| Year |
Category |
Nominee |
Show |
Nom |
| 1982 |
Best Play |
David Geffen |
'Master Harold'...and the Boys
|
|
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Peter Shaffer |
Amadeus
|
Award winner |
| 1981 |
Best Play |
The Shubert Organization |
Amadeus
production took place the previous year
|
Award winner |
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Elizabeth I. McCann |
Amadeus
production took place the previous year
|
Award winner |
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Nelle Nugent |
Amadeus
production took place the previous year
|
Award winner |
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Roger S. Berlind |
Amadeus
production took place the previous year
|
Award winner |
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Athol Fugard |
A Lesson From Aloes
|
|
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Jay J. Cohen |
A Lesson From Aloes
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Richard Press |
A Lesson From Aloes
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Louis Bush Hager Associates |
A Lesson From Aloes
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Yale Repertory Theater |
A Lesson From Aloes
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Hugh Leonard |
A Life
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Lester Osterman |
A Life
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Richard Horner |
A Life
|
|
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Hinks Shimberg |
A Life
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Freydberg-Cutler-Diamond Productions |
A Life
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Lanford Wilson |
Fifth of July
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Jerry Arrow |
Fifth of July
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Robert Lussier |
Fifth of July
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Freydberg-Cutler-Diamond Productions |
A Life
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1981 |
Best Play |
Warner Theater Productions |
Fifth of July
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1980 |
Best Play |
Mark Medoff |
Children of a Lesser God
|
Award winner |
| 1980 |
Best Play |
Emanuel Azenberg |
Children of a Lesser God
|
Award winner |
| 1980 |
Best Play |
The Shubert Organization |
Children of a Lesser God
|
Award winner |
| 1980 |
Best Play |
Dasha Epstein |
Children of a Lesser God
|
Award winner |
| 1980 |
Best Play |
Ron Dante |
Children of a Lesser God
|
Award winner |
| 1980 |
Best Play |
Jack Schlissel |
Bent
|
|
| 1980 |
Best Play |
Steven Steinlauf |
Bent
|
|
| 1980 |
Best Play |
Samm-Art Williams |
Home
|
|
| 1980 |
Best Play |
Elizabeth Ireland McCann |
Home
|
|
| 1980 |
Best Play |
Nelle Nugent |
Home
|
|
| 1980 |
Best Play |
Gerald S. Krone |
Home
|
|
| 1980 |
Best Play |
Ray Larsen |
Home
|
|
| 1980 |
Best Play |
Lanford Wilson |
Talley's Folly
|
|
| 1980 |
Best Play |
Nancy Cooperstein |
Talley's Folly
|
|
| 1980 |
Best Play |
Porter Van Zandt |
Talley's Folly
|
|
| 1980 |
Best Play |
Marc Howard |
Talley's Folly
|
|
| 1979 |
Best Play |
Bernard Pomerance |
The Elephant Man
|
Award winner |
| 1979 |
Best Play |
Richmond Crinkley |
The Elephant Man
|
Award winner |
| 1979 |
Best Play |
Elizabeth Ireland McCann |
The Elephant Man
|
Award winner |
| 1979 |
Best Play |
Nelle Nugent |
The Elephant Man
|
Award winner |
| 1979 |
Best Play |
Alan Ayckbourn |
Bedroom Farce
|
|
| 1979 |
Best Play |
Robert Whitehead |
Bedroom Farce
|
|
| 1979 |
Best Play |
Roger L. Stevens |
Bedroom Farce
|
|
| 1979 |
Best Play |
George W. George |
Bedroom Farce
|
|
| 1979 |
Best Play |
Frank Milton |
Bedroom Farce
|
|
| 1979 |
Best Play |
Brian Clark |
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
|
|
| 1979 |
Best Play |
Emanuel Azenberg |
Whose Life Is It Anyway
|
|
| 1979 |
Best Play |
James Nederlander |
Whose Life Is It Anyway
|
|
| 1979 |
Best Play |
Ray Cooney |
Whose Life Is It Anyway
|
|
| 1979 |
Best Play |
Arthur Kopit |
Wings
|
|
| 1979 |
Best Play |
The Kennedy Center |
Wings
|
|
| 1978 |
Best Play |
Hugh Leonard |
Da
Production took place the previous year
|
Award winner |
| 1978 |
Best Play |
Lester Osterman |
Da
Production took place the previous year.
