| Year | Title | Author |
|---|
| 2010 |
Next to Normal |
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey |
| 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 |
Topdog/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 given |
| 1996 |
Rent |
Jonathan Larson |
| 1995 |
Young Man from Atlanta |
Horton Foote |
| 1994 |
Three Tall Women |
Edward Albee |
| 1993 |
Angels in America: Millenium 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 Wasserstein |
| 1988 |
Driving Miss Daisy |
Alfred Uhry |
| 1987 |
Fences |
August Wilson |
| 1986 |
No Award given |
| 1985 |
Sunday in the Park with George |
Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and James Lapine (book) |
| 1984 |
Glengarry Glen Ross |
David Mamet |
| 1983 |
'Night Mother |
Marsha Norman |
| 1982 |
A Soldier's Play |
Charles Fuller |
| 1981 |
Crimes of the Heart |
Beth Henley |
| 1980 |
Talley's Folly |
Lanford Wilson |
| 1979 |
Buried Child |
Sam Shepard |
| 1978 |
The Gin Game |
Donald L. Coburn |
| 1977 |
The Shadow Box |
Michael Cristofer |
| 1976 |
A Chorus Line |
Michael Bennett (conceived, choreographed and directed), James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante (book), Marvin Hamlisch (music), and Edward Kleban (lyrics) |
| 1975 |
Seascape |
Edward Albee |
| 1974 |
No Award given |
| 1973 |
That Championship Season |
Jason Miller |
| 1972 |
No Award given |
| 1971 |
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds |
Paul Zindel |
| 1970 |
No place To Be Somebody |
Charles Gordone |
| 1969 |
The Great White Hope |
Howard Sackler |
| 1968 |
No Award given |
| 1967 |
A Delicate Balance |
Edward Albee |
| 1966 |
No Award given |
| 1965 |
The Subject Was Roses |
Frank D. Gilroy |
| 1964 |
No Award given |
| 1963 |
No Award given |
| 1962 |
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows |
| 1961 |
All the Way Home |
Tad Mosel |
| 1960 |
Fiorello! |
Jerome Weidman and George Abbott (book), Jerry Bock (music), and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics) |
| 1959 |
J.B. |
Archibald MacLeish |
| 1958 |
Look Homeward Angel |
Ketti Frings |
| 1957 |
Long Day's Journey Into Night |
Eugene O'Neill |
| 1956 |
Diary of Anne Frank |
Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich |
| 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 given |
| 1950 |
South Pacific |
Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan |
| 1949 |
Death of a Salesman |
Arthur Miller |
| 1948 |
A Streetcar Named Desire |
Tennessee Williams |
| 1947 |
No Award given |
| 1946 |
State of the Union |
Russell Crouse and Howard Lindsay |
| 1945 |
Harvey |
Mary Chase |
| 1944 |
No Award given |
| 1943 |
The Skin of Our Teeth |
Thornton Wilder |
| 1942 |
No Award given |
| 1941 |
There Shall Be No Night |
Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1940 |
The Time of Your Life |
William Saroyan |
| 1939 |
Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1938 |
Our Town |
Thornton Wilder |
| 1937 |
You Can't Take It With You |
Moss Hart and 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 E. 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 given |
| 1918 |
Why Marry |
Jesse Lynch Williams |
| 1917 |
No Award given |
