Editing Pulitzer Prize for Drama (section)

==Awards and nominations==
In its first 106 years to 2022, the Drama Pulitzer was awarded 91 times; none were given in 15 years and it was never split.

The most recipients of the prize in one year was five, when [[Michael Bennett (theater)|Michael Bennett]], [[James Kirkwood, Jr.]], [[Nicholas Dante]], [[Marvin Hamlisch]], and [[Edward Kleban]] shared the [[1976 Pulitzer Prize|1976 prize]] for the musical ''[[A Chorus Line]]''.<ref name=prize/>

===Notes===
<nowiki>†</nowiki> marks winners of the [[Tony Award for Best Play]].
<br />
<nowiki>*</nowiki> marks winners of the [[Tony Award for Best Musical]].
<br />
<nowiki>≠</nowiki> marks nominees of the [[Tony Award|Tony Award for Best Play]] or the [[Tony Award for Best Musical]]

===1910s===
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! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1917 Pulitzer Prize|1917]]'''
|- style="background:
| {{N/A|''no award''}}<ref name=prize1917/>
| {{N/A}} 
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1918 Pulitzer Prize|1918]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Why Marry?]]'''''
| '''[[Jesse Lynch Williams]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1919 Pulitzer Prize|1919]]'''
|- style="background:
| {{N/A|''no award''}}
| {{N/A}} 
|}

===1920s===
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! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1920 Pulitzer Prize|1920]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Beyond the Horizon (play)|Beyond the Horizon]]'''''
| '''[[Eugene O'Neill]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1921 Pulitzer Prize|1921]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Miss Lulu Bett (play)|Miss Lulu Bett]]'''''
| '''[[Zona Gale]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1922 Pulitzer Prize|1922]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Anna Christie]]'''''
| '''[[Eugene O'Neill]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1923 Pulitzer Prize|1923]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Icebound (play)|Icebound]]'''''
| '''[[Owen Davis]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1924 Pulitzer Prize|1924]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Hell-Bent Fer Heaven]]'''''
| '''[[Hatcher Hughes]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1925 Pulitzer Prize|1925]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[They Knew What They Wanted (play)|They Knew What They Wanted]]'''''
| '''[[Sidney Howard]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1926 Pulitzer Prize|1926]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Craig's Wife]]'''''
| '''[[George Edward Kelly|George Kelly]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1927 Pulitzer Prize|1927]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[In Abraham's Bosom]]'''''
| '''[[Paul Green (playwright)|Paul Green]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1928 Pulitzer Prize|1928]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Strange Interlude]]'''''
| '''[[Eugene O'Neill]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1929 Pulitzer Prize|1929]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Street Scene (play)|Street Scene]]'''''
| '''[[Elmer Rice]]'''
|}

===1930s===
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! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1930 Pulitzer Prize|1930]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Green Pastures]]'''''
| '''[[Marc Connelly]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1931 Pulitzer Prize|1931]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Alison's House]]'''''
| '''[[Susan Glaspell]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1932 Pulitzer Prize|1932]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Of Thee I Sing]]'''''
| '''[[George S. Kaufman]] <br /> [[Morrie Ryskind]] <br /> [[Ira Gershwin]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1933 Pulitzer Prize|1933]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Both Your Houses]]'''''
| '''[[Maxwell Anderson]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1934 Pulitzer Prize|1934]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Men in White (play)|Men in White]]'''''
| '''[[Sidney Kingsley]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1935 Pulitzer Prize|1935]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Old Maid (play)|The Old Maid]]'''''
| '''[[Zoë Akins]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1936 Pulitzer Prize|1936]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Idiot's Delight (play)|Idiot's Delight]]'''''
| '''[[Robert E. Sherwood]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1937 Pulitzer Prize|1937]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[You Can't Take It with You (play)|You Can't Take It with You]]'''''
| '''[[Moss Hart]] <br /> [[George S. Kaufman]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1938 Pulitzer Prize|1938]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Our Town]]'''''
| '''[[Thornton Wilder]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1939 Pulitzer Prize|1939]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Abe Lincoln in Illinois (play)|Abe Lincoln in Illinois]]'''''
| '''[[Robert E. Sherwood]]'''
|}

