16-05-2025
All the Winners at the 2025 Drama League Awards
Earlier this month, on May 4, awards season (theater's version!) kicked off at NYU Skirball, where the 40th Lucille Lortel Awards recognized the créme of the off-Broadway season. (Moises Kaufman and Amanda Gronich's Here There Are Blueberries, Dave Malloy's Three Houses, and Sam Yates and Andrew Scott's Vanya were among the night's victors.) Trailing them were the 78th Theatre World Awards, the announcement of this year's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama (Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Purpose!), and the 89th New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, all on May 5; and, just this past Monday, the 75th Outer Critics Circle Awards.
This Friday, the best and brightest of the New York theater community convened yet again for the 91st Annual Drama League Awards, heralding productions both off and on the Great White Way—and anointing exactly one actor with the hallowed prize for distinguised performance, an award they can recieve only once in their career. (Sarah Paulson took it last year for her barnstorming turn in Appropriate.)
Ahead of all their evening shows, the starry group of 2025 Drama League nominees—announced back in April by The Great Gatsby's Sarah Hyland and Cabaret's Orville Peck—descened on the Ziegfeld Ballroom in midtown for the four-hour ceremony, festively attired and in high spirits. But who came away with hardware? See all the winners from the Drama League Awards, hosted by Frank DiLella, below.
Drama League Awards Special Recognition Honorees
Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theater: Lea Salonga
Founders Award for Excellence in Directing: Whitney White
Gratitude Award: Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron
Contribution to the Theater: Kate Navin and Audible Theater
Outstanding Production of a Play
The Antiquities
Becoming Eve
English
Good Bones
Good Night, And Good Luck
Here There Are Blueberries
John Proctor is the Villain
Liberation
Oh, Mary!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Purpose
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Walden
Outstanding Revival of a Play
WINNER: Eureka Day
WINNER: Vanya
The Cherry Orchard
Ghosts
Glengarry Glen Ross
Home
Othello
Romeo + Juliet
A Streetcar Named Desire
Wine in the Wilderness
Yellow Face
Outstanding Production of a Musical
BOOP! The Musical
Buena Vista Social Club
Dead Outlaw
Death Becomes Her
Drag: The Musical
Just in Time