Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival
Awarded for	Best Revival
Location	England
Presented by	Society of London Theatre
First awarded	1991
Currently held by	Vanya (2024)
Website	officiallondontheatre.com/olivier-awards/

The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor and director Laurence Olivier.

This award was introduced in 1991, presented through to 1995, set aside from 1996 to 2002, and reintroduced for the 2003 Olivier Awards.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Play	Writer	Director
1991
	Pericles	William Shakespeare	David Thacker
	Accidental Death of an Anarchist	Dario Fo	Tim Supple
	Kean	Jean-Paul Sartre, Alexandre Dumas, père and Frank Hauser	Sam Mendes
	The Wild Duck	Henrik Ibsen	Peter Hall
1992
	Hedda Gabler	Henrik Ibsen	Deborah Warner
	Faith Healer	Brian Friel	Joe Dowling
	The Comedy of Errors	William Shakespeare	Ian Judge
	Uncle Vanya	Anton Chekhov	Sean Mathias
1993
	An Inspector Calls	J.B. Priestley	Stephen Daldry
	Heartbreak House	George Bernard Shaw	Trevor Nunn
	Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2	William Shakespeare	Adrian Noble
	No Man's Land	Harold Pinter	David Leveaux
1994
	Machinal	Sophie Treadwell	Stephen Daldry
	Medea	Euripides and Alistair Elliot	Jonathan Kent
	The Deep Blue Sea	Terence Rattigan	Karel Reisz
	The Winter's Tale	William Shakespeare	Adrian Noble
1995
	As You Like It	William Shakespeare	Declan Donellan
	Le Cid	Pierre Corneille and Ranjit Bolt	Jonathan Kent
	Les Parents terribles	Jean Cocteau and Jeremy Sams	Sean Mathias
	Sweet Bird of Youth	Tennessee Williams	Richard Eyre

2000s

Year	Play	Writer	Director
2003
	Twelfth Night	William Shakespeare	Tim Carroll
	Uncle Vanya	Anton Chekhov	Sam Mendes
	Abigail's Party	Mike Leigh	David Grindley
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams	Trevor Nunn
2004
	Mourning Becomes Electra	Eugene O’Neill	Howard Davies
	Absolutely! (Perhaps)	Luigi Pirandello and Martin Sherman	Franco Zeffirelli
	Caligula	Albert Camus and David Greig	Michael Grandage
	Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	Jonathan Church
2005
	Hamlet	William Shakespeare	Trevor Nunn
	All's Well That Ends Well	William Shakespeare	Gregory Doran
	Endgame	Samuel Beckett	Matthew Warchus
	Journey's End	R. C. Sherriff	David Grindley
2006
	Hedda Gabler	Henrik Ibsen and Richard Eyre	Richard Eyre
	Death of a Salesman	Arthur Miller	Robert Falls
	Don Carlos	Friedrich Schiller and Mike Poulton	Michael Grandage
	Mary Stuart	Friedrich Schiller and Peter Oswald	Phyllida Lloyd
2007
	The Crucible	Arthur Miller	Dominic Cooke
	Donkey's Years	Michael Frayn	Jeremy Sams
	A Moon for the Misbegotten	Eugene O'Neill	Howard Davies
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Edward Albee	Anthony Page
2008
	Saint Joan	George Bernard Shaw	Marianne Elliott
	Boeing Boeing	Marc Camoletti and Beverley Cross	Matthew Warchus
	Dealer's Choice	Patrick Marber	Samuel West
	Macbeth	William Shakespeare	Rupert Goold
	The Seagull	Anton Chekhov and Christopher Hampton	Ian Rickson
2009
	The Histories	William Shakespeare	Michael Boyd
	The Chalk Garden	Enid Bagnold	Michael Grandage
	The Norman Conquests	Alan Ayckbourn	Matthew Warchus

