Laurence Olivier Award alla migliore nuova opera teatrale
# Laurence Olivier Award alla migliore nuova opera teatrale

Il Laurence Olivier Award alla migliore nuova opera teatrale (Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play) è un riconoscimento teatrale assegnato annualmente dal 1976 alla migliore nuova pièce (drammatica o comica) in scena a Londra. Il premio era noto originariamente come Society of West End Theatre Award all'opera teatrale dell'anno, ma il premio fu rinominato in onore di Laurence Olivier nel 1984 e la dicitura della categoria fu cambiata con l'attuale nel 2001.

## Vincitori e candidati

### Anni 1976-1979

| Year | Play | Writer |
| - | - | - |
| 1976 |
| 1976 | Dear Daddy | Denis Cannan |
| 1976 | For King and Country | John Wilson |
| 1976 | Funny Peculiar | Mike Stott |
| 1976 | Old World | Aleksei Arbuzov e Ariadne Nicolaeff |
| 1977 |
| 1977 | La città che ha per principe un ragazzo | Henry de Montherlant; traduzione e adattamento di Vivian Cox e Bernard Miles |
| 1977 | Cause Célèbre | Terence Rattigan |
| 1977 | Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi | Pam Gems |
| 1977 | State of Revolution | Robert Bolt |
| 1978 |
| 1978 | Di chi è la mia vita? | Brian Clark |
| 1978 | Half-Life | Julian Mitchell |
| 1978 | Lark Rise | Flora Thompson e Keith Dewhurst |
| 1978 | Plenty | David Hare |
| 1979 |
| 1979 | Tradimenti | Harold Pinter |
| 1979 | Night and Day | Tom Stoppard |
| 1979 | The Crucifer of Blood | Arthur Conan Doyle e Paul Giovanni |
| 1979 | Undiscovered Country | Arthur Schnitzler e Tom Stoppard (adattamento) |

### Anni 1980

| Year | Play | Writer |
| - | - | - |
| 1980 |
| 1980 | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | David Edgar |
| 1980 | A Lesson from Aloes | Athol Fugard |
| 1980 | Duet for One | Tom Kempinski |
| 1980 | Servo di scena | Ronald Harwood |
| 1981 |
| 1981 | Figli di un dio minore | Mark Medoff |
| 1981 | Passion Play | Peter Nichols |
| 1981 | Translations | Brian Friel |
| 1981 | Quartermaine's Terms | Simon Gray |
| 1982 |
| 1982 | Another Country | Julian Mitchell |
| 1982 | Insignificance | Terry Johnson |
| 1982 | 84, Charing Cross Road | Helene Hanff e James Roose-Evans (adattamento) |
| 1982 | Our Friends in the North | Peter Flannery |
| 1983 |
| 1983 | Glengarry Glen Ross | David Mamet |
| 1983 | Pack of Lies | Hugh Whitemore |
| 1983 | The Slab Boys Trilogy | John Byrne |
| 1983 | Tales from Hollywood | Christopher Hampton |
| 1984 |
| 1984 | Benefattori | Michael Frayn |
| 1984 | "Master Harold"...and the Boys | Athol Fugard |
| 1984 | Poppie Nongena | Elsa Joubert, Sandra Kotze e Hilary Blecher |
| 1984 | Rat in the Skull | Ron Hutchinson |
| 1985 |
| 1985 | Red Noses | Peter Barnes |
| 1985 | Doomsday | Tony Harrison |
| 1985 | The Road to Mecca | Athol Fugard |
| 1985 | Torch Song Trilogy | Harvey Fierstein |
| 1986 |
| 1986 | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Christopher Hampton |
| 1986 | L'orologio americano | Arthur Miller |
| 1986 | The Normal Heart | Larry Kramer |
| 1986 | Ourselves Alone | Anne Devlin |
| 1987 |
| 1987 | Serious Money | Caryl Churchill |
| 1987 | Lettice and Lovage | Peter Shaffer |
| 1987 | A Lie of the Mind | Sam Shepard |
| 1987 | Sarcophagus | Vladimir Gubaryev |
| 1988 |
| 1988 | Our Country's Good | Timberlake Wertenbaker |
| 1988 | A Walk in the Woods | Lee Blessing |
| 1988 | Mrs. Klein | Nicholas Wright |
| 1988 | The Secret Rapture | David Hare |
| 1989/1990 |
| 1989/1990 | Racing Demon | David Hare |
| 1989/1990 | Ghetto | Joshua Sobol |
| 1989/1990 | Man of the Moment | Alan Ayckbourn |
| 1989/1990 | Shadowlands | William Nicholson |

