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	==Awards and nominations==		==Awards and nominations==

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The Tony Award for Best Play (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. It currently takes place in mid-June each year.

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.

Awards and nominations

* Star marks winners of the annual Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Superlatives

British writer Tom Stoppard has won this award four times, more than any other playwright. Only seven other writers (Arthur Miller, Terrence McNally, Tony Kushner, Edward Albee, Neil Simon, Yasmina Reza and Peter Shaffer) have won the award more than once, each winning twice.

With ten nominations, Neil Simon has been nominated for the award more than any other playwright. August Wilson, with nine nominations, comes in second, followed by Tom Stoppard (seven nominations), Edward Albee (six nominations), and Arthur Miller (five nominations).

In 1994, Tony Kushner became the first playwright to win consecutive Tony Awards for his two-part Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Terrence McNally repeated this feat the following two years with his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class.

References

"Tony Award: Play". Internet Broadway Database. 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-21.

External links

The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards official website

v t e Tony Award for Best Play
1948–1975	Mister Roberts (1948) Death of a Salesman (1949) The Cocktail Party (1950) The Rose Tattoo (1951) The Fourposter (1952) The Crucible (1953) The Teahouse of the August Moon (1954) The Desperate Hours (1955) The Diary of Anne Frank (1956) Long Day's Journey into Night (1957) Sunrise at Campobello (1958) J.B. (1959) The Miracle Worker (1960) Becket (1961) A Man for All Seasons (1962) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1963) Luther (1964) The Subject Was Roses (1965) Marat/Sade (1966) The Homecoming (1967) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1968) The Great White Hope (1969) Borstal Boy (1970) Sleuth (1971) Sticks and Bones (1972) That Championship Season (1973) The River Niger (1974) Equus (1975)
1976–2000	Travesties (1976) The Shadow Box (1977) Da (1978) The Elephant Man (1979) Children of a Lesser God (1980) Amadeus (1981) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982) Torch Song Trilogy (1983) The Real Thing (1984) Biloxi Blues (1985) I'm Not Rappaport (1986) Fences (1987) M. Butterfly (1988) The Heidi Chronicles (1989) The Grapes of Wrath (1990) Lost in Yonkers (1991) Dancing at Lughnasa (1992) Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1993) Angels in America: Perestroika (1994) Love! Valour! Compassion! (1995) Master Class (1996) The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997) 'Art' (1998) Side Man (1999) Copenhagen (2000)
2001–present	Proof (2001) The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2002) Take Me Out (2003) I Am My Own Wife (2004) Doubt: A Parable (2005) The History Boys (2006) The Coast of Utopia (2007) August: Osage County (2008) God of Carnage (2009) Red (2010) War Horse (2011) Clybourne Park (2012) Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2013) All the Way (2014) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2015) The Humans (2016) Oslo (2017) Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2018) The Ferryman (2019) The Inheritance (2020/21) The Lehman Trilogy (2022) Leopoldstadt (2023) Stereophonic (2024)

v t e Tony Awards
American Theatre Wing The Broadway League EGOT Triple Crown of Acting
Play	Best Play Revival Direction Leading Actor Leading Actress Featured Actor Featured Actress Costume Design Lighting Design Scenic Design Sound Design
Musical	Best Musical Revival Direction Leading Actor Leading Actress Featured Actor Featured Actress Book Choreography Costume Design Lighting Design Orchestrations Original Score Scenic Design Sound Design
Special (non-competitive)	Regional Theatre Tony Award Special Tony Award Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre Isabelle Stevenson Award
Retired	Author Conductor and Musical Director Costume Design* Director* Lighting Design* Newcomer Revival* Scenic Design* Special Theatrical Event Stage Technician
Ceremonies	1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020/21 2022 2023 2024 2025
By country	Philippines Asian Other countries
* Divided into separate awards for plays and musicals

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