| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Zakes Mokae | 'Master Harold'...and the Boys |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Bob Gunton | How I Got That Story |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Robert Stattel | King Lear |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Christopher Plummer | Othello |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Paul Rogers | The Dresser |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Harvey Fierstein | Torch Song Trilogy |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Sheryl Lee Ralph | 4322 |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Musical | Jennifer Holliday | Dreamgirls |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Barbara Bryne | Entertaining Mr. Sloane |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Zoe Caldwell | Medea |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Bernadette Peters | Sally and Marsha |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Elizabeth Franz | Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actress in a Play | Constance Cummings | The Chalk Garden |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Theoni V. Aldredge | Dreamgirls |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | William Ivey Long | Nine |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Robert Fletcher | Othello |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Michael Bennett | Dreamgirls |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Tony Tanner | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Tommy Tune | Nine |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Athol Fugard | 'Master Harold'...and the Boys |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Douglas Turner Ward | A Soldier's Play |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Tommy Tune | Cloud 9 |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | John Tillinger | Entertaining Mr. Sloane |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Jaques Levy | Potsdam Quartet |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Ben Harney | 73637 |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Cleavant Derricks | Dreamgirls |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Mark Hardwick | Pump Boys and Dinettes |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Adolph Caesar | A Soldier's Play |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Larry Riley | A Soldier's Play |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Zeljko Ivanek | Cloud 9 |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Mandy Patinkin | Henry IV |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Bill Moor | Potsdam Quartet |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Matthew Broderick | Torch Song Trilogy |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Laurie Beechman | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Liliane Montevecchi | Nine |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Shelly Burch, Anita Morris | Nine |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Lonette McKee | The First |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Amanda Plummer | Agnes of God |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | E. Katherine Kerr | Cloud 9 |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Cheryl Giannini | Grown Ups |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Pauline Flanagan | Medea |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Aideen O'Kelly | Othello |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Estelle Getty | Torch Song Trilogy |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Tharon Musser | Dreamgirls |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Marcia Madeira | Nine |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Beverly Emmons | The Dresser |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Eugene Lee | The Hothouse |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Tom Eyen | Dreamgirls |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Stephen Sondheim | Merrily We Roll Along |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Maury Yeston | Nine |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Jim Wann & Cast | Pump Boys and Dinettes |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | | Dreamgirls |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | | Nine |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | | Pump Boys and Dinettes |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Athol Fugard | 'Master Harold'...and the Boys |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Charles Fuller | A Soldier's Play |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | David Henry Hwang | Family Devotions |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Jules Feiffer | Grown Ups |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | David Henry Hwang | The Dance and the Railroad |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | A.R. Gurney | The Dining Room |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Play | Harvey Fierstein | Torch Song Trilogy |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | | Entertaining Mr. Sloane |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | | Misalliance |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | | The Chalk Garden |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Santo Loquasto | Crossing Niagara |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Robin Wagner | Dreamgirls |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Santo Loquasto | Gardenia |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Stuart Wurtzel | Henry IV |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Laurie Dennett | The Dresser |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | David Chapman, David Chapman | The First |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Eugene Lee | The Hothouse |
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| Drama Desk Awards | Special Awards | The Ridiculous Theatrical Company, Jonathan Tunick | |
| Drama Desk Awards | Special Awards | | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
| Drama Desk Awards | Unique Theatrical Experience | Tokyo Kid Brothers | Shiro |
| Drama Desk Awards | Unique Theatrical Experience | John Cullum | Whistler |
| Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Milo O’Shea | Mass Appeal |