|
Award winner |
| 1978 |
Best Play |
Marilyn Strauss |
Da
|
Award winner |
| 1978 |
Best Play |
Marc Howard |
Da
Production took place the previous year.
|
Award winner |
| 1978 |
Best Play |
Neil Simon |
Chapter Two
Production took place the previous year.
|
|
| 1978 |
Best Play |
Emanuel Azenberg |
Chapter Two
production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1978 |
Best Play |
Ira Levin |
Deathtrap
|
|
| 1978 |
Best Play |
Alfred De Liagre, Jr. |
Deathtrap
|
|
| 1978 |
Best Play |
Roger L. Stevens |
Deathtrap
|
|
| 1978 |
Best Play |
D. L. Coburn |
The Gin Game
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1978 |
Best Play |
The Shubert Organization |
The Gin Game
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1978 |
Best Play |
Hume Cronyn |
The Gin Game
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1978 |
Best Play |
Mike Nichols |
The Gin Game
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1977 |
Best Play |
Michael Cristofer |
The Shadow Box
|
Award winner |
| 1977 |
Best Play |
Allan Francis |
The Shadow Box
|
Award winner |
| 1977 |
Best Play |
Ken Marsolais |
The Shadow Box
|
Award winner |
| 1977 |
Best Play |
Lester Osterman |
The Shadow Box
|
Award winner |
| 1977 |
Best Play |
Leonard Soloway |
The Shadow Box
|
Award winner |
| 1977 |
Best Play |
Ntozake Shange |
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
|
|
| 1977 |
Best Play |
Joseph Papp |
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
|
|
| 1977 |
Best Play |
Simon Gray |
Otherwise Engaged
|
|
| 1977 |
Best Play |
Michael Codron |
Otherwise Engaged
|
|
| 1977 |
Best Play |
Frank Milton |
Otherwise Engaged
|
|
| 1977 |
Best Play |
James M. Nederlander |
Otherwise Engaged
|
|
| 1977 |
Best Play |
David Rabe |
Streamers
|
|
| 1977 |
Best Play |
Joseph Papp |
Streamers
|
|
| 1976 |
Best Play |
Tom Stoppard |
Travesties
producer, production took place the previous year
|
Award winner |
| 1976 |
Best Play |
David Merrick |
Travesties
producer, production took place the previous year
|
Award winner |
| 1976 |
Best Play |
Doris Cole Abrahams |
Travesties
producer, production took place the previous year
|
Award winner |
| 1976 |
Best Play |
Burry Fredrik |
Travesties
producer, production took place the previous year
|
Award winner |
| 1976 |
Best Play |
S. Spencer Davids |
Travesties
producer, production took place the previous year
|
Award winner |
| 1976 |
Best Play |
Eddie Kulukundis |
Travesties
producer, production took place the previous year
|
Award winner |
| 1976 |
Best Play |
Leslie Lee |
The First Breeze of Summer
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1976 |
Best Play |
Negro Ensemble |
The First Breeze of Summer
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1976 |
Best Play |
Jules Feiffer |
Knock Knock
|
|
| 1976 |
Best Play |
Harry Rigby |
Knock Knock
|
|
| 1976 |
Best Play |
Terry Allen Kramer |
Knock Knock
|
|
| 1976 |
Best Play |
Louis La Russo |
Lamppost Reunion
producer, production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1976 |
Best Play |
Joe Garofalo |
Lamppost Reunion
production took place the previous year
|
|
| 1975 |
Best Play |
Peter Shaffer |
Equus
Production took place the previous year
|
Award winner |
| 1975 |
Best Play |
Kermit Bloomgarden |
Equus
production took place the previous year
|
Award winner |
| 1975 |
Best Play |
Doris Cole Abrahams |
Equus
Production took place the previous year
|
Award winner |
| 1975 |
Best Play |
Bernard Slade |
Same Time, Next Year
|
|
| 1975 |
Best Play |
Edward Albee |
Seascape
|
|
| 1975 |
Best Play |
Miguel Pinero |
Short Eyes
Production took place the previous year.
|
|
| 1975 |
Best Play |
Athol Fugard |
Sizwe Banzi is Dead
|
|
| 1975 |
Best Play |
John Kani |
Sizwe Banzi is Dead
|
|
| 1975 |
Best Play |
Winston Ntshona |
Sizwe Banzi is Dead
|
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