Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Play |
Location | New York City |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Drama Desk |
First awarded | 1955 |
Currently held by | Stereophonic (2024) |
Website | dramadesk.org (defunct) |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding 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 initially introduced in 1955 as the Vernon Rice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre, before being removed from the ceremony between 1960 and 1974. The award returned in the 1975 ceremony, with its current title.
Winners and nominees
1950s
Year | Play | Writer |
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1955 | ||
Le Bal des Voleurs | Jean Anouilh | |
The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | |
Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | |
The Way of the World | William Congreve | |
The White Devil | John Webster | |
1956 | ||
The Iceman Cometh | Eugene O'Neill | |
1957–59 | — |
1960s
Year | Play | Writer |
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1960–69 | not awarded |
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Year | Play | Writer |
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2010 | ||
Red | John Logan | |
Circle Mirror Transformation | Annie Baker | |
Clybourne Park | Bruce Norris | |
Happy Now? | Lucinda Coxon | |
My Wonderful Day | Alan Ayckbourn | |
Next Fall | Geoffrey Nauffts | |
2011 | ||
War Horse | Nick Stafford | |
A Bright New Boise | Samuel D. Hunter | |
A Small Fire | Adam Bock | |
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | Rajiv Joseph | |
Good People | David Lindsay-Abaire | |
The Motherf**ker with the Hat | Stephen Adly Guirgis | |
Other Desert Cities | Jon Robin Baitz | |
2012 | ||
Tribes | Nina Raine | |
The Big Meal | Dan LeFranc | |
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark | Lynn Nottage | |
Chinglish | David Henry Hwang | |
Completeness | Itamar Moses | |
The Lyons | Nicky Silver | |
Unnatural Acts | Members of Plastic Theatre | |
2013 | ||
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike | Christopher Durang | |
The Assembled Parties | Richard Greenberg | |
Belleville | Amy Herzog | |
Falling | Deanna Jent | |
Finks | Joe Gilford | |
The Flick | Annie Baker | |
Sorry | Richard Nelson | |
2014 | ||
All the Way | Robert Schenkkan | |
Core Values | Steven Levenson | |
Domesticated | Bruce Norris | |
The Explorers Club | Nell Benjamin | |
The Night Alive | Conor McPherson | |
Outside Mullingar | John Patrick Shanley | |
Regular Singing | Richard Nelson | |
2015 | ||
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Simon Stephens | |
You Got Older | Clare Barron | |
Airline Highway | Lisa D'Amour | |
The City of Conversation | Anthony Giardina | |
Between Riverside and Crazy | Stephen Adly Guirgis | |
My Manãna Comes | Elizabeth Irwin | |
Let the Right One In | Jack Thorne | |
2016 | The Humans | Stephen Karam |
The Christians | Lucas Hnath | |
John | Annie Baker | |
King Charles III | Mike Bartlett | |
The Royale | Marco Ramírez | |
2017 | ||
Oslo | J. T. Rogers | |
If I Forget | Steven Levenson | |
Indecent | Paula Vogel | |
A Life | Adam Bock | |
Sweat | Lynn Nottage | |
2018 | ||
Admissions | Joshua Harmon | |
Mary Jane | Amy Herzog | |
Miles for Mary | The Mad Ones | |
People, Places and Things | Duncan Macmillan | |
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play | Jocelyn Bioh | |
2019 | ||
The Ferryman | Jez Butterworth | |
Fairview | Jackie Sibblies Drury | |
Lewiston/Clarkston | Samuel D. Hunter | |
Usual Girls | Ming Peiffer | |
What the Constitution Means to Me | Heidi Schreck |
2020s
Year | Play | Writer |
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2020 | ||
The Inheritance | Matthew Lopez | |
Cambodian Rock Band | Lauren Yee | |
Greater Clements | Samuel D. Hunter | |
Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven | Stephen Adly Guirgis | |
Heroes of the Fourth Turning | Will Arbery | |
2021 | No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City[1] | |
2022 | ||
Prayer for the French Republic | Joshua Harmon | |
The Chinese Lady | Lloyd Suh | |
Cullud Wattah | Erika Dickerson-Despenza | |
English | Sanaz Toossi | |
Sanctuary City | Martyna Majok | |
Selling Kabul | Sylvia Khoury | |
2023 | ||
Leopoldstadt | Tom Stoppard | |
A Case for the Existence of God | Samuel D. Hunter | |
Fat Ham | James Ijames | |
Love | Alexander Zeldin | |
Prima Facie | Suzie Miller | |
Wish You Were Here | Sanaz Toossi | |
2024 | ||
Stereophonic | David Adjmi | |
Infinite Life | Annie Baker | |
Jaja's African Hair Braiding | Jocelyn Bioh | |
Mother Play | Paula Vogel | |
Swing State | Rebecca Gilman | |
The Ally | Itamar Moses |
See also
References
- ^ Evans, Greg (2021-05-05). "Broadway To Reopen Sept. 14, Says Gov. Andrew Cuomo; Broadway League "Cautiously Optimistic"". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2023-06-02. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play
- The Way of the World / Thieves' Carnival / Twelfth Night / The Merchant of Venice / The White Devil (1955)
- The Iceman Cometh (1956)
- No Award (1957–1974)
- Same Time, Next Year / Equus (1975)
- Streamers (1976)
- A Texas Trilogy / Otherwise Engaged (1977)
- Da (1978)
- The Elephant Man (1979)
- Children of a Lesser God (1980)
- Amadeus (1981)
- "Master Harold"...and the Boys (1982)
- Torch Song Trilogy (1983)
- The Real Thing (1984)
- As Is (1985)
- A Lie of the Mind (1986)
- Fences (1987)
- M. Butterfly (1988)
- The Heidi Chronicles (1989)
- The Piano Lesson (1990)
- Lost in Yonkers (1991)
- Marvin's Room (1992)
- Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1993)
- Angels in America: Perestroika (1994)
- Love! Valour! Compassion! (1995)
- Master Class (1996)
- How I Learned to Drive (1997)
- The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1998)
- Wit (1999)
- Copenhagen (2000)
- Proof (2001)
- The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? / Metamorphoses (2002)
- Take Me Out (2003)
- I Am My Own Wife (2004)
- Doubt: A Parable (2005)
- The History Boys (2006)
- The Coast of Utopia (2007)
- August: Osage County (2008)
- Ruined (2009)
- Red (2010)
- War Horse (2011)
- Tribes (2012)
- Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2013)
- All the Way (2014)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2015)
- The Humans (2016)
- Oslo (2017)
- Admissions (2018)
- The Ferryman (2019)
- The Inheritance (2020)
- No Award (2021)
- Prayer for the French Republic (2022)
- Leopoldstadt (2023)
- Stereophonic (2024)