### Anni 1990

| Year | Play | Writer |
| - | - | - |
| 1991 |
| 1991 | Dancing at Lughnasa | Brian Friel |
| 1991 | Singer | Peter Flannery |
| 1991 | The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus | Tony Harrison |
| 1991 | White Chameleon | Christopher Hampton |
| 1992 |
| 1992 | La morte e la fanciulla | Ariel Dorfman |
| 1992 | Angels in America | Tony Kushner |
| 1992 | La pazzia di Giorgio III | Alan Bennett |
| 1992 | Three Birds Alighting on a Field | Timberlake Wertenbaker |
| 1993 |
| 1993 | Sei gradi di separazione | John Guare |
| 1993 | Someone Who'll Watch Over Me | Frank McGuinness |
| 1993 | The Gift of the Gorgon | Peter Shaffer |
| 1993 | The Street of Crocodiles | Bruno Schulz |
| 1994 |
| 1994 | Arcadia | Tom Stoppard |
| 1994 | Oleanna | David Mamet |
| 1994 | Angels in America: Perestroika | Tony Kushner |
| 1994 | The Last Yankee | Arthur Miller |
| 1995 | |
| 1995 | Vetri rotti | Arthur Miller |
| 1995 | Dealer's Choice | Patrick Marber |
| 1995 | 900 Oneonta | David Beaird |
| 1995 | Tre donne alte | Edward Albee |
| 1996 |
| 1996 | Skylight | David Hare |
| 1996 | Pentecost | David Edgar |
| 1996 | The Steward of Christendom | Sebastian Barry |
| 1996 | Taking Sides | Ronald Harwood |
| 1997 |
| 1997 | Stanley | Pam Gems |
| 1997 | The Beauty Queen of Leenane | Martin McDonagh |
| 1997 | Blinded by the Sun | Stephen Poliakoff |
| 1997 | The Herbal Bed | Peter Whelan |
| 1998 |
| 1998 | Closer | Patrick Marber |
| 1998 | Amy's View | David Hare |
| 1998 | Hurlyburly | David Rabe |
| 1998 | The Invention of Love | Tom Stoppard |
| 1998 | Tom & Clem | Stephen Churchett |
| 1999 |
| 1999 | La chiusa | Conor McPherson |
| 1999 | The Blue Room | David Hare |
| 1999 | Copenhagen | Michael Frayn |
| 1999 | L'uomo del destino | Yasmina Reza |

### Anni 2000

| Year | Play | Writer |
| - | - | - |
| 2000 |
| 2000 | Goodnight Children Everywhere | Richard Nelson |
| 2000 | Perfect Days | Liz Lochhead |
| 2000 | Rose | Martin Sherman |
| 2000 | The Lady in the Van | Alan Bennett |
| 2000 | Tre giorni di pioggia | Richard Greenberg |
| 2001 |
| 2001 | Blue/Orange | Joe Penhall |
| 2001 | Dolly West's Kitchen | Frank McGuinness |
| 2001 | Life x 3 | Yasmina Reza |
| 2001 | My Zinc Bed | David Hare |
| 2002 |
| 2002 | Jitney | August Wilson |
| 2002 | Boy Gets Girl | Rebecca Gilman |
| 2002 | Gagarin Way | Gregory Burke |
| 2002 | Humble Boy | Charlotte Jones |
| 2002 | Mouth to Mouth | Kevin Elyot |
| 2003 |
| 2003 | Vincent in Brixton | Nicholas Wright |
| 2003 | Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train | Stephen Adly Guirgis |
| 2003 | The Coast of Utopia | Tom Stoppard |
| 2003 | The York Realist | Peter Gill |
| 2004 |
| 2004 | The Pillowman | Martin McDonagh |
| 2004 | Democracy | Michael Frayn |
| 2004 | Elmina's Kitchen | Kwame Kwei-Armah |
| 2004 | Hitchcock Blonde | Terry Johnson |
| 2005 |
| 2005 | Gli studenti di storia | Alan Bennett |
| 2005 | By the Bog of Cats | Marina Carr |
| 2005 | Festen | David Eldridge |
| 2005 | La capra o chi è Sylvia? | Edward Albee |
| 2006 |
| 2006 | On the Shore of the Wide World | Simon Stephens |
| 2006 | Coram Boy | Helen Edmundson |
| 2006 | Harvest | Richard Bean |
| 2006 | Paul | Howard Brenton |
| 2007 |
| 2007 | Blackbird | David Harrower |
| 2007 | Frost/Nixon | Peter Morgan |
| 2007 | Rock 'n' Roll | Tom Stoppard |
| 2007 | The Seafarer | Conor McPherson |
| 2008 |
| 2008 | A Disappearing Number | Simon McBurney |
| 2008 | The Reporter | Nicholas Wright |
| 2008 | Vernon God Little | Tanya Ronder |
| 2008 | War Horse | Nick Stafford |
| 2009 |
| 2009 | Black Watch | Gregory Burke |
| 2009 | August: Osage County | Tracy Letts |
| 2009 | The Pitmen Painters | Lee Hall |
| 2009 | That Face | Polly Stenham |

