Rule Britannia! Could a British Play Make Tony Awards History This Year?
2022 could be the fourth consecutive year with Best Play going to a British import.
By: Team BWW Jun. 07, 2022
As the 75th Annual Tony Awards inch closer, a history-making milestone could also be on the horizon. Look for imports from Great Britain to possibly make history this year if The Lehman Trilogy or Hangmen win the Tony Award for Best Play. If either play wins, the victory would make 2022 the fourth year in a row that an overseas production has won the highest award- a streak that has never happened before.
British imports have won Best Play for three consecutive years only three times in Tony Awards history:
1966 - Marat/Sade
1967 - The Homecoming
1968 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
2009 - God of Carnage
2010 - Red
2011 - War Horse
2018 - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
2019 - The Ferryman
2020 - The Inheritance
2021 - No award
2022 - ?
Could the streak continue beyond 2022? Already announced for the 2022-23 season is Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt. The only Stop-pard this year to Great Britain's stranglehold on the Tonys could be The Minutes, Clyde's or The Skeleton Crew- three very worthy American plays.
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