2013 Disgraced by 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.
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2012 Water by the Spoonful byQuiara Alegra 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.
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2011 Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
For Clybourne Park," a powerful work whose memorable characters speak in witty and
perceptive ways to America's sometimes toxic struggle with race and class consciousness.
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2010 Next to Normal, music byTom Kitt, book and lyrics byBrian Yorkey
A powerful rock musical that grapples with mental illness in a suburban family and expands
the scope of subject matter for musicals.
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2009 Ruined by 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.
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2008 "August: Osage County" byTracy Letts
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2007 Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
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2006 No Award.
No award.
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2005 Doubt, a parable by John Patrick Shanley
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2004 I Am My Own Wife byDoug Wright
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2003 Anna in the Tropics byNilo Cruz
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2002 Topdog/Underdog bySuzan-Lori Parks
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2001 Proof by David Auburn
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2000 Dinner With Friends byDonald Margulies
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1999 Wit by Margaret Edson
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1998 How I Learned to Drive byPaula Vogel
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1997 No award.
No award.
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1996 Rent by the late Jonathan Larson
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1995 The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote
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1994 Three Tall Women byEdward Albee
1993 Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
1992 The Kentucky Cycle byRobert Schenkkan
1991 Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
1990 The Piano Lesson byAugust Wilson
1989 The Heidi Chronicles byWendy Wasserstein
1988 Driving Miss Daisy byAlfred Uhry
1987 Fences by August Wilson
1986 (No Award)
1985 Sunday in the Park With George; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by
James Lapine.
1984 Glengarry Glen Ross byDavid Mamet
1983 Night, Mother by Marsha Norman
1982 A Soldier's Play byCharles Fuller
1981 Crimes of the Heart byBeth 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 byMichael Cristofer
1976 A Chorus Line conceived, choreographed and directed byMichael Bennett, with
book byJames Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, and lyrics
by Edward Kleban
1975 Seascape by Edward Albee
1974 (No Award)
1973 That Championship Seasonby Jason Miller
1972 (No Award)
1971 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds byPaul Zindel
1970 No Place To Be Somebodyby Charles Gordone
1969 The Great White Hope byHoward Sackler
1968 (No Award)
1967 A Delicate Balance byEdward Albee
1966 (No Award)
1965 The Subject Was Roses byFrank D. Gilroy
1964 (No Award)
1962 How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying byFrank Loesser and Abe
Burrows
1961 All The Way Home by Tad Mosel
1960 Fiorello! Book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott,music by Jerry Bock and
lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.
1959 J. B. by Archibald Macleish
1958 Look Homeward, Angel byKetti Frings
1957 Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
1956 Diary of Anne Frank byAlbert Hackett and Frances Goodrich
1955 Cat on A Hot Tin Roof byTennessee 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)
1950 South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan
1949 Death of a Salesman byArthur Miller
1948 A Streetcar Named Desireby Tennessee Williams
1947 (No Award)
1946 State of the Union byRussel Crouse and Howard Lindsay
1945 Harvey by Mary Chase
1944 (No Award)
1943 The Skin of Our Teeth byThornton Wilder
1942 (No Award)
1941 There Shall Be No Nightby Robert E. Sherwood
1940 The Time of Your Life byWilliam Saroyan
1939 Abe Lincoln in Illinois byRobert E. Sherwood
1938 Our Town by Thornton Wilder
1937 You Can't Take It With Youby Moss Hart and 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 byMaxwell Anderson
1932 Of Thee I Sing by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin
1931 Alison's House by Susan Glaspell
1930 The Green Pastures byMarc Connelly
1929 Street Scene by Elmer L. Rice
1928 Strange Interlude byEugene O'Neill
1927 In Abraham's Bosom byPaul Green
1926 Craig's Wife by George Kelly
1925 They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard
1924 Hell-Bent Fer Heaven byHatcher Hughes
1923 Icebound by Owen Davis
1922 Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill
1921 Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale
1920 Beyond the Horizon byEugene O'Neill
1919 (No Award)
1918 Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams
1917 (No Award)
