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Browse Awards By Year for 1971
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| Awards | Category | Nominee | Show |
| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | George Furth |
Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Herb Schapiro |
The Me Nobody Knows
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| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Sherman Yellen |
The Rothschilds
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Michael Bennett |
Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Donald Saddler |
No, No Nanette
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Michael Kidd |
The Rothschilds
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Jane Greenwood |
Hay Fever
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Jane Greenwood | Les Blancs |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Freddy Wittop |
Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Raoul Pene Du Bois |
No, No Nanette
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Harold Prince |
Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Burt Shevelove |
No, No Nanette
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Robert H. Livingston | The Me Nobody Knows |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Michael Kidd |
The Rothschilds
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Peter Brook |
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Lindsay Anderson |
Home
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Clifford Williams |
Sleuth
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Stephen Porter |
The School for Wives
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Robert Ornbo |
Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | William Ritman |
Sleuth
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | R.H. Poindexter |
Story Theatre
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Harold Prince |
Company Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Jeff Britton |
The Me Nobody Knows Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Lester Osterman |
The Rothschilds production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Stephen Sondheim |
Company Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Will Holt |
The Me Nobody Knows
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| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Sheldon Harnick |
The Rothschilds
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Ronald Radd |
Abelard and Heloise
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Donald Pickering |
Conduct Unbecoming
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Paul Sand |
Story Theatre
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Ed Zimmermann |
The Philanthropist
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Larry Kert |
Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | David Burns |
Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Bobby Van |
No, No Nanette
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Hal Linden |
The Rothschilds
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Walter Willison |
Two by Two
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | John Gielgud |
Home
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Alec McCowen |
The Philanthropist
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Brian Bedford |
The School for Wives
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Barbara Barrie |
Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Patsy Kelly |
No, No Nanette
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Rae Allen |
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Mona Washbourne |
Home
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Lili Darvas |
Les Blancs
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Joan Van Ark |
The School for Wives
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Susan Browning |
Company
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Helen Gallagher |
No, No Nanette
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Sandy Duncan |
The Boy Friend
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Diana Rigg |
Abelard and Heloise
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Estelle Parsons |
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Marian Seldes |
Father's Day
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Maureen Stapleton |
The Gingerbread Lady
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Morton Gottlieb |
Sleuth
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Alexander H. Cohen |
Home Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Anthony Shaffer |
Sleuth Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Paul Sills |
Story Theatre Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Christopher Hampton |
The Philanthropist
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Sally Jacobs |
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Boris Aronson |
Company Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Jo Mielziner |
Father's Day
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | John Bury |
The Rothschilds production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award | Roger L. Stevens | |
| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award | Elliot Norton |
Distinguished Theatrical Commentary |
| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award | Ingram Ash |
Blaine-Thompson Advertising Production took place the previous year |
| Pulitzer Prize for Drama | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Paul Zindel |
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds
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| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Composer | Stephen Schwartz |
Godspell 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Composer | Yutaka Higashi |
Golden Bat 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Costume Designe | Susan Tsu |
Godspell 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Director | John-Michael Tebelak |
Godspell 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Director | Jeff Bleckner |
The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Director | Russel Treyz |
Whitsuntide 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Playwright | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
Happy Birthday, Wanda June 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Playwright | A.R. Gurney, Jr. |
Scenes From American Life 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Playwright | Robert Mntgomery |
Subject to Fits 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Playwright | David Rabe |
The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Set Design | Eugene Lee |
Alice in Wonderland 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Oustanding Performance | Ralph Richardson |
Home 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Book | Burt Shevelove |
No, No, Nanette 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Michael Bennett |
Follies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Donald Saddler |
No, No, Nanette 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Florence Klotz |
Follies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Raoul Pene Du Bois |
No, No, Nanette 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Peter Brook |
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Andre Gregory |
Alice in Wonderland 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Robert Wilson |
Deafman Glance 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Harold Prince |
Follies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Tom O'Horgan |
Lenny 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Paul Sills |
Metamorphosis 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Paul Sills |
Story Theatre 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Stephen Sondheim |
Follies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Stephen Sondheim |
Follies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Claire Bloom |
A Doll's House 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Mildred Dunnock |
