Who Won the Tony Award for Best Play?
From "All My Sons" in 1947 to "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" in 2013, the Tony Awards have awarded excellence in Broadway theatre and Broadway plays throughout the years.
| 2013 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike | |
| Other Nominees: The Assembled Parties; Lucky Guy; The Testament of Mary | |
| 2012 Clybourne Park | |
| Other Nominees: Other Desert Cities; Peter and the Starcatcher; Venus In Fur | |
| 2011 War Horse | |
| Other Nominees: Good People; Jerusalem; The Motherf**ker With The Hat | |
| 2010 Red | |
| Other Nominees: In The Next Room Or The Vibrator Play; Next Fall; Time Stands Still | |
| 2009 God Of Carnage | |
| Other Nominees: Dividing The Estate; Reasons To Be Pretty; 33 Variations | |
| 2008 August: Osage County | |
| Other Nominees: Rock 'n' Roll; The Seafarer; The 39 Steps | |
| 2007 The Coast Of Utopia | |
| Other Nominees: Frost/Nixon; The Little Dog Laughed; Radio Golf | |
| 2006 The History Boys | |
| Other Nominees: The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Rabbit Hole; Shining City | |
| 2005 Doubt | |
| Other Nominees: Democracy; Gem of the Ocean; The Pillowman | |
| 2004 I Am My Own Wife | |
| Other Nominees: Anna in the Tropics; Frozen; The Retreat from Moscow | |
| 2003 Take Me Out | |
| Other Nominees: Enchanted April; Say Goodnight Gracie; Vincent in Brixton | |
| 2002 The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? | |
| Other Nominees: Fortune's Fool; Metamorphoses; Topdog/Underdog | |
| 2001 Proof | |
| Other Nominees: The Invention of Love; King Hedley II; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife | |
| 2000 Copenhagen | |
| Other Nominees: Dirty Blonde; The Ride Down Mt Morgan; True West | |
| 1999 Side Man | |
| Other Nominees: Closer; The Lonesome West; Not About Nightingales | |
| 1998 Art | |
| Other Nominees: Freak; Golden Child; The Beauty Queen of Leenane | |
| 1997 The Last Night of Ballyhoo | |
| Other Nominees: Skylight; Stanley; The Young Man from Atlanta | |
| 1996 Master Class | |
| Other Nominees: Buried Child; Racing Demon; Seven Guitars | |
| 1995 Love! Valour! Compassion! | |
| Other Nominees: Arcadia; Having Our Say; Indiscretions | |
| 1994 Angels In America: Perestroika | |
| Other Nominees: Broken Glass; The Kentucky Cycle; Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 | |
| 1993 Angels In America: Millennium Approaches | |
| Other Nominees: The Sisters Rosenweig; Someone Who'll Watch Over Me; The Song of Jacob Zulu | |
| 1992 Dancing at Lughnasa | |
| Other Nominees: Four Baboons Adoring the Sun; Two Shakespearean Actors; Two Trains Running | |
| 1991 Lost In Yonkers | |
| Other Nominees: Our Country's Good; Shadowlands; Six Degrees of Separation | |
| 1990 The Grapes of Wrath | |
| Other Nominees: Lettice and Lovage; Prelude To a Kiss; The Piano Lesson | |
| 1989 The Heidi Chronicles | |
| Other Nominees: Largely New York; Lend Me A Tenor; Shirley Valentine | |
| 1988 M Butterfly | |
| Other Nominees: A Walk in the Woods; Joe Turner's Come and Gone; Speed-the-Plow | |
| 1987 Fences | |
| Other Nominees: Broadway Bound; Coastal Disturbances; Les Liaisons Dangereuses | |
| 1986 I'm Not Rappaport | |
| Other Nominees: Benefactors; Blood Knot; The House of Blue Leaves | |
| 1985 Biloxi Blues | |
| Other Nominees: As Is; Hurlyburly; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | |
| 1984 The Real Thing | |
| Other Nominees: Glengarry Glen Ross; Noises Off; Play Memory | |
| 1983 Torch Song Trilogy | |
| Other Nominees: Angels Fall; Night Mother; Plenty | |
| 1982 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | |
| Other Nominees: Crimes of the Heart; The Dresser; Master Harold?and the Boys | |
| Year | Winner | For | ||
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| 1981 | Amadeus | Amadeus | Details >> | |
| 1980 | Children Of A Lesser God | Children Of A Lesser God | Details >> | |
| 1979 | The Elephant Man | The Elephant Man | Details >> | |
| 1978 | Da | Da | Details >> | |
| 1977 | The Shadow Box | The Shadow Box | Details >> | |
| 1976 | Travesties | Travesties | Details >> | |
| 1975 | Equus | Equus | Details >> | |
| 1974 | The River Niger | The River Niger | Details >> | |
| 1973 | That Championship Season | That Championship Season | Details >> | |
| 1972 | Sticks And Bones | Sticks And Bones | Details >> | |
| 1971 | Sleuth | Sleuth | Details >> | |
| 1970 | Borstal Boy | Borstal Boy | Details >> | |
| 1969 | The Great White Hope | The Great White Hope | Details >> | |
| 1968 | Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead | Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead | Details >> | |
| 1967 | The Homecoming | The Homecoming | Details >> | |
| 1966 | Marat/Sade | Marat/Sade | Details >> | |
| 1965 | The Subject Was Roses | The Subject Was Roses | Details >> | |
| 1964 | Luther | Luther | Details >> | |
| 1963 | Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? | Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? | Details >> | |
| 1962 | A Man For All Seasons | A Man For All Seasons | Details >> | |
| 1961 | Becket | Becket | Details >> | |
| 1960 | The Miracle Worker | The Miracle Worker | Details >> | |
| 1959 | J.B. | J.B. | Details >> | |
| 1958 | Sunrise At Campobello | Sunrise At Campobello | Details >> | |
| 1957 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Details >> | |
| 1956 | The Diary Of Anne Frank | The Diary Of Anne Frank | Details >> | |
| 1955 | The Desperate Hours | The Desperate Hours | Details >> | |
| 1954 | The Teahouse Of The August Moon | The Teahouse Of The August Moon | Details >> | |
| 1953 | The Crucible | The Crucible | Details >> | |
| 1952 | The Fourposter | The Fourposter | Details >> | |
| 1951 | The Rose Tattoo | The Rose Tattoo | Details >> | |
| 1950 | The Cocktail Party | The Cocktail Party | Details >> | |
| 1949 | Death Of A Salesman | Death Of A Salesman | Details >> | |
| 1948 | Mister Roberts | Mister Roberts | Details >> | |
| 1947 | All My Sons | All My Sons | Details >> |