Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City. The award was first presented at the 1993 ceremony, after Drama Desk retired the Outstanding Revival (1955–1992), a singular award covering achievement by either a play or a musical production. The accompanying category Revival of a Musical was also created, though it was first presented at the 1994 ceremony.

Winners and nominees 1990s Year Play Writer 1993 Anna Christie Eugene O'Neill As You Like It William Shakespeare The Price Arthur Miller Wilder, Wilder, Wilder Thornton Wilder 1994 An Inspector Calls J. B. Priestley Abe Lincoln in Illinois Robert E. Sherwood The Loman Family Picnic Donald Margulies Medea Euripides Timon of Athens William Shakespeare 1995 The Heiress Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz As You Like It William Shakespeare Henry VI William Shakespeare Indiscretions Jean Cocteau The Molière Comedies Molière and Richard Wilbur 1996 A Delicate Balance Edward Albee A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde Dangerous Corner J. B. Priestley Endgame Samuel Beckett The Tempest William Shakespeare 1997 A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen The Gin Game Donald L. Coburn June Moon George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner Present Laughter Noël Coward 1998 A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller All My Sons Arthur Miller The American Clock Arthur Miller The Chairs Eugène Ionesco Ivanov Anton Chekhov 1999 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller The Iceman Cometh Eugene O'Neill A Majority of One Leonard Spigelgass Bosoms and Neglect John Guare Electra Sophocles Killer Joe Tracy Letts

2000s Year Play Writer 2000 The Real Thing Tom Stoppard A Moon for the Misbegotten Eugene O'Neill The Price Arthur Miller True West Sam Shepard Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov Waste Harley Granville Barker 2001 The Best Man Gore Vidal Betrayal Harold Pinter One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Dale Wasserman Richard II William Shakespeare The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Jane Wagner Tiny Alice Edward Albee 2002 Private Lives Noël Coward The Crucible Arthur Miller Cymbeline William Shakespeare Morning's at Seven Paul Osborn Noises Off Michael Frayn The Seagull Anton Chekhov 2003 Long Day's Journey into Night Eugene O'Neill A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Peter Nichols Dinner at Eight George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber Medea Euripides Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov 2004 Henry IV William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry The Colleen Bawn Dion Boucicault The Daughter-in-Law D. H. Lawrence The Normal Heart Larry Kramer 2005 Twelve Angry Men Reginald Rose Glengarry Glen Ross David Mamet Hurlyburly David Rabe Outward Bound Sutton Vane Pullman Car Hiawatha Thornton Wilder Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee 2006 Awake and Sing! Clifford Odets The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Herman Wouk Philadelphia, Here I Come! Brian Friel Soldier's Wife Rose Franken The Traveling Lady Horton Foote The Trip to Bountiful Horton Foote 2007 Journey's End R. C. Sherriff The Hairy Ape Eugene O'Neill Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen Talk Radio Eric Bogosian The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare Woyzeck Georg Büchner 2008 Boeing-Boeing Marc Camoletti The Country Girl Clifford Odets The Dining Room A. R. Gurney Happy Days Samuel Beckett Macbeth William Shakespeare The Return of the Prodigal St. John Emile Clavering Hankin 2009 The Norman Conquests Alan Ayckbourn Blithe Spirit Noël Coward The Cripple of Inishmaan Martin McDonagh Exit the King Eugène Ionesco Mary Stuart Friedrich Schiller Waiting for Godot Samuel Beckett

2010s Year Play Writer 2010 (tie) A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller Fences August Wilson The Boys in the Band Mart Crowley Brighton Beach Memoirs Neil Simon Hamlet William Shakespeare So Help Me God! Maurine Dallas Watkins 2011 The Normal Heart Larry Kramer Born Yesterday Garson Kanin The House of Blue Leaves John Guare The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare Three Sisters Anton Chekhov 2012 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller A Little Journey Albert Lewin and George Marion Jr. The Best Man Gore Vidal The Lady from Dubuque Edward Albee Lost in Yonkers Neil Simon Richard III William Shakespeare 2013 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee Golden Boy Clifford Odets The Good Person of Szechwan Bertolt Brecht The Piano Lesson August Wilson The Trip to Bountiful Horton Foote Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov 2014 Twelfth Night William Shakespeare The Cripple of Inishmaan Martin McDonagh I Remember Mama John Van Druten London Wall John Van Druten The Model Apartment Donald Margulies No Man's Land Harold Pinter Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 2015 The Elephant Man Bernard Pomerance Fashions for Men Ferenc Molnár Ghosts Henrik Ibsen The Iceman Cometh Eugene O'Neill Tamburlaine the Great Christopher Marlowe The Wayside Motor Inn A. R. Gurney 2016 A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller Cloud 9 Caryl Churchill Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Henry IV William Shakespeare Long Day's Journey into Night Eugene O'Neill Women Without Men Hazel Ellis2017Jitney August Wilson The Front PageBen Hecht and Charles MacArthurThe Hairy ApeEugene O'NeillThe Little FoxesLillian Hellman "Master Harold"...and the BoysAthol FugardPicnicWilliam Inge2018Angels in AmericaTony Kushner Hindle WakesStanley HoughtonIn the BloodSuzan-Lori ParksThree Tall WomenEdward Albee TravestiesTom Stoppard 2019The Waverly GalleryKenneth Lonergan Fabulation, or the Re-Education of UndineLynn NottageHenry VI: Shakespeare's Trilogy in Two PartsWilliam ShakespeareOur Lady of 121st StreetStephen Adly GuirgisSummer and SmokeTennessee WilliamsUncle VanyaAnton Chekhov

2020s Year Play Writer 2020A Soldier's PlayCharles FullerFefu and Her FriendsMaría Irene Fornésfor colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enufNtozake ShangeMac BethWilliam Shakespeare, adapted by Erica SchmidtMuch Ado About NothingWilliam Shakespeare 2021 colspan="2" 2022How I Learned to DrivePaula Vogelfor colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enufNtozake ShangeLackawanna BluesRuben Santiago-HudsonSkeleton CrewDominique MorisseauTrouble in MindAlice ChildressTwilight: Los Angeles, 1992Anna Deavere Smith 2023The Piano LessonAugust WilsonA Raisin in the SunLorraine HansberryDeath of a SalesmanArthur MillerEndgameSamuel BeckettOhio State MurdersAdrienne KennedyWedding BandAlice Childress2024 Appropriate Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Doubt John Patrick Shanley Philadelphia, Here I Come! Brian Friel Purlie Victorious Ossie Davis Uncle Vanya Anton Chekov 2025 Eureka Day Jonathan Spector Garside's Career Harold Brighouse Home Samm-Art Williams Wine in the Wilderness Alice Childress Yellow Face David Henry Hwang2026Death of a SalesmanArthur MillerBecky ShawGina GionfriddoCeremonies in Dark Old MenLonne Elder IIILos Soles TruncosRené MarquésTitus AndronicusWilliam ShakespeareYou Got OlderClare Barron

See also Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play

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