2023 |
Leopoldstadt |
Sean Hayes, Good Night, Oscar |
Jodie Comer, Prima Facie |
2022 |
The Lehman Trilogy |
Simon Russell Beale, Lehman Trilogy |
Deirdre O'Connell, Dana H. |
2020 |
The Inheritance |
Andrew Burnap, The Inheritance |
Mary-Louise Parker, The Sound Inside |
2019 |
The Ferryman |
Bryan Cranston, Network |
Elaine May, The Waverly Gallery |
2018 |
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child |
Andrew Garfield, Angels in America |
Glenda Jackson, Three Tall Women |
2017 |
Oslo |
Kevin Kline, Present Laughter |
Laurie Metcalf, A Doll's House, Part 2 |
2016 |
The Humans |
Frank Langella, The Father |
Jessica Lange, Long Day's Journey into Night |
2015 |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
Alex Sharp, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
Helen Mirren, The Audience |
2014 |
All The Way |
Bryan Cranston, All The Way |
Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill |
2013 |
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike |
Tracy Letts, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Cicily Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful |
2012 |
Clybourne Park |
James Corden, One Man, Two Govnors |
Nina Arianda, Venus in Fur |
2011 |
War Horse |
Mark Rylance, Jerusalem |
Frances McDormand, Good People |
2010 |
Red |
Denzel Washington, Fences |
Viola Davis, Fences |
2009 |
God of Carnage |
Geoffrey Rush, Exit the King |
Marcia Gay Harden, God of Carnage |
2008 |
August: Osage County |
Mark Rylance, Boeing, Boeing |
Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County |
2007 |
The Coast of Utopia, Tom Stoppard |
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon |
Julie White, The Little Dog Laughed |
2006 |
The History Boys, Alan Bennett |
Richard Griffiths, The History Boys |
Cyntha Nixon, Rabbit Hole |
2005 |
Doubt, John Patrick Shanley |
Bill Irwin, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Cherry Jones, Doubt |
2004 |
I Am My Own Wife, Doug Wright |
Jefferson Mays, I Am My Own Wife |
Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin in the Sun |
2003 |
Take Me Out, Richard Greenberg |
Brian Dennehy, Long Day's, Journey Into Night |
Vanessa Redgrave, Long Day's Journey Into Night |
2002 |
The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?, Edward Albee |
Alan Bates, Fortune's Fool |
Lindsay Duncan, Private Lives |
2001 |
Proof, David Auburn |
Richard Easton, The Invention of Love |
Mary-Louise Parker, Proof |
2000 |
Copenhagen, Michael Frayn |
Stephen Dillane, The Real Thing |
Jennifer Ehle, The Real Thing |
1999 |
Side Nam, Warren Leight |
Brian Dennehy, Death of a Salesman |
Judi Dench, Amy's View |
1998 |
Art, Yasmina Reza |
Anthony La Paglia, A View From the Bridge |
Marie Mullen, The Beauty Queen of Leenane |
1997 |
Last Night of Ballyhoo, Alfred Uhry |
Christopher Plummer, Barrymore |
Janet McTeer, A Doll's House |
1996 |
Master Class, Terrence McNally |
George Grizzard, A Delicate Balance (Revival) |
Zoe Caldwell, Master Class |
1995 |
Love! Valour! Compassion!, Terrence McNally |
Ralph Fiennes, Hamlet |
Cherry Jones, The Heiress |
1994 |
Angels in America: Perestroika, Tony Kushner |
Stephen Spinella, Angels in America: Perestroika |
Diana Rigg, Medea (Revival) |
1993 |
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Tony Kushner |
Ron Leibman, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches |
Madeline Kahn, The Sisters Rosensweig |
1992 |
Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel |
Judd Hirsch, Conversations with My Father |
Glenn Close, Death and the Maiden |
1991 |
Lost in Yonkers, Neil Simon |
Nigel Hawthorne, Shadowlands |
Mercedes Ruhl, Lost in Yonkers |
1990 |
The Grapes of Wrath, Frank Galati |
Robert Morse, Tru |
Maggie Smith, Lettice and Lovage |
1989 |
The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein |
Philip Bosco, Lend Me a Tenor |
Pauline Collins, Shirley Valentine |
1988 |
M. Butterfly, David Henry Hwang |
Ron Silver, Speed-The-Plow |
Joan Allen, Burn This |
1987 |
Fences, August Wilson |
James Earl Jones, Fences |
Linda Lavin, Broadway Bound |
1986 |
I'm Not Rappaport, Herb Gardner |
Judd Hirsch, I'm Not Rappaport |
Lily Tomlin, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe |
1985 |
Biloxi Blues, Neil Simon |
Derek Jacobi, Much Ado About Nothing (Revival) |
Stockard Channing, Joe Egg (Revival) |
1984 |
The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard |
Jeremy Irons, The Real Thing |
Glenn Close, The Real Thing |
1983 |
Torch Song Trilogy, Harvey Fierstein |
Harvey Fierstein, Torch Song Trilogy |
Jessica Tandy, Foxfire |
1982 |
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, David Edgar |
