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Lex-Ham Community Theater Pulitzer Prize Winning Plays Reading Series |
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Lex-Ham Community Theater Pulitzer Prize Winning Plays Reading Series |
The Lexington-Hamline Community Theater is sponsoring a reading series of Pulitzer Prize winning plays. The readings are held in homes, are quite informal, and include a pot-luck supper. Anyone who has an interest in top-notch American drama, young or old, is encouraged to attend one, some, or all the readings.
The next session is will be Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings, based on
the novel by Thomas Wolfe, the 1958 winner.on July 11, 2008.
The following event will be
Craig's Wife by George Kelly, the 1926 winner, in September 2008.
The format for each session is:
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Pulitzer Prize Winning Plays |
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| Year | . | Winning Play |
| 1917 | . | (No Award) |
| 1918 | . | Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams |
| 1919 | . | (No Award) |
| 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 |
| 1942 | . | (No Award) |
| 1943 | . | The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder |
| 1944 | . | (No Award) |
| 1945 | . | Harvey by Mary Chase |
| 1946 | . | State of the Union by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay |
| 1947 | . | (No Award) |
| 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 |
| 1951 | . | (No Award) |
| 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 |
| 1963 | . | (No Award) |
| 1964 | . | (No Award) |
| 1965 | . | The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy |
| 1966 | . | (No Award) |
| 1967 | . | A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee |
| 1968 | . | (No Award) |
| 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 |
| 1972 | . | (No Award) |
| 1973 | . | That Championship Season by Jason Miller |
| 1974 | . | (No Award) |
| 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 |
| 1986 | . | (No Award) |
| 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 Jonathan Larson |
| 1997 | . | (No Award) |
| 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 |
| 2006 | . | (No Award) |
| 2007 | . | Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire |
| 2008 | . | August: Osage County by Tracy Letts |
Call 651-644-3366 or contact theater@LexHamArts.org for more information.
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Last updated: 5/9/2008