| Titler | Rækkefølge |
| O'Neill: Son and Playwright af Louis Sheaffer | 1969 |
| Adolphe Appia, Prophet of the Modern Theatre: A Profile af Walther R. Volbach | Honorable Mention, 1969 |
| Gordon Craig; the story of his life af Edward Carrick | Honorable Mention, 1969 |
| The Hamlet of Edwin Booth af Charles H. Shattuck | 1970 |
| Broadway af Brooks Atkinson | 1971 |
| Bright particular star : the life & times of Charlotte Cushman af Joseph Leach | Honorable Mention, 1971 |
| Meyerhold"s Theatre of the Grotesque: Post-revolutionary Productions, 1920-32 af James M. Symons | 1972 |
| Journey to heartbreak af Stanley Weintraub | Honorable Mention, 1972 |
| Run-Through: A Memoir af John Houseman | 1973 |
| The Masks of King Lear af Marvin Rosenberg | Honorable Mention, 1973 |
| Inigo Jones: Theatre of the Stuart Court af Stephen Orgel | 1974 |
| The Development of the English Playhouse af Richard Leacroft | Honorable Mention, 1974 |
| O'Neill, son and artist af Louis Sheaffer | Honorable Mention, 1974 |
| Blacking up : the minstrel show in nineteenth century America af Robert C. Toll | 1975 |
| Life Among the Playwrights: Being Mostly the Story of the Playwrights Producing Company, Inc af John F. Wharton; Photographs Betty A. Wharton | Honorable Mention, 1975 |
| Stage Design: Four Centuries of Scenic Invention af Donald Oenslager | 1976 |
| Jacques Callot; Artist of the Theatre af Gerald Kahan | 1977 |
| Shakespeare on the American stage af Charles Harlen Shattuck | Honorable Mention, 1977 |
| Theater design af George C. Izenour | 1978 |
| Vagabond stars : a world history of Yiddish theater af Nahma Sandrow | Honorable Mention, 1978 |
| The Shows of London (Belknap Press) af Richard D. Altick | 1979 |
| A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 5, Eagan to Garrett: Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 ... Dictionary of Actors & Actresses, 1660-1800) af Philip H. Highfill | Honorable Mention, 1979 |
| A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell: Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London 1660-1800 ... Dictionary of Actors & Actresses, 1660-1800) af Philip H. Highfill | Honorable Mention, 1979 |
| David Garrick: A Critical Biography af George Winchester Stone | 1980 |
| George S. Kaufman: His Life, His Theater af Malcolm Goldstein | Honorable Mention, 1980 |
| Bernard Shaw and the actresses af Margot Peters | 1981 |
| Clifford Odets: American Playwright: The Years from 1906 to 1940 af Margaret Brenman-Gibson | 1982 |
| The Antitheatrical Prejudice af Jonas Barish | Honorable Mention, 1982 |
| Fanny Kemble: Leading lady of the nineteenth-century stage : a biography af J. C. Furnas | 1983 |
| Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England af Martin Meisel | 1984 |
| Mrs. Pat : The Life of Mrs. Patrick Campbell af Margot Peters | 1985 |
| The Theater Duke: Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen and the German Stage af Ann Marie Koller | Honorable Mention, 1985 |
| Strindberg: A Biography af Michael Meyer | 1986 |
| Granville Barker and the Dream of Theatre af Dennis Kennedy | Honorable Mention, 1986 |
| Theater in America: 200 Years of Plays, Players, and Productions af Mary C. Henderson | 1987 |
| Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women af Ricky Jay | Honorable Mention, 1987 |
| Shakespeare on the American Stage: From Booth and Barrett to Southern and Marlowe af Charles H. Shattuck | 1988 |
| The Theatre Art of Boris Aronson af Frank Rich | Honorable Mention, 1988 |
| The Age and Stage of George L. Fox, 1825-1877 (Studies Theatre Hist & Culture) af Laurence Senelick | 1989 |
| Oscar Wilde af Richard Ellmann | Honorable Mention, 1989 |
| Paul Robeson af Martin Duberman | 1990 |
| Places of Performance: The Semiotics of Theatre Architecture af Marvin A. Carlson | Honorable Mention, 1990 |
| The Commedia Dell'Arte in Paris 1644-1697 af Virginia Scott | 1991 |
| The House of Barrymore af Margot Peters | Honorable Mention, 1991 |
| Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture af Robert C. Allen | 1992 |
| Entrances and Exits: A Life in and Out of the Theatre af Norris Houghton | Honorable Mention, 1992 |
| The Masks of Hamlet af Marvin Rosenberg | 1993 |
