Slave Play, about race, sex and trauma, score 12 nominations, including for best play where it will compete with The Inheritance, Matthew Lopez’s two-part saga about gay life which scored 11 nominations.
The category also features The Sound Inside, Sea Wall/A Life and Grand Horizons.A truncated year on stage saw theatres shutter in March as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and as a result, many categories featured fewer nominees than usual.
There were only 18 plays and musicals eligible this year compared to 34 in 2019.In particular, the category of best musical was reduced to just three contenders: Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge!
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