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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.