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Altnernate Pulitzers:

As a way for us theatre fanatics to explore and discuss the greatest works of theatre America has to offer that we can look forward to reviving at our favorite community theaters, I am starting an "Alternate Pulitzers" series for my YouTube channel 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 old 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 Miracle Worker  /  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 Odd Couple  /  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  /  Company /  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:     Agnes of God  /  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  / The Dining Room /  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:     Broadway Bound /  Burn This  /  Fences  /  A Walk in the Woods
                        VOTE:  https://strawpoll.com/polls/NPgxE60woZ2
 
1988:     Boy’s Life  /  Driving Miss Daisy  /  Into the Woods / 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  /  Gross Indecency  /  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 /  The Laramie Project
                        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:     Avenue Q.  /  Bug  /  I Am My Own Wife  /  Man From Nebraska  /  Omnium Gatherum
                        VOTE:  https://strawpoll.com/polls/kjn18YAlGyQ
 
2005:     The Clean House  /  Doubt
                        VOTE:  https://strawpoll.com/polls/BJnX86lrKnv
 
2006:     The Intelligent Design of Jenny Crow  /  The Last Days of Judas Iscariot  /  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  /   The Motherfucker With the Hat
                        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  /   Skeleton Crew
                        VOTE:  https://strawpoll.com/polls/YVyPmdk27nN
 
2017:     Indecent  /  Oslo  /  Sweat  /  The Wolves
                        VOTE:  https://strawpoll.com/polls/kjn18YAj7yQ
 
2018:     Cost of Living  /  Everybody  /   Mary Jane  /   The Minutes
                        VOTE:  https://strawpoll.com/polls/mpnboLOoJg5
 
2019:     Fairview  /  Dance Nation  /  Slave Play   /  The Sound Inside  /  What the Constitution Means to Me
                        VOTE:  https://strawpoll.com/polls/ajnEO6xOkZW
 
2020:     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  /  Prayer for the French Republic  /  Selling Kabul
                        VOTE:  https://strawpoll.com/polls/DwyoDVPDxnA
 
2023:     English  /  On Sugarland  /  The Far Country  /  Stereophonic
                        VOTE:  https://strawpoll.com/polls/NPgxE63EQZ2 

2024:      Here There Are Blueberries  /  Mother Play  /  Primary Trust  /  Public Obscenities
                          VOTE:    https://strawpoll.com/BJnXVdPR8Zv

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