2024: Primary Trust by Eboni Booth
2023: English by Sanaz Toossi
2022: Fat Ham by James Ijames
2021: The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall
2020: A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson
2019: Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury
2018: Cost of Living by Martyna Majok
2017: Sweat by Lynn Nottage
2016: Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda
2015: Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis
2014: The Flick by Annie Baker
2013: Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
2012: Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes
2011: Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
2010: Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
2009: Ruined by Lynn Nottage
2008: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
2007: Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
2006: by No Award
2005: Doubt, a parable by John Patrick Shanley
2004: I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
2003: Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz
2002: Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
2001: Proof by David Auburn
2000: Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies
1999: Wit by Margaret Edson
1998: How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
1997: by No award
1996: Rent by Jonathan Larson
1995: The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote
1994: Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
1993: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
1992: The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan
1991: Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
1990: The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
1989: The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
1988: Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
1987: Fences by August Wilson
1985: Sunday in the Park With George by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
1984: Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
1983: Night, Mother by Marsha Norman
1982: A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller
1981: Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
1980: Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson
1979: Buried Child by Sam Shepard
1978: The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn
1977: The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer
1976: A Chorus Line by Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Jr., Marvin Hamlisch, Nicholas Dante and Edward Kleban
1975: Seascape by Edward Albee
1973: That Championship Season by Jason Miller
1971: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel
1970: No Place To Be Somebody by Charles Gordone
1969: The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler
1967: A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
1965: The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy
1962: How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows
1961: All The Way Home by Tad Mosel
1960: Fiorello! by Jerome Weidman, George Abbott, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick
1959: J. B. by Archibald Macleish
1958: Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings
1957: Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill
1956: Diary of Anne Frank by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich
1955: Cat on A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
1954: The Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick
1953: Picnic by William Inge
1952: The Shrike by Joseph Kramm
1950: South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan
1949: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
1948: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
1946: State of the Union by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay
1945: Harvey by Mary Chase
1943: The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
1941: There Shall Be No Night by Robert E. Sherwood
1940: The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan
1939: Abe Lincoln in Illinois by Robert E. Sherwood
1938: Our Town by Thornton Wilder
1937: You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
1936: Idiots Delight by Robert E. Sherwood
1935: The Old Maid by Zoe Akins
1934: Men in White by Sidney Kingsley
1933: Both Your Houses by Maxwell Anderson
1932: Of Thee I Sing by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin
1931: Alison's House by Susan Glaspell
1930: The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly
1929: Street Scene by Elmer L. Rice
1928: Strange Interlude by Eugene O’Neill
1927: In Abraham's Bosom by Paul Green
1926: Craig's Wife by George Kelly
1925: They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard
1924: Hell-Bent Fer Heaven by Hatcher Hughes
1923: Icebound by Owen Davis
1922: Anna Christie by Eugene O’Neill
1921: Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale
1920: Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O’Neill
1918: Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams