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"
2005
Doubt
by John Patrick Shanley
2004
I
Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
2003
Anna
in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz
2002
Topdog/Underdog
by Suzan-Lori Parks
2001
Proof
by David Auburn
2000
Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies
1999
Wit by Margaret Edson
1998
How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
1997
No award presented
1996
Rent by
Jonathan Larson
1995
The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton
Foote
1994
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
1993
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
by Tony Kushner
1992
The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan
1991
Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
1990
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
1989
The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
1988
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
1987
Fences by August Wilson
1986
No award presented
1985
Sunday in the Park With George by James
Lapine book Stephen Sondheim music & lyrics
1984
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
1983
'Night, Mother by Marsha Norman
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
For more information and a history of
all the awards, see the Pulitzer
Prizes website |
