Celebrating the 2019-2020 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Inheritance, The Sound Inside, Slave Play, Grand Horizons, and the double bill Sea Wall/A Life. Best musical nominees: Moulin Rouge!, Jagged Little Pill, and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.

Celebrating the 2019-2020 Broadway theatre season. Presenting the final three awards of the evening: Best Play, Best Musical, and Best Revival.

Celebrating the 2018-2019 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Ferryman, Choir Boy, What The Constitution Means To Me, Ink, and Gary: A Sequel To Titus Andronicus. Best musical nominees: Beetlejuice, Hadestown, The Prom, Tootsie, and Ain't Too Proud: The Life And Times Of The Temptations.

Celebrating the 2017-2018 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Children, Farinelli And The King, Junk, Latin History For Morons, and Harry Potter And The Cursed Child (Part I and Part II). Best musical nominees: The Band's Visit, Frozen, Mean Girls, and SpongeBob SquarePants.

Celebrating the 2016-2017 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Indecent, Oslo, Sweat, and A Doll's House Part 2. Best musical nominees: Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Groundhog Day: The Musical, and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812.

Celebrating the 2015-2016 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Eclipsed, The Father, The Humans, and King Charles III. Best musical nominees: Bright Star, Hamilton, Waitress, School Of Rock: The Musical, and Shuffle Along Or The Making Of The Musical Sensation Of 1921 And All That Followed.

Celebrating the 2014-2015 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, Disgraced, Hand To God, and Wolf Hall (Part One: Wolf Hall • Part Two: Bring Up The Bodies). Best musical nominees: An American In Paris, Fun Home, The Visit, and Something Rotten!.

Celebrating the 2013-2014 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Act One, All The Way, Casa Valentina, Mothers And Sons, and Outside Mullingar. Best musical nominees: A Gentleman's Guide To Love & Murder, Aladdin, After Midnight, and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.

Celebrating the 2012-2013 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Assembled Parties, Lucky Guy, The Testament Of Mary, and Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike. Best musical nominees: Kinky Boots, Bring It On: The Musical, A Christmas Story: The Musical, and Matilda: The Musical.

Celebrating the 2011-2012 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Other Desert Cities, Clybourne Park, Venus In Fur, and Peter And The Starcatcher. Best musical nominees: Once, Newsies, Leap Of Faith, and Nice Work If You Can Get It.

Celebrating the 2010-2011 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Good People, Jerusalem, The Motherfucker With The Hat, and War Horse. Best musical nominees: The Book Of Mormon, Catch Me If You Can, The Scottsboro Boys, and Sister Act.

Celebrating the 2009-2010 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Next Fall, Red, Time Stands Still, and In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play). Best musical nominees: American Idiot, Fela!, Memphis, and Million Dollar Quartet.

Celebrating the 2008-2009 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Dividing The Estate, God Of Carnage, Reasons To Be Pretty, and 33 Variations. Best musical nominees: Next To Normal, Rock Of Ages, Shrek — The Musical, and Billy Elliot: The Musical.

Celebrating the 2007-2008 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The 39 Steps, The Seafarer, Rock 'N' Roll, and August: Osage County. Best musical nominees: Cry-Baby, In The Heights, Passing Strange, and Xanadu.

Celebrating the 2006-2007 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Frost/Nixon, Radio Golf, The Little Dog Laughed, and The Coast Of Utopia (Part I: Voyage/Part II: Shipwreck/Part III: Salvage). Best musical nominees: Curtains, Grey Gardens, Mary Poppins, and Spring Awakening.

Celebrating the 2005-2006 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The History Boys, The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, Rabbit Hole, and Shining City. Best musical nominees: The Color Purple, The Drowsy Chaperone, Jersey Boys, and The Wedding Singer.

Celebrating the 2004-2005 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Doubt, Democracy, Gem Of The Ocean, and The Pillowman. Best musical nominees: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Light In The Piazza, and Monty Python's Spamalot.

Celebrating the 2003-2004 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Anna In The Tropics, Frozen, I Am My Own Wife, and The Retreat From Moscow. Best musical nominees: Avenue Q, Wicked, The Boy From Oz, and Caroline, Or Change.

