And across the street, all four actors in "Doubt, " John Patrick Shanley's multi award-winning play about a nun who suspects a priest of child abuse, have been nominated as well.

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Three old hands, however, wrote thoroughly impressive new plays that were all done off-Broadway: John Patrick Shanley's "Storefront Church" opened at the Atlantic Theater Company, Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike " came to Lincoln Center Theater, and Terrence McNally's "Golden Age" was presented in the Manhattan Theatre Club's downstairs space at City Center.

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