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Pulitzer Prize Drama
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1917 | No Award |
| 1918 | Why Marry? - Jesse Lynch Williams |
| 1919 | No Award |
| 1920 | Beyond the Horizon-Eugene O'Neill |
| 1921 | Miss Lulu Bett- Zona Gale |
| 1922 | Anna Christie- Eugene O'Neill |
| 1923 | Ice Bound -Owen Davis |
| 1924 | Hell-Bent For Heaven- Hatcher Hughes |
| 1925 | They Knew What They Wanted- Sidney Howard |
| 1926 | Craig's Wife- George Kelly |
| 1927 | In Abraham's Bosom - Paul Green |
| 1928 | Strange Interlude - Eugene O'Neill |
| 1952 | The Shrike- Joseph Kramm |
| 1929 | Street Scene - Elmer Rice |
| 1930 | The Green Pastures-Marc Connelly |
| 1931 | Allison's House - Susan Glaspell |
| 1932 | Of Thee I Sing - George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin |
| 1933 | Both Your Houses - Maxwell Anderson |
| 1934 | Men in White - Sidney Kingsley |
| 1935 | The Old Maid - Zoe Akins |
| 1936 | Idiot's Delight - Robert E Sherwood |
| 1937 | You Can't Take It With You - Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman |
| 1938 | Our Town - Thornton Wilder |
| 1939 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois- Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1940 | The Time of Your Life- William Saroyan |
| 1941 | There Shall Be No Night - Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1942 | No Award |
| 1943 | The Skin of Our Teeth - Thornton Wilder |
| 1944 | No Award |
| 1945 | Harvey - Mary Coyle Chase |
| 1946 | State of the Union- Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsey |
| 1947 | No Award |
| 1948 | A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams |
| 1949 | Death of a Salesman- Arthur Miller |
| 1950 | South Pacific! Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein II Joshua Logan |
| 1951 | No Award |
| 1953 | Picnic - William Inge |
| 1954 | The Teahouse of the August Moon- John Patrick |
| 1955 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams |
| 1956 | The Diary of Anne Frank - Albert Hackett & Francis Goodrich |
| 1957 | Long Day's Journey into Night - Eugene O'Neill |
| 1958 | Look Homeward, Angel - Ketti Frings |
| 1959 | J.B. Archibald MacLeish |
| 1960 | Fiorello- Jerome Weidman George Abbot Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick |
| 1963 | No Award |
| 1964 | No Award |
| 1965 | The Subject Was Roses - Frank D. Gilroy |
| 1966 | No Award |
| 1967 | A Delicate Balance- Edward Albee |
| 1961 | All the Way Home - Tad Mosel |
| 1962 | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying- Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows |
| 1968 | No Award |
| 1969 | The Great White Hope - Howard Sackler |
| 1970 | No Place to Be Somebody- Charles Gordone |
| 1971 | The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds- Paul Zindel |
| 1972 | No Award |
| 1973 | That Championship Season - Jason Miller |
| 1974 | No Award |
| 1975 | Seascape- Edward Albee |
| 1976 | A Chorus Line - Michael Bennett Nicholas Dante & James Kirkwood Jr. Marvin Hamlisch & Edward Kleban |
| 1977 | The Shadow Box - Michael Cristofer |
| 1978 | The Gin Game - Donald L. Coburn |
| 1979 | Buried Child - Sam Shepard |
| 1980 | Talley's Folly - Lanford Wilson |
| 1981 | Crimes of the Heart- Beth Henley |
| 1982 | A Soldier's Play - Charles Fuller |
| 1983 | 'night, Mother - Marsha Norman |
| 1984 | Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet |
| 1985 | Sunday in the Park with George - James Lapine & Stephen Sondheim |
| 1986 | No Award |
| 1987 | Fences - August Wilson |
| 1988 | Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhry |
| 1989 | The Heidi Chronicles- Wendy Wasserstein |
| 1990 | The Piano Lesson - August Wilson |
| 1991 | Lost in Yonkers - Neil Simon |
| 1992 | The Kentucky Cycle - Robert Schenkkan |
| 1993 | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches- Tony Kushner |
| 1994 | Three Tall Women - Edward Albee |
| 1995 | The Young Man from Atlanta- Horton Foote |
| 1996 | Rent - Jonathan Larson |
| 1997 | No Award |
| 1998 | How I Learned to Drive- Paula Vogel he story of Li’l Bit, now a woman of around thirty-five years, coming to terms with the abusive and emotionally complex relationship that she had with her Uncle Peck |
| 1999 | Wit - Margaret Edson About 'Dr. Vivian Bearing' - an uncompromising and brilliant professor of literature who discovers she has ovarian cancer. |
