| | 1918 Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams |
| | 1920 Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill |
| | 1921 Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale |
| | 1922 Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill |
| | 1923 Icebound by Owen Davis |
| | 1924 Hell-Bent Fer Heaven by Hatcher Hughes |
| | 1925 They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard |
| | 1926 Craig's Wife by George Kelly |
| | 1927 In Abraham's Bosom by Paul Green |
| | 1928 Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill |
| | 1929 Street Scene by Elmer L. Rice |
| | 1930 The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly |
| | 1931 Alison's House by Susan Glaspell |
| | 1932 Of Thee I Sing by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin |
| | 1933 Both Your Houses by Maxwell Anderson |
| | 1934 Men in White by Sidney Kingsley |
| | 1935 The Old Maid by Zoe Akins |
| | 1936 Idiots Delight by Robert E. Sherwood |
| | 1937 You Can't Take It With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman |
| | 1938 Our Town by Thornton Wilder |
| | 1939 Abe Lincoln in Illinois by Robert E. Sherwood |
| | 1940 The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan |
| | 1941 There Shall Be No Night by Robert E. Sherwood |
| | 1943 The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder |
| | 1945 Harvey by Mary Chase |
| | 1946 State of the Union by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay |
| | 1948 A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams |
| | 1949 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller |
| | 1950 South Pacific by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, 2nd and Joshua Logan |
| | 1952 The Shrike by Joseph Kramm |
| | 1953 Picnic by William Inge |
| | 1954 The Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick |
| | 1955 Cat on A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams |
| | 1956 Diary of Anne Frank by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich |
| | 1957 Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill |
| | 1958 Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings |
| | 1959 J. B. by Archibald Macleish |
| | 1960 Fiorello! by Book by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, Music by Jerry Bock and Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick |
| | 1961 All The Way Home by Tad Mosel |
| | 1962 How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows |
| | 1965 The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy |
| | 1967 A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee |
| | 1969 The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler |
| | 1970 No Place To Be Somebody by Charles Gordone |
| | 1971 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel |
| | 1973 That Championship Season by Jason Miller |
| | 1975 Seascape by Edward Albee |
| | 1976 A Chorus Line by Conceived, choreographed and directed by Michael Bennett, with book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, and lyrics by Edward Kleban |
| | 1977 The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer |
| | 1978 The Gin Game by Donald L. Coburn |
| | 1979 Buried Child by Sam Shepard |
| | 1980 Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson |
| | 1981 Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley |
| | 1982 A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller |
| | 1983 'Night, Mother by Marsha Norman |
| | 1984 Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet |
| | 1985 Sunday in the Park With George by Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine |
| | 1987 Fences by August Wilson |
| | 1988 Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry |
| | 1989 The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein |
| | 1990 The Piano Lesson by August Wilson |
| | 1991 Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon |
| | 1992 The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan |
| | 1993 Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner |
| | 1994 Three Tall Women by Edward Albee |
| | 1995 The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote |
| | 1996 Rent by the late Jonathan Larson |
| | 1998 How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel |
| | 1999 Wit by Margaret Edson |
| | 2000 Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies |
| | 2001 Proof by David Auburn |
| | 2002 Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks |
| | 2003 Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz |
| | 2004 I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright |
| | 2005 Doubt, a parable by John Patrick Shanley |