Theatre Discussion

Altnernate Pulitzers:

For World Theatre Day back in March, I created a video for my YouTube channel honoring America's greatest contributions to world theatre in the form of all the winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. But to follow up on that, and as a way for us theatre fanatics to explore more of the greatest works of theatre America has to offer that we can look forward to reviving at our favorite community theaters, I would like to follow up on that with an "Alternate Pulitzers" series in the tradition of the "Alternate Oscars" lists that everyone and their brother who disagrees with the Academy's choices has been making for films ever since Danny Peary's book of that title came out...

And I'd like to welcome all who participate in social media discussions of great theatre online to join in, by sharing their input on what should have won... I'll probably create new videos for YouTube (one for each full decade since the prizes began) sharing what won, what my vote would have been, and what the vote was amongst all the people who participated.

Most of the nominees (even obscure hundred year works) can be found on YouTube, either in the form of a film adaptation somebody has uploaded there or a recording some theater group made of their production.... to facilitate voters' research, as a little "Voter's Guide" I've organized them into the following chronological playlist for everybody:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp68dB0NObsOiQw67nio8Qd-uBabV0ufh

So what’s the best American play from each year that YOU think should have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama?

Cast your votes!

1920:     Abraham Lincoln / Beyond the Horizon / Clarence
VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/GJn47pdz6yz

1921:     The Emperor Jones /   Inheritors / Miss Lulu Bett
VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/poy9WPwYJgJ

1922:     Abie’s Irish Rose / Anna Christie / The Hairy Ape
VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/PKgl3V0o1np

1923:     The Adding Machine /   Icebound
VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/eJnvv4MAGnv

1924:     Hell Bent For Heaven / The Show-Off
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/GeZAO2GjXnV

1925:    Desire Under the Elms / They Knew What They Wanted / What Price Glory?
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/ajnEO6G7NZW

1926:     Craig’s Wife  /  The Great God Brown  /  No, No, Nanette
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/QrgebdPGrZp

1927:    In Abraham’s Bosom /  Chicago  /  The Road to Rome / Saturday's Children
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/BJnX867E8nv

1928: Porgy  /  The Royal Family / Show Boat / Strange Interlude
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/e6Z28vp9JnN

1929:     The Front Page  /  Machinal  /  Street Scene
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/QrgebdP4rZp

1930:     The Criminal Code  /  The Green Pastures  /  June Moon
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/LVyK8Ded6n0

1931:     Alison’s House  /  Once in a Lifetime
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/40ZmqVa0kZa

1932:     The Animal Kingdom  /  Mourning Becomes Electra  /  Of Thee I Sing!
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/PKgl3V0K9np

1933:    Both Your Houses  /  Dinner at Eight  /  We the People
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/e7ZJGp8dMy3

1934:     Ah, Wilderness!   /  Men in White / Tobacco Road
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/e2narLEopgB

1935:     Awake and Sing!  /  The Children’s Hour  /  The Old Maid  /  The Petrified Forrest
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/GJn47pdQbyz

1936:    Dead End  /  Idiot’s Delight  /  Winterset
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/poy9WPwbPgJ

1937:    High Tor  /  You Can’t Take it With You  /  The Women
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/e7ZJGp8qMy3

1938:    Golden Boy  /  Of Mice and Men  /  Our Town
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/3RnYl3VRQye

1939:     Abe Lincoln in Illinois  /  The Little Foxes  /  The Philadelphia Story
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/BDyNEB9q8ZR

1940:     Life With Father  /  The Man Who Came to Dinner  /  The Time of Your Life
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/6QnMOpR08Ze

1941:     Arsenic and Old Lace  /  There Shall Be No Night  /  Watch on the Rhine
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/B2ZBEWNrzgJ

1942:     Candle in the Wind  /  In Time to Come  /  The Moon is Down
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/X3nk4AmeLgE

1943:     Oklahoma  /  The Patriots  /  The Skin of Our Teeth
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/40ZmqVapoZa

1944:     The Searching Wind  /  The Voice of the Turtle  /  Winged Victory
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/w4nWr8o03yA

1945:     The Glass Menagerie  /  Harvey  /  I Remember Mama
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/XOgON4Q0Xn3

1946:     Born Yesterday  /  Home of the Brave  /  State of the Union
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/xVg7jpQLRnr

1947:     All My Sons  /  Brigadoon  /  The Iceman Cometh
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/1MnwOYDm0n7

