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 |
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[edit]
1990s[edit]
2000s[edit]
2010s[edit]
2020s[edit]
| 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[A] | ||
| 2022[A] | |||
| 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 | |
- ^ a b 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[edit]
Awards[edit]
2 awards
Nominations[edit]
4 nominations
3 nominations
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[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
{{cite speech}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ 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.
- ^ 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.