Tony Award for Best Play - Definition and Overview

A Tony Award for Best Play has been awarded since 1947.

1947-1949

• 1947 All My Sons

• 1948 Mister Roberts

• 1949 Death of a Salesman

1950-1959

• 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

1960-1969

• 1960 The Miracle Worker
  • A Raisin in the Sun
  • The Best Man
  • The Tenth Man
  • Toys in the Attic

• 1961 Beckett
  • 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 Café
  • 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 and Guildenstern Are Dead
  • Joe Egg
  • Plaza Suite
  • The Price

• 1969 The Great White Hope
  • Hadrian VII
  • Lovers
  • The Man in the Glass Booth

1970-1979

• 1970 Borstal Boy
  • Child's Play
  • Indians
  • Last of the Red Hot Lovers

• 1971 Sleuth
  • Home
  • The Philanthropist
  • 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
  • Boom Boom Room
  • The Au Pair Man
  • Ulysses in Nighttown

• 1975 Equus
  • Same Time, Next Year
  • Seascape
  • Short Eyes
  • Sizwe Banzi is Dead and 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

1980-1989

• 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

1990-1999

• 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 Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
  • The Sisters Rosensweig
  • Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
  • The Song of Jacob Zulu

• 1994 Angels in America: Perestroika
  • 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

2000-

• 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 Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
  • 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