2023 Drama League Award winners announced

The annual awards honor outstanding Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, as well as one distinguished performer in a play or musical from the season.

The 2023 Drama League Awards winners were announced today in a ceremony hosted at the Ziegfeld Ballroom by Emmy Award-winning NY1 theatre reporter Frank DiLella.

The Drama League gives out seven awards each year: four to productions, two for direction, and one to a distinguished performer, an honor an actor can only win once in their lifetime. The awards recognize Broadway and Off-Broadway productions in the same categories.

This year, all seven prizes went to Broadway productions and actors. Two awards went to the revival of Into the Woods, while five other productions got one prize each.

Find out all the nominees and winners of this year's awards below. Winners are denoted with an asterisk.

Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play

• Leopoldstadt*
• the bandaged place
• Cost of Living
• Dark Disabled Stories
• Downstate
• Elyria
• Fat Ham
• Good Night, Oscar
• Life of Pi
• Peter Pan Goes Wrong
• Prima Facie
• Public Obscenities
• Summer, 1976

Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play

• A Doll’s House*
• Ohio State Murders
• Hamlet/Oresteia
• The Piano Lesson
• A Raisin in the Sun
• The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
• The Thanksgiving Play
• Topdog/Underdog
• Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White
• Wolf Play

Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical

• Some Like It Hot*
• & Juliet
• A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical
• Dreaming Zenzile
• New York, New York
• Shucked
• Titanique
• White Girl in Danger
• Wise Children’s Wuthering Heights

Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical

• Into the Woods*
• Bob Fosse’s Dancin’
• Camelot
• A Man of No Importance
• Parade
• 1776
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Outstanding Direction of a Play

• Anne Kauffman, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window*
• Jo Bonney, Cost of Living
• Shayok Misha Chowdhury, Public Obscenities
• Kenny Leon, Topdog/Underdog
• Jamie Lloyd, A Doll’s House
• David Mendizábal, the bandaged place
• Awoye Timpo, Elyria and Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White
• Dustin Wills, Wolf Play

Outstanding Direction of a Musical

• Lear deBessonet, Into the Woods*
• Lileana Blain-Cruz, Dreaming Zenzile and White Girl In Danger
• Thomas Kail, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Casey Nicholaw, Some Like It Hot
• Jack O’Brien, Shucked
• Bartlett Sher, Camelot
• Susan Stroman, New York, New York

Distinguished Performance Award

• Annaleigh Ashford, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*
• Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Topdog/Underdog
• Hiran Abeysekera, Life of Pi
• Sara Bareilles, Into the Woods
• Stephanie Berry, the bandaged place
• Brittany Bradford, Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story In Black And White
• Danielle Brooks, The Piano Lesson
• Rachel Brosnahan, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
• Marylouise Burke, Epiphany
• D’Arcy Carden, The Thanksgiving Play
• Jessica Chastain, A Doll’s House
• Sharon D Clarke, Death of a Salesman
• Jodie Comer, Prima Facie
• Jordan E. Cooper, Ain’t No Mo’
• Lorna Courtney, & Juliet
• Micaela Diamond, Parade
• K. Todd Freeman, Downstate
• J. Harrison Ghee, Some Like It Hot
• Josh Groban, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• Ryan J. Haddad, Dark Disabled Stories
• Corey Hawkins, Topdog/Underdog
• Sean Hayes, Good Night, Oscar
• Stephen McKinley Henderson, Between Riverside and Crazy
• Oscar Isaac, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
• Tarra Conner Jones, White Girl in Danger
• Esco Jouléy, Wolf Play
• Somi Kakoma, Dreaming Zenzile
• David Krumholtz, Leopoldstadt
• Linda Lavin, You Will Get Sick
• Laura Linney, Summer, 1976
• Jefferson Mays, A Christmas Carol
• Patina Miller, Into the Woods
• Marla Mindelle, Titanique
• Arian Moayed, A Doll’s House
• Gargi Mukherjee, Public Obscenities
• Alex Newell, Shucked
• Jeremy Pope, The Collaboration
• Colton Ryan, New York, New York
• Phillipa Soo, Camelot
• Marcel Spears, Fat Ham
• Katy Sullivan, Cost of Living
• Will Swenson, A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical
• John Douglas Thompson, Endgame
• Anna Uzele, New York, New York
• John David Washington, The Piano Lesson
• Betsy Wolfe, & Juliet
• David Zayas, Cost of Living