Roger Rees, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby |
Zoe Caldwell, Medea (Revival) |
1981 |
Amadeus, Peter Shaffer |
Ian Mckellen, Amadeus |
Jane Lapotaire, Piaf |
1980 |
Children of a Lesser God, Mark Medoff |
John Rubinstein, Children of a Lesser God |
Phyllis Frelich, Children of a Lesser God |
1979 |
The Elephant Man, Bernard Pomerance |
Tom Conti, Whose Life Is It Anyway? |
Constance Cummings, Wings Carole Shelly, The Elephant Man |
1978 |
Da, Hugh Leonard |
Barnard Hughes, Da |
Jessica Tandy, The Gin Game |
1977 |
The Shadow Box, Michael Cristofer |
Al Pacino, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel |
Julie Harris, The Belle of Amherst |
1976 |
Travesties, Tom Stoppard |
John Wood, Travesties |
Irene Worth, Sweet Bird of Youth (Revival) |
1975 |
Equus, Peter Shaffer |
John Kani, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead Winston Ntshona, The Island |
Ellen Burstyn, Same Time, Next Year |
1974 |
The River Niger, Joseph A. Walker |
Michael Moriarty, Find Your Way Home |
Colleen Dewhurst, A Moon for the Misbegotten (Revival) |
1973 |
That Championship Season, Jason Miller |
Alan Bates, Butley |
Julie Harris, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln |
1972 |
Sticks and Bones, David Rabe |
Cliff Gorman, Lenny |
Sada Thompson, Twigs |
1971 |
Sleuth, Anthony Shaffer |
Brian Bedford, The School for Wives |
Maureen Stapleton, Gingerbread Lady |
1970 |
Borstal Boy, Frank McMahon |
Fritz Weaver, Child's Play |
Tammy Grimes, Private Lives (Revival) |
1969 |
The Great White Hope, Howard Sackler |
James Earl Jones, The Great White Hope |
Julie Harris, Forty Carats |
1968 |
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard |
Martin Balsam, You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running |
Zoe Caldwell, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
1967 |
The Homecoming, Harold Pinter |
Paul Rogers, The Homecoming |
Beryl Reid, The Killing of Sister George |
1966 |
Marat/Sade, Peter Weiss |
Hal Holbrook Mark Twain Tonight! |
Rosemary Harris, The Lion in Winter |
1965 |
The Subject Was Roses, Frank Gilroy |
Walter Matthau, The Odd Couple |
Irene Worth, Tiny Alice |
1964 |
Luther, John Osborne |
Alec Guiness, Dylan |
Sandy Dennis, Any Wednesday |
1963 |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee |
Arthur Hill, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf |
Uta Hagen, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf |
1962 |
A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt |
Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons |
Margaret Leighton, Night of the Iguana |
1961 |
Becket, Jean Anouilh |
Zero Mostel, Rhinoceros |
Joan Plowright, A Taste of Honey |
1960 |
The Miracle Worker, William Gibson |
Melvyn Douglas, The Best Man |
Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker |
1959 |
J.B., Archibald Macleish |
Jason Robards, The Disenchanted |
Gertrude Berg, A Majority of One |
1958 |
Sunrise at Campobello, Dore Schary |
Ralph Bellamy, Sunrise at Campobello |
Helen Hayes, Time Remembered |
1957 |
Long Day's Journey Into Night, Eugene O'Neill |
Fredric March, Long Day's Journey Into Night |
Margaret Leighton, Separate Tables |
1956 |
The Diary of Anne Frank, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett |
Paul Muni, Inherit the Wind |
Julie Harris, The Lark |
1955 |
The Desperate Hours, Joseph Hayes |
Alfred Lunt, Quadrille |
Nancy Kelly, The Bad Seed |
1954 |
The Teahouse of the August Moon, John Patrick |
David Wayne, The Teahouse of the August Moon |
Audrey Hepburn, Ondine |
1953 |
The Crucible, Arthur Miller |
Tom Ewell, The Seven Year Itch |
Shirley Booth, Time of the Cuckoo |
1952 |
The Fourposter, Jan de Hartog |
José Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac Fredric March, Years Ago |
Julie Harris, I am a Camera |
1951 |
The Rose Tattoo, Tennessee Williams |
Claude Rains, Darkness at Noon |
Uta Hagen, The Country Girl |
1950 |
The Cocktail Party, T.S. Eliot |
Sidney Blackmer, Come back, Little Sheba |
Shirley Booth, Come Back, Little Sheba |
1949 |
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller |
Rex Harrison, Anne of the Thousand Days |
Martita Hunt, The Madwoman of Chaillot |
1948 |
Mister Roberts, Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan |
Henry Fonda, Mister Roberts, Paul Kelly, Command Decision Basil Rathbone, The Heiress |
Judith Anderson, Medea & Katharine Cornell, Antony and Cleopatra & Jessica Tandy, A Streetcar Named Desire |
1947 |
no award |
José Ferrer, Cyrano de Bergerac Fredric March, Years Ago |
Ingrid Bergman, Joan of Lorraine Helen Hayes, Happy Birthday |