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Year Category Nominee Show Nom
1970 Best Play Lyn Austin Indians
1970 Best Play Oliver Smith Indians
1970 Best Play Joel Schenker Indians
1970 Best Play Roger L. Stevens Indians
1969 Best Play Howard Sackler The Great White Hope Award winner
1969 Best Play Peter Luke Hadrian VII
1969 Best Play Brian Friel Lovers
1969 Best Play Robert Shaw The Man in the Glass Booth
1968 Best Play Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1968 Best Play Peter Nichols Joe Egg Production took place the previous year.
1968 Best Play Neil Simon Plaza Suite
1968 Best Play Arthur Miller The Price
1967 Best Play Harold Pinter The Homecoming Award winner
1967 Best Play Edward Albee A Delicate Balance
1967 Best Play Peter Shaffer Black Comedy
1967 Best Play Frank Marcus The Killing of Sister George
1966 Best Play Peter Weiss Marat/Sade Award winner
1966 Best Play John Osborne Inadmissible Evidence Production took place the previous year.
1966 Best Play Brian Friel Philadelphia, Here I Come!
1966 Best Play Michael Dyre The Right Honourable Gentleman
1965 Best Play Neil Simon The Odd Couple Award winner
1965 Best Play Edward Albee Tiny Alice
1965 Best Play Frank Gilroy The Subject Was Roses
1965 Best Play Murray Schisgal Luv
1965 Best Play Frank Gilroy The Subject Was Roses Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1965 Best Play Murray Schisgal Luv
1965 Best Play Neil Simon The Odd Couple
1965 Best Play Edward Albee Tiny Alice
1964 Best Play John Osborne Luther Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1964 Best Play Edward Albee The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Production took place the previous year.
1964 Best Play Neil Simon Barefoot in the Park
1964 Best Play Sidney Michaels Dylan
1963 Best Play Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1963 Best Play Herb Gardner A Thousand Clowns
1963 Best Play Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children
1963 Best Play Sidney Michaels Tchin-Tchin
1962 Best Play Robert Bolt A Man for All Seasons Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1962 Best Play Paddy Chayefsky Gideon Production took place the previous year.
1962 Best Play Harold Pinter The Caretaker Production took place the previous year.
1962 Best Play Tennessee Williams The Night of the Iguana Production took place the previous year.
1961 Best Play Jean Anouilh Becket Translated by Lucienne Hill. Produced by David Merrick. Award winner
1961 Best Play Fred Coe All the Way Home
1961 Best Play Dore Schary The Devil's Advocate
1961 Best Play Brendan Behan The Hostage Production took place the previous year.
1960 Best Play William Gibson The Miracle Worker Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1960 Best Play Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
1960 Best Play Gore Vidal The Best Man
1960 Best Play Paddy Chayefsky The Tenth Man
1960 Best Play Lillian Hellman Toys in the Attic
1959 Best Play Archibald MacLeish J.B. Award winner
1959 Best Play Eugene O'Neill A Touch of the Poet
1959 Best Play John Osborne Epitaph for George Dillon
1959 Best Play Budd Schulberg The Disenchanted
1959 Best Play Friedrich Duerrenmatt The Visit
1958 Best Play Dore Schary Sunrise At Campobello Award winner
1958 Best Play Morton Wishengrad The Rope Dancers Production took place the previous year.
1958 Best Play William Gibson Two For The Seesaw
1958 Best Play Jean Anouilh Time Remembered Production took place the previous year.
1958 Best Play William Inge The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Production took place the previous year.
1958 Best Play John Osborne Look Back In Anger Production took place the previous year.
1958 Best Play Ketti Frings Look Homeward, Angel Production took place the previous year.
1958 Best Play Peter Ustinov Romanoff and Juliet Production took place the previous year.
1957 Best Play Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey Into Night Produced by Leigh Connell, Theodore Mann, and José Quintero. Award winner
1957 Best Play Terence Rattigan Separate Tables Produced by Leigh Connell, Theodore Mann, and José Quintero.
1957 Best Play Graham Greene The Potting Shed Produced by Carmen Capalbo and Stanley Chase
1957 Best Play Jean Anouilh The Waltz Of The Toreadors Produced by The Producers Theatre (Robert Whitehead)
1956 Best Play Frances Goodrich The Diary of Anne Frank Produced by Kermit Bloomgarden. Award winner
1956 Best Play Albert Hackett The Diary of Anne Frank Produced by Kermit Bloomgarden. Award winner
1956 Best Play William Inge Bus Stop Produced by Robert Whitehead and Roger L. Stevens.
1956 Best Play Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Produced by The Playwrights' Company
1956 Best Play Jean Giraudoux Tiger at the Gates Adapted by Christopher Fry. Produced by Robert L. Joseph, The Playwrights' Company, and Henry M. Margolis.
1956 Best Play Enid Bagnold The Chalk Garden Produced by Irene Mayer Selznick.
1956 Best Play Kermit Bloomgarden The Diary of Anne Frank Award winner
1956 Best Play Robert Whitehead Bus Stop
1956 Best Play Roger L. Stevens Bus Stop
1956 Best Play The Playwrights' Company Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1956 Best Play Christopher Fry Tiger at the Gates
1956 Best Play Robert L. Joseph Tiger at the Gates
1956 Best Play The Playwrights' Company Tiger at the Gates
1956 Best Play Henry M. Margolis Tiger at the Gates
1956 Best Play Irene Mayer Selznick The Chalk Garden
1955 Best Play Joseph Hayes The Desperate Hours Award winner
1955 Best Play Howard Erskine The Desperate Hours Award winner
1954 Best Play John Patrick The Teahouse of the August Moon Award winner
1954 Best Play Maurice Evans The Teahouse of the August Moon Award winner
1954 Best Play George Schaefer The Teahouse of the August Moon Award winner
1953 Best Play Arthur Miller The Crucible Award winner
1953 Best Play Kermit Bloomgarden The Crucible Award winner
1952 Best Play Jan de Hartog The Fourposter Production took place the previous year Award winner
1951 Best Play Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo Produced by Cheryl Crawford. Award winner
1951 Best Play The Rose Tattoo Cheryl Crawford producer Award winner
1950 Best Play T.S. Eliot The Cocktail Party Produced by Gilbert Miller Award winner
1950 Best Play Gilbert Miller The Cocktail Party Award winner
1949 Best Play Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman Award winner
1949 Best Play Death of a Salesman Death of a Salesman Award winner
1948 Best Play Thomas Heggen Mister Roberts Award winner
1948 Best Play Mister Roberts Mister Roberts Award winner
1948 Best Play Joshua Logan Mister Roberts Award winner
1947 Best Play Arthur Miller All My Sons Award winner

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