1. Awards and nominations
    1910s  1920s  1930s  1940s  1950s  1960s  1970s  1980s  1990s  2000s  2010s 

2. Musicals

3. Repeat winners

4. References

5. External links

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were awarded that year.^[1] (No Drama prize was given, however, so that one was inaugurated in 1918, in a sense.) It recognizes a theatrical work staged in the U.S. during the preceding calendar year.

Through 2006 the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 1 to March 2, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than the calendar year. The decision was made, however, that the 2007 Prize would consider works staged during an eligibility period of January 1 to December 31, 2006—thus bringing the schedule for the Drama Prize in line with those of the other prizes.

The drama jury, which consists of one academic and four critics, attends plays in New York and in regional theaters. The Pulitzer board has the authority to overrule the jury's choice, however, as happened in 1986 when the jury chose the CIVIL warS to receive the prize, but due to the board's opposition no award was given.

In 1955 Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. pressured the prize jury into presenting the Prize to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which the jury considered the weakest of the five shortlisted nominees ("amateurishly constructed... from the stylistic points of view annoyingly pretentious"), instead of Clifford Odets' The Flowering Peach (their preferred choice) or The Bad Seed, their second choice.^[2] Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was selected for the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Drama by that award's committee. However, the committee's selection was overruled by the award's advisory board, the trustees of Columbia University, because of the play's then-controversial use of profanity and sexual themes. Had Albee been awarded, he would be tied with Eugene O'Neill for the most Pulitzer Prizes for Drama (four).

Awards and nominations

In its first 98 years to 2013, the Drama Pulitzer was awarded 82 times; none were given in 15 years and it was never split. Many of the prizes were won by multiple people for their collaboration, as many as five in 1976.

• Star marks winners of the annual Tony Award for Best Play or Best Musical.

1910s

• 1917: no award^[1]
• 1918: Why Marry? – Jesse Lynch Williams
• 1919: no award

1920s

• 1920: Beyond the Horizon – Eugene O'Neill
• 1921: Miss Lulu Bett – Zona Gale
• 1922: Anna Christie – Eugene O'Neill
• 1923: Icebound – Owen Davis
• 1924: Hell-Bent Fer Heaven – Hatcher Hughes
• 1925: They Knew What They Wanted – Sidney Howard
• 1926: Craig's Wife – George Kelly
• 1927: In Abraham's Bosom – Paul Green
• 1928: Strange Interlude – Eugene O'Neill
• 1929: Street Scene – Elmer Rice

1930s

• 1930: The Green Pastures – Marc Connelly
• 1931: Alison's House – Susan Glaspell
• 1932: Of Thee I Sing – George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin
• 1933: Both Your Houses – Maxwell Anderson
• 1934: Men in White – Sidney Kingsley
• 1935: The Old Maid – Zoë Akins
• 1936: Idiot's Delight – Robert E. Sherwood
• 1937: You Can't Take It with You – Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman
• 1938: Our Town – Thornton Wilder
• 1939: Abe Lincoln in Illinois – Robert E. Sherwood

1940s

• 1940: The Time of Your Life – William Saroyan
• 1941: There Shall Be No Night – Robert E. Sherwood
• 1942: no award
• 1943: The Skin of Our Teeth – Thornton Wilder
• 1944: no award
• 1945: Harvey – Mary Coyle Chase
• 1946: State of the Union – Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay
• 1947: no award
• 1948: A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
• 1949: Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

1950s

• 1950: South Pacific – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan
• 1951: no award
• 1952: The Shrike – Joseph Kramm
• 1953: Picnic – William Inge
• 1954: The Teahouse of the August Moon – John Patrick
• 1955: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Tennessee Williams
• 1956: The Diary of Anne Frank – Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich
• 1957: Long Day's Journey into Night – Eugene O'Neill
• 1958: Look Homeward, Angel – Ketti Frings
• 1959: J.B. – Archibald MacLeish

1960s

• 1960: Fiorello! – Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick
• 1961: All the Way Home – Tad Mosel
• 1962: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows
• 1963: no award^[3]
• 1964: no award
• 1965: The Subject Was Roses – Frank D. Gilroy
• 1966: no award
• 1967: A Delicate Balance – Edward Albee
• 1968: no award
• 1969: The Great White Hope – Howard Sackler