===1940s===
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! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1940 Pulitzer Prize|1940]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Time of Your Life]]'''''
| '''[[William Saroyan]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1941 Pulitzer Prize|1941]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[There Shall Be No Night]]'''''
| '''[[Robert E. Sherwood]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1942 Pulitzer Prize|1942]]'''
|- style="background:
| {{N/A|''no award''}}
| {{N/A}} 
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1943 Pulitzer Prize|1943]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Skin of Our Teeth]]'''''
| '''[[Thornton Wilder]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1944 Pulitzer Prize|1944]]'''
|- style="background:
| {{N/A|''no award''}}<ref>[https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/richard-rodgers-and-oscar-hammerstein-ii Although no Drama award was given in 1944], that year [[Richard Rodgers]] and [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] were presented with a [[Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards|Special Award and Citation]] for the landmark musical ''[[Oklahoma!]]''</ref>
| {{N/A}} 
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1945 Pulitzer Prize|1945]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Harvey (play)|Harvey]]'''''
| '''[[Mary Chase (playwright)|Mary Coyle Chase]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1946 Pulitzer Prize|1946]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[State of the Union (play)|State of the Union]]'''''
| '''[[Russel Crouse]] <br /> [[Howard Lindsay]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1947 Pulitzer Prize|1947]]'''
|- style="background:
| {{N/A|''no award''}}
| {{N/A}} 
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1948 Pulitzer Prize|1948]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'''''
| '''[[Tennessee Williams]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1949 Pulitzer Prize|1949]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Death of a Salesman]]'''''†
| '''[[Arthur Miller]]'''
|}

===1950s===
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! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1950 Pulitzer Prize|1950]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]'''''*
| '''[[Richard Rodgers]] <br /> [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] <br /> [[Joshua Logan]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1951 Pulitzer Prize|1951]]'''
|- style="background:
| {{N/A|''no award''}}
| {{N/A}} 
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1952 Pulitzer Prize|1952]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Shrike (play)|The Shrike]]'''''
| '''[[Joseph Kramm]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1953 Pulitzer Prize|1953]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Picnic (play)|Picnic]]'''''
| '''[[William Inge]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1954 Pulitzer Prize|1954]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Teahouse of the August Moon (play)|The Teahouse of the August Moon]]'''''†
| '''[[John Patrick (dramatist)|John Patrick]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1955 Pulitzer Prize|1955]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]''' ≠''
| '''[[Tennessee Williams]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1956 Pulitzer Prize|1956]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Diary of Anne Frank (play)|The Diary of Anne Frank]]'''''†
| '''[[Albert Hackett]] <br /> [[Frances Goodrich]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1957 Pulitzer Prize|1957]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Long Day's Journey into Night]]'''''†
| '''[[Eugene O'Neill]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1958 Pulitzer Prize|1958]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Look Homeward, Angel (play)|Look Homeward, Angel]]'''≠''
| '''[[Ketti Frings]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1959 Pulitzer Prize|1959]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[J.B. (play)|J.B.]]'''''†
| '''[[Archibald MacLeish]]'''
|}

===1960s===
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! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1960 Pulitzer Prize|1960]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Fiorello!]]'''''*
| '''[[Jerome Weidman]] <br /> [[George Abbott]] <br /> [[Jerry Bock]] <br /> [[Sheldon Harnick]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1961 Pulitzer Prize|1961]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[All the Way Home (play)|All the Way Home]]'''≠''
| '''[[Tad Mosel]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1962 Pulitzer Prize|1962]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (musical)|How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying]]'''''*
| '''[[Frank Loesser]] <br /> [[Abe Burrows]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1963 Pulitzer Prize|1963]]'''
|- style="background:
| {{N/A|''no award''}}<ref>The Pulitzer committee recommended [[Edward Albee]]'s ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' *, but the Pulitzer board, who have sole discretion in awarding the prize, rejected the recommendation, due to the play's perceived vulgarity, and no award was given instead.<br />&nbsp; Klein, Alvin. "Albee's 'Tiny Alice,' The Whole Enchilada". ''The New York Times''. May 24, 1998: CT11.</ref>
| {{N/A}} 
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1964 Pulitzer Prize|1964]]'''
|- style="background:
| {{N/A|''no award''}}
| {{N/A}} 
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1965 Pulitzer Prize|1965]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Subject Was Roses]]'''''†
| '''[[Frank D. Gilroy]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1966 Pulitzer Prize|1966]]'''
|- style="background:
| {{N/A|''no award''}}
| {{N/A}} 
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1967 Pulitzer Prize|1967]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[A Delicate Balance (play)|A Delicate Balance]]'''≠''
| '''[[Edward Albee]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1968 Pulitzer Prize|1968]]'''
|- style="background:
| {{N/A|''no award''}}
| {{N/A}} 
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1969 Pulitzer Prize|1969]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Great White Hope]]'''''†
| '''[[Howard Sackler]]'''
|}

