Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Play

Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Play
Awarded for	Outstanding Production of a Play
Location	New York City
Presented by	The Drama League
Currently held by	Oh, Mary! by Cole Escola (2025)
Website	Drama League.com

The Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Play is a theater award presented annually since 1996 by The Drama League, recognizing a "full production" of a play during a theater season. ^[1]

Tom Stoppard is the only playwright to win the award more than once, with two wins for The Coast of Utopia and Leopoldstadt . Martin McDonagh holds the record for most nominations, with six (and one win), followed closely by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins with five.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Production	Playwright	Ref
1996	Seven Guitars	August Wilson	[2] [3]
	A Fair Country	Jon Robin Baitz
	The Green Bird	Carlo Gozzi
	Master Class	Terrence McNally
	Molly Sweeney	Brian Friel
	Old Wicked Songs	Jon Marans
	Racing Demon	David Hare
1997	The Last Night of Ballyhoo	Alfred Uhry	[4] [5]
	Dealer's Choice	Patrick Marber
	How I Learned to Drive	Paula Vogel
	A Question of Mercy	David Rabe
	Skylight	David Hare
	Taking Sides	Ronald Harwood
	The Young Man from Atlanta	Horton Foote
1998	The Beauty Queen of Leenane	Martin McDonagh	[6] [7]
	Art	Yasmina Reza
	As Bees in Honey Drown	Douglas Carter Beane
	Gross Indecency	Moisés Kaufman
	Mojo	Jez Butterworth
	Never the Sinner	John David Logan
	Pride's Crossing	Tina Howe
	Visiting Mr. Green	Jeff Baron
1999	Wit	Margaret Edson	[8]

2000s

Year	Production	Playwright	Ref
2000	Copenhagen	Michael Frayn	[9] [10]
	Dinner With Friends	Donald Margulies
	Dirty Blonde	Claudia Shear
	Jar the Floor	Cheryl West
	Last Train to Nibroc	Arlene Hutton
	The Tale of the Allergist's Wife	Charles Busch
	Waste	Harley Granville Barker
2001	Proof	David Auburn	[11] [12]
	Jitney	August Wilson
	Judgment at Nuremberg	Abby Mann
	Stones in His Pockets	Marie Jones
	The Invention of Love	Tom Stoppard
	The Play About the Baby	Edward Albee
	The Syringa Tree	Pamela Gien
2002	Metamorphoses	Mary Zimmerman	[13] [14]
	The Castle	Howard Barker
	Fortune's Fool	Ivan Turgenev
	Topdog/Underdog	Suzan-Lori Parks
	QED	Peter Parnell
	The Shape of Things	Neil LaBute
	The Phantom Lady	Pedro Calderón de la Barca
2003	Take Me Out	Richard Greenberg	[15] [16]
	Enchanted April	Matthew Barber
	Far Away	Caryl Churchill
	Fucking A	Suzan-Lori Parks
	Golda's Balcony	William Gibson
	Our Lady of 121st Street	Stephen Adly Guirgis
	Talking Heads	Alan Bennett
	Vincent in Brixton	Nicholas Wright
2004	I Am My Own Wife	Doug Wright	[17] [18]
	Addicted	Mark Lundholm
	Bridge and Tunnel	Sarah Jones
	Frozen	Bryony Lavery
	Intimate Apparel	Lynn Nottage
	The Retreat from Moscow	William Nicholson
2005	Doubt	John Patrick Shanley	[19] [20]
	The Day Emily Married	Horton Foote
	Death and the Ploughman	Johannes von Tepl
	A Number	Caryl Churchill
	Orson's Shadow	Austin Pendleton
	The Pillowman	Martin McDonagh
	Švejk	Jaroslav Hašek
2006	The History Boys	Alan Bennett	[21] [22]
	Dedication, or the Stuff of Dreams	Terrence McNally
	The Lieutenant of Inishmore	Martin McDonagh
	Stuff Happens	David Hare
	Measure for Pleasure	David Grimm
	Rabbit Hole	David Lindsay-Abaire
	The Ruby Sunrise	Rinne Groff
	Spirit	Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott
2007	The Coast of Utopia	Tom Stoppard	[23] [24]
	Coram Boy	Jamila Gavin
	Blackbird	David Harrower
	The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion
	The Scene	Theresa Rebeck
	No Child...	Nilaja Sun
	Frost/Nixon	Peter Morgan
	Radio Golf	August Wilson
2008	August: Osage County	Tracy Letts	[25] [26]
	Eurydice	Sarah Ruhl
	The 39 Steps	Patrick Barlow
	The Seafarer	Conor McPherson
	Thurgood	George Stevens Jr.
	Rock 'n' Roll	Tom Stoppard
	November	David Mamet
	The Farnsworth Invention	Aaron Sorkin
2009	God of Carnage	Yasmina Reza	[27] [28]
	33 Variations	Moisés Kaufman
	Wig Out!	Tarell Alvin McCraney
	Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them	Christopher Durang
	Shipwrecked! An Entertainment - The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told by Himself)	Donald Margulies
	Ruined	Ayad Akhtar
	reasons to be pretty	Neil LaBute
	Lady	Craig Wright
	If You See Something Say Something	Mike Daisey
	Chair	Edward Bond
	Black Watch	Gregory Burke

