Awards Program

Awards of Excellence Program

The League's Awards Program inspires excellence by recognizing theatres and individuals for their significant accomplishments or distinguished service to our field.

LHAT will announce the winners of this year's awards at the 2025 National Conference in Pittsburgh in July. The deadline to submit nominations for the 2025 Awards was April 15th.

Updated 04.16.2025

Outstanding Historic Theatre Award

The Outstanding Historic Theatre Award recognizes a theatre that demonstrates excellence through its community impact, quality of programs and services, and quality of the restoration or rehabilitation of its historic structure. An award-winning theatre will have demonstrated excellence through significant achievement, the impact of its services and breadth of populations served, and the length of time and/or intensity of its activities.

The Joseph Rosenberg Award for Outstanding Individual Contribution

The Joseph Rosenberg Award for Outstanding Individual Contribution recognizes an individual who demonstrates vision, dedication, selflessness and excellence through his/her/their contribution to historic theatres and their communities as a volunteer, board member, patron, donor, service provider, staff member or historic theatre advocate-at-large. The recipient of this award will have demonstrated excellence through their significant contributions, the impact of their services and breadth of populations served, and the length of time and/or intensity of contributions that benefit the field of historic theatres.

In addition to the two annual awards, LHAT also presents The Marquee Award which recognizes exemplary artists whose names have lit up the marquees of America's historic theatres. The Marquee Award is also presented at the national conference but not necessarily annually.

Congratulations to the recipients of the League's 2024 Awards for Excellence!

  2024 Outstanding Historic
Theatre Award

The 2024 Joseph Rosenberg Award for
Outstanding Individual Contribution
  Tampa Theatre
Tampa, Florida		   John Bell
Tampa Theatre
Tampa, Florida		 Ken Shaw
State Theatre Preservation Society
Boyertown, Pennsylvania

On July 7, 2024, at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center during the League's 48th National Conference, the League of Historic American Theatres celebrated excellence in the field of historic theatres.

Read the full Press Release here

 

Past Awards Winners

Learn about the Theatres, Individuals, and Marquee Awards presented in the past.

See the list here