| Year | Play | Author |
|---|
1994
{{small|48th Tony Awards}} |
| An Inspector Calls | J. B. Priestley |
| Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Robert E. Sherwood |
| Medea | Euripides |
| Timon of Athens | William Shakespeare |
1995
{{small|49th Tony Awards}} |
| The Heiress | Augustus Goetz and Ruth Goetz |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| The Molière Comedies | Molière |
| The Rose Tattoo | Tennessee Williams |
1996
{{small|50th Tony Awards}} |
| A Delicate Balance | Edward Albee |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare |
| Inherit the Wind | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee |
1997
{{small|51st Tony Awards}} |
| A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen |
| London Assurance | Dion Boucicault |
| Present Laughter | Noël Coward |
| The Gin Game | Donald L. Coburn |
1998
{{small|52nd Tony Awards}} |
| A View from the Bridge | Arthur Miller |
| Ah, Wilderness! | Eugene O'Neill |
| The Chairs | Eugène Ionesco |
| The Diary of Anne Frank | Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett |
1999
{{small|53rd Tony Awards}} |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| Electra | Sophocles |
| The Iceman Cometh | Eugene O'Neill |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare |
| Year | Play | Author |
|---|
2000
{{small|54th Tony Awards}} |
| The Real Thing | Tom Stoppard |
| Amadeus | Peter Shaffer |
| A Moon for the Misbegotten | Eugene O'Neill |
| The Price | Arthur Miller |
2001
{{small|55th Tony Awards}} |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Dale Wasserman |
| Betrayal | Harold Pinter |
| The Best Man | Gore Vidal |
| The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe | Jane Wagner |
2002
{{small|56th Tony Awards}} |
| Private Lives | Noël Coward |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| Morning's at Seven | Paul Osborn |
| Noises Off | Michael Frayn |
2003
{{small|57th Tony Awards}} |
| Long Day's Journey into Night | Eugene O'Neill |
| A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Peter Nichols |
| Dinner at Eight | Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman |
| Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune | Terrence McNally |
2004
{{small|58th Tony Awards}} |
| Henry IV | William Shakespeare |
| Jumpers | Tom Stoppard |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry |
2005
{{small|59th Tony Awards}} |
| Glengarry Glen Ross | David Mamet |
| On Golden Pond | Ernest Thompson |
| Twelve Angry Men | Reginald Rose |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee |
2006
{{small|60th Tony Awards}} |
| Awake and Sing! | Clifford Odets |
| The Constant Wife | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Faith Healer | Brian Friel |
| Seascape | Edward Albee |
2007
{{small|61st Tony Awards}} |
| Journey's End | R. C. Sherriff |
| Inherit the Wind | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee |
| Talk Radio | Eric Bogosian |
| Translations | Brian Friel |
2008
{{small|62nd Tony Awards}} |
| Boeing-Boeing | Marc Camoletti |
| The Homecoming | Harold Pinter |
| Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Christopher Hampton |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
2009
{{small|63rd Tony Awards}} |
| The Norman Conquests | Alan Ayckbourn |
| Joe Turner's Come and Gone | August Wilson |
| Mary Stuart | Friedrich Schiller |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| Year | Play | Author |
|---|
2010
{{small|64th Tony Awards}} |
| Fences | August Wilson |
| Lend Me a Tenor | Ken Ludwig |
| The Royal Family | Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman |
| A View from the Bridge | Arthur Miller |
2011
{{small|65th Tony Awards}} |
| The Normal Heart | Larry Kramer |
| Arcadia | Tom Stoppard |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare |
2012
{{small|66th Tony Awards}} |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| The Best Man | Gore Vidal |
| Master Class | Terrence McNally |
| Wit | Margaret Edson |
2013
{{small|67th Tony Awards}} |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee |
| Golden Boy | Clifford Odets |
| Orphans | Lyle Kessler |
| The Trip to Bountiful | Horton Foote |
2014
{{small|68th Tony Awards}} |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry |
| The Cripple of Inishmaan | Martin McDonagh |
| The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare |
2015
{{small|69th Tony Awards}} |
| Skylight | David Hare |
| The Elephant Man | Bernard Pomerance |
| This Is Our Youth | Kenneth Lonergan |
| You Can't Take It With You | Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman |
2016
{{small|70th Tony Awards}} |
| A View from the Bridge | Arthur Miller |
| Blackbird | David Harrower |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| Long Day's Journey Into Night | Eugene O'Neill |
| Noises Off | Michael Frayn |
2017
{{small|71st Tony Awards}} |
| Jitney | August Wilson |
| The Little Foxes | Lillian Hellman |
| Present Laughter | Noël Coward |
| Six Degrees of Separation | John Guare |
2018
{{small|72nd Tony Awards}} |
| Angels in America | Tony Kushner |
| The Iceman Cometh | Eugene O'Neill |
| Lobby Hero | Kenneth Lonergan |
| Three Tall Women | Edward Albee |
| Travesties | Tom Stoppard |