2010s

Year	Play	Writer	Director
2010
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Tennessee Williams	Debbie Allen
	Arcadia	Tom Stoppard	David Leveaux
	The Misanthrope	Molière	Thea Sharrock
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams	Rob Ashford
	Three Days of Rain	Richard Greenberg	Jamie Lloyd
	A View from the Bridge	Arthur Miller	Lindsay Posner
2011
	After the Dance	Terence Rattigan	Thea Sharrock
	All My Sons	Arthur Miller	Howard Davies
	King Lear	William Shakespeare	Michael Grandage
	When We Are Married	J. B. Priestley	Christopher Luscombe
2012
	Anna Christie	Eugene O'Neill	Rob Ashford
	Flare Path	Terence Rattigan	Trevor Nunn
	Much Ado About Nothing	William Shakespeare	Josie Rourke
	Noises Off	Michael Frayn	Lindsay Posner
2013
	Long Day's Journey Into Night	Eugene O'Neill	Anthony Page
	Macbeth	William Shakespeare	Jamie Lloyd
	Old Times	Harold Pinter	Ian Rickson
	Twelfth Night	William Shakespeare	Tim Carroll
2014
	Ghosts	Henrik Ibsen	Richard Eyre
	The Amen Corner	James Baldwin	Rufus Norris
	Othello	William Shakespeare	Nicholas Hytner
	Private Lives	Noël Coward	Jonathan Kent
2015
	A View from the Bridge	Arthur Miller	Ivo van Hove
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams	Benedict Andrews
	My Night with Reg	Kevin Elyot	Robert Hastie
	Skylight	David Hare	Stephen Daldry
	The Crucible	Arthur Miller	Yael Farber
2016
	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	August Wilson	Dominic Cooke
	Hamlet	William Shakespeare	Simon Godwin
	Les Liaisons dangereuses	Pierre Choderlos de Laclos	Josie Rourke
	The Winter's Tale	William Shakespeare	Kenneth Branagh & Rob Ashford
2017
	Yerma	Federico García Lorca	Simon Stone
	The Glass Menagerie	Tennessee Williams	John Tiffany
	This House	James Graham	Jeremy Herrin
	Travesties	Tom Stoppard	Patrick Marber
2018
	Angels in America	Tony Kushner	Marianne Elliott
	Hamlet	William Shakespeare	Robert Icke
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Edward Albee	James Macdonald
	Witness for the Prosecution	Agatha Christie	Lucy Bailey
2019
	Summer and Smoke	Tennessee Williams	Rebecca Frecknall
	King Lear	William Shakespeare	Jonathan Munby
	The Lieutenant of Inishmore	Martin McDonagh	Michael Grandage
	The Price	Arthur Miller	Jonathan Church

2020s

Year	Play	Writer	Director
2020
	Cyrano de Bergerac	Edmond Rostand	Jamie Lloyd
	Death of a Salesman	Arthur Miller	Marianne Elliott & Miranda Cromwell
	Present Laughter	Noël Coward	Matthew Warchus
	Rosmersholm	Henrik Ibsen	Ian Rickson
2021	Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic [upper-alpha 1]
2022 [upper-alpha 1]
	Constellations	Nick Payne	Michael Longhurst
	A Number	Caryl Churchill	Lyndsey Turner
	The Normal Heart	Larry Kramer	Dominic Cooke
	The Tragedy of Macbeth	William Shakespeare	Yael Farber
2023
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams	Rebecca Frecknall
	The Crucible	Arthur Miller	Lyndsey Turner
	Good	Cecil Philip Taylor	Dominic Cooke
	Jerusalem	Jez Butterworth	Ian Rickson
2024
	Vanya	Anton Chekhov; adapted by Simon Stephens	Sam Yates
	The Effect	Lucy Prebble	Jamie Lloyd
	Macbeth	William Shakespeare	Max Webster
	Shirley Valentine	Willy Russell	Matthew Dunster

1. Due to late March 2020 ^[1] to late July 2021 ^[2] closing of London theatre productions during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, the 2022 awards recognise productions that launched anytime from February 2020 to February 2022 ^[3]

Multiple awards and nominations

Awards

2 awards

• Hedda Gabler

Nominations

4 nominations

• A Streetcar Named Desire

3 nominations

• The Crucible
• Hamlet
• Macbeth

2 nominations

• Death of a Salesman
• Hedda Gabler
• King Lear
• Twelfth Night
• Uncle Vanya
• A View from the Bridge
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• The Winter's Tale

See also

• Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play

References

1. Johnson, The Rt Hon Boris, MP (2020-03-23). Prime Minister's statement on coronavirus (COVID-19): 23 March 2020 [transcript] (Speech). Prime Minister's Televised Speech to the United Kingdom. www.gov.uk. London, UK. Archived from the original on 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2022-04-25. From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction — you must stay at home.
2. McPhee, Ryan (2021-06-14). "U.K. Postpones Reopening Roadmap; West End Theatres Will No Longer Reopen in Full in June". Playbill . Archived from the original on 2021-06-14. Retrieved 2022-04-25. Step 4 of the roadmap will allow productions to play without capacity restrictions. June 21 was the goal; now, the government is eyeing July 19.
3. Thomas, Sophie (2022-03-08). "Everything you need to know about the Olivier Awards". londontheatre.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2022-04-11. Retrieved 2022-04-25. Any new production that opened between 19 Feb. 2020 to 22 Feb. 2022 are eligible for categories in the 2022 Olivier Awards. With two years worth of shows set for honours in one year's ceremony, the 2022 Olivier Awards will prove tougher competition than before.

• London Theatre Guide (2008). "The Laurence Olivier Awards: Full List of Winners, 1976-2008" (.PDF). 1976-2008. The Society of London Theatre. p. 20. Retrieved 2008-08-30.

External links

• Official website