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(Theatre World). Volume 61 features the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for 2005, and the Tony Award-winning Best Play, John Patrick Shanley's Doubt , which also earned star Cherry Jones the Best Leading Actress in a Play Tony Award and the Best Direction of a Play Tony Award for Doug Wright. Kathleen Turner and Tony Award-winner Bill Irwin sparred memorably in the critically acclaimed revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? . Spamalot and its director Mike Nichols took home a Tony for Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical respectively for the bonafide Monty Python megahit. Other highlights of the season include the Off-Broadway hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee , which would eventually land on Broadway. Regionally, the world premiere of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Tony winners John Lithgow and Norbert Leo Butz began life at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and transferred successfully to Broadway. The Light in the Piazza , first produced at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle and at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, went on to win more Tonys than any other production in 2005 when it arrived at New York's Lincoln Center Theater. Billy Crystal also shone in his one-man Broadway smash 700 Sundays , originally developed at the La Jolla Playhouse. Theatre World's outstanding features include: * A color section of highlights. * A listing of all the major theatrical works * The longest running shows on and Off-Broadway listings. * Biographical data, obituaries, and a comprehensive index.

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JOHN WILLIS has been the editor-in-chief of both Theatre World and its companion series Screen World for over forty years. He lives in New York City. BEN HODGES is associate editor to John Willis on Theatre World, and executive producer of the Theatre World Awards. He is also a director, actor, and producer, and has worked as a casting director for film, television, and the stage. He lives in New York City.

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