A Place Without Doors 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Colleen Dewhurst |
All Over 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Ruby Dee |
Boesman and Lena 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Marian Seldes |
Father's Day 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Alexis Smith |
Follies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Claire Bloom |
Hedda Gabler 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Siobhan McKenna |
Here Are Ladies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | John Gielgud |
Home 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Madeleine Renaud |
L'Amante Anglaise 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Cliff Gorman |
Lenny 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | James Earl Jones |
Les Blancs 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Paul Sand |
Metamorphosis 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Helen Gallagher |
No, No, Nanette 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Roberta Maxwell |
Slag 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Anthony Quayle |
Sleuth 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Paul Sand |
Story Theatre 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Maureen Stapleton |
The Gingerbread Lady 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Alec McCowen |
The Philanthropist 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Brian Bedford |
The School for Wives 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Jack MacGowran |
The Works of Samuel Beckett 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performances | Keith Baxter |
Sleuth 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Sally Jacobs |
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Boris Aronson |
Follies 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Robin Wagner |
Lenny 1970-71 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Vernon Rice Award | Geraldine Fitzgerald |
Long Day's Journey Into Night 1970-71 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best American Play | John Guare |
The House of Blue Leaves 1970-1971 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best American Play | Daniel Berrigan |
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine 1970-1971 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Musical | Stephen Sondheim |
Follies 1970-1971 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Play | David Storey |
Home 1970-1971 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Production |
Follies 1970-71 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Production |
No, No, Nanette 1970-71 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Productions |
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1970-71 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Other Awards | Claire Bloom |
A Doll's House 1970-71 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Other Awards | Claire Bloom |
Hedda Gabler 1970-71 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Other Awards | John Guare |
The House of Blue Leaves 1970-71 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Achievement Awards | Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival |
1970-71 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Achievement Awards | Paul Sills |
Paulo Sills' Story Theatre 1970-71 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Achievement Awards |
The School for Wives 1970-71 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Achievment Awards |
The Trial of the Cantonsville Nine 1970-71 season |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Foreign Play | Heathcote Williams |
AC/DC
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Foreign Play | Athol Fugard |
Bowman and Lena
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Foreign Play | Derek Walcott |
Dream on Monkey Mountain
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best New American Play | John Guare |
House of Blue Leaves
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Performance By An Actor | Jack MacGowran |
Beckett
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Performance By An Actress | Ruby Dee |
Bowman and Lena
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Citations | Orlando Furioso |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Design | John Scheffler |
AC/DC
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | John Hirsch |
AC/DC
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | Jeff Blackner |
Basic Training of Paulo Hummel
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | John Berry |
Bossman and Lona
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | Larry Kornfeild |
Dracular Sabbat
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | Gordon Davidson |
The Trial of the Catonsville 9
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Play |
The Trial of the Catonsville 9
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Plays | David Rabe |
Basic Training of Paul Hummel
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Plays | Ed Bullins |
In New England Winter
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Plays | Ed Bullins |
The Fabulous Miss Maria
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Susan Batson |
AC/DC
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Joan MacIntosh |
Com
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Stacy Keach |
Long Day's Journey Into Night
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Margaret Braidwood |
Saved
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Hector Elizondo |
Steambath
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Sonny Jin |
The Fabulous Miss Marie
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | William Schallert |
The Trial of the Catonsville 9
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Harris Laskawy |
Uncle Vanya
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance (consistent excellence) | Kirk Kirksey |
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| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Martha Henry |
Antigone Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Kipp Osborne |
Butterflies Are Free Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Clifton Davis |
Do It Again Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Jennifer Salt |
Father's Day Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | James Naughton |
Long Day's Journey Into Night Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Roger Rathburn |
No, No, Nanette Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Michael Douglas |
Pinkville Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Martha Henry |
Scenes From American Life Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Joan Van Ark |
School for Wives Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Ayn Ruymen |
The Gingerbread Lady Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Martha Henry |
The Playboy of the Western World Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Tricia O'Neil |
Two by Two Season 1970–1971 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Julie Garfield |
Uncle Vanya Season 1970–1971 |
| Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Sir Anthony Quayle |
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| Henry Hewes Awards | Costume Design | Raoul Pene Du Bois |
No No Nanette
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| Henry Hewes Awards | Scenic Design | Boris Aronson |
Follies
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| Henry Hewes Awards | Scenic Design | Peter Larkin |
Les Blancs
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| Henry Hewes Awards | Special Citation | Clark Dunham |
The Me Nobody Knows
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Actor | Alan Bates |
Butley
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Comedy | Alan Bennett |
Getting On
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Play | Simon Grey |
Butley
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright | E A Whitehead |
The Foursoe
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress | Peggy Ashcroft |
The Loves of Viorne
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