1970s

• 1970: No Place to be Somebody – Charles Gordone
• 1971: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds – Paul Zindel
• 1972: no award
• 1973: That Championship Season – Jason Miller
• 1974: no award
• 1975: Seascape – Edward Albee
• 1976: A Chorus Line – Michael Bennett, Nicholas Dante and James Kirkwood, Jr., Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban
• 1977: The Shadow Box – Michael Cristofer
• 1978: The Gin Game – Donald L. Coburn
• 1979: Buried Child – Sam Shepard

1980s

• 1980: Talley's Folly – Lanford Wilson
• 1981: Crimes of the Heart – Beth Henley
• 1982: A Soldier's Play – Charles Fuller
• 1983: 'night, Mother – Marsha Norman
  • True West – Sam Shepard
• 1984: Glengarry Glen Ross – David Mamet
  • Fool for Love – Sam Shepard
  • Painting Churches – Tina Howe
• 1985: Sunday in the Park with George – James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim
  • The Dining Room – A. R. Gurney
  • The Gospel at Colonus – Lee Breuer, Bob Telson

• 1986: no award
• 1987: Fences – August Wilson
  • Broadway Bound – Neil Simon
  • A Walk in the Woods – Lee Blessing
• 1988: Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhry
  • Boy's Life – Howard Korder
  • Talk Radio – Eric Bogosian
• 1989: The Heidi Chronicles – Wendy Wasserstein
  • Joe Turner's Come and Gone – August Wilson
  • M. Butterfly – David Henry Hwang

1990s

• 1990: The Piano Lesson – August Wilson
  • And What of the Night? – María Irene Fornés
  • Love Letters – A. R. Gurney
• 1991: Lost in Yonkers – Neil Simon
  • Prelude to a Kiss – Craig Lucas
  • Six Degrees of Separation – John Guare
• 1992: The Kentucky Cycle – Robert Schenkkan
  • Conversations with My Father – Herb Gardner
  • Miss Evers' Boys – David Feldshuh
  • Two Trains Running – August Wilson
  • Sight Unseen – Donald Margulies
• 1993: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches – Tony Kushner
  • The Destiny of Me – Larry Kramer
  • Fires in the Mirror – Anna Deavere Smith
• 1994: Three Tall Women – Edward Albee
  • Keely and Du – Jane Martin
  • A Perfect Ganesh – Terrence McNally

• 1995: The Young Man From Atlanta – Horton Foote
  • The Cryptogram – David Mamet
  • Seven Guitars – August Wilson
• 1996: Rent – Jonathan Larson
  • A Fair Country – Jon Robin Baitz
  • Old Wicked Songs – Jon Marans
• 1997: no award
  • Collected Stories – Donald Margulies
  • The Last Night of Ballyhoo – Alfred Uhry
  • Pride's Crossing – Tina Howe
• 1998: How I Learned to Drive – Paula Vogel
  • Freedomland – Amy Freed
  • Three Days of Rain – Richard Greenberg
• 1999: Wit – Margaret Edson
  • Running Man – Cornelius Eady and Diedre Murray
  • Side Man – Warren Leight

2000s

• 2000: Dinner with Friends – Donald Margulies
  • In the Blood – Suzan-Lori Parks
  • King Hedley II – August Wilson
• 2001: Proof – David Auburn
  • The Play About the Baby – Edward Albee
  • The Waverly Gallery – Kenneth Lonergan
• 2002: Topdog/Underdog – Suzan-Lori Parks
  • The Glory of Living – Rebecca Gilman
  • Yellowman – Dael Orlandersmith
• 2003: Anna in the Tropics – Nilo Cruz
  • The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? – Edward Albee
  • Take Me Out – Richard Greenberg
• 2004: I Am My Own Wife – Doug Wright
  • Man from Nebraska – Tracy Letts
  • Omnium Gatherum – Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros

