The was first awarded in 1918 .
From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1 , to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than being the calendar year. The decision was made, however, that the 2007 Prize would consider works staged during an eligibility period of January 1 to December 31, 2006--thus bringing the schedule for the Drama Prize in line with those of the other prizes.
The drama jury, which consists of one academic and four critics, attends plays in New York and in regional theaters. The Pulitzer board has the authority to overrule the jury's choice, however, as happened in 1986 when the jury chose The CIVIL WarS to receive the prize, but due to the board's opposition no award was given.
Also, 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 he been awarded, he would be tied with Eugene O'Neill for the most Pulitzer Prizes for Drama (four).
Only seven musicals have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama -- about one per decade from the 1930s to the 1990s. They are as follows: Of Thee I Sing (1932), South Pacific (1950), Fiorello! (1960), How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (1962), A Chorus Line (1976), Sunday In The Park With George (1985), and Rent (1996).
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 story author are generally the recipients.
- ''', '' Rabbit Hole ''
- ''no award given''
- ''', '' Doubt '', a parable.
- ''', '' I Am My Own Wife ''
- ''', '' Anna In The Tropics ''
- ''', '' Topdog/Underdog ''
- ''', '' Proof ''
- ''', '' Dinner With Friends ''
- ''', '' Wit ''
- ''', '' How I Learned To Drive ''
- ''no award given''
- ''', '' Rent ''
- ''', '' The Young Man From Atlanta ''
- ''', '' Three Tall Women ''
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- ''', '' The Kentucky Cycle ''
- ''', '' Lost In Yonkers ''
- ''', '' The Piano Lesson ''
- ''', '' The Heidi Chronicles ''
- ''', '' Driving Miss Daisy ''
- ''', '' Fences ''
- ''no award given''
- ''' (book) and Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics), '' Sunday In The Park With George ''
- ''', '' Glengarry Glen Ross ''
- ''', '' 'Night, Mother ''
- ''', '' A Soldier's Play ''
- ''', '' Crimes Of The Heart ''
- ''', '' Talley's Folly ''
- ''', '' Buried Child ''
- ''', '' The Gin Game ''
- ''', '' The Shadow Box ''
- ''' (concept, choreography, and direction), Nicholas Dante and James Kirkwood, Jr. (book), Marvin Hamlisch (music) and Edward Kleban (lyrics), '' A Chorus Line ''
- ''', '' Seascape ''
- ''no award given''
- ''', '' That Championship Season ''
- ''no award given''
- ''', '' The Effect Of Gamma Rays On Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds ''
- ''', '' No Place To Be Somebody ''
- ''', '' The Great White Hope ''
- ''no award given''
- ''', '' A Delicate Balance ''
- ''no award given''
- ''', '' The Subject Was Roses ''
- ''no award given''
- ''no award given''
- ''' (music and lyrics) and Abe Burrows (book), '' How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying ''
- ''', '' All The Way Home ''
- ''' and George Abbott (book) Jerry Bock (music), and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics), '' Fiorello! ''
- ''', '' J.B. ''
- ''', '' Look Homeward, Angel ''
- ''', '' Long Day's Journey Into Night ''
- ''' and Frances Goodrich , '' Diary Of Anne Frank ''
- ''', '' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof ''
- ''', '' The Teahouse Of The August Moon ''
- ''', '' Picnic ''
- ''', '' The Shrike ''
- ''no award given''
- ''' (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics), Joshua Logan (book), '' South Pacific ''
- ''', '' Death Of A Salesman ''
- ''', '' A Streetcar Named Desire ''
- ''no award given''
- ''', Howard Lindsay , '' State Of The Union ''
- ''', '' Harvey ''
- ''no award given''
- ''', '' The Skin Of Our Teeth ''
- ''no award given''
- ''', '' There Shall Be No Night ''
- ''', '' The Time Of Your Life ''
- ''', '' Abe Lincoln In Illinois ''
- ''', '' Our Town ''
- ''', George S. Kaufman , '' You Can't Take It With You ''
- ''', '' Idiot's Delight ''
- ''', '' The Old Maid ''
- ''', '' Men In White ''
- ''', '' Both Your Houses ''
- ''', Morrie Ryskind , Ira Gershwin , '' Of Thee I Sing ''
- ''', '' Alison's House ''
- ''', '' The Green Pastures ''
- ''', '' Street Scene ''
- ''', '' Strange Interlude ''
- ''', '' In Abraham's Bosom ''
- ''', '' Craig's Wife ''
- ''', '' They Knew What They Wanted ''
- ''', '' Hell-Bent For Heaven ''
- ''', '' Icebound ''
- ''', '' Anna Christie ''
- ''', '' Miss Lulu Bett ''
- ''', '' Beyond The Horizon ''
- ''no award given''
- ''', '' Why Marry? ''
Only a few playwrights have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama more than once.
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