| Drama League Awards | Unique Contribution to the Theatre | Nelle Nugent, Elizabeth I. McCann,, James M. Nederlander, Gerald Schoenfeld, Bernard Jacobs | Nicholas Nickelby |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Actor | Alec McCowan | The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Comedy | Michael Frayn | Make and Break |
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Comedy | Michael Frayn | Noises Off |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Director | Richard Eyre | Guys and Dolls |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Play | Tom Stoppard | The Real Thing |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright | Terry Johnson | Insignificance |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Lebedev Special Award | John Gielgud | |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress | Judi Dench | A Kind of Alaska |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress | Judi Dench | The Importance of Being Earnest |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical | | Windy City |
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| Henry Hewes Awards | Costume Design | William Ivey Long | Nine |
| Henry Hewes Awards | Lighting Design | Tharon Musser, Robin Wagner | Dreamgirls |
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| Henry Hewes Awards | Scenic Design | Edward T. Gianfrancesco | Big Apple Messenger |
| Henry Hewes Awards | Scenic Design | David Chapman | The First |
| Henry Hewes Awards | Special Citation | John Napier, Neil Peter Jampolis, David Hersey, Dermot Hayes, Beverly Emmons | The Life And Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Musical | Bob Hoskins | Guys And Dolls |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Musical | Stephen Moore | Poppy |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Musical | Tim Curry | The Pirates Of Penzance |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Musical | Roy Hudd | Underneath The Arches |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a New Play | David Swift | 84 Charing Cross Road |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a New Play | Rupert Everett | Another Country |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a New Play | Ian McDiarmid | Insignificance |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a New Play | Alec McCowen | The Portage To San Cristobal of A.H. |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Revival | Stephen Moore | A Doll's House |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Revival | Joss Ackland | Henry IV, RSC |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Revival | Trevor Peacock | Hobson's Choice |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Revival | Donald Sinden | Uncle Vanya |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Supporting Role | Geoffrey Hutchings | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Supporting Role | Stephen Moore | All's Well That Ends Well |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Supporting Role | David Healy | Guys And Dolls |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actor of the Year in a Supporting Role | Paul Rogers | The Importance Of Being Earnest |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Musical | Val McLane | Andy Capp |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Musical | Julia McKenzie | Guys And Dolls |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Musical | Marti Webb | Song And Dance |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Musical | Imelda Staunton | The Beggar's Opera |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a New Play | Rosemary Leach | 84 Charing Cross Road |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a New Play | Judy Davis | Insignificance |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a New Play | Judi Dench | Other Places |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a New Play | Anna Massey | Summer |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Revival | Felicity Kendal | The Second Mrs Tanqueray |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Revival | Cheryl Campbell, Cheryl Campbell | A Doll's House |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Revival | Mary Maddox | Rocket To The Moon |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Revival | Judi Dench | The Importance Of Being Earnest |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Supporting Role | Nicola Blackman | Destry Rides Again |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Supporting Role | Anna Massey | The Importance Of Being Earnest |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Supporting Role | Sheila Hancock | The Winter's Tale |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Actress of the Year in a Supporting Role | Carole Hayman | Top Girls |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy of the Year | John Chapman and Dave Freeman | Key For Two |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy of the Year | Michael Frayn | Noises Off |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy of the Year | Alan Ayckbourn | Season's Greetings |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy of the Year | Claire Luckham | Trafford Tanzi |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy Performance of the Year | Jane Carr | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy Performance of the Year | Paul Eddington | Noises Off |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy Performance of the Year | Geoffrey Hutchings | Poppy |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Comedy Performance of the Year | Bill Paterson | Schweyk In The Second World War |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Designer of the Year | John Gunter | Guys And Dolls |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Designer of the Year | Farrah | Poppy |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Designer of the Year | Ultz | Twin Rivals |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Designer of the Year | Carl Toms | Windy City |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Director of the Year | James Roose-Evans | 84 Charing Cross Road |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Director of the Year | Adrian Noble | A Doll's House |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Director of the Year | Richard Eyre | Guys And Dolls |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Director