Hawke's performance in "The Winter's Tale" was better received, earning him a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. In January 2010, Hawke directed his second play, "A Lie of the Mind", by Sam Shepard on the New York stage. It was the first major Off-Broadway revival of the play since its 1985 premiere. Hawke said that he was drawn to the play's take on "the nature of reality", and its "weird juxtaposition of humor and mysticism". In his review for the "New York Times", Ben Brantley noted the production's "scary, splendid clarity", and praised Hawke for eliciting a performance that "connoisseurs of precision acting will be savoring for years to come". "Entertainment Weekly" commented that although "A Lie of the Mind" "wobbles a bit in its late stages", Hawke's "hearty" revival managed to "resurrect the spellbinding uneasiness of the original". The production garnered five Lucille Lortel Award nominations including Outstanding Revival, and earned Hawke a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Director of a Play. Hawke next starred in the Off-Broadway premiere of a new play, Tommy Nohilly's "Blood from a Stone", from December 2010 to February 2011. The play was not a critical success, but Hawke's portrayal of the central character Travis earned positive feedback; "The New York Times" said he was "remarkably good at communicating the buried sensitivity beneath Travis's veneer of wary resignation." A contributor from the "New York Post" noted it was Hawke's "best performance in years". Hawke won an Obie Award for his role in "Blood from a Stone". The following year Hawke played the title role in Chekhov's "Ivanov" at the Classic Stage Company. In early 2013, he starred in and directed a new play "Clive", inspired by Bertolt Brecht's "Baal" and written by Jonathan Marc Sherman. Later that year he played the title role in a Broadway production of "Macbeth" at the Lincoln Center Theater, but his performance failed to win over the critics, with the "New York Post" calling it "underwhelming" for showing untimely restraint in a flashy production. In 2019, Hawke returned to Broadway in the revival of Sam Shepard's "True West", co-starring Paul Dano. The show was met with critical acclaim.