| The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660-1700 af Elizabeth Howe | Honorable Mention, 1993 |
| Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comédie-Française af Rachel M. Brownstein | 1994 |
| Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth-Century Performance af Dennis Kennedy | Honorable Mention, 1994 |
| Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870 af Faye E. Dudden | 1995 |
| The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre af Simon Trussler | Honorable Mention, 1995 |
| Tom : the unknown Tennessee Williams af Lyle Leverich | 1996 |
| Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Actress and the Prince af Claire Tomalin | Honorable Mention, 1996 |
| Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett af James Knowlson | 1997 |
| Speak Low [When You Speak Love]: The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya af Kurt Weill | Honorable Mention, 1997 |
| Our Moonlight Revels: A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Theater (Studies in Theatre History & Culture) af Gary Jay Williams | 1998 |
| John Barrymore, Shakespearean actor af Michael A. Morrison | Honorable Mention, 1998 |
| Stephen Sondheim: A Life af Meryle Secrest | 1999 |
| The Cambridge History of American Theatre Volume 1 af Don B. Wilmeth | Honorable Mention, 1999 |
| Edward Albee af Mel Gussow | 2000 |
| Hirschfeld On Line af Al Hirschfeld | Honorable Mention, 2000 |
| The Economics of the British Stage 1800-1914 af Tracy C. Davis | 2001 |
| The Changing Room : Sex, Drag and Theatre (Gender in Performance) af Laurence Senelick | Honorable Mention, 2001 |
| Harlequin Unmasked: The Commedia Dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture af Curator Meredith Chilton | 2002 |
| Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Artful Laughter af Ron Jenkins | Honorable Mention, 2002 |
| Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam af David Kaufman | 2003 |
| Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) af Ted Chapin | Special Jury Prize, 2003 |
| The staging of drama in the medieval church af Dunbar H. Ogden | Special Jury Prize, 2003 |
| A History of African American Theatre af Errol G. Hill | 2004 |
| Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show af Rachel Shteir | 2005 |
| Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time af Ken Bloom | Special Jury Prize, 2005 |
| Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World af Kathryn Shevelow | 2006 |
| Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times af Linda Ben-Zvi | Special Jury Prize, 2006 |
| Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical af bruce d. mcclung | Special Jury Prize, 2007 |
| Wagner and the Art of the Theatre af Patrick Carnegy | Special Jury Prize, 2007 |
| The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870-1930 af Felicia Hardison Londré | 2008 |
| Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern af Jayna Brown | 2009 |
| The pantomime life of Joseph Grimaldi af Andrew McConnell Stott | 2010 |
| The American Play: 1787-2000 af Marc Robinson | Special Jury Prize, 2010 |
| Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? af James Shapiro | 2011 |
| Finishing the Hat af Stephen Sondheim | Special Jury Prize, 2011 |
| Great Lengths: Seven Works of Marathon Theater af Jonathan Kalb | 2012 |
| BAM: The Complete Works af Steven Serafin | Special Jury Prize, 2012 |
| Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof af Alisa Solomon | 2014 |
| Fosse af Sam Wasson | Special Jury Prize, 2014 |
| Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design af Arnold Aronson | 2015 |
| Fortune's Fool (Author Unknown) af Terry Alford | 2016 |
| Ira Aldridge: The Last Years, 1855-1867 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora) af Bernth Lindfors | Special Jury Prize, 2016 |
| For a Short Time Only: Itinerants and the Resurgence of Popular Culture in Early America af Peter Benes | 2017 |
| New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway af Edna Nahshon | Special Jury Prize, 2017 |
| Spectacular Men: Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage af Sarah E. Chinn | 2018 |
| Big deal : Bob Fosse and dance in the American musical af Kevin Winkler | Special Jury Prize, 2019 |
