Pulitzer Prize for Drama - Wikipedia Pulitzer Prize for Drama From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Pulitzer Prize Joseph Pulitzer Pulitzers by year Winners Journalism Reporting Breaking News Investigative Explanatory Local National International Audio Writing Feature Editorial Photography Breaking News Feature Other Commentary Criticism Editorial Cartooning Public Service Former Beat Reporting Correspondence Photography Reporting Letters Drama Music Biography / Autobiography Fiction General Nonfiction History Poetry Drama Music Special Citations and Awards v t e 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.)[2] It recognizes a theatrical work staged in the U.S. during the preceding calendar year. Until 2007, eligibility for the Drama Prize ran from March 1 to March 2 to reflect the Broadway "season" rather than the calendar year that governed most other Pulitzer Prizes. The drama jury, which consists of one academic and four critics, attends plays in New York and in regional theaters. The Pulitzer board can overrule the jury's choice; in 1986, the board's opposition to the jury's choice of the CIVIL warS resulted in no award being given.[3] 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.[4] 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). Contents 1 Awards and nominations 1.1 Notes 1.2 1910s 1.3 1920s 1.4 1930s 1.5 1940s 1.6 1950s 1.7 1960s 1.8 1970s 1.9 1980s 1.10 1990s 1.11 2000s 1.12 2010s 1.13 2020s 2 Musicals 3 Multiple wins and nominations 4 References 5 External links Awards and nominations[edit] 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. The most recipients of the prize in one year was five, when Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Jr., Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch, and Edward Kleban shared the 1976 prize for the musical A Chorus Line.[2] Notes[edit] † marks winners of the Tony Award for Best Play. * marks winners of the Tony Award for Best Musical. 1910s[edit] Year Production Author 1917 no award[1] N/A 1918 Why Marry? Jesse Lynch Williams 1919 no award N/A 1920s[edit] Year Production Author 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[edit] Year Production Author 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[edit] Year Production Author 1940 The Time of Your Life William Saroyan 1941 There Shall Be No Night Robert E. Sherwood 1942 no award N/A 1943 The Skin of Our Teeth Thornton Wilder 1944 no award[5] N/A 1945 Harvey Mary Coyle Chase 1946 State of the Union Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay 1947 no award N/A 1948 A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams 1949 Death of a Salesman† Arthur Miller 1950s[edit] Year Production Author 1950 South Pacific* Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan 1951 no award N/A 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[edit] Year Production Author 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[6] N/A 1964 no award N/A 1965 The Subject Was Roses† Frank D. Gilroy 1966 no award N/A 1967 A Delicate Balance Edward Albee 1968 no award N/A 1969 The Great White Hope† Howard Sackler 1970s[edit] Year Production Author 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 N/A 1973 That Championship Season† Jason Miller 1974 no award N/A 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[edit] Year Production Author 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 N/A 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[edit] Year Production Author 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 N/A 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[edit] Year Production Author 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 Doubt: A Parable† John Patrick Shanley The Clean House Sarah Ruhl Thom Pain (based on nothing) Will Eno 2006 no award N/A 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 August: 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[edit] Year Production Author 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 2019 Fairview Jackie Sibblies Drury Dance Nation Clare Barron What the Constitution Means to Me Heidi Schreck 2020s[edit] Year Production Author 2020 A Strange Loop Michael R. Jackson Heroes of the Fourth Turning Will Arbery Soft Power David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori Musicals[edit] Ten musicals have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, roughly one per decade from the 1930s to the 2020s¹. 