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| 2022 | The Lehman Trilogy | Stefano Massini & Ben Power |
| 2021 | *No award given* | *No award given* |
| 2020 | The Inheritance | Matthew López |
| 2019 | The Ferryman | Jez Butterworth |
| 2018 | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two | Jack Thorne |
| 2017 | Oslo | J.T. Rogers |
| 2016 | The Humans | Stephen Karam |
| 2015 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Simon Stephens |
| 2014 | All The Way | Robert Schenkkan |
| 2013 | Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike | Christopher Durang |
| 2012 | Clybourne Park | Bruce Norris |
| 2011 | War Horse | Nick Stafford |
| 2010 | Red | John Logan |
| 2009 | God of Carnage | Yasmina Reza |
| 2008 | August: Osage County | Tracy Letts |
| 2007 | The Cost of Utopia | Tom Stoppard |
| 2006 | The History Boys | Alan Bennett |
| 2005 | Doubt | John Patrick Shanley |
| 2004 | I Am My Own Wife | Doug Wright |
| 2003 | Take Me Out | Richard Greenberg |
| 2002 | Edward Albee's The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? | Edwards Albee |
| 2001 | Proof | David Auburn |
| 2000 | Copenhagen | Michael Frayn |
| 1999 | Side Man | Warren Leight |
| 1998 | Art | Yasmina Reza |
| 1997 | The Last Night of Ballyhoo | Alfred Uhry |
| 1996 | Master Class | Terrence McNally |
| 1995 | Love! Valour! Compassion! | Terrence McNally |
| 1994 | Angels in America: Perestroika | Tony Kushner |
| 1993 | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | Tony Kushner |
| 1992 | Dancing at Lughnasa | Brian Friel |
| 1991 | Lost in Yonkers | Neil Simon |
| 1990 | The Grapes of Wrath | Frank Galati |
| 1989 | The Heidi Chronicles | Wendy Wasserstein |
| 1988 | M. Butterfly | David Henry Hwang |
| 1987 | Fences | August Wilson |
| 1986 | I'm Not Rappaport | Herb Gardner |
| 1985 | Biloxi Blues | Neil Simon |
| 1984 | The Real Thing | Tom Stoppard |
| 1983 | Torch Song Trilogy | Harvey Fierstein |
| 1982 | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | David Edgar |
| 1981 | Amadeus | Peter Shaffer |
| 1980 | Children of a Lesser God | Mark Medoff |
| 1979 | The Elephant Man | Bernard Pomerance |
| 1978 | Da | Hugh Leonard |
| 1977 | The Shadow Box | Michael Cristofer |
| 1976 | Travesties | Tom Stoppard |
| 1975 | Equus | Peter Shaffer |
| 1974 | The River Niger | Joseph A. Walker |
| 1973 | That Championship Season | Jason Miller |
| 1972 | Sticks and Bones | David Rabe |
| 1971 | Sleuth | Anthony Shaffer |
| 1970 | Borstal Boy | Frank McMahon |
| 1969 | The Great White Hope | Howard Sackler |
| 1968 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard |
| 1967 | The Homecoming | Harold Pinter |
| 1966 | Marat/Sade | Peter Weiss |
| 1965 | The Subject Was Roses | Frank Gilroy |
| 1964 | Luther | John Osborne |
| 1963 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee |
| 1962 | A Man for All Seasons | Robert Bolt |
| 1961 | Becket | Jean Anouilh |
| 1960 | The Miracle Worker | William Gibson |
| 1959 | J. B. | Archibald MacLeish |
| 1958 | Sunrise At Campobello | Dore Schary |
| 1957 | Long Day's Journey Into night | Eugene O'Neill |
| 1956 | The Diary of Anne Frank | Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett |
| 1955 | The Desperate Hours | Joseph Hayes |
| 1954 | The Teahouse of the August Moon | John Patrick |
| 1953 | The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| 1952 | The Fourposter | Jan de Hartog |
| 1951 | The Rose Tattoo | Tennessee Williams |
| 1950 | The Cocktail Party | T.S. Eliot |
| 1949 | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| 1948 | Mister Roberts | Thomas Heggen & Joshua Logan |
| Year Awarded | Title | Playwright |
| 2022 | Fat Ham | James Ijames |
| 2021 | The Hot Wing King | Katori Hall |
| 2020 | A Strange Loop | Michael R. Jackson |
| 2019 | Fairview | Jackie Sibblies Drury |
| 2018 | Cost of Living | Martyna Majok |
| 2017 | Sweat | Lynn Nottage |
| 2016 | Hamilton | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 2015 | Between Riverside and Crazy | Stephen Adly Guirgis |
| 2014 | The Flick | Annie Baker |
| 2013 | Disgraced | Ayad Akhtar |
| 2012 | Water by the Spoonful | Quiara Alegría Hudes |
| 2011 | Clybourne Park | Bruce Norris |
| 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* | *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* | *No award given* |
| 1996 | Rent | Jonathan 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 Wasserstein |
| 1988 | Driving Miss Daisy | Alfred Uhry |
| 1987 | Fences | August Wilson |
| 1986 | *No award given* | *No award given* |
| 1985 | Sunday in the Park With George | Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine |
| 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 et al. |
| 1975 | Seascape | Edward Albee |
| 1974 | *No award given* | *No award given* |
| 1973 | That Championship Season | Jason Miller |
| 1972 | *No award given* | *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* | *No award given* |
| 1967 | A Delicate Balance | Edward Albee |
| 1966 | *No award given* | *No award given* |
| 1965 | The Subject Was Roses | Frank D. Gilroy |
| 1964 | *No award given* | *No award given* |
| 1963 | *No award given* | *No award given* |
| 1962 | How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying | Frank Loesser & Abe Burrows |
| 1961 | All The Way Home | Tad Mosel |
| 1960 | Fiorello! | Jerome Weidman et al. |
| 1959 | J. B. | Archilbald Macleish |
| 1958 | Look Homeward, Angel | Ketti Frings |
| 1957 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Eugene O'Neill |
| 1956 | The Diary of Anne Frank | Albert Hackett & Francis 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* | *No award given* |
| 1950 | South Pacific | Richard Rogers et al. |
| 1949 | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| 1948 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| 1947 | *No award given* | *No award given* |
| 1946 | State of the Union | Russel Crouse & Howard Lindsay |
| 1945 | Harvey | Mary Chase |
| 1944 | *No award given* | *No award given* |
| 1943 | The Skin of Our Teeth | Thornton Wilder |
| 1942 | *No award given* | *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 & George S. Kaufman |
| 1936 | Idiots 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 et al. |
| 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 given* | *No award given* |
| 1918 | Why Marry? | Jesse Lynch Williams |
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