Other Pulitzer Prize lists : Drama, Biography/Autobiography, Fiction, Poetry, History, General Nonfiction
For a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life
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For a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life
| = Goodreads rating
🎶 = M u s i c a l s
- (2017) Sweat Lynn Nottage | 4.25 avg rating — 175 ratings
- (2016) Hamilton 🎶Lin-Manuel Miranda | 4.47 avg rating — 26,793 ratings
- (2015) Between Riverside and CrazyStephen Adly Guirgis | 3.76 avg rating — 210 ratings
- (2014) The Flick Annie Baker | 4.10 avg rating — 1,459 ratings
- (2013) Disgraced Ayad Akhtar | 4.04 avg rating — 1,120 ratings
- (2012) Water by the SpoonfulQuiara Alegría Hudes | 4.03 avg rating — 633 ratings
- (2011) Clybourne Park Bruce Norris | 3.84 avg rating — 1,843 ratings
- (2010) Next to Normal 🎶Brian Yorkey | 4.40 avg rating — 2,385 ratings
- (2009) Ruined Lynn Nottage | 4.14 avg rating — 2,003 ratings
- (2008) August: Osage CountyTracy Letts | 4.19 avg rating — 12,265 ratings
- (2007) Rabbit HoleDavid Lindsay-Abaire | 4.04 avg rating — 6,069 ratings
- (2006) No award given
- (2005) Doubt John Patrick Shanley | 4.12 avg rating — 14,960 ratings
- (2004) I Am My Own Wife Doug Wright | 3.97 avg rating — 1,772 ratings
- (2003) Anna in the Tropics Nilo Cruz | 3.67 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
- (2002) Topdog/Underdog Suzan-Lori Parks | 3.77 avg rating — 3,871 ratings
- (2001) Proof David Auburn | 4.01 avg rating — 14,255 ratings
- (2000) Dinner With Friends Donald Margulies | 3.76 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
- (1999) WitMargaret Edson | 4.20 avg rating — 11,021 ratings
- (1998) How I Learned to Drive Paula Vogel | 3.85 avg rating — 6,368 ratings
- (1996) Rent 🎶Jonathan Larson | 4.14 avg rating — 10,053 ratings
- (1995) The Young Man from Atlanta Horton Foote | 3.29 avg rating — 147 ratings
- (1994) Three Tall WomenEdward Albee | 3.88 avg rating — 2,014 ratings
- (1993) Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches Tony Kushner | 4.27 avg rating — 17,111 ratings
- (1992) The Kentucky Cycle Robert Schenkkan | 4.11 avg rating — 256 ratings
- (1991) Lost in YonkersNeil Simon | 3.87 avg rating — 3,250 ratings
- (1990) The Piano LessonAugust Wilson | 3.81 avg rating — 4,670 ratings
- (1989) The Heidi Chronicles: Uncommon Women and Others & Isn’t It RomanticWendy Wasserstein | 3.83 avg rating — 2,528 ratings
- (1988) Driving Miss DaisyAlfred Uhry | 4.25 avg rating — 17,174 ratings
- (1987) Fences (The Century Cycle #6)August Wilson | 3.84 avg rating — 13,113 ratings
- (1985) Sunday in the Park With George 🎶Stephen Sondheim | 4.14 avg rating — 2,922 ratings
- (1984) Glengarry Glen RossDavid Mamet | 3.95 avg rating — 12,270 ratings
- (1983) night, MotherMarsha Norman | 3.90 avg rating — 9,002 ratings
- (1982) A Soldier’s PlayCharles Fuller | 3.86 avg rating — 273 ratings
- (1979) Buried ChildSam Shepard | 3.90 avg rating — 6,027 ratings
- (1976) A Chorus Line: The Complete Book of the Musical 🎶James Kirkwood Jr. | 4.21 avg rating — 486 ratings
- (1973) That Championship SeasonJason Miller | 3.57 avg rating — 90 ratings
- (1971) The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon MarigoldsPaul Zindel | 3.79 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
- (1967) A Delicate BalanceEdward Albee | 3.90 avg rating — 1,799 ratings
- (1965) The Subject Was RosesFrank D. Gilroy | 3.49 avg rating — 57 ratings
- (1962) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: Vocal SelectionsFrank Loesser | 3.57 avg rating — 53 ratings
- (1960) Fiorello! 🎶Jerome Weidman | 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
- (1959) J.B.Archibald MacLeish | 3.68 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
- (1957) Long Day’s Journey Into NightEugene O’Neill | 4.06 avg rating — 29,398 ratings
- (1956) The Diary of Anne Frank: And Related ReadingsFrances Goodrich | 4.03 avg rating — 5,524 ratings
- (1954) The Teahouse Of The August MoonJohn Patrick | 3.79 avg rating — 110 ratings
- (1952) The ShrikeJoseph Kramm | 3.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
- (1949) Death of a SalesmanArthur Miller | 3.49 avg rating — 149,621 ratings
- (1948) A Streetcar Named DesireTennessee Williams | 3.97 avg rating — 213,435 ratings
- (1943) The Skin of Our TeethThornton Wilder | 3.86 avg rating — 3,840 ratings
- (1938) Our TownThornton Wilder | 3.63 avg rating — 37,259 ratings
- (1932) Of Thee I Sing 🎶George S. Kaufman | 3.33 avg rating — 40 ratings
- (1931) Alison’s HouseSusan Glaspell | 3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings
- (1930) The Green Pastures: A FableMarc Connelly | 3.50 avg rating — 32 ratings
- (1929) Street SceneElmer Rice | 3.77 avg rating — 57 ratings
- (1928) Strange InterludeEugene O’Neill | 3.80 avg rating — 327 ratings
- 1927) In Abraham’s BosomPaul Green | 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
- (1926) Craig’s Wife George A. Kelly | 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
- (1925) They Knew What They Wanted Sidney Howard | 3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
- (1924) Hell-Bent fer Heaven Hatcher Hughes | 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
- (1923) Icebound Owen Gould Davis | 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
- (1922) Anna Christie Eugene O’Neill | 3.53 avg rating — 659 ratings
- (1921) Miss Lulu Bett Zona Gale | 3.33 avg rating — 49 ratings
- (1920) Beyond the Horizon Eugene O’Neill | 3.70 avg rating — 344 ratings
- (1918) Why Marry? Jesse Lynch Williams | 3.39 avg rating — 44 ratings