Daryl Roth |
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore |
John Ford |
Red Bull Theater |
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Cloud Nine |
Caryl Churchill |
Atlantic Theater Company |
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Mother Courage And Her Children |
Bertolt Brecht and John Willett |
Classic Stage Company |
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Women Without Men |
Hazel Ellis |
Mint Theater Company |
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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 |
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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 |
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Othello |
William Shakespeare |
New York Theatre Workshop |
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Signature Plays: The Sandbox, Drowning, and Funnyhouse of a Negro |
Edward Albee, María Irene Fornés, and Adrienne Kennedy |
Signature Theatre Company |
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Sweet Charity |
Neil Simon, Cy Coleman, and Dorothy Fields |
The New Group and Kevin McCollum |
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2018 |
Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train |
Stephen Adly Guirgis |
Signature Theatre Company |
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Fucking A |
Suzan-Lori Parks |
Signature Theatre Company |
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In The Blood |
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The Government Inspector |
Jeffrey Hatcher and Nikolai Gogol |
Red Bull Theater |
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Torch Song |
Harvey Fierstein |
Second Stage Theater and Richie Jackson |
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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 |
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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 |
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June |
Kurt Vonnegut |
Wheelhouse Theater Company |
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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 |
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A Bright Room Called Day |
Tony Kushner |
The Public Theater |
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Fires in the Mirror |
Anna Deavere Smith |
Michael Benjamin Washington and Signature Theatre Company |
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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 |
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MAC BETH |
William Shakespeare and Erica Schmidt |
Red Bull Theater |
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2021 |
No ceremony held due to COVID-19 pandemic. |
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2022 |
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 |
Anna Deavere Smith |
Signature Theatre Company |
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Assassins |
Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman, and Charles Gilbert, Jr. |
Classic Stage Company |
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The Chinese Lady |
Lloyd Suh |
Ma-Yi Theater Company, The Public Theater and Barrington Stage Company |
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2023 |
A Raisin in the Sun |
Lorraine Hansberry |
The Public Theater |
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A Bright New Boise |
Samuel D. Hunter |
Signature Theatre Company |
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Endgame |
Samuel Beckett |
Irish Repertory Theatre |
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A Man of No Importance |
Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty, and Lynn Ahrens |
Classic Stage Company |
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Merrily We Roll Along |
Stephen Sondheim and George Furth |
New York Theatre Workshop |
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2024 |
Translations |
Brian Friel |
Irish Repertory Theatre |
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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 |
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I Can Get It for You Wholesale |
Jerome Weidman, Harold Rome, and John Weidman |
Classic Stage Company |
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Philadelphia, Here I Come! |
Brian Friel |
Irish Repertory Theatre |
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Sunset Baby |
Dominique Morisseau |
Signature Theatre Company |
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2025 |
Our Class |
Tadeusz Słobodzianek and Norman Allen |
MART Foundation, Arlekin Players Theatre, and Jadow Productions |
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Beckett Briefs: From the Cradle to the Grave |
Samuel Beckett |
Irish Repertory Theatre |
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Ghosts |
Henrik Ibsen and Mark O’Rowe |
Lincoln Center Theater |
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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 |
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Wine in the Wilderness |
Alice Childress |
Classic Stage Company |
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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 |
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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 |
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Titus Andronicus |
William Shakespeare |
Red Bull Theatre |
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The Weir |
Conor McPherson |
Irish Repertory Theatre |
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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