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Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding New Broadway Play |
Location | New York City |
Presented by | Outer Critics Circle |
Currently held by | John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Bellflower (2025) |
Website | OuterCritics.org |
The Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play is an annual award given to the best new (non-musical) play on Broadway, as determined by Outer Critics Circle. The award has been given out since the 1949-1950 season.
T.S. Eliot won the inaugural award for Outstanding New Broadway Play for The Cocktail Party in 1950. [1] Neil Simon and Tom Stoppard have won the award three times each, the most of any playwright, while Stoppard and August Wilson have received the most nominations, with six each.
Year | Production | Author | Ref. |
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1950 | |||
The Cocktail Party | T.S. Eliot | ||
1951 | |||
Billy Budd | Louis O. Coxe and Robert Chapman | ||
1952 | |||
Point of No Return | Paul Osborn | ||
1953 | No award given. | ||
1954 | |||
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | Herman Wouk | ||
1955 | |||
Inherit the Wind | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | ||
1956 | |||
The Diary of Anne Frank | Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett | ||
1957 | |||
Long Day's Journey into Night | Eugene O'Neill | ||
1958 | |||
Look Homeward, Angel | Ketti Frings | ||
1959 | |||
The Visit | Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
Year | Production | Author | Ref. |
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1960 | |||
The Miracle Worker | William Gibson | ||
1961 | No award given. | ||
1962 | No award given. | ||
1963 | |||
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee | ||
1964 | No award given. | ||
1965 | No award given. | ||
1966 | No award given. | ||
1967 | |||
You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running | Robert Anderson | ||
American Hurrah (Three Views of the U.S.A.) | Jean-Claude van Itallie | ||
1968 | |||
The Price | Arthur Miller | ||
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Sam Shepard | ||
1969 | No award given. |
Year | Production | Author | Ref. |
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1970 | |||
Child's Play | Robert Marasco | ||
1971 | No award given | ||
1972 | |||
Sticks and Bones | David Rabe | ||
That Championship Season | Jason Miller | ||
1973 | No award given | ||
1974 | |||
A Moon for the Misbegotten | Eugene O'Neill | ||
Noël Coward in Two Key | Noël Coward | ||
1975 | |||
Equus | Peter Shaffer | ||
1976 | No award given | ||
1977 | |||
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf | Ntozake Shange | ||
1978 | |||
Da | Hugh Leonard | ||
1979 | |||
The Elephant Man | Bernard Pomerance |
Year | Production | Author | Ref. |
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1980 | |||
Children of a Lesser God | Mark Medoff | ||
1981 | |||
Amadeus | Peter Shaffer | ||
1982 | |||
"Master Harold"...and the Boys | Athol Fugard | ||
1983 | |||
Brighton Beach Memoirs | Neil Simon | ||
1984 | |||
The Real Thing | Tom Stoppard | ||
1985 | |||
Biloxi Blues | Neil Simon | ||
1986 | |||
I'm Not Rappaport | Herb Gardner | ||
1987 | |||
Fences | August Wilson | ||
1988 | |||
M. Butterfly | David Henry Hwang | ||
1989 | |||
The Heidi Chronicles | Wendy Wasserstein |
Year | Production | Author | Ref. |
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2020 (Honorees) | Grand Horizons | Bess Wohl | |
The Height of the Storm | Florian Zeller | ||
The Inheritance | Matthew López | ||
Linda Vista | Tracy Letts | ||
The Sound Inside | Adam Rapp | ||
2021 | Ceremony cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | ||
2022 | |||
The Lehman Trilogy | Stefano Massini | ||
The Minutes | Tracy Letts | ||
Birthday Candles | Noah Haidle | ||
Clyde's | Lynn Nottage | ||
Skeleton Crew | Dominique Morisseau | ||
2023 | |||
Leopoldstadt | Tom Stoppard | [3] | |
Life of Pi | Lolita Chakrabart, Yann Martel | ||
Peter Pan Goes Wrong | Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, Jonathan Sayer | ||
Summer, 1976 | David Auburn | ||
Good Night, Oscar | Doug Wright | ||
2024 | |||
Stereophonic | David Adjmi | [4] | |
Mother Play | Paula Vogel | ||
Jaja's African Hair Braiding | Jocelyn Bioh | ||
Patriots | Peter Morgan | ||
The Shark Is Broken | Ian Shaw, Joseph Nixon | ||
2025 | |||
John Proctor is the Villain | Kimberly Bellflower | [5] [6] | |
Cult of Love | Leslye Headland | ||
The Hills of California | Jez Butterworth | ||
Purpose | Branden Jacobs-Jenkins | ||
Stranger Things: The First Shadow | Kate Trefry |