• 2005 A Parable – John Patrick Shanley
  • The Clean House – Sarah Ruhl
  • Thom Pain (based on nothing) – Will Eno
• 2006: no award
  • Miss Witherspoon – Christopher Durang
  • The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow – Rolin Jones
  • Red Light Winter – Adam Rapp
• 2007: Rabbit Hole – David Lindsay-Abaire
  • Bulrusher – Eisa Davis
  • Orpheus X – Rinde Eckert
  • Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue – Quiara Alegría Hudes
• 2008 Osage County – Tracy Letts
  • Dying City – Christopher Shinn
  • Yellow Face – David Henry Hwang
• 2009 Ruined – Lynn Nottage
  • Becky Shaw – Gina Gionfriddo
  • In the Heights – Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes

2010s

• 2010: Next to Normal – Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
  • Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo – Rajiv Joseph
  • The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity – Kristoffer Diaz
  • In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) – Sarah Ruhl
• 2011: Clybourne Park – Bruce Norris
  • Detroit – Lisa D'Amour
  • A Free Man of Color – John Guare
• 2012: Water by the Spoonful – Quiara Alegría Hudes
  • Other Desert Cities – Jon Robin Baitz
  • Sons of the Prophet – Stephen Karam
• 2013: Disgraced – Ayad Akhtar
  • Rapture, Blister, Burn – Gina Gionfriddo
  • 4000 Miles – Amy Herzog
• 2014: The Flick – Annie Baker
  • The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence – Madeleine George
  • Fun Home – Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron

• 2015: Between Riverside and Crazy – Stephen Adly Guirgis
  • Marjorie Prime – Jordan Harrison
  • Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2, 3) – Suzan-Lori Parks
• 2016: Hamilton – Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • The Humans – Stephen Karam
  • Gloria – Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
• 2017: Sweat – Lynn Nottage
  • A 24-Decade History of Popular Music – Taylor Mac
  • The Wolves – Sarah DeLappe
• 2018: Cost of Living – Martyna Majok
  • Everybody – Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • The Minutes – Tracy Letts

Musicals

Nine musicals have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, roughly one per decade from the 1930s to the 2010s¹. They are: George and Ira Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing (1932), Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific (1950), Bock & Harnick's Fiorello! (1960), Frank Loesser's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962), Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood, Jr., and Nicholas Dante's A Chorus Line (1976), Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George (1985), Jonathan Larson's Rent (1996), Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's Next to Normal (2010), and Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (2016).

The award goes to the playwright, although production of the play is also taken into account. In the case of a musical being awarded the prize, the composer, lyricist and book writer are generally the recipients. An exception to this was the first Pulitzer ever awarded to a musical: when Of Thee I Sing won in 1932, book authors George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, as well as lyricist Ira Gershwin, were cited as the winners, while composer George Gershwin's contribution was overlooked by the committee. The reason given was that the Pulitzer Prize for Drama is a dramatic award, and not a musical one. However, by 1950 the Pulitzer committee included composer Richard Rodgers as a recipient when South Pacific won the award, in recognition of music as an integral and important part of the theatrical experience.^[5]

Additionally, since 1983, when the identity of finalists was first disclosed, three musicals have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. They are: Lee Breuer and Bob Telson's The Gospel at Colonus (1985); Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes' In the Heights (2009); and Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron's Fun Home (2014). The latter two shows, however, each won the Tony Award for Best Musical.

Repeat winners

Eugene O'Neill won the Pulitzer for Drama four times, three in the 1920s. Several people have won two or three.

• Eugene O'Neill, 1920, 1922, 1928, and 1957
• Robert E. Sherwood, 1936, 1939, and 1941
• Edward Albee, 1967, 1975 and 1994
• George S. Kaufman, 1932 and 1937, both shared with collaborators
• Thornton Wilder, 1938 and 1943
• Tennessee Williams, 1948 and 1955
• August Wilson, 1987 and 1990
• Lynn Nottage, 2009 and 2017

The most recipients of the prize in one Prize year was in 1976, when five people—Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Jr., Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch, and Edward Kleban—shared the prize for the musical A Chorus Line.

Lynn Nottage is the only female playwright to win the prize twice. She and August Wilson are the only playwrights of color to accomplish this feat.

References

External links

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