### Anni 2010

| Year | Play | Writer |
| - | - | - |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | The Mountaintop | Katori Hall |
| 2010 | ENRON | Lucy Prebble |
| 2010 | Jerusalem | Jez Butterworth |
| 2010 | Red | John Logan |
| 2011 |
| 2011 | Clybourne Park | Bruce Norris |
| 2011 | End of the Rainbow | Peter Quilter |
| 2011 | The Little Dog Laughed | Douglas Carter Beane |
| 2011 | Sucker Punch | Roy Williams |
| 2011 | Tribes | Nina Raine |
| 2012 |
| 2012 | Collaborators | John Hodge |
| 2012 | Jumpy | April De Angelis |
| 2012 | One Man, Two Guvnors | Richard Bean |
| 2012 | The Ladykillers | Graham Linehan |
| 2013 |
| 2013 | Lo strano caso del cane ucciso a mezzanotte | Simon Stephens |
| 2013 | Constellations | Nick Payne |
| 2013 | The Audience | Peter Morgan |
| 2013 | This House | James Graham |
| 2014 |
| 2014 | Chimerica | Lucy Kirkwood |
| 2014 | 1984 | Robert Icke e Duncan MacMillan |
| 2014 | The Night Alive | Conor McPherson |
| 2014 | Peter and Alice | John Logan |
| 2015 |
| 2015 | King Charles III | Mike Bartlett |
| 2015 | Taken at Midnight | Mark Hayhurst |
| 2015 | The Nether | Jennifer Haley |
| 2015 | Wolf Hall / Bring up the Bodies | Hilary Mantel e Mike Poulton |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | Hangmen | Martin McDonagh |
| 2016 | Farinelli and the King | Claire van Kampen |
| 2016 | People, Places and Things | Duncan Macmillan |
| 2016 | The Father | Florian Zeller |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | Harry Potter e la maledizione dell'erede | Jack Thorne |
| 2017 | Elegy | Nick Payne |
| 2017 | The Flick | Annie Baker |
| 2017 | One Night in Miami… | Kemp Powers |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | The Ferryman | Jez Butterworth |
| 2018 | Ink | James Graham |
| 2018 | Network | Lee Hall |
| 2018 | Oslo | J. T. Rogers |
| 2019 |
| 2019 | The Inheritance | Matthew Lopez |
| 2019 | Lehman Trilogy | Stefano Massini |
| 2019 | Misty | Arinzé Kene |
| 2019 | Sweat | Lynn Nottage |

### Anni 2020

| Year | Play | Writer |
| - | - | - |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Leopoldstadt | Tom Stoppard |
| 2020 | A Very Expensive Poison | Lucy Prebble |
| 2020 | The Doctor | Robert Icke |
| 2020 | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Joel Horwood |
| 2022 |
| 2022 | Vita di Pi | Lolita Chakrabarti |
| 2022 | 2:22 A Ghost Story | Danny Robins |
| 2022 | Best of Enemies | James Graham |
| 2022 | Cruise | Jack Holden |