2010s

Year	Production	Playwright	Ref
2010	Red	John Logan	[29] [30]
	The Brother/Sister Plays	Tarell Alvin McCraney
	Enron	Lucy Prebble
	Clybourne Park	Bruce Norris
	The Pride	Alexi Kaye Campbell
	Venus in Fur	David Ives
	A Behanding in Spokane	Martin McDonagh
	Aftermath	Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
	Next Fall	Geoffrey Nauffts
2011	War Horse	Michael Morpurgo	[31] [32]
	The Dream of the Burning Boy	David West Read
	Sleep No More	Punchdrunk
	Other Desert Cities	Jon Robin Baitz
	The Motherfucker with the Hat	Stephen Adly Guirgis
	Kin	E.V. Crowe
	Good People	David Lindsay-Abaire
	Gatz	Elevator Repair Service
	The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity	Kristoffer Diaz
	Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo	Rajiv Joseph
	The Diary of a Madman	Neil Armfield
	Jerusalem	Jez Butterworth
2012	Other Desert Cities	Jon Robin Baitz	[33] [34]
	Peter and the Starcatcher	Rick Elice
	The Columnist	David Auburn
	The Lyons	Nicky Silver
	One Man, Two Guvnors	Richard Bean
	Tribes	Nina Raine
	The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures	Tony Kushner
	Clybourne Park	Bruce Norris
	Venus in Fur	David Ives
	Septimus and Clarissa	Ellen McLaughlin
	Seminar	Theresa Rebeck
2013	Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike	Christopher Durang	[35] [36]
	The Whale	Samuel D. Hunter
	The Assembled Parties	Richard Greenberg
	I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers	John Logan
	Lucky Guy	Nora Ephron
	The Nance	Douglas Carter Beane
	Old Hats	David Shiner and Bill Irwin
	The Testament of Mary	Colm Tóibín
2014	All the Way	Robert Schenkkan	[37] [38]
	Casa Valentina	Harvey Fierstein
	All That Fall	Samuel Beckett
	Domesticated	Bruce Norris
	Mothers and Sons	Terrence McNally
	The Realistic Joneses	Will Eno
	The Open House
	Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play	Anne Washburn
2015	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime	Simon Stephens	[39] [40]
	The Audience	Peter Morgan
	Between Riverside and Crazy	Stephen Adly Guirgis
	Bootycandy	Robert O'Hara
	Hand to God	Robert Askins
	Constellations	Nick Payne
	Wolf Hall	Mike Poulton
	Scenes from a Marriage	Emily Mann and Ivo van Hove
	Punk Rock	Simon Stephens
	An Octoroon	Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
2016	The Humans	Stephen Karam	[41] [42]
	The Father	Florian Zeller
	Skeleton Crew	Dominique Morisseau
	The Royale	Marco Ramirez
	Marjorie Prime	Jordan Harrison
	King Charles III	Mike Bartlett
	HIR	Taylor Mac
	Gloria	Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
	10 out of 12	Anne Washburn
	Eclipsed	Danai Gurira
2017	Oslo	J.T. Rogers	[43] [44]
	A Life	Hugh Leonard
	The Play That Goes Wrong	Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields
	The Wolves	Sarah Delappe
	A Doll's House, Part 2	Lucas Hnath
	Everybody	Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
	Indecent	Paula Vogel
	Tell Hector I Miss Him	Paola Lázaro-Muñoz
	Sweat	Lynn Nottage
	If I Forget	Steven Levenson
	Caught	Christopher Chen
2018	Harry Potter and the Cursed Child	Jack Thorne	[45] [46]
	Hangmen	Martin McDonagh
	Until the Flood	Dael Orlandersmith
	School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play	Jocelyn Bioh
	Oedipus El Rey	Sophocles and Luis Alfaro
	Meteor Shower	Steve Martin
	Is God Is	Aleshea Harris
	In the Body of the World	Eve Ensler
	Animal	Clare Lizzimore
2019	The Ferryman	Jez Butterworth	[47] [48]
	The House That Will Not Stand	Marcus Gardley
	What the Constitution Means to Me	Heidi Schreck
	To Kill a Mockingbird	Aaron Sorkin
	Teenage Dick	Mike Lew
	Paradise Blue	Dominique Morisseau
	Network	Lee Hall
	The Lehman Trilogy	Stefano Massini
	The Jungle	Joe Robertson and Joe Murphy
	Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties	Jen Silverman
	Dance Nation	Clare Barron
	Fairview	Jackie Sibblies Drury
	Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus	Taylor Mac

