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.

More details2012 Water by the Spoonful byQuiara Alegría 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.

More details2011 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.

More details2010 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.

More details2009 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.

More details2008 "August: Osage County" byTracy LettsMore details2007 Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-AbaireMore details2006 No Award.

No award.

More details2005 Doubt, a parable by John Patrick ShanleyMore details2004 I Am My Own Wife byDoug WrightMore details2003 Anna in the Tropics byNilo CruzMore details2002 Topdog/Underdog bySuzan-Lori ParksMore details2001 Proof by David AuburnMore details2000 Dinner With Friends byDonald MarguliesMore details1999 Wit by Margaret EdsonMore details1998 How I Learned to Drive byPaula VogelMore details1997 No award.

No award.

More details1996 Rent by the late Jonathan LarsonMore details1995 The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton FooteMore details1994 Three Tall Women byEdward Albee1993 Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner1992 The Kentucky Cycle byRobert Schenkkan1991 Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon1990 The Piano Lesson byAugust Wilson1989 The Heidi Chronicles byWendy Wasserstein1988 Driving Miss Daisy byAlfred Uhry1987 Fences by August Wilson1986 (No Award)1985 Sunday in the Park With George; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine.1984 Glengarry Glen Ross byDavid Mamet1983 Night, Mother by Marsha Norman1982 A Soldier's Play byCharles Fuller1981 Crimes of the Heart byBeth Henley1980 Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson1979 Buried Child by Sam Shepard1978 The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn1977 The Shadow Box byMichael Cristofer1976 A Chorus Line conceived, choreographed and directed byMichael Bennett, with book byJames Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, and lyrics by Edward Kleban1975 Seascape by Edward Albee1974 (No Award)1973 That Championship Seasonby Jason Miller1972 (No Award)1971 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds byPaul Zindel1970 No Place To Be Somebodyby Charles Gordone1969 The Great White Hope byHoward Sackler1968 (No Award)1967 A Delicate Balance byEdward Albee1966 (No Award)1965 The Subject Was Roses byFrank D. Gilroy1964 (No Award)1962 How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying byFrank Loesser and Abe Burrows1961 All The Way Home by Tad Mosel1960 Fiorello! Book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott,music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.1959 J. B. by Archibald Macleish1958 Look Homeward, Angel byKetti Frings

1957 Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill1956 Diary of Anne Frank byAlbert Hackett and Frances Goodrich1955 Cat on A Hot Tin Roof byTennessee Williams1954 The Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick1953 Picnic by William Inge1952 The Shrike by Joseph Kramm1951 (No Award)1950 South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan1949 Death of a Salesman byArthur Miller1948 A Streetcar Named Desireby Tennessee Williams1947 (No Award)1946 State of the Union byRussel Crouse and Howard Lindsay1945 Harvey by Mary Chase1944 (No Award)1943 The Skin of Our Teeth byThornton Wilder1942 (No Award)1941 There Shall Be No Nightby Robert E. Sherwood1940 The Time of Your Life byWilliam Saroyan1939 Abe Lincoln in Illinois byRobert E. Sherwood1938 Our Town by Thornton Wilder1937 You Can't Take It With Youby Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman1936 Idiots Delight by Robert E. Sherwood1935 The Old Maid by Zoe Akins1934 Men in White by Sidney Kingsley1933 Both Your Houses byMaxwell Anderson1932 Of Thee I Sing by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin1931 Alison's House by Susan Glaspell1930 The Green Pastures byMarc Connelly1929 Street Scene by Elmer L. Rice1928 Strange Interlude byEugene O'Neill1927 In Abraham's Bosom byPaul Green1926 Craig's Wife by George Kelly1925 They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard1924 Hell-Bent Fer Heaven byHatcher Hughes1923 Icebound by Owen Davis1922 Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill1921 Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale1920 Beyond the Horizon byEugene O'Neill1919 (No Award)1918 Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams1917 (No Award)