Tony Award for Best Play


The Tony Award for Best Play is an annual award given to the best new play on Broadway, as determined by Tony Award voters. There was no award in the Tonys' first year. All My Sons has been incorrectly categorized as the Best Play of 1947, but it won the Best Author award for Arthur Miller. The following year Mister Roberts received the first Tony Award as Best Play. The award goes to the authors and the producers of the play. Plays that have appeared in previous Broadway productions are instead eligible for Best Revival of a Play.

Award winners

Legend:
† marks winners of the annual Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
*marks a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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Award records

Multiple awards and nominations

Superlatives

British writer Tom Stoppard has won this award four times, more than any other playwright. Only seven other writers have won the award more than once, each winning twice.
With ten nominations, Neil Simon has been nominated for the award more than any other playwright. August Wilson, with nine nominations, comes in second, followed by Tom Stoppard, Edward Albee, and Arthur Miller.
In 1994, Tony Kushner became the first playwright to win consecutive Tony Awards for his two-part . Terrence McNally repeated this feat the following two years with his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class.