1948:     Mister Roberts  /  A Moon For the Misbegotten  /  A Streetcar Named Desire
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/jVyG8L0a9n7

1949:     Anne of the Thousand Days  /  Death of a Salesman  /  Detective Story
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/poy9WPwLDgJ

1950:     Come Back Little Sheba  / The Member of the Wedding / South Pacific
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/mpnboLJ8wg5

1951:     The Country Girl  /  Darkness at Noon  /  Guys and Dolls  /  The Rose Tattoo
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/7rnzmLx2YyO

1952:    I Am a Camera  /  The Shrike
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/w4nWr8oPJyA

1953:     The Crucible  /  Picnic
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/Q0ZpRV6X6nM

1954:     The Caine Mutiny  /  The Teahouse of the August Moon  /  The Trip to Bountiful
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/eJnvv4MX9nv

1955:     The Bad Seed  /  Bus Stop  /  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  /  Inherit the Wind
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/PbZqRV6GKyN

1956:     The Diary of Anne Frank  / A Hatful of Rain / A View From the Bridge
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/LVyK8Dev8n0

1957:     Long Day’s Journey Into Night  /  Orpheus Descending
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/XOgON4Q3Qn3

1958:     The Dark at the Top of the Stairs  /  Look Homeward, Angel  /  Sunrise at Campobello
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/7rnzmLxlLyO

1959:     J.B.  /  A Raisin in the Sun /  A Touch of the Poet
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/e6Z28vp17nN

1960:     The Andersonville Trial  /  The Best Man  /  Fiorello! /  The Zoo Story
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/GJn47pd1zyz

1961:     All the Way Home  /  Come Blow Your Horn  /  The American Dream
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/BDyNEB9xqZR

1962:     How to Succeed in Business… / The Night of the Iguana  /  Oh Dad, Poor Dad…
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/kjn18Ya1eyQ

1963:    A Thousand Clowns  /  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/GeZAO2GeEnV

1964:     After the Fall  /  Barefoot in the Park  /  Hello Dolly!
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/3RnYl3Vzmye

1965:     Fiddler on the Roof  /  Incident at Vichy  /  The Subject Was Roses
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/e2narLEpegB

1966:     Cactus Flower  /  The Lion in Winter  /  Man of La Mancha
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/Q0ZpRV68EnM

1967:     Cabaret  /  A Delicate Balance
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/NMnQ5pEMYn6

1968:     The Boys in the Band  /  The Price  /  I Never Sang For My Father
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/eJnvv4MzEnv

1969:     1776 /  The Great White Hope  /  Indians
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/jVyG8L0wQn7

1970:     Butterflies Are Free  /  Last of the Red Hot Lovers   /  No Place to Be Somebody
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/6QnMOpRPbZe

1971: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds  /  The House of Blue Leaves /  The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/B2ZBEWN7EgJ

1972:     The Prisoner of Second Avenue  /  Sticks and Bones
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/BJnX867Odnv

1973:     That Championship Season  /  The Hot L Baltimore  /  The River Niger
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/7MZ0ApBv4yo

1974:     Clarence Darrow  /  In the Boom Boom Room
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/XOgON4QPbn3

1975:     Same Time, Next Year  /  Seascape
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/e2narLEYegB

1976:     A Chorus Line  /  Knock Knock / Streamers
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/3RnYl3VExye

1977:    American Buffalo  /  Annie  /  The Shadow Box
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/6QnMOpRNbZe

1978:     Deathtrap  /  Fifth of July  /  The Gin Game
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/BJnX867Mdnv

1979:     Buried Child  /  The Elephant Man  /  Wings
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/LVyK8Dep5n0

1980:     Children of a Lesser God  /  I Ought to Be in Pictures  /  Talley’s Folly
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/61gDmG6lvZw

1981:     The American Clock  /  Crimes of the Heart  /  Tintypes
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/BJnX867Dknv

1982:     A House Not Meant to Stand  /  A Soldier’s Play  /  Torch Song Trilogy
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/BJnX867Dknv

1983:     Angels Fall  /  Brighton Beach Memoirs  / ‘night Mother  / True West
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/e7ZJGp8Q5y3

1984:     Fool For Love  /  Glengary Glen Ross
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/w4nWr8oBNyA

1985:     Biloxi Blues /  Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom /  Sunday in the Park With George
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/GJn47pdK8yz

