The Tony Award For Best Play
Broadway Productions That Won The Tony Award For Best Play - Later Adapted To Film
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- StarsNoa AlbertsSebastian ArmestoJenna AugenLeopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance. At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. We follow his family's story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in this epic, but intimate play.Tony Award For Best Play (2023)
- DirectorSam MendesMatthew AmosStarsSimon Russell BealeAdam GodleyBen MilesThe story of Lehman Brothers, from their beginnings as cotton brokers before the Civil War to the company's involvement in the financial crisis of 2008.Tony Award For Best Play (2022)
- DirectorAudra D. WestStarsGordon CoxMalcolm FullerSusan HaskinsTony Award For Best Play (2018)
- DirectorBartlett SherStarsRuth WilsonJeff WilbuschAndrew ScottRecounts the true-life, previously secret, back-channel negotiations in the development of the pivotal 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization.Tony Award For Best Play (2017)
- DirectorStephen KaramStarsRichard JenkinsJayne HoudyshellAmy SchumerDuring one evening, the Blake family gathers to celebrate thanksgiving in a broken-down flat newly rented by the daughter and her new man. As the darkness falls, we find that all have less to be thankful about.Tony Award For Best Play (2016)
- 20122h 40m8.6 (379)TV MovieDirectorMarianne ElliottScott GrahamSteven HoggettStarsLuke TreadawayNiamh CusackPaul RitterChristopher has an extraordinary brain - exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When his neighbour's dog is murdered, he ventures on a frightening journey that upturns his world.Tony Award For Best Play (2015)
- DirectorJay RoachStarsBryan CranstonAnthony MackieMelissa LeoLyndon B. Johnson becomes the President of the United States in the chaotic aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination, and spends his first year in office fighting to pass the Civil Rights Act.Tony Award For Best Play (2014)
- StarsGenevieve AngelsonShalita GrantDavid Hyde PierceTwo siblings who still live in the family home have their lives turned upside down by the arrival of another siblingTony Award For Best Play (2013)
- DirectorPam MackinnonStarsMartin FreemanSarah PaulsonNick RobinsonFollows events in 1959 and then 50 years later in 2009. Centering on Clybourne Park, a sleepy, "status quo" suburb of Chicago, which is sparked to life when a group of "well-meaning" neighbors convene a meeting to voice their concerns.Tony Award For Best Play (2012)
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsJeremy IrvineEmily WatsonDavid ThewlisA young farm boy enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. His hopeful journey takes him out of England and onto the front lines as the war rages on.Tony Award For Best Play (2011)
- DirectorMichael GrandageNick MorrisStarsAlfred MolinaAlfred EnochUnder the watchful gaze of his young assistant, the artist Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work of art for an extraordinary setting.Tony Award For Best Play (2010)
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsJodie FosterKate WinsletChristoph WaltzTwo pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.Tony Award For Best Play (2009)
- DirectorJohn WellsStarsMeryl StreepDermot MulroneyJulia RobertsA look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.Tony Award For Best Play (2008)
- DirectorAdam WalkerStarsTed ChapinJennifer EhleJosh HamiltonFour actors from the 42-member The Coast of Utopia company -- Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, Ethan Hawke and Amy Irving -- talk about the experience of appearing in Tom Stoppard's triptych of 19th century Russian intellectual history, including their own trepidation at working with the brilliant Stoppard; adapting language written by an English playwright for Russian characters to the comfort of American actors -- and audiences; the thrill of of working in a variant of a classical repertory company; whether they chose to research the era and their characters; and why they chose to spend a year of their lives with this project, playing parts both large and small.Tony Award For Best Play (2007)
- DirectorNicholas HytnerStarsRichard GriffithsFrances de la TourClive MerrisonAn unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.Tony Award For Best Play (2006)
- DirectorJohn Patrick ShanleyStarsMeryl StreepPhilip Seymour HoffmanAmy AdamsA Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.Tony Award For Best Play (2005)
