Tony Award / Best Play
The following Tony Awards were given in the Best Theater Play category:
1947-1949
- 1947: All My Sons (by Arthur Miller )
- 1948: Mister Roberts (by Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan )
- 1949: Death of a Salesman (by Arthur Miller)
1950-1959
- 1950: The Cocktail Party (by TS Eliot )
- 1951: The Tattooed Rose (by Tennessee Williams )
- 1952: The Fourposter (by Jan de Hartog )
- 1953: Witch Hunt by ( Arthur Miller )
- 1954: The Teahouse of the August Moon (by John Patrick )
- 1955: The Desperate Hours (by Joseph Hayes )
- 1956: The Diary of Anne Frank (by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett )
- 1957: One Long Day's Journey into the Night (by Eugene O'Neill )
- 1958: Sunrise At Campobello (by Dore Schary )
- 1959: JB (by Archibald MacLeish )
1960-1969
- 1960: The Miracle Worker (by William Gibson )
- 1961: Beckett (by Jean Anouilh )
- 1962: A Man for All Seasons (by Robert Bolt )
- 1963: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (by Edward Albee )
- 1964: Luther (by John Osborne )
- 1965: The Odd Couple (by Neil Simon )
- 1965: The Subject Was Roses (by Frank Gilroy )
- 1966: Marat / Sade (by Peter Weiss )
- 1967: The Homecoming (by Harold Pinter )
- 1968: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (by Tom Stoppard )
- 1969: The Great White Hope (by Howard Sackler )
1970-1979
- 1970: Borstal Boy (by Frank McMahon )
- 1971: Sleuth (by Anthony Shaffer )
- 1972: Sticks and Bones (by David Rabe )
- 1973: That Championship Season (by Jason Anthony Miller )
- 1974: The River Niger (by Joseph A. Walker )
- 1975: Equus (by Peter Shaffer )
- 1976: Travesties (by Tom Stoppard )
- 1977: The Shadow Box (by Michael Cristofer )
- 1978: Da (by Hugh Leonard )
- 1979: The Elephant Man (by Bernard Pomerance )
1980-1989
- 1980: Children of a Lesser God (by Mark Medoff )
- 1981: Amadeus (by Peter Shaffer )
- 1982: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (by David Edgar )
- 1983: Torch Song Trilogy (by Harvey Fierstein )
- 1984: The Real Thing (by Tom Stoppard )
- 1985: Biloxi Blues (by Neil Simon )
- 1986: I'm Not Rappaport (by Herb Gardner )
- 1987: Fences (by August Wilson )
- 1988: M. Butterfly (by David Henry Hwang )
- 1989: The Heidi Chronicles (by Wendy Wasserstein )
1990-1999
- 1990: The Grapes of Wrath (by Frank Galati )
- 1991: Lost in Yonkers (by Neil Simon )
- 1992: Dancing at Lughnasa (by Brian Friel )
- 1993: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (by Tony Kushner )
- 1994: Angels in America: Perestroika (by Tony Kushner )
- 1995: Love! Valor! Compassion! (by Terrence McNally )
- 1996: Master Class (by Terrence McNally )
- 1997: The Last Night of Ballyhoo (by Alfred Uhry )
- 1998: Art (by Yasmina Reza )
- 1999: Side Man (by Warren Leight )
2000-2009
- 2000: Copenhagen (by Michael Frayn )
- 2001: Proof (by David Auburn )
- 2002: The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? (by Edward Albee )
- 2003: Take Me Out (by Richard Greenberg )
- 2004: I Am My Own Wife (by Doug Wright )
- 2005: Doubt (by John Patrick Shanley )
- 2006: The History Boys (by Alan Bennett )
- 2007 : The Coast of Utopia (by Tom Stoppard )
- 2008 : August: Osage County (by Tracy Letts )
- 2009 : The God of Carnage (by Yasmina Reza )
Since 2010
- 2010 : Red (by John Logan )
- 2011 : War Horse (by Nick Stafford )
- 2012 : Clybourne Park (by Bruce Norris )
- 2013 : Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (by Christopher Durang )
- 2014 : All the Way (by Robert Schenkkan )
- 2015 : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (by Simon Stephens )
- 2016 : The Humans (by Stephen Karam )
- 2017: Oslo (by JT Rogers )
- 2018: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (by Jack Thorne )