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Every Non-Musical Play Nominated for a Tony Award

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Importance of Being Earnest

10,368 members

169 reviews

4.2

4 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H, Bking150

2

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

7,658 members

88 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

3

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

7,501 members

87 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

4

A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

5,057 members

76 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

5

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

by Edward Albee

4,462 members

64 reviews

4

3 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H, Bking150

6

by August Wilson

1,664 members

16 reviews

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

7

Torch Song Trilogy

by Harvey Fierstein

366 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

8

154 members

1 review

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

9

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

11,489 members

113 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

10

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,332 members

35 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

11

A Man for All Seasons

2,917 members

28 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

12

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams

2,790 members

30 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

13

by Tom Stoppard

2,601 members

51 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

14

by Peter Shaffer

2,059 members

21 reviews

4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

15

Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

by Tony Kushner

1,447 members

12 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

16

Amadeus: A Play in Two Acts

by Peter Shaffer

1,165 members

17 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

17

by Michael Frayn

1,065 members

29 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

18

Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play

1,021 members

18 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

19

Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

by Tony Kushner

1,016 members

8 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

20

by Tom Stoppard

950 members

12 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

21

Doubt: A Parable

by John Patrick Shanley

725 members

14 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

22

"Master Harold" … and the Boys

by Athol Fugard

713 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

23

Six Degrees of Separation

560 members

9 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

24

by Michael Frayn

549 members

16 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

25

Dancing at Lughnasa

507 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

26

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

by August Wilson

444 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

27

323 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

28

by Martin Sherman

300 members

3 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

29

300 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

30

Lost in Yonkers

269 members

3 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

31

Deathtrap: A Thriller in Two Acts

253 members

8 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

32

The Madwoman of Chaillot

by Jean Giraudoux

223 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

33

by William M. Hoffman

178 members

1 review

½ 3.6

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

34

by Anthony Shaffer

172 members

2 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

35

Bus Stop: A Three-Act Romance

by William Inge

142 members

1 review

½ 3.3

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

36

Plaza Suite; a Comedy in Three Acts

129 members

1 review

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

37

The 39 Steps [play]

by Patrick Barlow

107 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

38

Prelude to a Kiss

96 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

39

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: Carson McCullers' Novella Adapted for the Stage

by Edward Albee

92 members

2 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

40

I'm Not Rappaport

by Herb Gardner

89 members

3 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

41

The Best Man [Play]

88 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

42

Toys in the Attic

by Lillian Hellman

68 members

1 review

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

43

65 members

2 reviews

2

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

44

King Charles III

by Mike Bartlett

54 members

1 review

½ 4.5

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

45

Mister Roberts [play]

by Thomas Heggen

39 members

1 review

2.8

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

46

by William Archibald

29 members

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, Nick_H

47

Latin History for Morons

by John Leguizamo

10 members

1 review

2.8

2 Members: hipdeep, Nick_H

48

by William Shakespeare

31,091 members

288 reviews

4.2

Member: Nick_H

49

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

by William Shakespeare

18,646 members

172 reviews

4

Member: Nick_H

50

by Arthur Miller

14,374 members

151 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Nick_H

51

Cyrano de Bergerac

by Edmond Rostand

6,978 members

83 reviews

4.1

Member: Nick_H

52

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

5,199 members

56 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Nick_H

53

Medea [in Translation]

2,740 members

45 reviews

3.8

Member: Nick_H

54

Mother Courage and Her Children

by Bertolt Brecht

2,268 members

13 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Nick_H

55

Inherit the Wind

by Jerome Lawrence

2,248 members

28 reviews

4

Member: Nick_H

56

by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

1,873 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: Nick_H

57

for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf

by Ntozake Shange

1,693 members

21 reviews

4

Member: Nick_H

58

The Miracle Worker [play]

by William Gibson

1,653 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: Nick_H

59

Timon of Athens

by William Shakespeare

1,295 members

22 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Nick_H

60

Look Back in Anger

by John Osborne

1,284 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Nick_H

61

The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

1,179 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: Nick_H

62

by David Henry Hwang

1,114 members

16 reviews

3.9

Member: Nick_H

63

by Arthur Miller

1,011 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: Nick_H

64

by Harold Pinter

965 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Nick_H

65

by David Auburn

918 members

15 reviews

4

Member: Nick_H

66

by Jean Anouilh

900 members

15 reviews

4

Member: Nick_H

67

An Inspector Calls

by J. B. Priestley

872 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Nick_H

68

The Piano Lesson

by August Wilson

863 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: Nick_H

69

J.B.: A Play in Verse

by Archibald MacLeish

856 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: Nick_H

70

The History Boys: A Play

by Alan Bennett

831 members

29 reviews

4.1

Member: Nick_H

71

The Cocktail Party

826 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Nick_H

72

by Tom Stoppard

705 members

8 reviews

4

Member: Nick_H

73

The Invention of Love

by Tom Stoppard

681 members

9 reviews

4

Member: Nick_H

74

by Martin McDonagh

630 members

16 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Nick_H

75

'night, Mother: A Play

by Marsha Norman

602 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: Nick_H

76

The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play in Two Acts

by Frances Goodrich

597 members

13 reviews

4.1

Member: Nick_H

77

August: Osage County

597 members

21 reviews

4

Member: Nick_H

78

Tiger at the Gates

by Jean Giraudoux

582 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Nick_H

79

by Yasmina Reza

575 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: Nick_H

80

The Night of the Iguana

by Tennessee Williams

512 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Nick_H

81

Crimes of the Heart

501 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: Nick_H

82

by Harold Pinter

500 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Nick_H

83

A Delicate Balance

by Edward Albee

467 members

5 reviews

4

Member: Nick_H

84

The Elephant Man [play]

by Bernard Pomerance

437 members

8 reviews

4

Member: Nick_H

85

Topdog/Underdog

by Suzan-Lori Parks

433 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Nick_H

86

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

by August Wilson

403 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: Nick_H

87

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

by Edward Albee

401 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: Nick_H

88

373 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Nick_H

89

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

by Anna Deavere Smith

368 members

½ 3.7

Member: Nick_H

90

by Patrick Marber

334 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: Nick_H

91

by David Lindsay-Abaire

329 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Nick_H

92

The God of Carnage

by Yasmina Reza

320 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Nick_H

93

Rock 'n' Roll: A New Play

by Tom Stoppard

298 members

7 reviews

4

Member: Nick_H

94

by Edward Albee

289 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: Nick_H

95

287 members

7 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: Nick_H

96

by John Osborne

277 members

2 reviews

3.1

Member: Nick_H

97

Our Country's Good

by Timberlake Wertenbaker

271 members

1 review

3.9

Member: Nick_H

98

Summer and Smoke

by Tennessee Williams

267 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: Nick_H

99

by Arthur Miller

260 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Nick_H

100

I Am My Own Wife: A Play

250 members

7 reviews

4

Member: Nick_H

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