Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The Pulitzer were established in 1917
and the first award for drama was in 1918. The award is "for a
distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its
source and dealing with American life" and, according to the
requirements of Joseph Pulitzer's will, should go to a play
"performed in New York"
2010
Winner
Next to Normal
by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey
Finalists
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz
In the Next Room
or the vibrator play by Sarah Ruhl
2009
Winner
Ruined by Lynn Nottage
Finalists
Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo
In the Heights
by Lin-Manuel Miranda & Quiara Alegria Hudes
2008
Winner
August: Osage
County by Tracy Letts
Finalists
Dying City by Christopher Shin
Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang
2007
Winner
Rabbit Hole by
David Lindsay-Abaire
Finalists
Bullrusher by Christopher Shin
Elliott, a Soldier's Fugue by Quiara Alegria Hudes
Orpheus X by Rinde Eckert
2006
Winner
No award presented
Finalists
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow by Rolin Jones
Miss Witherspoon by Christopher Durang
Red Light Winter by Adam Rapp
2005
Winner
Doubt
by John Patrick Shanley
Finalists
The Clean House by Sarah Rule
Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno
2004
Winner
I
Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
Finalists
Man from Nebraska by Tracy Letts
Omnium Gatherum by Theresa Rebeck & Alexandra
Gersten-Vassilaros
2003
Winner
Anna
in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz
Finalists
The Goat or Who is
Sylvia by Edward Albee
Take Me Out by
Richard Greenberg
2002
Winner
Topdog/Underdog
by Suzan-Lori Parks
Finalists
The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilma
Yellowman by Dael Orlandersmith
2001
Winner
Proof
by David Auburn
Finalists
The Play About the Baby by Edward Albee
The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan
2000
Winner
Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies
Finalists
In The Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks
King Hedley II
by August Wilson
1999
Winner
Wit by Margaret Edson
Finalists
Running Man by Cornelius Eady & Diedre Murray
Side Man by Warren
Leight
1998
Winner
How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
Finalists
Freedomland by Amy Freed
Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg
1997
Winner
No award presented
Finalists
Collected Stories by Donald Margulies
The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry
Pride's Crossing by Tina Howe
1996
Winner
Rent by
Jonathan Larson
Finalists
A Fair Country by John Robin Baitz
Old Wicked Songs by Jon Marans
1995
Winner
The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton
Foote
Finalists
The Cryptogram by David Mamet
Seven Guitars by August Wilson
1994
Winner
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
Finalists
Keely and Du by Jane Martin (pseudonymous)
A Perfect Ganesh by Terrence McNally
1993
Winner
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
by Tony Kushner
Finalists
The Destiny of Me by Larry Kramer
Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith
1992
Winner
The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan
Finalists
Conversations with My Father by Herb Gardner
Miss Evers' Boys by David Feldshuh
Sight Unseen by Donald Margulies
Two Trains Running by August Wilson
1991
Winner
Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
Finalists
Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas
Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare
1990
Winner
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
Finalists
And What of the NIght? by Maria Irene Fornes
Love Letters by A R Gurney
1989
Winner
The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
Finalists
M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
1988
Winner
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
Finalists
Boy's Life by Howard Korder
Talk Radio by Eric Bogosian
1987
Winner
Fences by August Wilson
Finalists
Broadway Bound by Neil Simon
A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing
1986
No award presented
1985
Winner
Sunday in the Park With George by James Lapine & Stephen Sondheim
Finalists
The Dining Room by A R Gurney Jr
The Gospel at Colonus by Lee Breuer & Bob Telson
1984
Winner
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
Finalists
Fool for Love by San Shepard
Painting Churches by Tina Howe
1983
Winner
'Night, Mother by Marsha Norman
Finalists
True West by Sam Shepard
1982
A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller
1981
Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
1980
Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson
1979
Buried Child by Sam Shepard
1978
The Gin Game by Donald L Coburn
1977
The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer
1976
A Chorus Line by Michael Bennett concept,
choreography & direction; James Kirkwood & Nicholas
Dante book; Marvin Hamlisch music; Edward Kleban lyrics
1975
Seascape by Edward Albee
1974
No award presented
1973
That Championship Season by Jason Miller
1972
No award presented
1971
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon
Marigolds by Paul Zindel
1970
No Place To Be Somebody by Charles
Gordone
1969
The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler
1968
No award presented
1967
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
1966
No award presented
1965
The Subject Was Roses by Frank D Gilroy
1964
No award presented
1963
No award presented
1962
How To Succeed In Business Without Really
Trying by Frank Loesser & Abe Burrows
1961
All The Way Home by Tad Mosel
1960
Fiorello! by Jerome Weidman & George
Abbott book; Jerry Bock music; Sheldon Harnick lyrics
1959
J B by Archibald Macleish
1958
Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings
1957
Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene
O'Neill
1956
Diary of Anne Frank by Albert Hackett
& Frances Goodrich
1955
Cat on A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee
Williams
1954
The Teahouse of the August Moon by John
Patrick
1953
Picnic by William Inge
1952
The Shrike by Joseph Kramm
1951
No award presented
1950
South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar
Hammerstein, 2nd & Joshua Logan
1949
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
1948
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee
Williams
1947
No award presented
1946
State of the Union by Russel Crouse &
Howard Lindsay
1945
Harvey by Mary Chase
1944
No award presented
1943
The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
1942
No award presented
1941
There Shall Be No Night by Robert E
Sherwood
1940
The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan
1939
Abe Lincoln in Illinois by Robert E
Sherwood
1938
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
1937
You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart
& George S Kaufman
1936
Idiots Delight by Robert E Sherwood
1935
The Old Maid by Zoe Akins
1934
Men in White by Sidney Kingsley
1933
Both Your Houses by Maxwell Anderson
1932
Of Thee I Sing by George S Kaufman,
Morrie Ryskind & Ira Gershwin
1931
Alison's House by Susan Glaspell
1930
The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly
1929
Street Scene by Elmer L Rice
1928
Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill
1927
In Abraham's Bosom by Paul Green
1926
Craig's Wife by George Kelly
1925
They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney
Howard
1924
Hell-Bent Fer Heaven by Hatcher Hughes
1923
Icebound by Owen Davis
1922
Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill
1921
Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale
1920
Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill
1919
No award presented
1918
Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams
1917
No award presented
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