Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival
Awarded for	Best Revival
Location	United Kingdom
Presented by	The Society of London Theatre
Currently held by	A View from the Bridge (2015)
Official website	Olivier Awards.com

The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival is an annual award presented by The Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and, renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor Lord Olivier.

The award was first given in 1991 and temporarily stopped in 1996. It later returned in the 2003 ceremony.

Winners and nominees

1990s

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

2000s

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

2010s

Year	Play	Writer
2010
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Tennessee Williams
	Arcadia	Tom Stoppard
	The Misanthrope	Molière
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams
	Three Days of Rain	Richard Greenberg
	A View from the Bridge	Arthur Miller
2011
	After the Dance	Terence Rattigan
	All My Sons	Arthur Miller
	King Lear	William Shakespeare
	When We Are Married	J. B. Priestley
2012
	Anna Christie	Eugene O'Neill
	Flare Path	Terence Rattigan
	Much Ado About Nothing	William Shakespeare
	Noises Off	Michael Frayn
2013
	Long Day's Journey Into Night	Eugene O'Neill
	Macbeth	William Shakespeare
	Old Times	Harold Pinter
	Twelfth Night	William Shakespeare
2014
	Ghosts	Henrik Ibsen
	The Amen Corner	James Baldwin
	Othello	William Shakespeare
	Private Lives	Noël Coward
2015
	A View from the Bridge	Arthur Miller
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams
	My Night with Reg	Kevin Elyot
	Skylight	David Hare
	The Crucible	Arthur Miller

References

London Theatre Guide (2008). "The Laurence Olivier Awards: Full List of Winners, 1976-2008" (.PDF). 1976-2008. The Society of London Theatre: 20. Retrieved 2008-08-30.

External links

Laurence Olivier Awards official website

Laurence Olivier Awards

Drama	New Play New Comedy Revival Actor Actress Performance in a Supporting Role (Actor in a Supporting Role, Actress in a Supporting Role)

Musical	New Musical Musical Revival Actor in a Musical Actress in a Musical Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical (Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical, Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical) Achievement in Music

Production/Creatives	Director Theatre Choreographer Set Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design

Dance/Opera	New Dance Production New Opera Production Achievement in Dance Achievement in Opera

Special/Other	Special Award Entertainment and Family Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre Audience Award

Retired	Actor of the Year in a New Play Actress of the Year in a New Play Actor of the Year in a Revival Actress of the Year in a Revival Comedy Performance Performance in a Musical Supporting Artist of the Year Newcomer in a Play Most Promising Performer Company Performance Director of a Play Director of a Musical Set Designer Most Promising Playwright Achievement in a Musical

Ceremonies	1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 (none) 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival

1991–2000

Pericles (1991)
Hedda Gabler (1992)
An Inspector Calls (1993)
Machinal (1994)
As You Like It (1995)

2001–present

Twelfth Night / Uncle Vanya (2003)
Mourning Becomes Electra (2004)
Hamlet (2005)
Hedda Gabler (2006)
The Crucible (2007)
Saint Joan (2008)
The Histories (2009)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2010)
After the Dance (2011)
Anna Christie (2012)
Long Day's Journey into Night (2013)
Ghosts (2014)
A View from the Bridge (2015)

Complete list
(1991–2000)
(2001–2025)

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Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival

Winners and nominees

1990s

2000s

2010s

See also

References

External links