of the Year | Michael Bogdanov | Uncle Vanya |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Most Promising Newcomer of the Year in Theatre | Kenneth Branagh | Another Country |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Most Promising Newcomer of the Year in Theatre | Rupert Everett | Another Country |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Most Promising Newcomer of the Year in Theatre | Terry Johnson | Insignificance |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Most Promising Newcomer of the Year in Theatre | Imelda Staunton | The Beggar's Opera |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Musical of the Year | Trevor Peacock, Dick Vosburgh | book and lyricsAndy Capp, book and lyrics by Trevor Peacock, music and lyrics by Alan Price, at the Aldwych |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Musical of the Year | Monty Norman, Peter Nichols | Poppy |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Musical of the Year | Alan Price | Poppy |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Musical of the Year | Brian Glanville, Roy Hudd, Chesney Allen, Patrick Garland | Underneath The Arches |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Opera | Kent Opera | Agrippina |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Opera | The Royal Opera | Falstaff |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Opera | Welsh National Opera | I Puritani |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Opera | English National Opera | Rigoletto |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement of the Year in a Musical | The National Theatre | Guys and Dolls |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement of the Year in a Musical | Palace | Song And Dance |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement of the Year in a Musical | National Theatre Cottesloe | The Beggar's Opera |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement of the Year in a Musical | Theatre Royal Drury Lane | The Pirates Of Penzance |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement of the Year in Ballet | Ghost Dances | Ballet Rambert |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement of the Year in Ballet | Le Songe D'Une Nuit D'Ete | Le Ballet De L'Opera De Paris |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement of the Year in Ballet | Illuminations, L'Invitation Au Voyage | The Royal Ballet |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding First Achievement of the Year in Ballet | Elisabeth Platel | Le Ballet De L'Opera De Paris's La Sylphide |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding First Achievement of the Year in Ballet | Jean Yves Lormeau | Le Ballet De L'Opera De Paris's Le Songe D'Une Nuit D'Ete |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding First Achievement of the Year in Ballet | Alessandra Ferri | The Royal Ballet's Mayerling |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding First Achievement of the Year in Ballet | Evelyn Hart | the Royal Winnipey Ballet's Belong |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding First Achievement of the Year in Opera | Robert Dean | English National Opera's Pelleas And Melisande |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding First Achievement of the Year in Opera | Anne-Marie Owens | English National Opera's The Barber Of Seville |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding First Achievement of the Year in Opera | Lynda Russell | Hardel Opera's Partenope |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding First Achievement of the Year in Opera | Jeffrey Tate | The Royal Opera's La Clemenza Di Tito |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding First Achievement of the Year in Opera | Jeffrey Tate | The Royal Opera's La Clemenza Di Tito |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Play of the Year | Helene Hanff | 84 Charing Cross Road |
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| Laurence Olivier Awards | Play of the Year | Julian Mitchell | Another Country |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Play of the Year | Terry Johnson | Insignificance |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | Play of the Year | Peter Flannery | Our Friends In The North |
| Laurence Olivier Awards | The Society's Special Award | Charles Wintour | |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best American Play | Charles Fuller | A Soldier's Play1981-1982 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best American Play | Harvey Fierstein | Torch Song Trilogy1981-1982 season;
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| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Play | Athol Fugard | MASTER HAROLD…and the boys1981-1982 season;
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| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Play | David Edgar | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby1981-1982 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Actor | Zakes Mokae | "MASTER HAROLD"...and the boys1981-82 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Actor | Milo O'Shea | Mass Appeal1981-82 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Actress | Amanda Plummer | A Taste of Honey1981-82 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Actress | Amanda Plummer | Agnes of God1981-82 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Paul Rudnick | Poor Little Lambs1981-82 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Broadway Musical | | Nine1981-82 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Broadway Play | | "MASTER HAROLD"...and the boys1981-82 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Debut Performance | Lizbeth MacKay | Crimes of the Heart1981-82 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Debut Performance | Matthew Broderick | Torch Song Trilogy1981-82 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Director | Athol Fugard | "MASTER HAROLD"...and the boys1981-82 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Off Broadway Play | | A Soldier's Play1981-82 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Off Off Broadway Theatre | | The Second Stages1981-82 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Revival | | The Chalk Garden1981-82 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | John Gassner Playwriting Award | Bill C. Davis | Mass Appeal1981-82 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Special Citation | | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby1981-82 season |
