It is a little over a week before the Broadway League announces the annual Tony Awards nominations; but on April 22, the Drama League announced the nominees for the annual Drama League Awards to be held on May 16.

The Drama League Awards recognize the best in Broadway and Off Broadway.  There are a very limited number of awards presented with all but one of them are production related.  The only award open to a performer is the Distinguished Performance Award which an actor may win only once during their career.  While the awards are limited, the number of nominees is considerably longer than typical awards nominations.

The Drama League Awards were first presented in 1922.

The 2025 Drama League Awards nominees:
Outstanding Production of a Play:
“the Antiquities”
“Becoming Eve”
“English”
“Good Bones”
“Good Night and Good Luck”
“Here There are Blueberries”
“John Proctor is the Villain”
“Liberation”
“Oh, Mary!”
“The Picture of Dorian Gray”
“Purpose”
“Stanger Things: The First Shadow”
“Walden”

Outstanding Revival of a Play:
“The Cherry Orchard”
“Eureka Day”
“Ghosts”
“Glengarry Glen Ross”
“Home”
“Othello”
“Romeo + Juliet”
“A Streetcar Named Desire”
“Vanya”
“Wine in the Wilderness”
“Yellow Face”

Outstanding Production of a Musical:
“BOOP! The Musical”
“Buena Vista Social Club”
“Dead Outlaw”
“Death Becomes Her”
“Drag: The Musical”
“Just in Time”
“Macbeth in Stride”
“Maybe Happy Ending”
“Operation Mincemeat”
“Real Women Have Curves”
“Smash”
Stephen Sondheim’s “Old Friends”

Outstanding Revival of a Musical:
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
“Floyd Collins”
“Gypsy”
“The Last Five Years”
“Once Upon a Mattress”
“The Marriage of Figaro”
“Pirates! The Penzance Musical”
“Sunset Boulevard”
“Urinetown”

Outstanding Direction of a Play:
Knud Adams for “English”
Saheem Ali for “Good Bones”
David Cromer for “Good Night and Good Luck”
Sam Pinkleton for “Oh, Mary!”
Tyne Rafaeli for “Becoming Eve”
Anna D. Shapiro for “Eureka Day”
Danya Taymor for “John Proctor is the Villain”
“Whitney White for “Liberation”
Kip Williams for “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Sam Yates for “Vanya”

Outstanding Direction of a Musical:
Michael Arden for “Maybe Happy Ending”
Christoopher Gattelli for “Death Becomes Her”
Robert Hastie for “Operation Mincemeat”
Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch for “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
Jamie Lloyd for “Sunset Boulevard”
Jerry Mitchell for “BOOP! The Musical”
Susan Stroman for “Smash”
Alex Timbers for “Just in Time”
Annie Tippe for “Three Houses”
Sergio Trujillo for “Real Women Have Curves”
George C. Wolfe for “Gypsy”

Distinguished Performance:
Tala Ashe in “English”
Brooks Ashmanskas in “Smash”
Stori Ayers in “Home”
Natalie Venetia Belcon in “Buena Vista Social Club”
George Clooney in “Good Night and Good Luck”
Kit Connor in “Romeo + Juliet”
Tatianna Cordoba in “Real Women Have Curves”
Darren Criss in “Maybe Happy Ending”
Kieran Culkin in “Glengarry Glen Ross”
Andre’ De Shields in “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
Tommy Dorfman in “Becoming Eve”
Robert Downey Jr in “McNeal”
Adam Driver in “Hold on to Me Darling”
Andrew Durand in “Dead Outlaw”
Cole Escola in “Oh, Mary!”
Mia Farrow in “The Roommate”
Tom Francis in “Sunset Boulevard”
Amber Gray in “Eureka Day”
David Greenspan in “I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan”
Jonathan Groff in “Just in time”
Jake Gyllenhaal in “Othello”
Ryan J Haddad in “Hold Me in the Water”
Megan Hilty in “Death Becomes Her”
Robyn Hurder in “Smash”
LaTanya Richardson Jackson in “Purpose”
Nick Jonas in “The Last Five Years”
Ramin Karimloo in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical”
Gracie Lawrence in “Just in Time”
Beth Leavel in Stephen Sondheim’s “Old Friends”
Justina Machado in “Real Women Have Curves”
Jak Malone in “Operation Mincemeat”
Louis McCartney in “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”
Idina Menzel in “Redwood”
Paul Mescal in “A Streetcar Named Desire”
Jinkx Monsson in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical”
Marjan Neshat in “English”
Sandra Oh in “The Welin”
Lily Rabe in “Ghosts”
Jasmine Amy Rogers in “BOOP! The Musical”
Lea Salonga in Stephen Sondheim’s “Old Friends”
Nicole Scherzinger in “Sunset Boulevard”
Andrew Scott in “Vanya”
Helen J Shen in “Maybe Happy Ending”
Jennifer Simard in “Death Becomes Her”
Sarah Snook in “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Ephraim Sykes in “Our Town”
Alaska Thunderfuck in “Drag: The Musical”
Adrienne Warren in “The Last Five Years”
Denzel Washington in “Othello”
Joy Woods in “Gypsy”
Kara Young in “Purpose” and “Table 17”

Drama League Awards Special Recognition Honorees:
Lea Salonga
Whitney White
Robert Greenblatt
Neil Meron
Kate Navin
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