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Tony Award for Best Play

annual American award honoring Broadway theater productions
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Tony Award for Best Play

Summary

Tony Award for Best Play is a class of award[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of class_of_award entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (546 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Tony Award for Best Play is in the country of United States[3].
  • Tony Award for Best Play's instance of is recorded as class of award[4].
  • Tony Award for Best Play's instance of is recorded as award for best theatrical show[5].
  • Tony Award for Best Play's location is recorded as New York City[6].
  • Tony Award for Best Play's subclass of is recorded as award for best play[7].
  • Tony Award for Best Play's part of is recorded as Tony Awards[8].
  • Tony Award for Best Play's Commons category is recorded as Winners of Tony Awards for Best Play[9].
  • +1948-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Tony Award for Best Play[10].
  • Tony Award for Best Play's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01l78d[11].
  • Tony Award for Best Play's official website is recorded as http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/index.html[12].
  • Tony Award for Best Play's conferred by is recorded as American Theatre Wing[13].
  • Tony Award for Best Play's topic has template is recorded as Template:TonyAward Play[14].
  • Tony Award for Best Play's category for recipients of this award is recorded as Category:Tony Award–winning plays[15].

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Geography

Tony Award for Best Play is in the country of United States[3]. Its part of is recorded as Tony Awards[8].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include class of award[4] and award for best theatrical show[5].

History and Context

+1948-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Tony Award for Best Play[10].

Why It Matters

Tony Award for Best Play ranks in the top 3% of class_of_award entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (546 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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