===1970s===
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! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1970 Pulitzer Prize|1970]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[No Place to Be Somebody]]'''''
| '''[[Charles Gordone]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1971 Pulitzer Prize|1971]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds]]'''''
| '''[[Paul Zindel]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1972 Pulitzer Prize|1972]]'''
|- style="background:
| {{N/A|''no award''}}
| {{N/A}} 
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1973 Pulitzer Prize|1973]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[That Championship Season]]'''''†
| '''[[Jason Miller (playwright)|Jason Miller]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1974 Pulitzer Prize|1974]]'''
|- style="background:
| {{N/A|''no award''}}
| {{N/A}} 
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1975 Pulitzer Prize|1975]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Seascape (play)|Seascape]]'''''≠
| '''[[Edward Albee]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1976 Pulitzer Prize|1976]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[A Chorus Line]]'''''*
| '''[[Michael Bennett (theater)|Michael Bennett]] <br /> [[Nicholas Dante]] <br /> [[James Kirkwood, Jr.]] <br /> [[Marvin Hamlisch]] <br /> [[Edward Kleban]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1977 Pulitzer Prize|1977]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Shadow Box]]'''''†
| '''[[Michael Cristofer]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1978 Pulitzer Prize|1978]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Gin Game]]'''''≠
| '''[[Donald L. Coburn]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1979 Pulitzer Prize|1979]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Buried Child]]'''''
| '''[[Sam Shepard]]'''
|}

===1980s===
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! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1980 Pulitzer Prize|1980]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Talley's Folly]]'''≠''
| '''[[Lanford Wilson]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1981 Pulitzer Prize|1981]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Crimes of the Heart]]'''≠''
| '''[[Beth Henley]]'''
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1982 Pulitzer Prize|1982]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[A Soldier's Play]]'''''
| '''[[Charles Fuller]]'''
|-
! rowspan="3" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1983 Pulitzer Prize|1983]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[['night, Mother]]'''≠''
| '''[[Marsha Norman]]'''
|-
| ''[[True West (play)|True West]]''
| [[Sam Shepard]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1984 Pulitzer Prize|1984]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Glengarry Glen Ross]]'''≠''
| '''[[David Mamet]]'''
|-
| ''[[Fool for Love (play)|Fool for Love]]''
| [[Sam Shepard]]
|-
| ''[[Painting Churches]]''
| [[Tina Howe]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1985 Pulitzer Prize|1985]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Sunday in the Park with George]]'''''≠
| '''[[James Lapine]] <br /> [[Stephen Sondheim]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Dining Room]]''
| [[A. R. Gurney]]
|-
| ''[[The Gospel at Colonus]]''
| [[Lee Breuer]] <br /> [[Bob Telson]]
|-
! rowspan="3" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1986 Pulitzer Prize|1986]]'''
|- style="background:
| {{N/A|''no award''}}<ref group=Note name=Note01/>
| {{N/A}} 
|-
| ''[[the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down]]''
| [[Robert Wilson (director)|Robert Wilson]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1987 Pulitzer Prize|1987]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Fences (play)|Fences]]'''''†
| '''[[August Wilson]]'''
|-
| ''[[Broadway Bound]]≠''
| [[Neil Simon]]
|-
| ''[[A Walk in the Woods (play)|A Walk in the Woods]]''
| [[Lee Blessing]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1988 Pulitzer Prize|1988]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Driving Miss Daisy (play)|Driving Miss Daisy]]'''''
| '''[[Alfred Uhry]]'''
|-
| ''[[Boys' Life (play)|Boys' Life]]''
| [[Howard Korder]]
|-
| ''[[Talk Radio (play)|Talk Radio]]''
| [[Eric Bogosian]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1989 Pulitzer Prize|1989]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Heidi Chronicles]]'''''†
| '''[[Wendy Wasserstein]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Piano Lesson]]≠''
| [[August Wilson]]
|-
| ''[[M. Butterfly]]''†
| [[David Henry Hwang]]
|}

