A play commissioned by Chicago's Goodman Theatre has just won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The play is Lynn Nottage's "Ruined." It centers around a shrewd businesswoman running a brothel in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the civil war. The Goodman's Artistic Director, Robert Falls, expects the Pulitzer to attract a broader audience to the work.

FALLS: Even though this play seems to be about a subject that might be terrifying or downbeat, it's a play you need to see. It's a play that will illuminate and entertain and take you to an area you might not have thought about.

The Goodman commissioned and developed Nottage's play, which had its world premiere here. It's the second year in a row a play developed in Chicago has won the Pulitzer. Last year, it was Tracy Lett's "August: Osage County" from the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.