Best-Show Tonys Honor Producers, Not Writers. Why?

“[M]any theater people are increasingly concerned that writers, especially writers of nonmusical plays, are getting the bum’s rush at the Tonys. ‘Why doesn’t the playwright accept the award by himself?’ wonders composer and lyricist Maury Yeston…. ‘The bookwriter does, the lyricist does, the orchestrator does, even the person who runs the sound system does.'” But when the Tonys for best play and musical are announced, the stage is swarmed with producers.