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Browse Awards By Year for 1959
| Note: Award winners will appear on a | RED BACKGROUND |
| Awards | Category | Nominee | Show |
| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Carol Haney |
Flower Drum Song
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Agnes de Mille |
Goldilocks
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Bob Fosse |
Redhead
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Onna White |
Whoop-Up
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| Tony Awards | Best Conductor and Musical Director | Salvatore Dell'Isola |
Flower Drum Song
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| Tony Awards | Best Conductor and Musical Director | Lehman Engel |
Goldilocks
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| Tony Awards | Best Conductor and Musical Director | Gershon Kingsley |
La Plume de Ma Tante
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| Tony Awards | Best Conductor and Musical Director | Jay Blackston |
Redhead
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Irene Sharaff |
Flower Drum Song Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Castillo |
Goldilocks
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Oliver Messel |
Rashomon
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Rouben Ter-Arutunian |
Redhead
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Dorothy Jenkins |
The World of Suzie Wong
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Dore Schary |
A Majority of One
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction | William Gaskill |
Epitaph for George Dillon
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Elia Kazan |
J.B. Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Robert Dhery |
La Plume de Ma Tante Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Peter Glenville |
Rashomon
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Cyril Richard |
The Pleasure of His Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Peter Brook |
The Visit
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Richard Rodgers |
Flower Drum Song
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Gerard Calvi |
La Plume de Ma Tante
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Dorothy Fields |
Redhead
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | George Scott |
Comes a Day
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Walter Matthau |
Once More, With Feeling
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Robert Morse |
Say, Darling
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Marc Connelly |
Tall Story
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | George Grizzard |
The Disenchanted
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Charlie Ruggles |
The Pleasure of His Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Larry Blyden |
Flower Drum Song
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Russell Nype |
Goldilocks
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Richard Kiley |
Redhead
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Cedric Hardwicke |
A Majority of One
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Robert Stephens |
Epitaph for George Dillon
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Christopher Plummer |
J. B.
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Jason Robards, Jr. |
The Disenchanted
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Cyril Ritchard |
The Pleasure of His Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Alfred Lunt |
The Visit
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Pat Stanley |
Goldilocks Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Julienne Marie |
Whoop-Up
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Maureen Delany |
God and Kate Murphy
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Nan Martin |
J. B.
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Bertrice Reading |
Requiem for a Nun
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Julie Newmar |
The Marriage-Go-Round
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Dolores Hart |
The Pleasure of His Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Miyoshi Umeki |
Flower Drum Song
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Gwen Verdon |
Redhead
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Gertrude Berg |
A Majority of One
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Kim Stanley |
A Touch of the Poet
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Maureen Stapleton |
The Cold Wind and the Warm
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Claudette Colbert |
The Marriage-Go-Round Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Lynn Fontanne |
The Visit
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Eugene O'Neill |
A Touch of the Poet
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | John Osborne |
Epitaph for George Dillon
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Archibald MacLeish |
J.B.
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Budd Schulberg |
The Disenchanted
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Friedrich Duerrenmatt |
The Visit
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Donald Oenslager |
A Majority of One
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Boris Aronson |
J.B.
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Ben Edwards |
Jane Eyre
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Oliver Messel |
Rashomon
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Ballou |
The Legend of Lizzie
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Teo Otto |
The Visit
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| Tony Awards | Best Stage Technician | Edward Flynn |
The Most Happy Fella
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| Tony Awards | Best Stage Technician | Sam Knapp |
The Music Man
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| Tony Awards | Best Stage Technician | Thomas Fitzgerald |
Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?
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| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award | John Gielgud |
Winner for contribution to theatre for his extraordinary insight into the writings of Shakespeare as demonstrated in his one-man play, Ages of Man. |
| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award |
La Plume de Ma Tante
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| Pulitzer Prize for Drama | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Archibald Macleish |
J. B.
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| Drama Desk Awards | Best Direction | William Ball |
Ivanov 1958-59 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Best Performanc | Jane McArthur |
Our Town 1958-59 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Best Performance | Hal Holbrook |
Mark Twain Tonight 1958-59 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best American Play | Lorraine Hansberry |
A Raisin in the Sun 1958-1959 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Foreign Play | Friedrich Duerrenmatt |
The Visit 1958-1959 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Musical | Gerard Calvi |
La Plume de Ma Tante 1958-1959 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Drama Performance | Diana Sands |
A Raisin in the Sun 1958-59 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Musical Performance | Tommy Rall |
Juno 1958-59 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Play |
The Visit 1958-59 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Oliver Messel |
Rashomon 1958-59 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Special Citation | Hal Holbrook |
Mark Twain Tonight! 1958-59 season |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Actor | Alfred Ryder |
I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Actress | Kathleen Maguire |
The Time of the Cuckoo
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best All-Around Production | Daniel Hineck |
Ivanov
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Director (American Play) | Jack Ragotzy |
Arthur Laurents Cycle
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Director (Foreign Play) | William Ball |
Ivanov
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Lighting | Nikola Cernovich |
many productions |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Music | David Amram |
many productions |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Musical |
A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best New Play | Brendan Behan |
The Quare Fellow
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Open-Stage Set | David Hays |
The Quare Fellow
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Proscenium Set | Will Steven Armstrong |
Ivanov
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Revue | Steven Vinaver |
Diversions
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Performance (Actor) | Harold Scott |
Deathwatch
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Performance (Actor) | Lester Rawlins |
The Quare Fellow
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Performance (Actor) | Zero Mostel |
Ulysses in Nighttown
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Performance (Actress) | Nancy Wickwire |
A Clearing in the Woods
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Performance (Actress) | Rosina Fernhoff |
Fashion
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Performance (Actress) | Anne Fielding |
Ivanov
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Performance (Actress) | Rosina Fernhoff |
The Geranium Hall
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Special Citation | Hal Holbrook |
Mark Twain Tonight!
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| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Paul Roebling |
A Desert Incident Season 1958–1959 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Ina Balin |
A Majority of One Season 1958–1959 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Pat Suzuki |
Flower Drum Song Season 1958–1959 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Roger Mollien |
French Theatre National Populaire Season 1958–1959 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Larry Hagman |
God and Kate Murphy Season 1958–1959 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Ben Piazza |
Kataki Season 1958–1959 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Tammy Grimes |
Look After Lulu Season 1958–1959 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Richard Cross |
Maria Golovin Season 1958–1959 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Susan Oliver |
Patate Season 1958–1959 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Rip Torn |
Sweet Bird of Youth Season 1958–1959 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Lou Antonio |
The Buffalo Skinner Season 1958–1959 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Dolores Hart |
The Pleasure of His Company Season 1958–1959 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | France Nuyen |
The World of Suzie Wong Season 1958–1959 |
| Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Cyril Ritchard |
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Actor | Eric Porter |
Rosmersholm
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Play | Willis Hall |
The Long and the Short and the Tall
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright | Arnold Wesker |
Roots
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright | John Arden |
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress | Flora Robson |
The Aspern Papers
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical |
Make Me an Offer
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