Tony Award for Best Play

So, OK.

I think it could get nominated for Best Play.

It is very, I mean, I know it's not original, but it does feel very original.

And all the things they pulled off.

When a survivor unexpectedly arrives and demands to confront his abuser, the encounter triggers a catastrophic chain reaction that cannot be contained.

Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Bruce Norris' profane, disruptive, and heartbreaking work finally arrives on Broadway in a strictly limited 12-week engagement.

So

this is interesting.

His brothers Dan, John, also in show business.

Dad won the Tony for Best Play and the Pulitzer for Drama.

So, yeah, really smart kid.

Graduated from high school at 16.

In the inaugural ceremony of the Antoinette Perry Awards, Kazan won Tony for Best Direction, and Miller won for Best Author.

Their next production, Death of a Salesman, was an even bigger success, being awarded the Pulitzer Prize and once again winning Tony Awards for both men as well as Best Play.

Then Miller took a page from history and was inspired by Marion Starkey's book on the Salem witch trials called The Devil in Massachusetts.

Kazan and salesman-producer Kermit Bloomgarden were once again brought on board as Miller sketched out a courtroom drama involving mass hysteria and institutional corruption.

The Crucible is not of that stature, and it lacks that universality.

Miller would later point the finger squarely at Harris for the play's mixed reviews, saying, quote, the remoteness of the production was guaranteed by the director, who insisted that this was a classic, requiring the actors to face front, never each other.

But regardless of its perceived faults, two months after opening, The Crucible won the Tony and Donaldson Awards for Best Play, with Beatrice Strait also taking home the Tony for Best Featured Actress.

Then, in a moment of life imitating art, Strait left the production in April due to her pregnancy.

Oh, wow

... for Best Play.

Master Class, which won-

Wow

... a Tony for Best Play.

Art, which won a Tony for Best Play.

Take Me Out, the revival of Glengarry Glen Ross with Liev Schreiber and Alan Alda.

I did a revival of View from the Bridge with Scarlett Johansson.

And...

There was a Best Actor award, Best Actress, Best Play, and Best Director, and you won Best Director.

Yes, I was very surprised, and I kind of mumbled and didn't know what to say, especially since he didn't say my last name because he couldn't pronounce it.

But it was very exciting, and...

He's best known for the screen adaptation of his play The Whale, which won a Best Actor Oscar for Brendan Fraser.

Sam has earned many awards, including a MacArthur Genius Grant, and last season he made his Broadway debut with Little Bear Ridge Road, which starred Laurie Metcalf and received a Tony nomination for Best Play.

Sam's collected characters from The State of Famous Potatoes form a de facto focus group of Americans for whom America isn't working now.

Their fears outnumber their options.

Like when I visit Idaho now, how progressive it's become in terms of LGBT people, it's shocking to me that it's, it's becoming like, just kind of a fact of life for people, even in that part of the country.

So, yeah, I think the plays are kind of like, like every play is to a certain degree, a time capsule.

But, you know, the thing that I really hope is that the best plays sort of resonate throughout the history do you know what I mean like like I saw the death of the salesman that's running right now that Laurie is in and it's shocking to me how modern its concerns are you know and and the way that that place speaks to our current moment even though it was written what 75 years ago more than that so that that's that's the hope you know

and you wrote a guest essay for the New York Times called in defense of sad plays can you can you basically encapsulate what the thesis of that