| Pulitzer Prize for Drama | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Charles Fuller | A Soldier's Play |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Danny Glover | "MASTER HAROLD"...and the boysSeason 1981–1982 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Peter MacNicol, Lizbeth Mackay | Crimes of the HeartSeason 1981–1982 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Jennifer Holliday | DreamgirlsSeason 1981–1982 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | James Widdoes | Is There Life After High School?Season 1981–1982 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Laurie Beechman | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor DreamcoatSeason 1981–1982 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Michael O'Keefe | Mass AppealSeason 1981–1982 |
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| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Ann Morrison | Merrily We Roll AlongSeason 1981–1982 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Anthony Heald | MisallianceSeason 1981–1982 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Elizabeth McGovern | My Sister in This HouseSeason 1981–1982 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Karen Akers | NineSeason 1981–1982 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Manhattan Theatre Club | Special AwardSeason 1981–1982 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | David Alan Grier | The FirstSeason 1981–1982 |
| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Tim Rice | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Tom Eyen | Dreamgirlsproducer, production took place the previous year. |
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| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Arthur Kopit | Nine |
| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Joel Siegel | The First |
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| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Martin Charnin | The First |
| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Michael Peters, Michael Bennett | Dreamgirlsproducer, production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Tony Tanner | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Peter Gennaro | Little Me |
| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Tommy Tune | Nine |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Theoni V. Aldredge | Dreamgirlsproducer, production took place the previous year. |
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Jane Greenwood | Medea |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | William Ivey Long | Nine |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | John Napier | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyproducer, production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Michael Bennett | Dreamgirlsproducer, production took place the previous year. |
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Tony Tanner | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Tommy Tune | Nine |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Martin Charnin | The First |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Athol Fugard | 'Master Harold'...and the Boys |
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Melvin Bernhardt | Crimes of the Heartproducer, production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Geraldine Fitzgerald | Mass Appealproducer, production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | John Caird, Trevor Nunn | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyproducer, production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Tharon Musser | Dreamgirls |
| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Martin Aronstein | Medea |
| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Marcia Madeira | Nine |
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | David Hersey | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyproducer, production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Bob Avian, Michael Bennett, The Shubert Organization, Geffen Records | Dreamgirls |
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Susan R. Rose, Zev Bufman, Melvin J. Estrin, Sidney Shlenker, Gail Berman | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Kenneth D. Greenblatt, Francine LeFrak, Michel Stuart, Harvey J. Klaris | Nine |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | James M. Nederlander, Roger S. Berlind | Nine |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Louis Busch Hager, Marilyn Strauss, Kate Studle, Warner Theater Productions, Max Weitzenhoffer | Pump Boys and Dinettes |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Henry Krieger, Tom Eyen | Dreamgirls |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Stephen Sondheim | Merrily We Roll Along |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Maury Yeston | Nine |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Cleavant Derricks | Dreamgirlsproducer, production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Obba Babatunde | Dreamgirlsproducer, production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Bill Hutton | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | David Alan Grier | The First |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Zakes Mokae | 'Master Harold'...and the Boys |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Richard Kavanaugh | The Hothouse |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Edward Petherbridge, David Threlfall | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyproducer, production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Actor in a Play | Christopher Plummer | Othello |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Ben Harney | Dreamgirls |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Herschel Bernardi | Fiddler on the Roofproducer, production took place the previous year. |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Victor Garber | Little Me |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Raul Julia | Nine |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Milo O'Shea | Mass Appeal |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Tom Courtenay | The Dresser |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Roger Rees | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyproducer, production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Laurie Beechman | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Liliane Montevecchi | Nine |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Anita Morris, Karen Akers | Nine |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Amanda Plummer | Agnes of God |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Mia Dillon, Mary Beth Hurt | Crimes of the Heartproducer, production took place the previous year. |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Judith Anderson | Medea |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Jennifer Holliday | Dreamgirls |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Sheryl Lee Ralph | Dreamgirls |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Mary Gordon Murray | Little Me |