- DirectorRosa von PraunheimStarsCharlotte von MahlsdorfJens TaschnerIchgola AndrogynThe life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berflede. Miss Charlotte survived the Nazi reign and the repression of the Communists as a transvestite and helped start the German gay liberation movement. Documentary with some dramatized scenes. Two actors play the young and middle aged Charlotte and she plays herself in the later years.Tony Award For Best Play (2004)
- DirectorKirk JacksonStarsTug CokerM.D. WaltonTom Quinna young baseball star comes out as being homosexual.Tony Award For Best Play (2003)
- DirectorRichard E.T. WhiteStarsPamela ReedDon McManusCharles Shaw RobinsonProfessionally successful, happily married, middle-aged man falls in love with a goat.Tony Award For Best Play (2002)
- DirectorJohn MaddenStarsGwyneth PaltrowAnthony HopkinsHope DavisThe daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students, who wants to search through his papers, and her estranged sister, who shows up to help settle his affairs.Tony Award For Best Play (2001)
- DirectorHoward DaviesStarsStephen ReaDaniel CraigFrancesca AnnisA television adaptation of Michael Frayn's celebrated and award-winning stage play about the meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in 1941 Copenhagen. At this time the young Heisenberg was leading a faltering German research program into nuclear energy, while the middle-aged and apparently isolated Bohr was in contact with allied agents, and still held a position of great influence in the nuclear physics research community. After the meeting the two men put different interpretations or impressions of why Heisenberg requested the meeting, and what he hoped to gain from it, a theme which mirrors the ambiguity of the "Copenhagen" interpretation widely used in quantum physics. Did Heisenberg go to the avuncular Bohr to seek his blessing for his role in nuclear research? Why did Heisenberg concentrate on the development of a nuclear reactor, and not perform the calculations which would show that a bomb could be made to work via a fast-neutron reaction in Uranium 235? These and other questions feature in the plot, although unsurprisingly there are few certain answers.Tony Award For Best Play (2000)
- DirectorMichael MayerStarsKevin GeerEdie FalcoMichael MastroTwo sides of a dysfunctional family -- a father oblivious to everything but his life as a jazz musician, and a neglected mother who takes refuge in alcohol and rage.Tony Award For Best Play (1999)
- StarsAntónio FeioJosé Pedro GomesMiguel GuilhermeThe friendship of three men is tested when one buys a white-on-white painting.Tony Award For Best Play (1998)
- DirectorRon LagomarsinoStarsArija BareikisTerry BeaverJessica HechtAlfred Uhry's Tony Award-winning look at anti-semitism in the South centers on the planning of the Atlanta Jewish community's annual Ballyhoo ball during the excitement surrounding the premiere of Gone with the Wind.Tony Award For Best Play (1997)
- DirectorAlan LewensAlastair MitchellStarsMaria CallasGiuseppe Di StefanoCarlo Maria GiuliniMaria Callas: Life and Art is a brilliant documentary of opera diva Maria Callas. The documentary includes extensive interviews with her friends and colleagues, as well as performance footage.Tony Award For Best Play (1996)
- DirectorJoe MantelloStarsJason AlexanderStephen SpinellaStephen BogardusGregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregory's "significant other," who is blind but who loves to explore the home's garden using his sense of touch; Art and Perry, two "yuppies" who drive a Volvo and who celebrate their 14th anniversary together that summer; John, a dour expatriate Briton who loathes his twin brother James; Ramon, John's "companion," who is physically attracted to Bobby and immediately tries to seduce the blind man; James, a cheerful soul who is in the advanced stages of AIDS; and Buzz, a fan of traditional Broadway musicals who is dealing with his own HIV-positive status.Tony Award For Best Play (1995)
- DirectorMarianne ElliottBridget CaldwellStarsAndrew GarfieldRussell ToveyDenise GoughAmerica in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.Tony Award For Best Play (1994)
- StarsAl PacinoMeryl StreepEmma ThompsonSeveral disparate but connected individuals go through the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s.Tony Award For Best Play (1993)
- DirectorPat O'ConnorStarsMeryl StreepMichael GambonGerard McSorleyFive unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.Tony Award For Best Play (1992)
