Tony Awards: Best Play

Tony Awards

From "All My Sons" in 1947 to "August: Osage County" in 2008, the Tony Awards have awarded excellence in Broadway theatre and Broadway plays throughout the years.

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Who Won Best Play Tony Awards?

2008 August: Osage County
Other Nominees: Rock 'n' Roll; The Seafarer; The 39 Steps
2007 The Coast Of Utopia
Other Nominees: Frost/Nixon; The Little Dog Laughed; Radio Golf
2006 The History Boys
Other Nominees: The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Rabbit Hole; Shining City
2005 Doubt
Other Nominees: Democracy; Gem of the Ocean; The Pillowman
2004 I Am My Own Wife
Other Nominees: Anna in the Tropics; Frozen; The Retreat from Moscow
2003 Take Me Out
Other Nominees: Enchanted April; Say Goodnight Gracie; Vincent in Brixton
2002 The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?
Other Nominees: Fortune's Fool; Metamorphoses; Topdog/Underdog
2001 Proof
Other Nominees: The Invention of Love; King Hedley II; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife
2000 Copenhagen
Other Nominees: Dirty Blonde; The Ride Down Mt Morgan; True West
1999 Side Man
Other Nominees: Closer; The Lonesome West; Not About Nightingales
1998 Art
Other Nominees: Freak; Golden Child; The Beauty Queen of Leenane
1997 The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Other Nominees: Skylight; Stanley; The Young Man from Atlanta
1996 Master Class
Other Nominees: Buried Child; Racing Demon; Seven Guitars
1995 Love! Valour! Compassion!
Other Nominees: Arcadia; Having Our Say; Indiscretions
1994 Angels In America: Perestroika
Other Nominees: Broken Glass; The Kentucky Cycle; Twilight: Los Angeles 1992
1993 Angels In America: Millennium Approaches
Other Nominees: The Sisters Rosenweig; Someone Who'll Watch Over Me; The Song of Jacob Zulu
1992 Dancing at Lughnasa
Other Nominees: Four Baboons Adoring the Sun; Two Shakespearean Actors; Two Trains Running
1991 Lost In Yonkers
Other Nominees: Our Country's Good; Shadowlands; Six Degrees of Separation
1990 The Grapes of Wrath
Other Nominees: Lettice and Lovage; Prelude To a Kiss; The Piano Lesson
1989 The Heidi Chronicles
Other Nominees: Largely New York; Lend Me A Tenor; Shirley Valentine
1988 M Butterfly
Other Nominees: A Walk in the Woods; Joe Turner's Come and Gone; Speed-the-Plow
1987 Fences
Other Nominees: Broadway Bound; Coastal Disturbances; Les Liaisons Dangereuses
1986 I'm Not Rappaport
Other Nominees: Benefactors; Blood Knot; The House of Blue Leaves
1985 Biloxi Blues
Other Nominees: As Is; Hurlyburly; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
1984 The Real Thing
Other Nominees: Glengarry Glen Ross; Noises Off; Play Memory
1983 Torch Song Trilogy
Other Nominees: Angels Fall; Night Mother; Plenty
1982 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Other Nominees: Crimes of the Heart; The Dresser; Master Harold…and the Boys
1981 Amadeus
Other Nominees: A Lesson From Aloes; A Life; Fifth of July
1980 Children Of A Lesser God
Other Nominees: Bent; Home; Talley's Folly
1979 The Elephant Man
Other Nominees: Bedroom Farce; Whose Life Is It Anyway?; Wings
1978 Da
Other Nominees: Chapter Two; Deathtrap; The Gin Game
1977 The Shadow Box
Other Nominees: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide; Otherwise Engaged; Streamers
1976 Travesties
Other Nominees: The First Breeze of Summer; Knock Knock; Lamppost Reunion
1975 Equus
Other Nominees: Same Time Next Year; Seascape; Short Eyes; Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island; The National Health
1974 The River Niger
Other Nominees: Boom Boom Room; The Au Pair Man; Ulysses in Nighttown
1973 That Championship Season
Other Nominees: Butley; The Changing Room; The Sunshine Boys
1972 Sticks and Bones
Other Nominees: Old Times; The Prisoner of Second Avenue; Vivat! Vivat! Regina!
1971 Sleuth
Other Nominees: Home; The Philanthropist; Story Theatre
1970 Borstal Boy
Other Nominees: Child's Play; Indians; Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1969 The Great White Hope
Other Nominees: Hadrian VII; Lovers; The Man in the Glass Booth
1968 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ("Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead")
Other Nominees: Joe Egg; Plaza Suite; The Price
1967 The Homecoming
Other Nominees: A Delicate Balance; Black Comedy; The Killing of Sister George
1966 Marat/Sade
Other Nominees: Inadmissable Evidence; Philadelphia Here I Come!; The Right Honourable Gentleman
1965 The Subject Was Roses
Other Nominees: Luv; The Odd Couple; Tiny Alice
1964 Luther
Other Nominees: The Ballad of the Sad Café; Barefoot in the Park; Dylan
1963 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Other Nominees: A Thousand Clowns; Mother Courage and Her Children; Tchin-Tchin
1962 A Man For All Seasons
Other Nominees: Gideon; The Caretaker; The Night of the Iguana
1961 Beckett
Other Nominees: All the Way Home; The Devil's Advocate; The Hostage
1960 The Miracle Worker
Other Nominees: A Raisin In the Sun; The Best Man; The Tenth Man; Toys In the Attic
1959 J.B.
Other Nominees: A Touch of the Poet; Epitaph for George Dillon; The Disenchanted; The Visit
1958 Sunrise at Campobello
Other Nominees: The Rope Dancers; Two For the Seesaw; Time Remembered; The Dark at the Top of the Stairs; Look Back In Anger; Look Homeward; Romanoff and Juliet
1957 Long Day's Journey Into Night
Other Nominees: Separate Tables; The Potting Shed; The Waltz of the Toreadors
1956 The Diary of Anne Frank
Other Nominees: Bus Stop; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Tiger at the Gates; The Chalk Garden
1955 The Desperate Hours
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1954 The Teahouse of the August Moon
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1953 The Crucible
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1952 The Fourposter
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1951 The Rose Tattoo
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1950 The Cocktail Party
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1949 Death of a Salesman
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1948 Mister Roberts
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1947 All My Sons
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