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Year	Category	Nominee	Show	Nom
1975	Best Play	Athol Fugard	The Island
1975	Best Play	John Kani	The Island
1975	Best Play	Winston Ntshona	The Island
1975	Best Play	Peter Nichols	The National Health
1975	Best Play	Robert Wagner	Mack and Mabel production took place the previous year
1974	Best Play	Joseph A. Walker	The River Niger	Award winner
1974	Best Play	Negro Ensemble Co., Inc.	The River Niger production took place the previous year	Award winner
1974	Best Play	David Rabe	Boom Boom Room production took place the previous year
1974	Best Play	Joseph Papp	Boom Boom Room production took place the previous year
1974	Best Play	Hugh Leonard	The Au Pair Man Production took place the previous year.
1974	Best Play	Joseph Papp	The Au Pair Man producer, production took place the previous year
1974	Best Play	Marjorie Barkentin	Ulysses in Nighttown
1974	Best Play	Alexander H. Cohen	Ulysses in Nighttown
1974	Best Play	Bernard Delfont	Ulysses in Nighttown
1973	Best Play	Jason Miller	That Championship Season producer, production took place the previous year	Award winner
1973	Best Play	Joseph Papp	That Championship Season	Award winner
1973	Best Play	Lester Osterman	Butley
1973	Best Play	Simon Gray	Butley production took place the previous year
1973	Best Play	Richard Horner	Butley Production took place the previous year
1973	Best Play	David Storey	The Changing Room
1973	Best Play	Charles Bowden	The Changing Room
1973	Best Play	Lee Reynolds	The Changing Room
1973	Best Play	Isobel Robins	The Changing Room
1973	Best Play	Neil Simon	The Sunshine Boys
1973	Best Play	Emanuel Azenberg	The Sunshine Boys Production took place the previous year.
1973	Best Play	Eugene V. Wolsk	The Sunshine Boys production took place the previous year
1972	Best Play	David Rabe	Sticks and Bones	Award winner
1972	Best Play	Joseph Papp	Sticks and Bones production took place the Next year.	Award winner
1972	Best Play	Harold Pinter	Old Times Production took place the previous year.
1972	Best Play	Roger L. Stevens	Old Times production took place the previous
1972	Best Play	Neil Simon	The Prisoner of Second Avenue production took place the 1972 year.
1972	Best Play	Saint-Subber	The Prisoner of Second Avenue producer, production took place the previous year
1972	Best Play	Robert Bolt	Vivat! Vivat Regina!
1972	Best Play	David Merrick	Vivat! Vivat! Regina!
1972	Best Play	Arthur Cantor	Vivat! Vivat Regina!
1971	Best Play	Anthony Shaffer	Sleuth Production took place the previous year.	Award winner
1971	Best Play	Helen Bonfils	Sleuth Production took place the previous year	Award winner
1971	Best Play	Morton Gottlieb	Sleuth	Award winner
1971	Best Play	Michael White	Sleuth production took place the previous year	Award winner
1971	Best Play	Alexander H. Cohen	Home Production took place the previous year.
1971	Best Play	Christopher Hampton	The Philanthropist
1971	Best Play	David Merrick	The Philanthropist
1971	Best Play	Paul Sills	Story Theatre Production took place the previous year.
1971	Best Play	Zev Bufman	Story Theatre Production took place the previous year.
1971	Best Play	David Storey	Home
1970	Best Play	Frank McMahon	Borstal Boy	Award winner
1970	Best Play	David Merrick	Child's Play
1970	Best Play	Arthur Kopit	Indians
1970	Best Play	Neil Simon	Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1970	Best Play	Saint-Subber	Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1970	Best Play	Michael McAloney	Borstal Boy	Award winner
1970	Best Play	Burton C. Kaiser	Borstal Boy	Award winner
1970	Best Play	Robert Marasco	Child's Play
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

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