| 2000 | Dinner with Friends - Donald Margulies It tells the story of two forty-something couples whose relationships are fractured when one announces their divorce. |
| 2001 | Proof - David Auburn Proof is the story of an enigmatic young woman, Catherine, her manipulative sister, their brilliant father, and an unexpected suitor. They are all in the search for the truth behind a mysterious mathematical proof |
| 2002 | Topdog/Underdog - Suzan-Lori Parks tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names, given to them as a joke, foretell a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment |
| 2003 | Anna in the Tropics- Nilo Cruz a play set in Ybor City, (Tampa), Florida in 1930. The romantic drama deals with a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. |
| 2004 | I Am My Own Wife - Doug Wright he life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite caught up in the great European dramas of the 20th century. |
| 2005 | Doubt: A Parable - John Patrick Shanley Doubt is the story of a strong-minded woman faced with a difficult decision: should she voice concerns about one of her male colleagues |
| 2006 | No Award |
| 2007 | Rabbit Hole - David Lindsay-Abaire Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down, and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart |
| 2008 | August: Osage County - Tracy Letts Meet the Westons. A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harboring shady little secrets. |
| 2009 | Ruined - Lynn Nottage A searing drama set in chaotic Congo that compels audiences to face the horror of wartime rape and brutality while still finding affirmation of life and hope amid hopelessness. |
| 2010 | Next to Normal - Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey A powerful rock musical that grapples with mental illness in a suburban family and expands the scope of subject matter for musicals. |
| 2011 | Clybourne Park - Bruce Norris About America's sometimes toxic struggle with race and class consciousness. |
| 2012 | Water by the Spoonful - Quiara Alegria Hudes An imaginative play about the search for meaning by a returning Iraq war veteran working in a sandwich shop in his hometown of Philadelphia. |
| 2013 | Disgraced - Ayad Akhtar A moving play that depicts a successful corporate lawyer painfully forced to consider why he has for so long camouflaged his Pakistani Muslim heritage. |
| 2014 | The Flick - Annie Baker three employees of a Massachusetts art-house movie theater, rendering lives rarely seen on the stage. |
| 2015 | Between Riverside and Crazy - Stephen Adly Guirgis A nuanced, beautifully written play about a retired police officer faced with eviction that uses dark comedy to confront questions of life and deat |
| 2016 | Hamilton - Lin-Manuel Miranda For a nuanced yet powerful drama that reminds audiences of the stacked deck still facing workers searching for the American dream. |
| 2017 | Sweat - Lynn Nottage For a nuanced yet powerful drama that reminds audiences of the stacked deck still facing workers searching for the American dream. |
| 2018 | Cost of Living - Martyna Majok Story about a former trucker and his recently paralyzed ex-wife, and an arrogant young man with cerebral palsy and his new caregiver. |
| 2019 | Fairview - Jackie Sibblies Drury A hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors’ community to face deep-seated prejudices. |
| 2020 | A Strange Loop - Michael R. Jackson A metafictional musical that tracks the creative process of an artist transforming issues of identity, race, and sexuality that once pushed him to the margins of the cultural mainstream into a meditation on human fears. |
| 2021 | The Hot Wing King - Katrina Hall A funny, deeply felt consideration of Black masculinity and how it is perceived, filtered through the experiences of a loving gay couple and their extended family as they prepare for a culinary competition. |
| 2022 | Fat Ham - James Ijames A funny, poignant play that deftly transposes "Hamlet" to a family barbecue in the American South to grapple with questions of identity, kinship, responsibility, and honesty. |
| 2023 | English - Sanaz Toossi 4 Iranian adults preparing for an English language exam in a storefront school near Tehran, where family separations and travel restrictions drive them to learn a new language that may alter their identities/ give them a new life |
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