Year

Play

Author

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 Coast 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

2004

I Am My Own Wife

Doug Wright

2003

Take Me Out

Richard Greenberg

2002

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

Edward 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

Hug 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

Beckett

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 and Albert Hackett

1955

The Desperate Hours

John 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 and Joshua Logan

1947

All My Sons

Arthur Miller