===1990s===
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! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1990 Pulitzer Prize|1990]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Piano Lesson]]'''≠''
| '''[[August Wilson]]'''
|-
| ''And What of the Night?''
| [[María Irene Fornés]]
|-
| ''[[Love Letters (play)|Love Letters]]''
| [[A. R. Gurney]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1991 Pulitzer Prize|1991]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Lost in Yonkers]]'''''†
| '''[[Neil Simon]]'''
|-
| ''[[Prelude to a Kiss (play)|Prelude to a Kiss]]≠''
| [[Craig Lucas]]
|-
| ''[[Six Degrees of Separation (play)|Six Degrees of Separation]]≠''
| [[John Guare]]
|-
! rowspan="6" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1992 Pulitzer Prize|1992]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Kentucky Cycle]]'''≠''
| '''[[Robert Schenkkan]]'''
|-
| ''[[Conversations with My Father]]''
| [[Herb Gardner]]
|-
| ''[[Miss Evers' Boys]]''
| [[David Feldshuh]]
|-
| ''[[Two Trains Running]]≠''
| [[August Wilson]]
|-
| ''[[Sight Unseen (play)|Sight Unseen]]''
| [[Donald Margulies]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1993 Pulitzer Prize|1993]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes|Angels in America: Millennium Approaches]]'''''†
| '''[[Tony Kushner]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Destiny of Me]]''
| [[Larry Kramer]]
|-
| ''[[Fires in the Mirror]]''
| [[Anna Deavere Smith]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1994 Pulitzer Prize|1994]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Three Tall Women]]'''''
| '''[[Edward Albee]]'''
|-
| ''[[Keely and Du]]''
| [[Jane Martin]]
|-
| ''[[A Perfect Ganesh]]''
| [[Terrence McNally]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1995 Pulitzer Prize|1995]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Young Man from Atlanta]]'''''
| '''[[Horton Foote]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Cryptogram]]''
| [[David Mamet]]
|-
| ''[[Seven Guitars]]≠''
| [[August Wilson]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1996 Pulitzer Prize|1996]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Rent (musical)|Rent]]'''''*
| '''[[Jonathan Larson]]'''
|-
| ''[[A Fair Country]]''
| [[Jon Robin Baitz]]
|-
| ''[[Old Wicked Songs]]''
| Jon Marans
|-
! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1997 Pulitzer Prize|1997]]'''
|- style="background:
| {{N/A|''no award''}}
| {{N/A}} 
|-
| ''[[Collected Stories (play)|Collected Stories]]''
| [[Donald Margulies]]
|-
| ''[[The Last Night of Ballyhoo]]''†
| [[Alfred Uhry]]
|-
| ''[[Pride's Crossing]]''
| [[Tina Howe]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1998 Pulitzer Prize|1998]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[How I Learned to Drive]]'''''
| '''[[Paula Vogel]]'''
|-
| ''Freedomland''
| [[Amy Freed]]
|-
| ''[[Three Days of Rain]]''
| [[Richard Greenberg]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[1999 Pulitzer Prize|1999]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Wit (play)|Wit]]'''''
| '''[[Margaret Edson]]'''
|-
| ''Running Man''
| [[Cornelius Eady]] <br /> [[Diedre Murray (playwright)|Diedre Murray]]
|-
| ''[[Side Man]]''†
| [[Warren Leight]]
|}