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), Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (2016), and Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop (2020). Sunday in the Park with George and Next to Normal are the only musicals that won the Pulitzer Prize and did not win the Tony Award for Best Musical, the latter won the Tonys for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations.[7] (Of Thee I Sing opened before the Tony Awards existed while A Strange Loop opened Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons and thus was ineligible for the Broadway-based Tony Awards.) 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.[8] Additionally, since 1983, when the identity of finalists was first disclosed, five 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); Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron's Fun Home (2014); Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (2017); and David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori's Soft Power (2020).[2] ¹All listed dates are Prize years. Generally, the musical in question opened in New York during either the preceding calendar year or the preceding Broadway season. Multiple wins and nominations[edit] The following individuals received two or more Pulitzer Prizes for Drama: Wins Playwright Nominations 4 Eugene O'Neill 4 3 Edward Albee 5 Robert E. Sherwood 3 2 August Wilson 6 George S. Kaufman 2 Lynn Nottage Thornton Wilder Tennessee Williams The following individuals received two or more nominations: Nominations Playwright 6 August Wilson 5 Edward Albee 4 Eugene O'Neill 3 Quiara Alegría Hudes David Henry Hwang Tracy Letts Donald Margulies Suzan-Lori Parks Robert E. Sherwood Sam Shepard 2 Jon Robin Baitz Gina Gionfriddo John Guare A.R. Gurney Richard Greenberg Tina Howe Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Stephen Karam George S. Kaufman David Mamet Lin-Manuel Miranda Lynn Nottage Neil Simon Jeanine Tesori Sarah Ruhl Alfred Uhry Thornton Wilder Tennessee Williams 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. Jon Robin Baitz, Gina Gionfriddo, John Guare, A.R. Gurney, Richard Greenberg, Tina Howe, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Stephen Karam, and Sarah Ruhl have each been named finalists twice without winning. David Henry Hwang is the only person to have been named a finalist thrice without winning. Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeanine Tesori are the only people to be named as a finalist twice for writing and composing a musical, with Miranda winning in 2016. References[edit] ^ a b "1917 Winners". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-12-20. ^ a b c "Drama". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 2013-12-20. ^ Pulitzer Prize|Broadway Scene ^ Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich & Erika J. Fischer. The Pulitzer Prize Archive: A History and Anthology of Award-Winning Materials in Journalism, Letters, and Arts München: K.G. Saur, 2008. ISBN 3-598-30170-7 ISBN 9783598301704 p. 246 ^ Although no Drama award was given in 1944, that year Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were presented with a Special Award and Citation for the landmark musical Oklahoma! ^ 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.   Klein, Alvin. "Albee's 'Tiny Alice,' The Whole Enchilada". The New York Times. May 24, 1998: CT11. ^ Next to Normal at the Internet Broadway Database ^ Flinn, Denny Martin. Musical! A Grand Tour. Schirmer, first edition (April 17, 1997), pages 230–31. ISBN 0-02-864610-X External links[edit] Theatre portal Media related to Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners at Wikimedia Commons v t e Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Authors Jesse Lynch Williams (1918) Eugene O'Neill (1920) Zona Gale (1921) Eugene O'Neill (1922) Owen Davis (1923) Hatcher Hughes (1924) Sidney Howard (1925) George Kelly (1926) Paul Green (1927) Eugene O'Neill (1928) Elmer Rice (1929) Marc Connelly (1930) Susan Glaspell (1931) George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin (1932) Maxwell Anderson (1933) Sidney Kingsley (1934) Zoe Akins (1935) Robert E. Sherwood (1936) Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman (1937) Thornton Wilder (1938) Robert E. Sherwood (1939) William Saroyan (1940) Robert E. Sherwood (1941) Thornton Wilder (1943) Mary Chase (1945) Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay (1946) Tennessee Williams (1948) Arthur Miller (1949) Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan (1950) Joseph Kramm (1952) William Inge (1953) John Patrick (1954) Tennessee Williams (1955) Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich (1956) Eugene O'Neill (1957) Ketti Frings (1958) Archibald MacLeish (1959) Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (1960) Tad Mosel (1961) Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows (1962) Frank D. Gilroy (1965) Edward Albee (1967) Howard Sackler (1969) Charles Gordone (1970) Paul Zindel (1971) Jason Miller (1973) Edward Albee (1975) Michael Bennett, Nicholas Dante, James Kirkwood Jr., Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban (1976) Michael Cristofer (1977) Donald L. Coburn (1978) Sam Shepard (1979) Lanford Wilson (1980) Beth Henley (1981) Charles Fuller (1982) Marsha Norman (1983) David Mamet (1984) James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim (1985) August Wilson (1987) Alfred Uhry (1988) Wendy Wasserstein (1989) August Wilson (1990) Neil Simon (1991) Robert Schenkkan (1992) Tony Kushner (1993) Edward Albee (1994) Horton Foote (1995) Jonathan Larson (1996) Paula Vogel (1998) Margaret Edson (1999) Donald Margulies (2000) David Auburn (2001) Suzan-Lori Parks (2002) Nilo Cruz (2003) Doug Wright (2004) John Patrick Shanley (2005) David Lindsay-Abaire (2007) Tracy Letts (2008) Lynn Nottage (2009) Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (2010) Bruce Norris (2011) Quiara Alegría Hudes (2012) Ayad Akhtar (2013) Annie Baker (2014) Stephen Adly Guirgis (2015) Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016) Lynn Nottage (2017) Martyna Majok (2018) Jackie Sibblies Drury (2019) Michael R. Jackson (2020) v t e Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1918–1950 Why Marry? (1918) Beyond the Horizon (1920) Miss Lulu Bett (1921) Anna Christie (1922) Icebound (1923) Hell-Bent Fer Heaven (1924) They Knew What They Wanted (1925) Craig's Wife (1926) In Abraham's Bosom (1927) Strange Interlude (1928) Street Scene (1929) The Green Pastures (1930) Alison's House (1931) Of Thee I Sing (1932) Both Your Houses (1933) Men in White (1934) The Old Maid (1935) Idiot's Delight (1936) You Can't Take It with You (1937) Our Town (1938) Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1939) The Time of Your Life (1940) There Shall Be No Night (1941) The Skin of Our Teeth (1943) Harvey (1945) State of the Union (1946) A Streetcar Named Desire (1948) Death of a Salesman (1949) South Pacific (1950) 1951–1975 The Shrike (1952) Picnic (1953) The Teahouse of the August Moon (1954) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) The Diary of Anne Frank (1956) Long Day's Journey into Night (1957) Look Homeward, Angel (1958) J.B. (1959) Fiorello! (1960) All the Way Home (1961) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962) The Subject Was Roses (1965) A Delicate Balance (1967) The Great White Hope (1969) No Place to be Somebody (1970) The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1971) That Championship Season (1973) Seascape (1975) 1976–2000 A Chorus Line (1976) The Shadow Box (1977) The Gin Game (1978) Buried Child (1979) Talley's Folly (1980) Crimes of the Heart (1981) A Soldier's Play (1982) 'night, Mother (1983) Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) Sunday in the Park with George (1985) Fences (1987) Driving Miss Daisy (1988) The Heidi Chronicles (1989) The Piano Lesson (1990) Lost in Yonkers (1991) The Kentucky Cycle (1992) Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1993) Three Tall Women (1994) The Young Man from Atlanta (1995) Rent (1996) How I Learned to Drive (1998) Wit (1999) Dinner with Friends (2000) 2001–present Proof (2001) Topdog/Underdog (2002) Anna in the Tropics (2003) I Am My Own Wife (2004) Doubt: A Parable (2005) Rabbit Hole (2007) August: Osage County (2008) Ruined (2009) Next to Normal (2010) Clybourne Park (2011) Water by the Spoonful (2012) Disgraced (2013) The Flick (2014) Between Riverside and Crazy (2015) Hamilton (2016) Sweat (2017) Cost of Living (2018) Fairview (2019) A Strange Loop (2020) v t e Pulitzer Prize 20th century 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 21st century 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pulitzer_Prize_for_Drama&oldid=1002691774" Categories: Pulitzer Prizes by category American literary awards American theater awards Dramatist and playwright awards Awards established in 1918 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning works Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Afrikaans العربية বাংলা Bosanski Deutsch Euskara فارسی Français 한국어 Bahasa Indonesia Italiano Kiswahili Magyar 日本語 Norsk bokmål Polski Português Română Русский Shqip Simple English Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски Tiếng Việt 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 25 January 2021, at 17:19 (UTC). 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