- DirectorMartha CoolidgeStarsRichard DreyfussMercedes RuehlIrene WorthIn the summer of 1942, two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother and their childlike aunt in Yonkers, New York.Tony Award For Best Play (1991)
- DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellJohn CarradineAn Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.Tony Award For Best Play (1990)
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsJamie Lee CurtisTom HulcePeter FriedmanHeidi Holland is a woman on the long and often bumpy road of self-discovery from the 1960s to 1990s. The movie follows her path from high-school egghead, to feminist supporter, to intellectual art dealer/mother, and chronicles her ups and downs and revelations.Tony Award For Best Play (1989)
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJeremy IronsJohn LoneBarbara SukowaIn 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.Tony Award For Best Play (1988)
- DirectorDenzel WashingtonStarsDenzel WashingtonViola DavisStephen McKinley HendersonA working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.Tony Award For Best Play (1987)
- DirectorHerb GardnerStarsWalter MatthauOssie DavisAmy IrvingTwo old men - a white former radical, and a black retired janitor - strike up an unusual and funny friendship on a park bench in New York, where they deal with family, drug dealers, and the pitfalls of age.Tony Award For Best Play (1986)
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsMatthew BroderickChristopher WalkenMatt MulhernA group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon.Tony Award For Best Play (1985)
- DirectorDavid LeveauxStarsStephen DillaneJennifer EhleIan Ross-HendersonPlaywright Henry and actress Annie fall in love while cheating on their spouses, then marry and cheat on each other.Tony Award For Best Play (1984)
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsAnne BancroftMatthew BroderickHarvey FiersteinArnold is a gay man working as drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.Tony Award For Best Play (1983)
- DirectorDouglas McGrathStarsCharlie HunnamJamie BellChristopher PlummerA young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-heartedly grasping uncle.Tony Award For Best Play (1982)
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsF. Murray AbrahamTom HulceElizabeth BerridgeThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.Tony Award For Best Play (1981)
- DirectorRanda HainesStarsWilliam HurtMarlee MatlinPiper LaurieA new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.Tony Award For Best Play (1980)
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsAnthony HopkinsJohn HurtAnne BancroftA Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.Tony Award For Best Play (1979)
- DirectorMatt ClarkStarsBarnard HughesMartin SheenWilliam HickeyA New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.Tony Award For Best Play (1978)
- DirectorPaul NewmanStarsJoanne WoodwardChristopher PlummerValerie HarperThree terminally-ill cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital's grounds, where they are attended and visited by both family and close friends.Tony Award For Best Play (1977)
- DirectorHans LietzauHans W. ReichelStarsMartin BenrathNikolaus ParylaKlaus GuthAn elderly man reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during the First World War, interacting with James Joyce when he was writing Ulysses, Tristan Tzara during the rise of Dada, and Lenin leading up to the Russian Revolution.Tony Award For Best Play (1976)
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsRichard BurtonPeter FirthColin BlakelyA psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.Tony Award For Best Play (1975)
- DirectorKrishna ShahStarsCicely TysonJames Earl JonesLouis Gossett Jr.An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.Tony Award For Best Play (1974)
- DirectorJason MillerStarsBruce DernStacy KeachRobert MitchumIt started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their former basketball coach and ended up revealing the truth about their relationship. The meeting forces the five men to reveal their true characters, to be honest with each other for the first time in their lives. When the night comes to an end, they decide to go back to the old glorious days and reunite into the team which won that championship season, back in 1957.Tony Award For Best Play (1973)
- DirectorRobert Downey Sr.StarsTom AldredgeAnne JacksonAlan CauldwellA young man returns home from Vietnam blind. He is very bitter about the war and alienates his family and friends. This movie deals with the aftermath of war and how people react to it both veterans and their families.Tony Award For Best Play (1972)