1986:     Execution of Justice  /  I’m Not Rappaport  /  A Lie of the Mind
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/BDyNEB92zZR

1987:     Fences  /  Broadway Bound
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/NPgxE60woZ2

1988:    Boy’s Life  /  Driving Miss Daisy  /  Talk Radio
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/bVg8opGQ1nY

1989:     The Heidi Chronicles  /  Joe Turner’s Come and Gone  /  M. Butterfly / Other People's Money
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/kjn18YaeJyQ

1990:     And What of the Night?  /  Love Letters  /  The Piano Lesson
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/PbZqRV67AyN

1991:     Lost in Yonkers  /  Prelude to a Kiss  /  Six Degrees of Separation
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/7MZ0ApBYRyo

1992:     The Kentucky Cycle  /  Sight Unseen  / Two Trains Running
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/e7ZJGp8J5y3

1993:     Angels in America (pt. 1) /  Fires in the Mirror  /  Oleanna
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/xVg7jpQ5enr

1994:     Angels in America (pt. 2) / Broken Glass  /  Three Tall Women
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/PKgl3V0mRnp

1995:    The Cryptogram  / Seven Guitars  /  The Young Man From Atlanta
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/e2narLEKvgB

1996:     A Fair Country  /  Old Wicked Songs  /  Rent
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/kogjkDJa9Z6

1997:     Collected Stories  /  The Last Night of Ballyhoo /  Pride’s Crossing
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/DwyoDV6e0nA

1998:     Freedomland  /  How I Learned to Drive  /  Three Days of Rain
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/NPgxE60NAZ2

1999:     The Ride Down Mt. Morgan  /  Side Man  /  Wit
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/NoZr3VPkBy3

2000:     Dinner With Friends  /  In the Blood  /  King Hedley II
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/kogjkDqe1Z6

2001:     The Play About the Baby  /  Proof  /  The Waverly Gallery
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/NMnQ5pWzDn6

2002:     The Glory of Living   / Topdog/Underdog   /   Yellowman
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/eJnvv4DxGnv

2003:     Anna in the Tropics  /  The Goat or Who is Sylvia? /  Take Me Out
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/6QnMOp8mlZe

2004:     I Am My Own Wife  /  Man From Nebraska
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/kjn18YAlGyQ

2005:     The Clean House  /  Doubt
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/BJnX86lrKnv

2006:     The Intelligent Design of Jenny Crow  /  Miss Witherspoon  /  Red Light Winter
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/PbZqRVYmeyN

2007:     Almost, Maine  /  Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue  /  Rabbit Hole
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/7MZ0Apo8wyo

2008:     August: Osage County  /  Dead Man’s Cell Phone  /  Yellowface
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/XOgON4eJan3

2009:     Becky Shaw  /  In the Heights  /  Reasons To Be Pretty  /  Ruined
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/7rnzmLMGxyO

2010:    Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo  / In the Next Room  /  Next to Normal
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/QrgebdmVRZp

2011:     Clybourne Park  /  Detroit  /  A Free Man of Color
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/e7ZJGpwOBy3

2012:     The North Pool  /  Other Desert Cities  /  Sons of the Prophet  /  Water By the Spoonful
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/e2narLzv9gB

2013:     4000 Miles  /  Disgraced  / Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/QrgebdmVrZp

2014:     All the Way  /  The Flick  /  Fun Home
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/kogjkDqv8Z6

2015:     Between Riverside and Crazy / Father Comes Home From the Wars  / Marjorie Prime
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/DwyoDVPqxnA

2016:     Gloria  /  Hamilton  /  The Humans  /  Indecent
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/YVyPmdk27nN

2017:     Oslo  /  Sweat  /  The Wolves
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/kjn18YAj7yQ

2018:     Cost of Living  /  Everybody  /  The Minutes
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/mpnboLOoJg5

2019:     Fairview  /  Dance Nation  /  The Sound Inside  /  What the Constitution Means to Me
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/ajnEO6xOkZW

2020:     Slave Play  /  Heroes of the Fourth Turning /  Soft Power  /  A Strang Loop\
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/QrgebdmbrZp

2021:     Circle Jerk  /  The Hot Wing King  /  Stew
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/1MnwOY6Odn7

2022:     Fat Ham  /  Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord  /  Selling Kabul
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/DwyoDVPDxnA

2023:     English  /  On Sugarland  /  The Far Country
                        VOTE: https://strawpoll.com/polls/NPgxE63EQZ2