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Lisa Mordente | Marloweproducer, production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Amanda Plummer | A Taste of Honey |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Geraldine Page | Agnes of God |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Zoe Caldwell | Medea |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Katharine Hepburn | The West Side Waltzproducer, production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | James M. Nederlander | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyproduction took place the previous year . |
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Athol Fugard, Dasha Epstein, Emanuel Azenberg, David Geffen | 'Master Harold'...and the Boys |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards | Crimes of the Heartproducer, production took place the previous year |
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Claire Nichtern, Francine Le Frak | Crimes of the Heartproducer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | James M. Nederlander, Elizabeth Ireland McCann, Michael Codron | The Dresserproducer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Nelle Nugent | The Dresserproduction took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Nelle Nugent, David Edgar, Elizabeth Ireland McCann | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyproducer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Revival | Theatre Co., Gene Feist, Michael Fried | A Taste of Honeyproducer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Revival | Fran Weissler, The Kennedy Center, Bunny, Warren Austin | Medea |
| Tony Awards | Best Revival | Mike Merrick, Don Gregory | My Fair Ladyproducer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Revival | CBS Video Enterprises, Fran Weissler | Othello |
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Robin Wagner | Dreamgirls |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Ben Edwards | Medea |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Lawrence Miller | Nine |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | John Napier, Dermot Hayes | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklebyproducer, production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Reproduction (Play or Musical) | Barry | Medea |
| Tony Awards | Reproduction (Play or Musical) | Barry | Othello |
| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award | The Actors' Fund of America | |
| Tony Awards | Theatre Award '82 | | Warner Communications |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best New American Play | | Metamorphosis in MiniatureTie |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best New American Play | | Mr. Dead and Mrs. FreeTie |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Theater Piece | Tadeusz Kantor | Wielopole, Wielopole |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | Tommy Tune | Cloud 9 |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Ensemble Performance | Denzel Washington, Larry Riley, Adolph Caesar | A Soldier's Play |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Ensemble Performance | Beverly May, Elizabeth McGovern, Brenda Currin, Lisa Banes | May My Sister in This House |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Obie Committee | Richard Gilman, Robert Massa, Ross Wetzsteon, Gus Edwards, Guest Judges, Eileen Blumenthal, Michael Feingold, Erika Munk, Julius Novick, Voice Judges | |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Kevin O'Connor | Birdbath |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Kevin O'Connor | Chucky's Hunch |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | E. Katherine Kerr | Cloud 9 |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Kevin O'Connor | Crossing the Crab Nebula |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Kevin Bacon | Forty Deuce |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Josef Sommer | Lydie Breeze |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Michael Gross | No End of Blame |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Christine Estabrook | Pastorale |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Ray Dooley | Peer Gynt |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Kevin Bacon | Poor Little Lambs |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | James Barbosa | Soon Jack November |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Irene Worth | The Chalk Garden |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Carole Shelley | Twelve Dreams |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Kenneth McMillan | Weekends Like Other People |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Playwriting | Caryl Churchill | Cloud 9 |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Playwriting | Robert Auletta | Stops |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Playwriting | Robert Auletta | Virgins |
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Special Citations | La Mama, Theatre Communications Group | 20th anniversary celebration |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Special Citations | Harvey Fierstein | Torch Song Trilogy |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Sustained Achievement | Maria Irene Fornes | |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design | Arden Fingerhut | |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Sustained Excellence in Set Design | Jim Clayburgh | |
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