Tony Award for Best Play

What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York.

There was no trophy in the Tony's first year. "All My Sons" has often been incorrectly categorized as the Best Play of 1947, but in reality it won the Best Author award courtesy of Arthur Miller. The following year "Mister Roberts" was hailed as the Tony's first Best Play. Authors and the producers are presented with the award.

Awards and nominations

1940s

* 1948: "Mister Roberts"
* 1949: "Death of a Salesman"

1950s

* 1950: "The Cocktail Party"
* 1951: "The Rose Tattoo"
* 1952: "The Fourposter"
* 1953: "The Crucible"
* 1954: "The Teahouse of the August Moon"
* 1955: "The Desperate Hours"

* 1956: "The Diary of Anne Frank"
** "Bus Stop"
** "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
** "Tiger at the Gates"
** "The Chalk Garden"

* 1957: "Long Day's Journey Into Night"
** "Separate Tables"
** "The Potting Shed"
** "The Waltz of the Toreadors"

* 1958: "Sunrise at Campobello"
** "The Rope Dancers"
** "Two for the Seesaw"
** "Time Remembered"
** "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs"
** "Look Back in Anger"
** "Look Homeward, Angel"
** "Romanoff and Juliet"

* 1959: "J.B."
** "A Touch of the Poet"
** "Epitaph for George Dillon"
** "The Disenchanted"
** "The Visit"

1960s

* 1960: "The Miracle Worker"
** "A Raisin in the Sun"
** "The Best Man"
** "The Tenth Man"
** "Toys in the Attic"

* 1961: "Becket"
** "All the Way Home"
** "The Devil's Advocate"
** "The Hostage"

* 1962: "A Man for All Seasons"
** "Gideon"
** "The Caretaker"
** "The Night of the Iguana"

* 1963: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
** "A Thousand Clowns"
** "Mother Courage and Her Children"
** "Tchin-Tchin"

* 1964: "Luther"
** "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe"
** "Barefoot in the Park"
** "Dylan"

* 1965: "The Subject Was Roses"
** "Luv"
** "The Odd Couple"
** "Tiny Alice"

* 1966: "Marat/Sade"
** "Inadmissible Evidence"
** "Philadelphia, Here I Come!"
** "The Right Honourable Gentleman"

* 1967: "The Homecoming"
** "A Delicate Balance"
** "Black Comedy"
** "The Killing of Sister George"

* 1968: "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"
** "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg"
** "Plaza Suite"
** "The Price"

* 1969: "The Great White Hope"
** "Hadrian VII"
** "Lovers"
** "The Man in the Glass Booth"

1970s

* 1970: "Borstal Boy"
** "Child's Play"
** "Indians"
** "The Last of the Red Hot Lovers"

* 1971: "Sleuth"
** "Home"
** "The Philanthropist"
** "Paul Sill's Story Theatre"

* 1972: "Sticks and Bones"
** "Old Times"
** "The Prisoner of Second Avenue"
** "Vivat! Vivat Regina!"

* 1973: "That Championship Season"
** "Butley"
** "The Changing Room"
** "The Sunshine Boys"

* 1974: "The River Niger"
** "In the Boom Boom Room"
** "The Au Pair Man"
** "Ulysses in Nighttown"

* 1975: "Equus"
** "Same Time, Next Year"
** "Seascape"
** "Short Eyes"
** "Sizwe Banzi is Dead" / "The Island"
** "The National Health"

* 1976: "Travesties"
** "The First Breeze of Summer"
** "Knock Knock"
** "Lamppost Reunion"

* 1977: "The Shadow Box"
** "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf"
** "Otherwise Engaged"
** "Streamers"

* 1978: "Da"
** "Chapter Two"
** "Deathtrap"
** "The Gin Game"

* 1979: "The Elephant Man"
** "Bedroom Farce"
** "Whose Life Is It Anyway?"
** "Wings"

1980s

* 1980: "Children of a Lesser God"
** "Bent"
** "Home"
** "Talley's Folly"

* 1981: "Amadeus"
** "A Lesson from Aloes"
** "A Life"
** "Fifth of July"

* 1982: "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"
** "Crimes of the Heart"
** "The Dresser"
** "Master Harold...and the Boys

* 1983: "Torch Song Trilogy"
** "Angels Fall"
** "'night, Mother"
** "Plenty"

* 1984: "The Real Thing"
** "Glengarry Glen Ross"
** "Noises Off"
** "Play Memory"

* 1985: "Biloxi Blues"
** "As Is"
** "Hurlyburly"
** "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"

* 1986: "I'm Not Rappaport"
** "Benefactors"
** "Blood Knot"
** "The House of Blue Leaves"

* 1987: "Fences"
** "Broadway Bound"
** "Coastal Disturbances"
** "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"

* 1988: "M. Butterfly"
** "A Walk in the Woods"
** "Joe Turner's Come and Gone"
** "Speed-the-Plow"

* 1989: "The Heidi Chronicles"
** "Largely New York"
** "Lend Me a Tenor"
** "Shirley Valentine"

1990s

* 1990: "The Grapes of Wrath"
** "Lettice and Lovage"
** "Prelude to a Kiss"
** "The Piano Lesson"

* 1991: "Lost in Yonkers"
** "Our Country's Good"
** "Shadowlands"
** "Six Degrees of Separation"

* 1992: "Dancing at Lughnasa"
** "Four Baboons Adoring the Sun"
** "Two Shakespearean Actors"
** "Two Trains Running"

* 1993: ""
** "The Sisters Rosensweig"
** "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me"
** "The Song of Jacob Zulu"

* 1994: ""
** "Broken Glass"
** "The Kentucky Cycle"
** ""

* 1995: "Love! Valour! Compassion!"
** "Arcadia"
** "Having Our Say"
** "Indiscretions"

* 1996: "Master Class"
** "Buried Child"
** "Racing Demon"
** "Seven Guitars"

* 1997: "The Last Night of Ballyhoo"
** "Skylight"
** "Stanley"
** "The Young Man From Atlanta"

* 1998: " 'Art'"
** "Freak"
** "Golden Child"
** "The Beauty Queen of Leenane"

* 1999: "Side Man"
** "Closer"
** "The Lonesome West"
** "Not about Nightingales"

2000s

* 2000: "Copenhagen"
** "Dirty Blonde"
** "The Ride Down Mt. Morgan"
** "True West"

* 2001: "Proof"
** "The Invention of Love"
** "King Hedley II"
** "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife"

* 2002: ""
** "Fortune's Fool"
** "Metamorphoses"
** "Topdog/Underdog"

* 2003: "Take Me Out"
** "Enchanted April"
** "Say Goodnight, Gracie"
** "Vincent in Brixton"

* 2004: "I Am My Own Wife"
** "Anna in the Tropics"
** "Frozen"
** "The Retreat from Moscow"

* 2005: ""
** "Democracy"
** "Gem of the Ocean"
** "The Pillowman"

* 2006: "The History Boys"
** "The Lieutenant of Inishmore"
** "Rabbit Hole"
** "Shining City"

* 2007: "The Coast of Utopia"
** "Frost/Nixon"
** "The Little Dog Laughed"
** "Radio Golf"

* 2008: ""
** "Rock 'n' Roll"
** "The Seafarer"
** "The 39 Steps"

ee also

* Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play
* Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play

References

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External links

* [http://www.tonyawards.com/ The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards official website]