2020s

Year	Production	Playwright	Ref
2020	The Inheritance	Matthew López	[49] [50]
	Grand Horizons	Bess Wohl
	Dana H.	Lucas Hnath
	The Hot Wing King	Katori Hall
	Cambodian Rock Band	Lauren Yee
	Slave Play	Jeremy O. Harris
	Seared	Theresa Rebeck
	Sea Wall / A Life	Simon Stephens and Hugh Leonard
	Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow	Halley Feiffer
	The Michaels	Richard Nelson
2021	No Award Given due to the COVID-19 pandemic		[1]
2022	The Lehman Trilogy	Stefano Massini	[51] [52]
	POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive	Selina Fillinger
	The Minutes	Tracy Letts
	Merry Wives	William Shakespeare
	Confederates	Dominique Morisseau
	Dana H.	Lucas Hnath
	English	Sanaz Toossi
	Hangmen	Martin McDonagh
	Clyde's	Lynn Nottage
	Selling Kabul	Sylvia Khoury
	Prayer for the French Republic	Joshua Harmon
2023	Leopoldstadt	Tom Stoppard	[53] [54]
	Elyria	Deepa Purohit
	the bandaged place	Harrison David Rivers
	Cost of Living	Martyna Majok
	Dark Disabled Stories	Ryan J. Haddad
	Downstate	Bruce Norris
	Life of Pi	Yann Martel and Lolita Chakrabarti
	Good Night, Oscar	Doug Wright
	Fat Ham	James Ijames
	Summer, 1976	David Auburn
	Peter Pan Goes Wrong	Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields
	Public Obscenities	Shayok Misha Chowdhury
	Prima Facie	Suzie Miller
2024	Stereophonic	David Adjmi	[55] [56]
	The Comeuppance	Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
	Flex	Candrice Jones
	Grief Hotel	Liza Birkenmeier
	Jaja's African Hair Braiding	Jocelyn Bioh
	The Hunt	David Farr
	Oh, Mary!	Cole Escola
	Patriots	Peter Morgan
	Prayer for the French Republic	Joshua Harmon
	Wet Brain	John J. Caswell, Jr.
	Mother Play	Paula Vogel
2025	Oh, Mary!	Cole Escola	[57] [58] [59]
	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Kip Williams
	The Antiquities	Jordan Harrison
	Becoming Eve	Abby Stein
	English	Sanaz Toossi
	Good Bones	James Ijames
	Good Night, and Good Luck	George Clooney and Grant Heslov
	Here There Are Blueberries	Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich
	John Proctor Is the Villain	Kimberly Belflower
	Liberation	Bess Wohl
	Walden	Whitney White
	Purpose	Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
	Stranger Things: The First Shadow	Kate Trefry

Multiple wins

2 wins

• Tom Stoppard

Multiple nominations

6 nominations

• Martin McDonagh

5 nominations

• Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

4 nominations

• Tom Stoppard
• Bruce Norris

3 nominations

• August Wilson
• Jon Robin Baitz
• Terrence McNally
• David Hare
• Paula Vogel
• Moisés Kaufman
• Jez Butterworth
• David Auburn
• Stephen Adly Guirgis
• Lynn Nottage
• Theresa Rebeck
• Peter Morgan
• Simon Stephens
• Dominique Morisseau
• Lucas Hnath
• Cole Escola

2 nominations

• Horton Foote
• Yasmina Reza
• Douglas Carter Beane
• Donald Margulies
• Suzan-Lori Parks
• Neil LaBute
• Richard Greenberg
• Caryl Churchill
• Alan Bennett
• Doug Wright
• David Lindsay-Abaire
• Joshua Harmon
• Tracy Letts
• Aaron Sorkin
• Tarell Alvin McCraney
• Christopher Durang
• John Logan
• David Ives
• Will Eno
• Anne Washburn
• Jordan Harrison
• Taylor Mac
• Hugh Leonard
• Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields
• Jocelyn Bioh
• Stefano Massini
• Bess Wohl
• Sanaz Toossi
• James Ijames

