1993Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
1992The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan
1991Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
1990The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
1989The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
1988Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
1987Fences by August Wilson
1986 (No Award)
1985Sunday in the Park With George; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine.
1984Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
1983Night, Mother by Marsha Norman
1982A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller
1981Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
1980Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson
1979Buried Child by Sam Shepard
1978The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn
1977The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer
1976A Chorus Line conceived, choreographed and directed by Michael Bennett, with book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, and lyrics by Edward Kleban
1975Seascape by Edward Albee
1974 (No Award)
1973That Championship Season by Jason Miller
1972 (No Award)
1971The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel
1970No Place To Be Somebody by Charles Gordone
1969The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler
1968 (No Award)
1967A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
1966 (No Award)
1965The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy
1964 (No Award)
1962How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows
1961All The Way Home by Tad Mosel
1960Fiorello! Book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.
1959J. B. by Archibald Macleish
1958Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings
1957Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill
1956Diary of Anne Frank by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich
1955Cat on A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
1954The Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick
1953Picnic by William Inge
1952The Shrike by Joseph Kramm
1951 (No Award)
1950South Pacific by Richard Rodgers
1949Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
1948A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
1947 (No Award)
1946State of the Union by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay
1945Harvey by Mary Chase
1944 (No Award)
1943The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
1942 (No Award)
1941There Shall Be No Night by Robert E. Sherwood
1940The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan
1939Abe Lincoln in Illinois by Robert E. Sherwood
1938Our Town by Thornton Wilder
1937You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
1936Idiots Delight by Robert E. Sherwood
1935The Old Maid by Zoe Akins
1934Men in White by Sidney Kingsley
1933Both Your Houses by Maxwell Anderson
1932Of Thee I Sing by George S. Kaufman
1931Alison's House by Susan Glaspell
1930The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly
1929Street Scene by Elmer L. Rice
1928Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill
1927In Abraham's Bosom by Paul Green
1926Craig's Wife by George Kelly
1925They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard
1924Hell-Bent Fer Heaven by Hatcher Hughes
1923Icebound by Owen Davis
1922Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill
1921Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale
1920Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill
1919 (No Award)
1918Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams
1917 (No Award)
Finalists
2008Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang
2008Dying City by Christopher Shinn
2007Orpheus X by Rinde Eckert
2007Bulrusher by Eisa Davis
2007Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue by Quiara Alegrma Hudes
2006Miss Witherspoon by Christopher Durang
2006The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow by Rolin Jones
2006Red Light Winter by Adam Rapp
2005Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno
2005The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl.
2004Man from Nebraska by Tracy Letts
2004Omnium Gatherum by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
2003Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg
2003The Goat or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee
2002The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilman
2002Yellowman by Dael Orlandersmith
2001The Play About the Baby by Edward Albee
2001The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan
2000King Hedley II by August Wilson
2000In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks
1999Running Man by Cornelius Eady and Diedre Murray