Tony Award for Best Play

Tony Award for Best Play

The Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway in New York. There was no award in the Tony's first year. All My Sons has been incorrectly categorized as the Best Play of 1947, but it won the Best Author award for Arthur Miller. The following year Mister Roberts received the first Tony Award as Best Play. Authors and the producers are presented with the award.

YearPlay 
2008August: Osage County 
2007The Coast of Utopia 
2006The History Boys 
2005Doubt 
2004I Am My Own Wife 
2003Take Me Out 
2002Edward Albee's The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia? 
2001Proof 
2000Copenhagen 
1999Side Man 
1998'Art' 
1997The Last Night of Ballyhoo 
1996Master Class 
1995Love! Valour! Compassion! 
1994Angels in America: Perestroika 
1993Angels in America: Millennium Approaches 
1992Dancing at Lughnasa 
1991Lost in Yonkers 
1990The Grapes of Wrath 
1989The Heidi Chronicles 
1988M. Butterfly 
1987Fences 
1986I'm Not Rappaport 
1985Biloxi Blues 
1984The Real Thing 
1983Torch Song Trilogy 
1982The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 
1981Amadeus 
1980Children of a Lesser God 
1979The Elephant Man 
1978Da 
1977The Shadow Box 
1976Travesties 
1975Equus 
1974The River Niger 
1973That Championship Season 
1972Sticks and Bones 
1971Sleuth 
1970Borstal Boy 
1969The Great White Hope 
1968Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead 
1967The Homecoming 
1966Marat/Sade 
1965The Subject Was Roses 
1964Luther 
1963Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 
1962A Man for All Seasons 
1961Becket 
1960The Miracle Worker 
1959J.B. 
1958Sunrise at Campobello 
1957Long Day's Journey Into Night 
1956The Diary of Anne Frank 
1955The Desperate Hours 
1954The Teahouse of the August Moon 
1953The Crucible 
1952The Fourposter 
1951The Rose Tattoo 
1950The Cocktail Party 
1949Death of a Salesman 
1948Mister Roberts 
Tony Award for Best Play
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