Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play

The Way of the World / Thieves' Carnival / Twelfth Night / The Merchant of Venice / The White Devil (1955) · The Iceman Cometh (1956) · Same Time, Next Year / Equus (1975) · Streamers (1976) · A Texas Trilogy / Otherwise Engaged (1977) · Da (1978) · The Elephant Man (1979) · Children of a Lesser God (1980) · Amadeus (1981) · Master Harold...and the Boys (1982) · Torch Song Trilogy (1983) · The Real Thing (1984) · As Is (1985) · A Lie of the Mind (1986) · Fences (1987) · M. Butterfly (1988) · The Heidi Chronicles (1989) · The Piano Lesson (1990) · Lost in Yonkers (1991) · Marvin's Room (1992) · Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1993) · Angels in America: Perestroika (1994) · Love! Valour! Compassion! (1995) · Master Class (1996) · How I Learned to Drive (1997) · The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1998) · Wit (1999) · Copenhagen (2000) · Proof (2001) · The Goat: or, Who is Sylvia? / Metamorphoses (2002) · Take Me Out (2003) · I Am My Own Wife (2004) · Doubt: A Parable (2005) · The History Boys (2006) · The Coast of Utopia (2007) · August: Osage County (2008) · Ruined (2009)

Play · Revival of a Play · Foreign Play · Actor in a Play · Actress in a Play · Featured Actor in a Play · Featured Actress in a Play · Director of a Play · Music in a Play

Director · Choreography · Set Design · Costume Design · Lighting Design · Sound Design · Revival · One-Person Show · Special Award · Unique Theatrical Experience