GUEST BLOG by Tim Donahue: What a strange 100 years it has been for theater prizes!
In 1918, the first Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama went to a forgotten"and forgettable"comedy entitled "Why Marry?" Two years later the prize went to a female playwright, because the Jury thought it would be a "handsome" thing to give the prize to a woman, although they wrote, "It is not a great play but it ... read more