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Just a few well-known plays and playwrights...

Plays                                                

A Doll’s House (Ibsen)                  

The Odd Couple (Simon)                                                       

The Heidi Chronicles(Wasserstein)                                                   

Waiting for Godot (Becket)                                                              

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Stoppard)                           

12th Night (Shakespeare)                                                                  

King Lear (Shakespeare)                                                                  

Othello (Shakespeare)                                                                      

Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)                                         

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare)                                    

Hamlet (Shakespeare)                                                                      

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Williams)                                                      

The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)                                          

Arms and the Man (Shaw)                                                                

Candida (Shaw)                                                                               

Man and Superman (Shaw)                                                              

Streamers (David Rabe)                                                                   

Androcles and the Lion (Shaw)                                                          

Death of a Salesman (Miller)                                                             

The Crucible (Miller)                                                                        

Pygmalion (Shaw)                                                                             

Miss Julie (Strindberg)                                                                      

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf (Ntozake Shange)                                        

The Iceman Cometh (O’Neill)                                                           

Long Day’s Journey into Night (O’Neill)                                           

Mourning Becomes Electra (O’Neill)                                                

The Seagull (Chekov)                                                                       

A Raisin in the Sun (Hansberry)                                                        

Angels in America (Kushner)                                                            

The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare)                                           

Antigone (Sophocles)                                                                       

Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)                                                                 

Ah! Wilderness (O’Neill)                                                                  

A Moon for the Misbegotten (O’Neill)                                              

The School for Scandal (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)                          

The Glass Menagerie (Williams)                                                        

The Miracle Worker (William Gibson)                                              

Uncommon Women and Others (Wasserstein)                                  

Equus (Shaffer)                                                                                 

Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello)                            

Tartuffe (Moliere)                                                                             

The Cherry Orchard (Chekov)                                                          

The Skin of Our Teeth (Wilder)                                                        

The Women (Clare Booth Luce)                                                       

The Problem (Gurney)                                                                      

The Man Who Came to Dinner (Hart/Kaufman)                                

The Good Doctor (Simon)                                                                

The Last Mile (McNally)                                                                  

The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus (Marlowe)                                  

Mother Courage and Her Children (Brecht)                                      

A Streetcar Named Desire (Williams)                                               

The Wild Duck (Ibsen)                                                                     

Volpone (Ben Jonson)                                                                      

The Homecoming (Pinter)                                                                 

Other People’s Money (Jerry Sterner)                                              

The Art of Dining (Howe)                                                                 

Buried Child (Shepard)                                                                     

Blithe Spirit (Coward)                                                                       

Waiting in the Wings (Coward)                                                         

Our Town (Wilder)

The Matchmaker (Wilder)

Glengarry Glen Ross (Mamet)

A Few Good Men (Sorkin)

American Buffalo (Mamet)

Speed-the-Plow (Mamet)

The Invention of Love (Stoppard)

Master Harold and the Boys (Fugard)

Uncle Vanya (Chekov)

The Three Sisters (Checkov)

Fences (Wilson)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Albee)

Faust (Goethe)

Orestia (Aeschylus)

Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)

Medea (Euripides)

Lysistrata (Aristophanes)

The Frogs (Aristophanes)

The Little Foxes (Hellman)

Bus Stop (Inge)

Picnic (Inge)

The Thebans (Racine)

Phedre (Racine)

Love! Valour! Compassion! (McNally)

Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune (McNally)

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Wilson)

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Wilson)

The Piano Lesson (Wilson)

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You (Durang)

The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Durang)

The Trip to Bountiful (Foote)

Awake and Sing! (Odets)

The Vagina Monologues (Ensler)

On Golden Pond (Ernest Thompson)

Playboy of the Western World (Synge)

Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)

Proof (David Auburn)

Steel Magnolias (Robert Harling)

The Constant Wife (W. Somerset Maugham)

The Pillowman (Martin McDonagh)

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

     (Jane Wagner)

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (Michael Brady)

On the Verge (Eric Overmyer)

Shooting Stars (

Barefoot in the Park (Simon)

‘Night Mother (Marsha Norman)

Everyman

Fool for Love (Shepard)

Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello)

 

Playwrights

David Mamet

Eugene O’Neill

Wendy Wasserstein

Henrik Ibsen

Anton Chekov

William Shakespeare

 Neil Simon

Tom Stoppard

George Bernard Shaw

August Strindberg

Samuel Beckett

Christopher Marlowe

Oscar Wilde

Bertolt Brecht

Tennessee Williams

Moliere

Harold Pinter

T.S. Eliot

Arthur Miller

Sam Shepard

Eric Bogosian

Noel Coward

Sophocles                                      

Thornton Wilder

Eugene Ionesco

Athol Fugard

Luigi Pirandello

Edward Albee

Lorraine Hansberry

Tony Kushner

Jean Paul Sartre

Johann Goethe

Jean Cocteau

Aeschylus

Euripides

Aristophanes

Spaulding Gray

Lillian Hellman

William Inge

Jean Racine

Peter Shaffer

Jean Anouilh

Terrence McNally

John Galsworthy

Jean Genet

 August Wilson

Christopher Durang

Aaron Sorkin

Horton Foote

Clifford Odets

Ruth Gordon

Eve Ensler

Anna Deavere Smith

Moss Hart

George Kaufman

John Dryden

Tom Noonan

A.R. Gurney

Jane Wagner                                                             

Tina Howe

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