A Tony Award for Best Play has been awarded since 1947.

Table of contents
1 1947-1949
2 1950-1959
3 1960-1969
4 1970-1979
5 1980-1989
6 1990-1999
7 2000-

1947-1949

1950-1959

1960-1969

1970-1979

1980-1989

  • 1980 Children of a Lesser God
    • Bent
    • Home
    • Talley's Folly

  • 1981 Amadeus
    • A Lesson From Aloes
    • A Life
    • Fifth of July

  • 1982 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
  • 1983 Torch Song Trilogy
  • 1984 The Real Thing
  • 1985 Biloxi Blues
    • As Is
    • Hurlyburly
    • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

  • 1986 I'm Not Rappaport
    • Benefactors
    • Blood Knot
    • The House of Blue Leaves

  • 1987 Fences
  • 1988 M. Butterfly
    • A Walk in the Woods
    • Joe Turner's Come and Gone
    • Speed-the-Plow

  • 1989 The Heidi Chronicles
    • Largely New York
    • Lend Me a Tenor
    • Shirley Valentine

1990-1999

  • 1990 The Grapes of Wrath
    • Lettice and Lovage
    • Prelude to a Kiss
    • The Piano Lesson

  • 1991 Lost in Yonkers
  • 1992 Dancing at Lughnasa
    • Four Baboons Adoring the Sun
    • Two Shakespearean Actors
    • Two Trains Running

  • 1993 Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
    • The Sisters Rosensweig
    • Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
    • The Song of Jacob Zulu

  • 1994 Angels in America: Perestroika
    • Broken Glass
    • The Kentucky Cycle
    • Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

  • 1995 Love! Valour! Compassion
    • Arcadia
    • Having Our Say
    • Indiscretions

  • 1996 Master Class
    • Buried Child
    • Racing Demon
    • ''Seven Guitars

  • 1997 The Last Night of Ballyhoo
    • Skylight
    • Stanley
    • The Young Man From Atlanta

  • 1998 Art
    • Freak
    • Golden Child
    • The Beauty Queen of Leenane

  • 1999 Side Man
    • Closer
    • The Lonesome West
    • Not About Nightingales

2000-