Other Playwrights and Their Plays


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		1776 By Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters The Function of the Songs in 1776 Justice for John Adams A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens Dickens and Christmas Dickens Saves Christmas English Christmas Timeline A Christmas Carol Glossary A Flea in Her Ear By George Feydeau About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Pure Farce A Tribute to Feydeau's Genius A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum By Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart, and Stephen Sondheim About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters Something for Every-Bawdy The Top Ten Reasons You Will Love Forum Ah, Wilderness! By Eugene O'Neill About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Recipe for Family Unity Honey over Bitterness Around the World in 80 Days By Jules Verne About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Discovering More than Just the World Inspiring Pleasure and Awe 'Art' By Yasmina Reza About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Art: Worth More Than Friendship Arsenic and Old Lace By Joseph Kesselring About the Playwright Synopsis Characters A Play about Plays Would-Be Serious Play into a Zany Farce A Streetcar Named Desire By Tennessee Williams About the Playwright Synopsis Characters "The Visionary Company of Love" Williams's "Swan Song" Blithe Spirit By Noel Coward About the Playwright Synopsis Characters An Improbable Farce Some Sort of Genius On a Plane Just above Reality Noel Coward as the Mirror of a Generation Born Yesterday By Garson Kanin About the Playwright Synopsis Characters A Pygmalion Tale, but So Much More Well in Advance of Its Time Candida By George Bernard Shaw About the Playwright More About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Bernard Shaw Versus Candida Camelot By Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters One Brief Shining Moment Charley's Aunt By Brandon Thomas Synopsis An Enduring Comedy Cyrano de Bergerac By Edmond Rostand About the Playwright Synopsis Heroic Comedy or Romantic Tragedy A Romantic Melodrama Optimistic Idealism Damn Yankees By Abbot, Wallop, Adler, and Ross About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters Beating the Devil at His Own Game Damn Yankees—But Bless Baseball! Death of a Salesman By Arthur Miller About the Playwright Synopsis Characters A Landmark Date in Theatre A Tragedy of a Common Man A Remarkable Classic Doctor Faustus By Christopher Marlowe About the Playwright Synopsis Characters "His Waxen Wings Did Mount" Forever Plaid By Stuart Ross About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Forever Nostalgia Ghosts By Henrik Ibsen About the Playwright Synopsis Tragedy and Liberation Give Me the Sun Phantoms Within Harvey By Mary Chase About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Almost Magical Relationship Hay Fever By Noel Coward About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Four Characters in Search of an Audience H.M.S. Pinafore By W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters The Lasting Appeal of Gilbert and Sullivan I Hate Hamlet By Paul Rudnick About the Playwright Synopsis Characters World's Greatest Tragedy Becomes Comedy Johnny Guitar By Nicholas van Hoogstraten, Martin Silvestri, and Joel Higgins About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters Shooting from the Lipstick Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat By Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters Andrew Who? A Springboard Called "Joseph" Little Shop of Horrors By Howard Ashman and Alan Menken About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters Love, and a Desire To Be More Than We Are Lend Me a Tenor: The Musical By Peter Sham and Brad Carroll About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters Infinite Possibilities within Each of Us Man of La Mancha By Dale Wasserman • Music by Mitch Leigh • Lyrics by Joe Darion About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters The Essential Wisdom, the True Vision Misalliance By George Bernard Shaw About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Misalliance and Shaw: Extraordinary A "Discussion" Play The Entertaining Gospel Morning's at Seven By Paul Osborn About the Playwright Synopsis Characters The Function of Disfunction My Fair Lady By Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters My Fairer Lady		Noises Off By Michael Frayn About the Playwright Synopsis Characters I'll Admit It: Act 2 Is Perfect Noises Off -- Nothing On -- Everything Goes On Golden Pond By Ernest Thompson About the Playwright Synopsis Characters On Golden Pond Our Town By Thornton Wilder About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Life Is a Gift A Modest Work, Modestly Conceived Groundbreaking Theatre Peg o' My Heart By J. Hartley Manners About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Peg o' My—and Everybody's—Heart Peter Pan By Sir James M. Barrie About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Myth and Fantasy For Children—and Adults Pippin By Stephen Schwartz and Roger Hirson About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters Pippin: Historically Speaking Relative Values By Noel Coward About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Beneath the Froth Is Basic Truths Coward and His Characters Room Service By John Murray and Allen Boretz About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters Making Hay in the Great White Way Stones in His Pockets By Marie Jones About the Playwright Synopsis Characters All's Right with the World Tartuffe By Moliere About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Slithering Between Illusion and Realtiy A Memorable Imposter Attacking Hypocrisy, Not Religion The Boy Friend By Sandy Wilson Synopsis A Recipe for Gleeful Romance The Cherry Orchard By Anton Chekhov About the Playwright Synopsis Characters The Glory of the Past The Language of Russia The Fantasticks By Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones About the Playwright Synopsis Characters A Simple Journey for Knowledge and Love A Play for All Seasons The Foreigner By Larry Shue About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Optimism Stashed in Our Pockets and Hearts The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde About the Playwright The Imcomparable Oscar Wilde Synopsis Characters Wilde's Optimum Opus Sparkle and Wit The Preposterous Becomes the Norm The Importance of the Importance . . . Inspiring Paradoxes The Lion in Winter By James Goldman About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Is It True? Filial Rebellion The Matchmaker By Thornton Wilder About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Farce Is Here to Stay The Mikado By W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters Mere Pish-Posh? The Mousetrap By Agatha Christie About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Command Performance The Pirates of Penzance By W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters Preserving the Truly Good Things in Drama Delighting Audiences The Royal Family By George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters Director's Notes A Thinly Disguised Spoof Delicious and Successful The Servant of Two Masters By Carlo Goldoni About the Playwright Synopsis Characters The Politics of Self Interest Replacing Farces with Comedies The Shoemaker's Holiday By Thomas Dekker About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Bridging Joy and Suffering A Dramatic Parable The Spitfire Grill By James Valcq and Fred Alley About the Playwrights Synopsis Characters The Heart and Soul of America The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Romance, Humor, and History Les Trois Mousquetaires Volpone By Ben Jonson About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Rare, Ingenious Knavery A Study in Contradictions Food for Thought Waiting for Godot By Samuel Beckett About the Playwright Synopsis A Play in Which Nothing Happens Twice A Funny Thing . . . on the Way to the Grave You Can't Take It with You By George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Happy Lunacies Still Speaking to Audiences You Never Can Tell By George Bernard Shaw About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Cotton Candy and Soda Pop A Challenge to Conventional Drama You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown By Clark Gesner About the Playwright Synopsis Characters Good Ol' Charlie Brown
Photo: Marcella Rose Sciotto as Peg in Peg o' My Heart , 2006. Photo by Karl Hugh. Copyright Utah Shakespearean Festival.
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