Major prizes awarded to playwright August Wilson.

Tony Award best play: Fences (1987)

Pulitzer Prize for drama: Fences (1987), The Piano Lesson (1990)

New York Drama Critics' Circle Award best play: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1985), Fences (1987), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988), The Piano Lesson (1990), Jitney (2000)

New York Drama Critics' Circle Award best American play (awarded when a foreign play is named best play): Two Trains Running (1992), Seven Guitars (1996)