===2000s===
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! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2000 Pulitzer Prize|2000]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Dinner with Friends]]'''''
| '''[[Donald Margulies]]'''
|-
| ''[[In the Blood (play)|In the Blood]]''
| [[Suzan-Lori Parks]]
|-
| ''[[King Hedley II]]≠''
| [[August Wilson]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2001 Pulitzer Prize|2001]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Proof (play)|Proof]]'''''†
| '''[[David Auburn]]'''
|-
|  ''[[The Play About the Baby]]''
| [[Edward Albee]]
|-
| ''[[The Waverly Gallery]]''
| [[Kenneth Lonergan]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2002 Pulitzer Prize|2002]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Topdog/Underdog]]'''≠''
| '''[[Suzan-Lori Parks]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Glory of Living]]''
| [[Rebecca Gilman]]
|- 
| ''[[Yellowman (play)|Yellowman]]''
| [[Dael Orlandersmith]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2003 Pulitzer Prize|2003]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Anna in the Tropics]]'''≠''
| '''[[Nilo Cruz]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?]]''†
| [[Edward Albee]]
|-
| ''[[Take Me Out (play)|Take Me Out]]''†
| [[Richard Greenberg]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2004 Pulitzer Prize|2004]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[I Am My Own Wife]]'''''†
| '''[[Doug Wright]]'''
|-
| ''[[Man from Nebraska]]''
| [[Tracy Letts]]
|-
| ''[[Omnium Gatherum (play)|Omnium Gatherum]]''
| [[Theresa Rebeck]] <br /> [[Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2005 Pulitzer Prize|2005]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Doubt: A Parable]]'''''†
| '''[[John Patrick Shanley]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Clean House]]''
| [[Sarah Ruhl]]
|-
| ''[[Thom Pain (based on nothing)]]''
| [[Will Eno]]
|-
! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2006 Pulitzer Prize|2006]]'''
|- style="background:
| {{N/A|''no award''}}
| {{N/A}} 
|-
| ''[[Miss Witherspoon]]''
| [[Christopher Durang]]
|-
| ''[[The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow]]''
| [[Rolin Jones]]
|-
| ''[[Red Light Winter]]''
| [[Adam Rapp]]
|-
! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2007 Pulitzer Prize|2007]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Rabbit Hole (play)|Rabbit Hole]]'''≠''
| '''[[David Lindsay-Abaire]]'''
|-
| ''Bulrusher''
| [[Eisa Davis]]
|-
| ''Orpheus X''
| Rinde Eckert
|- 
| ''Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue''
| [[Quiara Alegría Hudes]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2008 Pulitzer Prize|2008]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[August: Osage County]]'''''†
| '''[[Tracy Letts]]'''
|-
| ''Dying City''
| [[Christopher Shinn]]
|-
| ''[[Yellow Face (play)|Yellow Face]]''
| [[David Henry Hwang]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2009 Pulitzer Prize|2009]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Ruined (Play)|Ruined]]'''''
| '''[[Lynn Nottage]]'''
|-
| ''[[Becky Shaw]]''
| [[Gina Gionfriddo]]
|-
| ''[[In the Heights]]''*
| [[Lin-Manuel Miranda]] <br /> [[Quiara Alegría Hudes]]
|}

===2010s===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:98%"
|- style="background:#bebebe;"
! style="width:11%;"| Year
! style="width:45%;"| Production
! style="width:44%;"| Author
|-
! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2010 Pulitzer Prize|2010]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Next to Normal]]'''''≠
| '''[[Tom Kitt (musician)|Tom Kitt]] <br /> [[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]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2011 Pulitzer Prize|2011]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Clybourne Park]]'''''†
| '''[[Bruce Norris (playwright)|Bruce Norris]]'''
|-
| ''[[Detroit (play)|Detroit]]''
| [[Lisa D'Amour]]
|-
| ''[[A Free Man of Color]]''
| [[John Guare]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2012 Pulitzer Prize|2012]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Water by the Spoonful]]'''''
| '''[[Quiara Alegría Hudes]]'''
|-
| ''[[Other Desert Cities]]≠''
| [[Jon Robin Baitz]]
|-
| ''[[Sons of the Prophet]]''
| [[Stephen Karam]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2013 Pulitzer Prize|2013]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Disgraced]]'''≠''
| '''[[Ayad Akhtar]]'''
|-
| ''Rapture, Blister, Burn''
| [[Gina Gionfriddo]]
|-
| ''[[4000 Miles]]''
| [[Amy Herzog]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2014 Pulitzer Prize|2014]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Flick]]'''''
| '''[[Annie Baker]]'''
|-
| ''The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence''
| [[Madeleine George]]
|-
| ''[[Fun Home (musical)|Fun Home]]''*
| [[Jeanine Tesori]] <br /> [[Lisa Kron]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2015 Pulitzer Prize|2015]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Between Riverside and Crazy]]'''≠''
| '''[[Stephen Adly Guirgis]]'''
|-
| ''[[Jordan Harrison#Marjorie Prime|Marjorie Prime]]''
| [[Jordan Harrison]]
|- 
| ''Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2, 3)''
| [[Suzan-Lori Parks]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2016 Pulitzer Prize|2016]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Hamilton (musical)|Hamilton]]'''''*
| '''[[Lin-Manuel Miranda]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Humans (play)|The Humans]]''†
| [[Stephen Karam]]
|-
| ''[[Gloria (play)|Gloria]]''
| [[Branden Jacobs-Jenkins]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2017 Pulitzer Prize|2017]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Sweat (play)|Sweat]]'''≠''
| '''[[Lynn Nottage]]'''
|-
| ''[[A 24-Decade History of Popular Music]]''
| [[Taylor Mac]]
|-
| ''[[The Wolves (play)|The Wolves]]'' 
| [[Sarah DeLappe]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2018 Pulitzer Prize|2018]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Cost of Living (play)|Cost of Living]]'''≠''
| '''[[Martyna Majok]]'''
|-
| ''[[Everybody (play)|Everybody]]''
| [[Branden Jacobs-Jenkins]]
|-
| ''[[The Minutes (play)|The Minutes]]≠''
| [[Tracy Letts]]
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2019 Pulitzer Prize|2019]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Fairview (play)|Fairview]]'''''
| '''[[Jackie Sibblies Drury]]'''
|-
| ''[[Dance Nation (play)|Dance Nation]]''
| [[Clare Barron]]
|-
| ''[[What the Constitution Means to Me]]≠''
| [[Heidi Schreck]]
|}

