• CTH named "1 of 8 Theatres to Watch in America" by The Drama League

• Two 2008 Drama Desk nominations for CTH’s production of Black Nativity

• 2008 Lucille Lortel nomination for CTH’s production of Black Nativity

• 2007 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work.

• Three 2006 Lucille Lortel Award nominations for CTH’s production of Funnyhouse of a Negro

• 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for CTH’s production of Funnyhouse of a Negro

• 2005 Drama Desk nomination Outstanding Musical Revival, Ain’t Supposed To Die A Natural Death

• 2004 Drama Desk Award for Artistic Excellence

• 2004 Drama Desk nomination for Best Actress, Trojan Women

• 2004 Edwin Booth Award for Artistic Excellence (Past honorees include: Tony Kushner, Hal Prince, Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Royal Shakespeare Company.)

• 2001 OBIE Award for Artistic Excellence

• Four 2003 OBIE Awards for CTH's production of The Blacks: A Clown Show

• Eighteen AUDELCO Awards for excellence in Black Theatre

Press

•  “Remarkable, important and valuable theatre” - The New York Times

• “A company to follow and relish” - The New York Times

•  “If there is a more dauntless ensemble in New York I don't know what it is” - The New York Times

• “The youngest, most diverse audiences in town” - New York Magazine

• “Ever inventive” - The New Yorker

• “One of the gutsiest and physically fearless groups around" - Time Out NY

• “One of the most consistently intelligent and dramatically compelling companies in New York City” - NYTheatre.com

CTH Galas

2007 Classical Theatre of Harlem Gala

New York State Governor David A. Paterson - Classical Theatre of Harlem Community Service Award

André De Shields - The Ira Aldridge Award for Sustained Excellence in the Theatre

Wendell Pierce - The Ira Aldridge Award for Sustained Excellence in the Theatre

2006 Classical Theatre of Harlem Gala

Alfre Woodard - The Josephine Premice Award for Sustained Excellence in the Theatre

Billie Allen - The Rose McClendon Trailblazer Award

Arthur French - The Ira Aldridge Award for Sustained Excellence in the Theatre

Allen Gomez, VP & Corporate Giving Manager Washington Mutual Bank - Classical Theatre of Harlem Community Service Award

2005 Classical Theatre of Harlem Gala

Diahann Carroll - The Rose McClendon Trailblazer Award

Phylicia Rashad - The Josephine Premice Award for Sustained Excellence in the Theatre

Earle Hyman - The Ira Aldridge Award for Sustained Excellence in the Theatre

The Classical Theatre of Harlem, a company that has the youngest, most diverse audiences in town, takes nontraditional casting to a new level, and is putting on rarely performed but remarkably powerful work. - New York Magazine