Pulitzer Prize for Drama

awarded since 1980.

 

2012 selection

Water by the Spoonful

Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2012

by Quiara Alegria Hudes

The 2012 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.


2011 selection

Clybourne Park

Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2011

by Bruce Norris

Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain price, unknowingly bringing the first black family into the neighborhood (borrowing...


2004 selection

I Am My Own Wife

Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2004

by Doug Wright

I Am My Own Wife is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

From the Obie Award-winning author of Quills comes this acclaimed one-man show, which explores the astonishing true story of Charlotte von...


1988 selection

Driving Miss Daisy

Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1988

by Alfred Uhry

Racial tensions are delicately explored when a warm friendship evolves between an elderly Jewish woman and her black chauffeur. Winner of a 1988 Pulitzer Prize, and Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted...


1979 selection

Buried Child

Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1979

by Sam Shepard

A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize—winning Buried Child is as fierce and unforgettable as it was when it was first produced more than twenty-five years ago.

A scene...


1949 selection

Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem

Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1949

by Arthur Miller & Christopher Bigsby

Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play that forever changed the meaning of the American Dream and won multiple Tony Awards for the 2012 Broadway production directed by Mike Nichols and starring Philip...


1940 selection

The Time of Your Life

Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1940

by William Saroyan

A programme text edition published in conjunction with the Finborough Theatre to coincide with the centenary of the birth of William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life runs from 26 November - 20 December. ’In the...


1922 selection

Anna Christie

Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1922

by Eugene O'Neill

Anna Christie is a play in four acts, which won O'Neill the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Anna makes contact with the father she has not seen since her infancy, and he takes her on board his coal barge. There...


1921 selection

Miss Lulu Bett and Selected Stories

Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1921

by Zona Gale

Lulu Bett lives in a small town with her sister Ina and Ina’s husband Dwight–a dentist who rules his household with self-righteous smugness. The unmarried Lulu has learned that she cannot question her role...