Broadway’s Leopoldstadt and Some Like It Sizzling took two of the highest honors at immediately’s 2023 Drama League Awards, the previous named Greatest Manufacturing of a Play and the latter Greatest Manufacturing of a Musical.
Jamie Lloyd’s A Doll’s Home starring Jessica Chastain was named Excellent Revival of a Play, and Lear deBessonet’s Into the Woods took Excellent Revival of a Musical.
Within the efficiency class, Annaleigh Ashford received the Distinguished Efficiency Award for her work in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Avenue.
Anne Kauffman took residence the Excellent Course of a Play award for The Register Sidney Brustein’s Window and deBessonet received Excellent Course of a Musical for Into the Woods. DeBessonet was additionally honored with the Founders Award for Excellence in Directing.
First awarded in 1922 and formalized in 1935, The Drama League Awards are the oldest theatrical honors in America. The awards acknowledge each Broadway and Off Broadway productions; this 12 months, Broadway’s Kimberly Akimbo was not eligible due its consideration final 12 months for its Off Broadway staging. The Off Broadway staging of the revival of Merrily We Roll Alongside, which is transferring to Broadway within the fall, postponed consideration till subsequent 12 months.
The total record of nominees may be discovered on the Drama League web site.
