100 Greatest American Plays 9781442256057, 9781442256064, 1442256052

Table of contents :
Chronological list of plays --
100 greatest American plays, a-z entries. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938) by Robert Sherwood
Abie's Irish rose (1922) by Anne Nichols
The adding machine (1923) by Elmer Rice
Ah, wilderness! (1933) by Eugene O'Neill
All my sons (1947) by Arthur Miller
Anna Christie (1921) by Eugene O'Neill
Anna in the tropics (2003) by Nilo Cruz
Arsenic and old lace (1941) by Joseph Kesseling
August: Osage County (2007) by Tracy Letts
Auntie Mame (1956) by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Awake and sing! (1935) by Clifford Odets
Barbara Frietchie (1899) by Clyde Fitch
Barefoot in the park (1963) by Neil Simon
The bat (1920) by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
The best man (1960) by Gore Vidal
Biography (1932) by S.N. Behrman
Born yesterday (1946) by Garson Kanin
The boys in the band (1968) by Mart Crowley
Brighton Beach memoirs (1983) by Neil Simon
Buried child (1996) by Sam Shepard
Bus stop (1955) by William Inge
Cat on a hot tin roof (1955) by Tennessee Williams
The championship season (1972) by Jason Miller
Clybourne Park (2012) by Bruce Norris
Come back, little Sheba (1950) by William Inge
The contrast (1787) by Royall Tyler
Crimes of the heart (1981) by Beth Henley
The crucible (1953) by Arthur Miller
Death of a salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller
Deathtrap (1978) by Ira Levin
The dining room (1982) by A.R. Gurney
Dinner with friends (1999) by Donald Margulies
Doubt (2005) by John Patrick Shanley
East Lynne (1863) by Clifton W. Tayleure
The Emperor Jones (1920) by Eugene O'Neill
Fashion (1845) by Anna Cora Mowatt
Fences (1987) by August Wilson
The front page (1928) by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
Gemini (1977) by Albert Innaurato
The glass menagerie (1945) by Tennessee Williams
Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) by David Mamet
Harvey (1944) by Mary Chase
The heart of Maryland (1895) by David Belasco
The Heidi chronicles (1989) by Wendy Wasserstein
The house of blue leaves (1971) by John Guare
How I learned to drive (1997) by Paula Vogel
The iceman cometh (1946) by Eugene O'Neill
Inherit the wind (1955) by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Joe Turner's come and gone (1988) by August Wilson
Lend me a tenor (1989) by Ken Ludwig
Life with Father (1939) by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
The lion in winter (1966) by James Goldman
The little foxes (1939) by Lillian Hellman
Long day's journey into night (1956) by Eugene O'Neill
Lost in Yonkers (1991) by Neil Simon
Love! Valour! Compassion! (1995) by Terrence McNally
M. Butterfly (1988) by David Henry Hwang
The man who came to dinner (1939) by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Mary, Mary (1961) by Jean Kerr
The matchmaker (1955) by Thornton Wilder
The member of the wedding (1950) by Carson McCullers
Of mice and men (1937) by John Steinbeck
The miracle worker (1959) by William Gibson
Mister Roberts (1948) by Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan
Morning's at seven (1939) by Paul Osborn
'Night, Mother (1983) by Marsha Norman
The odd couple (1965) by Neil Simon
Our town (1938) by Thornton Wilder
Peg o' my heart (1912) by J. Hartley Manners
The Philadelphia story (1939) by Philip Barry
Picnic (1953) by William Inge
The piano lesson (1990) by August Wilson
Proof (2000) by David Auburn
The rainmaker (1954) by N. Richard Nash
A raisin in the sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry
Rip Van Winkle (1866) by Dion Boucicault and Joseph Jefferson
The show-off (1924) by George Kelly
Six degrees of separation (1990) by John Guare
The skin of our teeth (1942) by Thornton Wilder
A soldier's play (1981) by Charles Fuller
Steel magnolias (1987) by Robert Harling
Streamers (1976) by David Rabe
Street scene (1929) by Elmer Rice
A streetcar named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams
Take me out (2003) by Richard Greenberg
Talley's folly (1979) by Lanfrod Wilson
Ten nights in a barroom (1858) by William W. Pratt
Three men on a horse (1935) by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott
The time of your life (1939) by William Saroyan
Tobacco road (1933) by Jack Kirkland
Torch song trilogy (1982) by Harvey Fierstein
True west (1980) by Sam Shepard
Uncle Tom's cabin (1853) by George L. Aiken
Waiting for Lefty (1935) by Clifford Odets
What price glory? (1924) by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) by Edward Albee
The women (1936) by Clare Boothe Luce
You can't take it with you (1936) by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
The zoo story (1960) by Edward Albee --
Appendix A: Playwrights listing --
Appendix B: Awards.

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