Trivia: Who was the first playwright to win consecutive Best Play Tony Awards?
Terrence McNally
Tony Kushner
Lynn Nottage
Neil Simon
The correct answer is Tony Kushner
So why is this answer correct? : Tony Kushner made history in 1994, when he won his second consecutive Tony Award for Best Play. His first was for part one of his two-part masterwork “Angels in America,” which won both the Tony for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1993. Part two, subtitled “Perestroika,” was similarly acclaimed, picking up Tonys, Drama Desk Awards, and New York Critics’ Circle Awards in 1994.