Lynn Nottage won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, but “no matter which of the three finalists had snagged the prize today, a woman was going to win it.” That matters because, as female playwrights have pointed out recently, “women playwrights are vastly underrepresented on our stages. … The Pulitzer changes the composition of our canon, the stories we as a culture tell ourselves. Women’s voices need to be a much more significant part of that.”