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Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience

FieldValue
nameDrama Desk Award
for Unique Theatrical Experience
awarded_forUnique Theatrical Experience
presenterDrama Desk
locationNew York City
countryUnited States
year1975
holder*The Picture of Dorian Gray* (2025)
website

for Unique Theatrical Experience

The Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City.

The category was first presented at the 1975 ceremony. Due to their unusual nature, these productions cannot be categorized in the regular plays or musicals categories.

Winners and nominees

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1970s

YearProduction19751976197719781979
***London Assurance***
*A Letter for Queen Victoria*
*Bette Midler's Clams on the Half Shell Revue*
*Flowers*
*Saturday Sunday Monday*
*The Charles Pierce Show*
*The Rocky Horror Show*
*Women Behind Bars*
***The Norman Conquests***
*The Belle of Amherst*
*Me and Bessie*
*The Robber Bridegroom*
*The Threepenny Opera*
*Yentl*
***No Man's Land***
*The Club*
*Dylan Thomas Growing Up*
*For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf*
*Hold Me!*
*Mummenschanz*
*Nightclub Cantata*
*Side by Side by Sondheim*
***Miss Margarida's Way***
*The 2nd Greatest Entertainer*
*Housewife Superstar*
*Molière in Spite of Himself*
***An Evening with Quentin Crisp***
*Bleacher Bums*
*Streetsongs*

1980s

YearProduction19801981198219831984198519861987, 19881989
***Request Concert***
*Aaah Oui Genty!*
*The Amazin' Casey Stengel*
*Blackstone!*
*Pericles*
*Texts*
***Whistler***
*Shiro*
***La Tragedie de Carmen***
*The Gospel at Colonus*
*Hey, Ma...Kaye Ballard*
*Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo*
*Rockaby*
*Secret Honor*
***The Garden of Earthly Delights***
*The Golden Land*
*The Normal Heart*
***The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe***
*Tango Argentino*
***Largely New York***
*I'll Go On*
*Saved from Obscurity*

1990s

YearProduction199019911992199319941995, 1996199719981999
***Cirque du Soleil: Nouvelle Expérience***
***Blue Man Group: Tubes***
*Lypsinka! A Day in the Life*
*Pageant*
***Fool Moon***
*Les Atrides*
***Stomp***
*Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants*
***The Waste Land***
*The Beckett Plays*
*Chimere*
*The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol*
*yousaywhatimeanbutwhatyoumeanisnotwhatisaid*
***Quidam***
*The Number 14*
*Paul McKenna's Hypnotic World*
***Swan Lake***
*De La Guarda*
*Ennio*
*Symphonie Fantastique*
*The Umbilical Brothers - Thwack!*

2000s

YearProduction2000200120022003200420052006200720082009
***Charlie Victor Romeo***
*Do You Come Here Often?*
*Shockheaded Peter*
***Mnemonic***
*And God Created Great Whales*
*The Laramie Project*
***The Exonerated***
*The Play What I Wrote*
*Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway*
*Varekai*
***Loud Mouth***
*Carnival Knowledge*
*Ramayana 2K3*
***Slava's Snowshow***
*all wear bowlers*
*Belle Epoque*
*The Mysteries*
*Play Without Words*
*Typo*
***Christine Jorgensen Reveals***
*The Frog Bride*
*Golden Dragon Acrobats*
*Peer Gynt*
*Rain*
*The Stones*
***Edward Scissorhands***
*Absinthe*
*Amajuba: Like Doves We Rise*
*Be*
*Brundibér/But the Giraffe*
*Hell House*
***The 39 Steps***
*Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea*
*Cut to the Chase*
*Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz*
*Traces*
***Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words***
*Absinthe*
*Arias with a Twist*
*Désir*
*Soul of Shaolin*
*Surrender*

2010s

YearProduction2010201120122013201420152016201720182019
***Love, Loss, and What I Wore***
*Fêtes de la Nuit*
*Hansel and Gretel*
*John Tartaglia's ImaginOcean*
*The Provenance of Beauty*
*Stuffed and Unstrung*
***Sleep No More***
*Being Harold Pinter*
*Circus Incognitus*
*Gatz*
*Play Dead*
*Room 17B*
***Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good)***
*The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill, Vol. 1: Early Plays/Lost Plays*
*Give Me Your Hand*
*Noctu*
*The Ryan Case 1873*
*White*
***Cirque Du Soleil: Totem***
*Bello Mania*
*Chris March's The Butt-Cracker Suite! A Trailer Park Ballet*
*The Fazzino Ride*
*The Man Who Laughs*
*That Play: A Solo Macbeth*
***Cirkopolis***
*Charlatan*
*The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill Vol. 2*
*Mother Africa*
*Nothing to Hide*
*Nutcracker Rouge*
***Queen of the Night***
*Catch Me!*
*Everybody Gets Cake*
*The Human Symphony*
*Rap Guide to Religion*
***That Physics Show***
*ADA/AVA*
*Antigona* (dance-theater, based on Sophocles' play *Antigone*)
*The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show*
*YOUARENOWHERE*
***The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart***
*CasablancaBox*
*The Ephemera Trilogy*
*The Paper Hat Game*
***Derren Brown: Secret***
*Master*
*Say Something Bunny!*
***All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914***
*Love's Labour's Lost*
*The B-Side: "Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons"*
*What to Send Up When It Goes Down*

2020s

YearProduction202020212022202320242025
***Is This A Room***
*Beyond Babel*
*Feral*
*Midsummer: A Banquet*
*No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City*}}
***Seven Deadly Sins***
***Peter Pan Goes Wrong***
*Asi Wind's Inner Circle*
*Plays for the Plague Year*
*Zephyr*
***Grenfell: in the words of survivors***
*A Eulogy for Roman*
*A Simulacrum*
*ADRIFT: A Medieval Wayward Folly*
*I Love You So Much I Could Die*
***The Picture of Dorian Gray***
*Odd Man Out*
*The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy [redux]*
*The Voices in Your Head*
*The Wind and the Rain: A story about Sunny’s Bar*

References

References

  1. Evans, Greg. (2021-05-05). "Broadway To Reopen Sept. 14, Says Gov. Andrew Cuomo; Broadway League "Cautiously Optimistic"". [[Deadline Hollywood]].
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