References

1. "Award History". Drama League of New York. 25 March 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2024.
2. "Drama League Awards History — Outstanding Production of a Musical". Drama League. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
3. "'Rent' Guitars Win Drama League Awards". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
4. "Drama League Awards History — Outstanding Production of a Musical". Drama League. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
5. "Recent Plays, Musicals Dominate Drama League Nominees". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
6. "'Ragtime, Beauty Queen, Cabaret' Win Drama League Awards May 8". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
7. "Drama League Awards History — Outstanding Production of a Musical". Drama League. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
8. "Drama League Awards History — Outstanding Production of a Musical". Drama League. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
9. "Drama League Announces Nominees for Play, Musical, Revival". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
10. "Drama League Awards History — Outstanding Production of a Musical". Drama League. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
11. "Drama League Awards History — Outstanding Production of a Musical". Drama League. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
12. "Drama League Picks 19 Nominees in Three Categories for May 11 Awards". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
13. "Sweet Smell, Millie, Topdog Among Drama League Nominees; Awards Presented May 10". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
14. "Drama League Awards History — Outstanding Production of a Musical". Drama League. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
15. "Drama League Nominees Include Enchanted, Albertine, Amour, Salome, Avenue Q". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
16. "Drama League Awards — 2003". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
17. "Drama League Awards — 2004". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
18. "Wife, Wicked, Assassins, Henry IV and Jackman Win 2004 Drama League Awards". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
19. "Drama League Awards — 2005". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
20. "Drama League Names Doubt and Dirty Rotten Best of 2004-05 NYC Season". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
21. "Drama League Awards — 2006". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
22. "The Drama League to Announce 2006 Award Winners May 5". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
23. "Drama League Awards 2007 winners announced". New York Theatre Guide. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
24. "2007 Drama League Award Winners Announced". TheaterMania. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
25. "Drama League Awards — 2008". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
26. "74th Annual Drama League Award Nominees Announced". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
27. "Drama League Awards — 2009". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
28. "'Billy Elliot,' 'God of Carnage' Win Drama League Awards". The New York Times. 15 May 2009. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
29. "Drama League Awards — 2010". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
30. "Drama League 2010 Award Winners". New York Theatre Guide. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
31. "Drama League Awards — 2011". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
32. "Drama League Award Winners Are Announced". TheaterMania. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
33. "Drama League Awards — 2012". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
34. "Drama League 2012 Award Winners". New York Theatre Guide. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
35. "Drama League Awards — 2013". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
36. "2013 Drama League Award Winners". New York Theatre Guide. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
37. "Drama League Awards — 2014". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
38. "2014 Drama League Award Winners". New York Theatre Guide. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
39. "Drama League Awards — 2015". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
40. "2015 Drama League Awards: And the Winners Are". New York Theatre Guide. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
41. "Drama League Awards Nominations 2016: Full List". Variety. 20 April 2016. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
42. "Drama League Awards 2016 – And the Winners Are". New York Theatre Guide. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
43. "Drama League Awards — 2017". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
44. "Drama League Awards 2017 — And the Winners Are". New York Theatre Guide. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
45. "Drama League Awards — 2018". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
46. "Drama League Awards 2018 — And the Winners Are". New York Theatre Guide. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
47. "Drama League Awards — 2019". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
48. "Network's Bryan Cranston, *Hadestown* Among 2019 Drama League Award Winners". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
49. "Drama League Awards — 2010". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
50. "Moulin Rouge! and Danny Burstein Among 2020 Drama League Winners". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
51. "Drama League Awards — 2022". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
52. "2022 Drama League Award Winners Announced". New York Theatre Guide. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
53. "Drama League Awards — 2023". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
54. "2023 Drama League Award Winners Announced". New York Theatre Guide. 19 May 2023. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
55. "Drama League Awards — 2024". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
56. "Sarah Paulson Wins Drama League Award; See the Full List of Winners". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
57. "Drama League Awards — 2025". About the Artists. Retrieved 2025-10-04.
58. "2025 Drama League Awards Nominations Are Out; Read the Full List". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
59. "Photos: 2025 Drama League Awards (Winners, Nicole Scherzinger, Sam Pinkleton & More)". Playbill. Retrieved 2025-10-05.

External links

• Awards History at Drama League of New York