Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival
# Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival

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

### 1990s

| Year | Play | Writer |
| - | - | - |
| 1991 |
| 1991 | Pericles | William Shakespeare |
| 1991 | Accidental Death of an Anarchist | Dario Fo |
| 1991 | Kean | Jean-Paul Sartre, Alexandre Dumas, père and Frank Hauser |
| 1991 | The Wild Duck | Henrik Ibsen |
| 1992 |
| 1992 | Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen |
| 1992 | Faith Healer | Brian Friel |
| 1992 | The Comedy of Errors | William Shakespeare |
| 1992 | Uncle Vanya | Anton Chekhov |
| 1993 |
| 1993 | An Inspector Calls | J.B. Priestley |
| 1993 | Heartbreak House | George Bernard Shaw |
| 1993 | Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2 | William Shakespeare |
| 1993 | No Man's Land | Harold Pinter |
| 1994 |
| 1994 | Machinal | Sophie Treadwell |
| 1994 | Medea | Euripides and Alistair Elliot |
| 1994 | The Deep Blue Sea | Terence Rattigan |
| 1994 | The Winter's Tale | William Shakespeare |
| 1995 |
| 1995 | As You Like It | William Shakespeare |
| 1995 | Le Cid | Pierre Corneille and Ranjit Bolt |
| 1995 | Les Parents terribles | Jean Cocteau and Jeremy Sams |
| 1995 | Sweet Bird of Youth | Tennessee Williams |

### 2000s

| Year | Play | Writer |
| - | - | - |
| 2003 |
| 2003 | Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare |
| 2003 | Uncle Vanya | Anton Chekhov |
| 2003 | Abigail's Party | Mike Leigh |
| 2003 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| 2004 |
| 2004 | Mourning Becomes Electra | Eugene O’Neill |
| 2004 | Absolutely! (Perhaps) | Luigi Pirandello and Martin Sherman |
| 2004 | Caligula | Albert Camus and David Greig |
| 2004 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| 2005 |
| 2005 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| 2005 | All's Well That Ends Well | William Shakespeare |
| 2005 | Endgame | Samuel Beckett |
| 2005 | Journey's End | R. C. Sherriff |
| 2006 |
| 2006 | Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen and Richard Eyre |
| 2006 | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| 2006 | Don Carlos | Friedrich Schiller and Mike Poulton |
| 2006 | Mary Stuart | Friedrich Schiller and Peter Oswald |
| 2007 |
| 2007 | The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| 2007 | Donkey's Years | Michael Frayn |
| 2007 | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Eugene O'Neill |
| 2007 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee |
| 2008 |
| 2008 | Saint Joan | George Bernard Shaw |
| 2008 | Boeing Boeing | Marc Camoletti and Beverley Cross |
| 2008 | Dealer's Choice | Patrick Marber |
| 2008 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| 2008 | The Seagull | Anton Chekhov and Christopher Hampton |
| 2009 |
| 2009 | The Histories | Michael Boyd |
| 2009 | The Chalk Garden | Enid Bagnold |
| 2009 | The Norman Conquests | Alan Ayckbourn |

### 2010s

| Year | Play | Writer |
| - | - | - |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams |
| 2010 | Arcadia | Tom Stoppard |
| 2010 | The Misanthrope | Molière |
| 2010 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| 2010 | Three Days of Rain | Richard Greenberg |
| 2010 | A View from the Bridge | Arthur Miller |
| 2011 |
| 2011 | After the Dance | Terence Rattigan |
| 2011 | All My Sons | Arthur Miller |
| 2011 | King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| 2011 | When We Are Married | J. B. Priestley |
| 2012 |
| 2012 | Anna Christie | Eugene O'Neill |
| 2012 | Flare Path | Terence Rattigan |
| 2012 | Much Ado About Nothing | William Shakespeare |
| 2012 | Noises Off | Michael Frayn |
| 2013 |
| 2013 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Eugene O'Neill |
| 2013 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| 2013 | Old Times | Harold Pinter |
| 2013 | Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare |
| 2014 |
| 2014 | Ghosts | Henrik Ibsen |
| 2014 | The Amen Corner | James Baldwin |
| 2014 | Othello | William Shakespeare |
| 2014 | Private Lives | Noël Coward |
| 2015 |
| 2015 | A View from the Bridge | Arthur Miller |
| 2015 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| 2015 | My Night with Reg | Kevin Elyot |
| 2015 | Skylight | David Hare |
| 2015 | The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | August Wilson |
| 2016 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| 2016 | Les Liaisons dangereuses | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos |
| 2016 | The Winter's Tale | William Shakespeare |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | Yerma | Federico García Lorca |
| 2017 | The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams |
| 2017 | This House | James Graham |
| 2017 | Travesties | Tom Stoppard |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | Angels in America | Tony Kushner |
| 2018 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| 2018 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee |
| 2018 | Witness for the Prosecution | Agatha Christie |
| 2019 |
| 2019 | Summer and Smoke | Tennessee Williams |
| 2019 | King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| 2019 | The Lieutenant of Inishmore | Martin McDonagh |
| 2019 | The Price | Arthur Miller |

### 2020s

| Year | Play | Writer |
| - | - | - |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand |
| 2020 | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| 2020 | Present Laughter | Noël Coward |
| 2020 | Rosmersholm | Henrik Ibsen |
| 2021 | Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic | Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic |
| 2022 |
| 2022 | Constellations | Nick Payne |
| 2022 | A Number | Caryl Churchill |
| 2022 | The Normal Heart | Larry Kramer |
| 2022 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| 2023 | The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| 2023 | Good | Cecil Philip Taylor |
| 2023 | Jerusalem | Jez Butterworth |

* 1 2 Due to late March 2020 to late July 2021 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

## Multiple awards and nominations

### Awards

2 awards

* Hedda Gabler

### Nominations

4 nominations

* A Streetcar Named Desire

3 nominations

* The Crucible
* Hamlet
* Macbeth

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