===2020s===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:98%"
|- style="background:#bebebe;"
! style="width:11%;"| Year
! style="width:45%;"| Production
! style="width:44%;"| Author
!Ref
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" | '''[[2020 Pulitzer Prize|2020]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[A Strange Loop]]*'''''
| '''[[Michael R. Jackson]]'''
|
|-
| ''[[Heroes of the Fourth Turning]]''
| [[Will Arbery]]
|
|-
| ''[[Soft Power (musical)|Soft Power]]''
| [[David Henry Hwang]] and [[Jeanine Tesori]]
|
|-
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |'''[[2021 Pulitzer Prize|2021]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[The Hot Wing King]]'''''
| '''[[Katori Hall]]'''
|<ref>{{cite web |title=The Hot Wing King Wins the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/THE-HOT-WING-KING-Wins-the-2021-Pulitzer-Prize-for-Drama-20210611 |website=Broadway World}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Circle Jerk (play)|Circle Jerk]]''
| Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley
|
|-
| ''[[Stew (play)|Stew]]''
| [[Zora Howard]]
|
|- 
! rowspan="4" style="text-align:center" |'''[[2022 Pulitzer Prize|2022]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
| '''''[[Fat Ham]]'''≠''
| '''[[James Ijames]]'''
|<ref>[https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/218 2022 Pulitzer Prizes]</ref>
|-
| ''[[Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord]]''
| [[Kristina Wong]]
|
|-
| ''[[Selling Kabul]]''
| [[Sylvia Khoury]]
|
|- 
!rowspan=4 style="text-align:center" |'''[[2023 Pulitzer Prize|2023]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''''[[English (play)|English]]'''≠''
|'''[[Sanaz Toossi]]'''
|<ref>[https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/218 2023 Pulitzer Prizes]</ref>
|-
|''[[The Far Country (play)|The Far Country]]''
|[[Lloyd Suh]]
|
|-
|''[[On Sugarland]]''
|[[Aleshea Harris]]
|
|-
!rowspan=4 style="text-align:center" |'''[[2024 Pulitzer Prize|2024]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''''[[Primary Trust]]'''''
|'''[[Eboni Booth]]'''
|<ref>[https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/218 2024 Pulitzer Prizes]</ref>
|-
|''[[Here There Are Blueberries]]''
|Amanda Gronich and [[Moises Kaufman]]
|-
|''[[Public Obscenities]]''
|Shayok Misha Chowdhury
|
|-
!rowspan=4 style="text-align:center" |'''[[2025 Pulitzer Prize|2025]]'''
|- style="background-color:lightyellow;"
|'''''[[Purpose (play)|Purpose]]'''''≠
|'''[[Branden Jacobs-Jenkins]]'''
|
|-
|''[[The Ally (play)|The Ally]]''
| [[Itamar Moses]]
|
|-
|''[[Oh, Mary!]]''≠
| [[Cole Escola]]
|
|}