| Tony Award for Best Play | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Play |
| Location | New York City |
| Presented by | American Theatre Wing The Broadway League |
| Currently held by | The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini and Ben Power (2022) |
| Website | TonyAwards.com |
The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award given to the best new (non-musical) play on Broadway, as determined by Tony Award voters. There was no award in the Tonys' first year. The award goes to the authors and the producers of the play. Plays that have appeared in previous Broadway productions are instead eligible for Best Revival of a Play.
Award winners
Legend:
† marks winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama[1]
* marks finalists of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama[1]
1940s
| Year | Production | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 1948 2nd Tony Awards | ||
| Mister Roberts | Thomas Heggen & Joshua Logan | |
| 1949 3rd Tony Awards | ||
| Death of a Salesman † | Arthur Miller |
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
| Year | Production | Author | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 74th Tony Awards | |||
| The Inheritance[3] | Matthew Lopez | ||
| Grand Horizons | Bess Wohl | ||
| Sea Wall/A Life | Simon Stephens and Nick Payne | ||
| Slave Play | Jeremy O. Harris | ||
| The Sound Inside | Adam Rapp | ||
| 2021 Ceremony not held |
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| 2022 75th Tony Awards | |||
| The Lehman Trilogy[4] | Stefano Massini | ||
| Clyde's | Lynn Nottage | ||
| Hangmen | Martin McDonagh | ||
| The Minutes* | Tracy Letts | ||
| Skeleton Crew | Dominique Morisseau | ||
| 2023 76th Tony Awards |
Ain't No Mo' | Jordan E. Cooper | |
| Between Riverside and Crazy † | Stephen Adly Guirgis | ||
| Cost of Living † | Martyna Majok | ||
| Fat Ham † | James Ijames | ||
| Leopoldstadt | Tom Stoppard | ||
Award records
Multiple awards and nominations
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 (eight nominations), Edward Albee (six nominations), Arthur Miller (five nominations), and Martin McDonagh (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.
See also
- Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play
- Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play
- List of Tony Award and Olivier Award winning plays
References
- ^ a b "Drama - The Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved April 4, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ 2019 Tony Award Winners: Full List - The New York Times
- ^ All of the Winners from the 2020 Tony Awards|BroadwayWorld
- ^ Tony Awards 2022:'A Strange Loop', 'The Lehman Trilogy' take Broadway's top honors - USA Today
External links
This page was last edited on 10 May 2023, at 19:15