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsLaurence OlivierMichael CaineAlec CawthorneA man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.Tony Award For Best Play (1971)
- DirectorPeter SheridanStarsShawn HatosyDanny DyerEamon GlancyIrish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.Tony Award For Best Play (1970)
- DirectorMartin RittStarsJames Earl JonesJane AlexanderLou GilbertA Black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.Tony Award For Best Play (1969)
- DirectorTom StoppardStarsGary OldmanTim RothRichard DreyfussTwo minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.Tony Award For Best Play (1968)
- DirectorPeter HallStarsCyril CusackIan HolmPaul RogersIn a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence, and introduces the four men, father, uncle, and two brothers, to his wife.Tony Award For Best Play (1967)
- DirectorPeter BrookStarsPatrick MageeClifford RoseGlenda JacksonIn an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theater play. The actors are the patients.Tony Award For Best Play (1966)
- DirectorUlu GrosbardStarsPatricia NealJack AlbertsonMartin SheenA young man returning home from World War II finds himself caught up in his parents' turbulent relationship.Tony Award For Best Play (1965)
- DirectorGuy GreenStarsPeter CellierLeonard RossiterStacy KeachDuring the early 16th Century idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.Tony Award For Best Play (1964)
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonGeorge SegalA bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.Tony Award For Best Play (1963)
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsPaul ScofieldWendy HillerRobert ShawThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.Tony Award For Best Play (1962)
- DirectorPeter GlenvilleStarsRichard BurtonPeter O'TooleJohn GielgudKing Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.Tony Award For Best Play (1961)
- DirectorArthur PennStarsAnne BancroftPatty DukeVictor JoryThe story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.Tony Award For Best Play (1960)
- Tony Award For Best Play (1959)
- DirectorVincent J. DonehueStarsRalph BellamyGreer GarsonHume CronynAfter a bout with polio, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt fights to save his political career.Tony Award For Best Play (1958)
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsKatharine HepburnRalph RichardsonJason RobardsAt the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse.Tony Award For Best Play (1957)
- DirectorGeorge StevensStarsMillie PerkinsShelley WintersJoseph SchildkrautDuring World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.Tony Award For Best Play (1956)
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsHumphrey BogartFredric MarchArthur KennedyThree escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.Tony Award For Best Play (1955)
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsMarlon BrandoGlenn FordMachiko KyôIn post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.Tony Award For Best Play (1954)
- DirectorNicholas HytnerStarsDaniel Day-LewisWinona RyderPaul ScofieldA Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.Tony Award For Best Play (1953)
- DirectorIrving ReisJohn HubleyStarsRex HarrisonLilli PalmerAdapted from the prize-winning Broadway play that featured two people and a four-poster bed, in which the couple enacts their marriage, from 1897, until he dies some time after she has died from cancer. It is a love that endured wars, another woman and the death of their favorite son.Tony Award For Best Play (1952)
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsAnna MagnaniBurt LancasterMarisa PavanA Sicilian seamstress who idolizes her husband must deal with several family crises upon his sudden death.Tony Award For Best Play (1951)
- DirectorMichael BarryStarsGrey BlakeEdward ChapmanUrsula HowellsTroubled married couple who, through the intervention of a mysterious stranger, settle their problems and move on with their lives.Tony Award For Best Play (1950)
- DirectorLaslo BenedekStarsFredric MarchMildred DunnockKevin McCarthyAn over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.Tony Award For Best Play (1949)
- DirectorJohn FordMervyn LeRoyJoshua LoganStarsHenry FondaJames CagneyWilliam PowellIn the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacific's backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irritations.Tony Award For Best Play (1948)