Celebrating the 2002-2003 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Enchanted April, Take Me Out, Vincent In Brixton, and Say Goodnight, Gracie. Best musical nominees: Amour, Hairspray, Movin' Out, and A Year With Frog And Toad.

Celebrating the 2001-2002 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Fortune's Fool, Metamorphoses, Topdog/Underdog, and The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?. Best musical nominees: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sweet Smell of Success, Mamma Mia!, and Urinetown — The Musical.

Celebrating the 2000-2001 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: King Hedley II, The Invention Of Love, Proof, and The Tale Of The Allergist's Wife. Best musical nominees: A Class Act, The Full Monty, The Producers, and Jane Eyre: The Musical.

Celebrating the 1999-2000 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Copenhagen, Dirty Blonde, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, and True West. Best musical nominees: Contact, James Joyce's The Dead, The Wild Party, and Swing!.

Celebrating the 1998-1999 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Closer, The Lonesome West, Not About Nightingales, and Side Man. Best musical nominees: The Civil War, Fosse, It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues, and Parade.

Celebrating the 1997-1998 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Art, The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, Freak, and Golden Child. Best musical nominees: The Lion King, Ragtime, Side Show, and The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Celebrating the 1996-1997 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Last Night Of Ballyhoo, Skylight, Stanley, and The Young Man From Atlanta. Best musical nominees: The Life, Titanic, Steel Pier, and Juan Darién — A Carnival Mass.

Celebrating the 1995-1996 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Buried Child, Master Class, Racing Demon, and Seven Guitars. Best musical nominees: Chronicle Of A Death Foretold, Rent, Swinging On A Star, and Bring In 'Da Noise/Bring In 'Da Funk.

Celebrating the 1994-1995 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Arcadia, Having Our Say, Indiscretions, and Love! Valour! Compassion!. Best musical nominees: Sunset Boulevard and Smokey Joe's Cafe.

Celebrating the 1993-1994 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Angels In America: Perestroika, Broken Glass, The Kentucky Cycle, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Best musical nominees: Beauty And The Beast, Passion, A Grand Night For Singing, and Cyrano: The Musical.

Celebrating the 1992-1993 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Sisters Rosensweig, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, The Song Of Jacob Zulu, and Angels In America: Millennium Approaches. Best musical nominees: Blood Brothers, The Goodbye Girl, Kiss Of The Spider Woman, and The Who's Tommy.

Celebrating the 1991-1992 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Dancing At Lughnasa, Four Baboons Adoring The Sun, Two Shakespearean Actors, and Two Trains Running. Best musical nominees: Crazy For You, Falsettos, Five Guys Named Moe, and Jelly's Last Jam.

Celebrating the 1990-1991 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Lost In Yonkers, Our Country's Good, Shadowlands, and Six Degrees Of Separation. Best musical nominees: Miss Saigon, Once On This Island, The Secret Garden, and The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue.

Celebrating the 1989-1990 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Grapes Of Wrath, Prelude To A Kiss, The Piano Lesson, and Lettice And Lovage. Best musical nominees: Aspects Of Love, City Of Angels, Grand Hotel, and Meet Me In St. Louis.

Celebrating the 1988-1989 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Heidi Chronicles, Largely New York, Lend Me A Tenor, and Shirley Valentine. Best musical nominees: Starmites, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, and Black And Blue.

Celebrating the 1987-1988 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Speed-the-Plow, A Walk In The Woods, Joe Turner's Come And Gone, and M. Butterfly. Best musical nominees: Into The Woods, The Phantom Of The Opera, Sarafina!, and Romance/Romance.

Celebrating the 1986-1987 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Broadway Bound, Coastal Disturbances, Fences, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Best musical nominees: Les Misérables, Rags, Starlight Express, and Me And My Girl.

Celebrating the 1985-1986 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Benefactors, Blood Knot, The House Of Blue Leaves, and I'm Not Rappaport. Best musical nominees: Big Deal, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, Tango Argentino, and Song And Dance.

Celebrating the 1984-1985 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: As Is, Biloxi Blues, Hurlyburly, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Best musical nominees: Grind, Leader Of The Pack, Quilters, and Big River: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn.

