| 2009 |
Ruined - Lynn Nottage |
| 2008 |
August: Osage County - Tracy Letts |
| 2007 |
Rabbit Hole - David Lindsay-Abaire |
| 2006 |
no award given |
| 2005 |
Doubt: A Parable - John Patrick Shanley |
| 2004 |
I Am My Own Wife - Doug Wright |
| 2003 |
Anna in the Tropics - Nilo Cruz |
| 2002 |
Top Dog, Underdog - Suzan-Lori Parks |
| 2001 |
Proof - David Auburn |
|
2000 |
Dinner With Friends Donald Margulies |
|
1999 |
Wit Margaret Edson |
|
1998 |
How I Learned to Drive Paula Vogel |
|
1997 |
No award |
|
1996 |
Rent Jonathen Larson |
|
1995 |
The Young Man From Atlanta Horton Foote |
|
1994 |
Three Tall Women Edward Albee |
|
1993 |
Angels In America: Millennium Approaches
Tony Kushner |
|
1992 |
The Kentucky Cycle Robert Schenkkan |
|
1991 |
Lost In Yonkers Neil Simon |
|
1990 |
The Piano Lesson August Wilson |
|
1989 |
The Heidi Chronicles Wendy Wassterstein |
|
1988 |
Driving Miss Daisy Alfred Uhry |
|
1987 |
Fences August Wilson |
|
1986 |
No award |
|
1985 |
Sunday in the Park With George by Music
and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James
Lapine |
|
1984 |
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet |
|
1983 |
'Night Mother Marsha Norman |
|
1982 |
A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller |
|
1981 |
Crimes of the Heart Beth Henley |
|
1980 |
Talley's Folly Lanford Wilson |
|
1979 |
Buried Child Sam Shepard |
|
1978 |
The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn |
|
1977 |
The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer |
|
1976 |
A Chorus Line Conceived, choreographed
and directed by Michael Bennett, with book by James
Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin
Hamlisch, and lyrics by Edward Kleban |
|
1975 |
Seascape Edward Albee |
|
1974 |
No award |
|
1973 |
That Championship Season Jason Miller |
|
1972 |
No award |
|
1971 |
The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-In-the-Moon
Marigolds Paul Zindel |
|
1970 |
No Place To Be Somebody by Charles
Gordone |
|
1969 |
The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler |
|
1968 |
No award |
|
1967 |
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee |
|
1966 |
No award |
|
1965 |
The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy |
|
1964 |
No award |
|
1963 |
No award |
|
1962 |
How To Succeed In Business Without Really
Trying by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows |
|
1961 |
All The Way Home by Tad Mosel |
|
1960 |
Fiorello! by 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 by Ketti Frings |
|
1957 |
Long Day's Journey Into Night Eugene
O'Neill |
|
1956 |
The Diary of Anne Frank Frances Goodrich
& Albert Hackett |
|
1955 |
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams |
|
1954 |
The Teahouse of the August Moon John
Patrick |
|
1953 |
Picnic William Inge |
|
1952 |
The Shrike Joseph Kramm |
|
1951 |
No award |
|
1950 |
South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar
Hammerstein, 2nd and Joshua Logan |
|
1949 |
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller |
|
1948 |
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee
Williams |
|
1947 |
No award |
|
1946 |
State of the Union Howard Lindsay &
Russel Crouse |
|
1945 |
Harvey Mary Chase |
|
1944 |
No Award |
|
1943 |
The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder |
|
1942 |
No award |
|
1941 |
There Shall Be No Night Robert E.
Sherwood |
|
1940 |
The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan |
|
1939 |
Abe Lincoln In Illinois Robert E.
Sherwood |
|
1938 |
Our Town by Thornton Wilder |
|
1937 |
You Can't Take It With You Moss Hart
& George S. Kaufman |
|
1936 |
Idiot's Delight Robert E. Sherwood |
|
1935 |
The Old Maid Zoe Akins |
|
1934 |
Men in White Sidney Kingsley |
|
1933 |
Both Your Houses Maxwell Anderson |
|
1932 |
Of Thee I Sing George S. Kaufman, Morrie
Ryskind and Ira Gershwin |
|
1931 |
Alison's House Susan Glaspell |
|
1930 |
The Green Pastures Marc Connelly |
|
1929 |
Street Scene Elmer L. Rice |
|
1928 |
Strange Interlude Eugene O'Neill |
|
1927 |
In Abraham's Bosom Paul Green |
|
1926 |
Craig's Wife George Kelly |
|
1925 |
They Knew What They Wanted Sidney Howard |
|
1924 |
Hell-Bent Fer Heaven Hatcher Hughes |
|
1923 |
Icebound Owen Davis |
|
1922 |
Anna Christie Eugene O'Neill |
|
1921 |
Miss Lulu Bett Zona Gale |
|
1920 |
Beyond the Horizon Eugene O'Neill |
|
1919 |
No award |
|
1918 |
Why Marry? Jesse Lynch Williams |
|
1917 |
No award |
