100 greatest American plays
By: Thomas S. Hischak, [editor]
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9781442256057
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: American drama
Other titles: One hundred greatest American plays; Hundred greatest American plays
Description: "In 100 Greatest American Plays, Thomas S. Hischak provides an engaging discussion of the best stage productions to come out of the United States. Each play is discussed in the context of its original presentation as well as its legacy. Arranged alphabetically, the entries for these plays include: plot details, production history, biography of the playwright, literary aspects of the drama, critical reaction to the play, major awards, the play's influence, [and] cast lists of notable stage and film versions. The plays have been selected not for their popularity but for their importance to American theatre and include works by Edward Albee, Harvey Fierstein, Lorraine Hansberry, Lillian Hellman, Tony Kushner, David Mamet, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Sam Shepard, Neil Simon, Gore Vidal, Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, and August Wilson. This informative volume also includes complete lists of Pulitzer Prize winners for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for American Plays, and the Tony Award for Best Play. Providing critical information about the most important works produced since the eighteenth century, 100 Greatest American Plays will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural history of theatre"--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-364) and index.
Table of contents: title: The contrast (1787)  -- by Royall Tyler; title: Fashion (1844) -- -- by Anna Cora Mowatt; title: Uncle Tom's cabin (1853)  -- by George L. Aiken; title: Ten nights in a barroom (1858)  -- by William W. Pratt; title: East Lynne (1863)  -- byClifton W. Tayleure; title: Rip Van winkle (1866)  -- by Dion Boucicault and Joseph Jefferson; title: The heart of Maryland ((1895) -- -- by David Belasco; title: Barbara Frietchie (1899)  -- by Clyde Fitch; title: Peg o' my heart (1912)  -- by J. Hartley Manner; title: The bat ( 1920)  -- by Mary Robert Rinehart and Avery Hopwood; title: The Emperor Jones (1920)  -- by Eugene O'Neill; title: Anna Christie (1921)  -- by Eugene O'Neill; title: Abie's Irish rose (1922)  -- by Anne Nichols; title: The adding machine (1923)  -- by Elmer Rice; title: The show-off (1924)  -- by George Kelly; title: What price glory? (1924)  -- by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stalling; title: The front page (1928)  -- by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur; title: Street scene (1929)  -- by Elmer Rice; title: Biography (1932)  -- by S. N. Behrman; title: Ah, wilderness! (1933)  -- by Eugene O'Neill; title: Tobacco Road (1933)  -- by Jack Kirkland; title: Awake and sing (1935)  -- by Clifford Odets; title: Three men on a horse (1935)  -- by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott; title: Waiting for Lefty (1935)  -- by Clifford Odets; title: The woman (1936)  -- by Clare Booth Luce; title: You can't take it with you (1936)  -- by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; title: Of mice and men (1937)  -- by John Steinbeck; title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938)  -- by Robert Sherwood; title: Our town  -- by Thornton Wilder; title: Life with Father (1939)  -- by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse; title: The little foxes (1939)  -- by Lillian Hellman; title: The man who came to dinner (1939)  -- by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; title: Morning's at seven (1939)  -- by Paul Osborn; title: The Philadelphia story ((1939)  -- by Philiip Barry; title: The time of your life (1939)  -- by William Saroyan; title: Arsenic and old lace (1941)  -- by Joseph Kesseling; title: The skin of our teeth (1942)  -- by Thornton Wilder; title: Harvey (1944)  -- by Mary Chase; title: The glass menagerie (1945)  -- by Tennessee Williams; title: Born yesterday (1946)  -- by Garson Kanin; title: The iceman cometh (1946)  -- by Eugene O'Neill; title: All my sons (1947)  -- by Arthur Miller; title: A streetcar named Desire (1947)  -- by Tennessee Williams; title: Mister Roberts (1948)  -- by Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan; title: Death of a salesman (1949)  -- by Arthur Miller; title: Come back, Little Sheba (1950)  -- by William Inge; title: The member of the wedding (1950)  -- by Carson McCuller; title: The crucible (1953)  -- by Arthur Miller; title: Picnic (1953)  -- by William Inge; title: The rainmaker (1954)  -- by N. Richard Nash; title: Bus stop (1955)  -- by William Inge; title: Cat on a hot tin roof (1955)  -- by Tennessee Williams; title: Inherit the wind (1955)  -- by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee; title: The matchmaker (1955)  -- by Thornton Wilder; title: Aunti Mame (1956)  -- by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee; title: Long day's journey into night (1956)  -- by Eugene O'Neill; title: The miracle worker (1959)  -- byWilliam Gibson; title: A raisin in the sun (1959)  -- by Lorraine Hansberry; title: The best man (1960)  -- by Gore Vidal; title: The zoo story (1960)  -- by Edward Albee; title: Mary, Mary (1961)  -- by Jean Kerr; title: Who's affraid of Virginia Woolf? (19620  -- by Edward Albee; title: Barefoot in the park (1963)  -- by Neil Simon; title: The odd couple (1965)  -- by Neil Simon; title: The lion in winter (1966)  -- by James Goldman; title: The boys in the band (1968)  -- by Mart Crowley; title: The house of blue leave (1971)  -- by John Guare; title: That championship season (1972)  -- by Jason Miller; title: Streamers (1976)  -- by David Rabe; title: Gemini (1977)  -- by Albert Innaurato; title: Deathtrap (1978)  -- by Ira Levin; title: Talley's folly (1979)  -- byLansford Wilson; title: True west (1980)  -- by Sam Shepard; title: Crimes of the heart (1981)  -- by Beth Henley; title: A soldier's play (1981)  -- by Charles Fuller; title: The dinning room (1982)  -- by A.R. Gurney; title: Torch song trilogy (1982)  -- by Harvy Fierstein; title: Brighton Beach memoirs (1983)  -- by Neil Simon; title: 'night, Mother (1983)  -- by Marsha Norman; title: Glengarry Geln Ross (1984)  -- by David Mamet; title: Fences (1987)  -- by August Wilson; title: Steel magnolias (1987)  -- by Robert Harling; title: Joe Turner's come and gone (1988)  -- by August Wilson; title: M. Butterfly (1988)  -- by David Henry Hwang; title: The Heidi chronicles (1989)  -- by Wendy Wasserstein; title: Lend me a tenor (1989)  -- by Ken Ludwig; title: The piano man (1990)  -- by August Wilson; title: Six degrees of separation (1990)  -- by John Guare; title: Lost in Yonkers (1991)  -- by Neil Simon; title: Angels in America (1993)  -- by Tony Kushner; title: Love! Valour! Compassion! (1995)  -- by Terrence McNally; title: Buried child (1996)  -- bySam Sheperd; title: How I learned to drive (1997)  -- by Paula Vogel; title: Dinner with friends (1999)  -- by Donald Marguiles; title: Proof (2000)  -- by David Auburn; title: Take me out (2003)  -- by Richard Greenberg; title: Anna in the tropics (2003)  -- by Nilo Cruz; title: Doubt (2005)  -- by John Patrick Shanley; title: August: Osage County (2007)  -- by Tracy Letts; title: clybourne Park (2012) -- by Bruce Norris.