Celebrating the 1983-1984 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Glengarry Glen Ross, Noises Off, Play Memory, and The Real Thing. Best musical nominees: Baby, La Cage Aux Folles, Sunday In The Park With George, and The Tap Dance Kid.

Celebrating the 1982-1983 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Angels Fall, Plenty, Torch Song Trilogy, and 'Night, Mother. Best musical nominees: Blues In The Night, Cats, Merlin, and My One And Only.

Celebrating the 1981-1982 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Crimes Of The Heart, The Dresser, The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby, and "Master Harold" …And The Boys. Best musical nominees: Dreamgirls, Nine, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Pump Boys And Dinettes.

Celebrating the 1980-1981 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Amadeus, Fifth Of July, A Lesson From Aloes, and A Life. Best musical nominees: 42nd Street, Sophisticated Ladies, Tintypes, and Woman Of The Year.

Celebrating the 1979-1980 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Bent, Children Of A Lesser God, Home, and Talley's Folly. Best musical nominees: Barnum, Evita, Sugar Babies, and A Day In Hollywood/A Night In The Ukraine.

Celebrating the 1978-1979 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Bedroom Farce, The Elephant Man, Wings, and Whose Life Is It Anyway?. Best musical nominees: Ballroom, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, They're Playing Our Song, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street.

Celebrating the 1977-1978 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Da, Chapter Two, Deathtrap, and The Gin Game. Best musical nominees: Ain't Misbehavin', Dancin', On The Twentieth Century, and Runaways.

Celebrating the 1976-1977 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Otherwise Engaged, The Shadow Box, Streamers, and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf. Best musical nominees: Annie, Happy End, I Love My Wife, and Side By Side By Sondheim.

Celebrating the 1975-1976 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The First Breeze of Summer, Knock Knock, Lamppost Reunion, and Travesties. Best musical nominees: Bubbling Brown Sugar, Chicago, A Chorus Line, and Pacific Overtures.

Celebrating the 1974-1975 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Equus, The National Health, Seascape, Short Eyes, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead/The Island, and Same Time, Next Year. Best musical nominees: The Lieutenant, Mack And Mabel, Shenandoah, and The Wiz.

Celebrating the 1973-1974 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Au Pair Man, Boom Boom Room, The River Niger, and Ulysses In Nighttown. Best musical nominees: Raisin, Seesaw, and Over Here!.

Celebrating the 1972-1973 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Butley, The Changing Room, The Sunshine Boys, and That Championship Season. Best musical nominees: A Little Night Music, Pippin, Sugar, and Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope.

Celebrating the 1971-1972 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Old Times, The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, Sticks And Bones, and Vivat! Vivat Regina!. Best musical nominees: Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death, Follies, Grease, and Two Gentlemen Of Verona.

Celebrating the 1970-1971 Broadway theatre season and a look back at the first 25 years of Tony history. Best play nominees: Home, The Philanthropist, Sleuth, and Story Theatre. Best musical nominees: Company, The Me Nobody Knows, and The Rothschilds.

Celebrating the 1969-1970 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Borstal Boy, Child's Play, Indians, and Last Of The Red Hot Lovers. Best musical nominees: Applause, Coco, and Purlie.

Celebrating the 1968-1969 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Great White Hope, Hadrian VII, Lovers, and The Man In The Glass Booth. Best musical nominees: 1776, Hair, Zorba, and Promises, Promises.

Celebrating the 1967-1968 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, Plaza Suite, The Price, and Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead. Best musical nominees: Hallelujah, Baby!, The Happy Time, Illya Darling, and How Now, Dow Jones.

Celebrating the 1966-1967 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Black Comedy, A Delicate Balance, The Homecoming, and The Killing Of Sister George. Best musical nominees: The Apple Tree, Cabaret, I Do! I Do!, and Walking Happy.

Celebrating the 1960-1961 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: All The Way Home, Becket, The Devil's Advocate, The Hostage, and (according to the telecast) A Taste Of Honey. Best musical nominees: Bye Bye Birdie, Do Re Mi, and Irma La Douce.

Celebrating the 1959-1960 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Best Man, The Miracle Worker, A Raisin In The Sun, The Tenth Man, and Toys In The Attic. Best musical nominees: Fiorello!, Gypsy, Once Upon A Mattress, The Sound Of Music, and Take Me Along.