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Browse Awards By Year for 1959
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| 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 | 0 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 | 0 | 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 | Francis Blanche | 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 | 0 | The Visit 1958-59 season |
| 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 | Harlin Quist | 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 | 0 many productions |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Music | David Amram | 0 many productions |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Musical | 0 | 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 | William Shatner | The World of Suzie Wong Season 1958–1959 |
| Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Cyril Ritchard | 0
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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 | 0 | Make Me an Offer
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