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 1995 

 An Introduction to Modern Drama

 June: George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
 August: Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
 September: Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
 October: Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance
 November: Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters
 
 1996 

 Death and After Death

 January: August Wilson, Two Trains Running
 February: Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
 March: August Strindberg, The Dance of Death
 April: Eugene O'Neill, A Moon for the Misbegotten
 May: Marsha Norman, 'night, Mother
 June: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
 July: William Nicholson, Shadowlands
 September: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
 October: Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
 November: John Guare, The House of Blue Leaves
 December: Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

 1997

 Anger and Provocation

 January: John Osborne, Look Back in Anger
 February: David Mamet, American Buffalo
 March: Archibald MacLeish, J.B.

 Friendship

 April: Terrence McNally, Love! Valour! Compassion!
 May: Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles
 June: Lanford Wilson, 5th of July
 July: Jean Anouilh, Becket
 

 Family Values

 September: Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour
 October: Sam Shepard, Buried Child
 November: Thornton Wilder, Our Town
 December: Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding

 1998

 January: Herb Gardner, A Thousand Clowns

 Madness

 February: Mary Coyle Chase, Harvey
 March: Peter Weiss, Marat/Sade
 April: Sebastian Barry, The Steward of Christendom

 The Rules

 May: Luigi Pirandello, The Rules of the Game
 June: David Hare, Racing Demon
 July: Hugh Whitemore, Breaking the Code
 

 Outsiders and Outlaws

 September: Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning
 October: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
 November: William Gibson, The Miracle Worker
 December: Alfred Uhry, The Last Night of Ballyhoo

 1999

 January: Bertolt Brecht, Galileo
 February: Max Frisch, Andorra
 March: Brian Friel, Translations
 April: Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive
 May: Martin McDonagh, The Cripple of Inishmaan
 June: Tony Kushner, Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
 July: Athol Fugard, The Road to Mecca

 
Time & Memory: Looking Forward, Looking Back

 September: Karel Capek, R.U.R.
 October: Elmer Rice, The Adding Machine 
 November: Alan Ayckbourn, Communicating Doors
 December: Eric Overmyer, On the Verge

 2000

 January: Diana Son, Stop Kiss
 February: Richard Greenberg, Three Days of Rain
 March: Heather McDonald, Available Light
 April: Arthur Miller, All My Sons
 May: Ariel Dorfman, Death and the Maiden
 June: Donald Margulies, Collected Stories
 July: J.B. Priestley, Time and the Conways

 
Survival of the Fittest

 September: Howard Sackler, The Great White Hope
 October: Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind
 November: Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman of Chaillot
 December: Patrick Meyers, K2

2001

January: Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros
February: Ronald Harwood, Taking Sides
March: Mayo Simon, The Old Lady's Guide to Survival
April: Timberlake Wertenbaker, After Darwin 
May: Harold Pinter, The Homecoming 
June: Frank Wedekind, Lulu (Earth Spirit & Pandora's Box)
July: Saul Levitt, The Andersonville Trial

Art and Sciences

Art

September: Yasmina Reza, 'Art'
October: Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author 
November: Warren Leight, Side Man 
December: Ernest Joselovitz, Shakespeare, Moses, and Joe Papp       

2002

January: Conor McPherson, The Weir 

Science

February: Michael Frayn, Copenhagen 
March: Friedrich Durrenmatt, The Physicists 
April: Noel Coward, Blithe Spirit 
May: Paul Zindel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds 
June: Arthur Kopit, Y2K (aka BecauseHeCan
July: Y York, Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants.

Women at the Footlights

September: Jean Genet, The Maids
October: James Baldwin, The Amen Corner
November: Clare Boothe Luce, The Women
December: Susan Glaspell, Alison's House

2003

January: Jennifer Maisel, The Last Seder
February: Lynn Nottage, Intimate Apparel
March: Maxwell Anderson, Elizabeth the Queen
April: Rebecca Gilman, Boy Gets Girl
May: N. Richard Nash, The Rainmaker
June: Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts    
July: Cicely Hamilton, Diana of Dobson's

September
: How was the Play? The Role of the Critic
October: David Auburn, Proof
November: George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House
December: Tom Stoppard, Jumpers

2004:

January: Playwriting: the Process
February: Arthur Miller, The Crucible
March:  August Wilson, Fences  
April:  Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
May: Ari Roth, Oh, the Innocents 
June: Sophie Treadwell, Machinal 
August: Gore Vidal, The Best Man 

September: David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly
October
: Sean O'Leary, Pound
November:
Ferenc Molnar, Liliom (inspiration for Carousel)
December: George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan

2005:

January: Caryl Churchill, Cloud 9
February
: Black Women’s Playwrights’ Group
March: Edward Albee, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
April
: Ken Ludwig, Lend Me a Tenor
May
: Kate Fodor, Hannah and Martin
June
: Peter Shaffer, The Royal Hunt of the Sun
August
: William Inge, Bus Stop

September: Hyam Maccoby, The Disputation
October
: Garson Kanin, Born Yesterday
November:
Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
December
:
Charles Aidman, adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology

2006:

January: Neil LaBute, Fat Pig
February:
Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman
March:
Karen Zacarías, The Sins of Sor Juana
April:
August Wilson, Radio Golf
May:
Bernard Pomerance, The Elephant Man
June:
Ariel Dorfman, Picasso's Closet
July
: Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile

September: Morris Panych, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl
October: Woyzeck: The Business Side of Theater
November:
Peter Shaffer, Equus
December:
Horton Foote, adaptation of William Faulkner's Tomorrow

2007:

January: Michael Frayn, Noises Off
February
: Robert O'Hara, Insurrection: Holding History
March:
Eugene O'Neill, Ah, Wilderness!
April
: Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus, Crime and Punishment
May:
George Orwell, Animal Farm
June:
Tom Stoppard, Rosen
crantz & Guildenstern are Dead
July:
Michael Frayn, Democracy

September: Albert Camus, Caligula
October:
Horton Foote, The Carpetbagger's Children
November:
Conor McPherson, Shining City
December:
Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth

2008:

January: John Patrick Shanley, Doubt: A Parable