Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival

Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival
Awarded for	Outstanding Revival
Location	United States
Presented by	The Off-Broadway League [1] [2]
Currently held by	Our Class by Tadeusz Słobodzianek and Norman Allen (2025)
Website	lortelaward.com

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. ^[3]

Award winners and nominees

Key

  and bold indicates the winner.

1990s

Year	Production	Author	Producers	Ref.
1991	Measure for Measure	William Shakespeare	Lincoln Center Theater	[4]
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	[5]
2001	Tiny Alice	Edward Albee	Second Stage Theatre	[6]
	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	[7]
	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	[8]
	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	[9]
	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	[10]
	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	[11]
	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	[12]
	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	[13]
	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	[14]
	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	[15]
	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	[16]
	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	[17]
	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	[18]
	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	[19]
	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	[20]
	'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	[21]
	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	[22]
	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	[23]
	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	[24]
	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	[25]
	Assassins	Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman, and Charles Gilbert, Jr.	Classic Stage Company
	The Chinese Lady	Lloyd Suh	Ma-Yi Theater Company, The Public Theater, Barrington Stage Company and Ma-Yi Theater Company
2023	A Raisin in the Sun	Lorraine Hansberry	The Public Theater	[26]
	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	[27]
	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	[28]
	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

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

References

1. The League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers
2. The Off-Broadway League
3. "1986–2000 Recipients: Lucille Lortel Awards". Lucille Lortel Awards. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
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