Best American plays
Contributors: Laurents, Arthur; D'Usseau, Arnaud, 1916-1990; Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005; Kopit, Arthur, 1937-; Hackett, Albert; Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946; Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964; Henley, Beth; Spewack, Bella Cohen, 1899-1990; Manhoff, Bill, 1919-1974; Friedman, Bruce Jay, 1930-; Slade, Bernard, 1930-; Pomerance, Bernard; MacArthur, Charles, 1895-1956; Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987; Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963; McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967; Heyward, Dorothy, 1890-1961; Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940; Rabe, David; Davis, Donald, 1904-1992; Mamet, David; O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953; Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950; Rice, Elmer, 1892-1967; Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987; Conkle, E. P. (Ellsworth Prouty); Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968; Nugent, Elliott, 1896-1980; Albee, Edward, 1928-2016; Mayer, Edwin Justus, 1896-1960; Herbert, F. Hugh (Frederick Hugh), 1897-1958; Gilroy, Frank D. (Frank Daniel), 1925-2015; Goodrich, Frances; Hickerson, Harold, 1923-; Gardner, Herb, 1934-2003; Wheeler, Hugh, 1912-1987; Teichmann, Howard; Lindsay, Howard, 1889-1968; Wouk, Herman, 1915-; Sackler, Howard; Shaw, Irwin, 1913-1984; Levin, Ira, 1929-2007; Horovitz, Israel; Kaufman, George S. (George Simon), 1889-1961; Axelrod, George; Kelly, George, 1887-1974; Abbott, George, 1887-1995; Kanin, Garson, 1912-1999; Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012; Riggs, Lynn, 1899-1954; Stallings, Laurence, 1894-1968; Wilson, Lanford, 1937-2011; Beach, Lewis, 1891-; Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984; Coxe, Louis O., 1918-1993; Elder, Lonne; Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965; Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014; Melfi, Leonard; Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959; Gazzo, Michael V. (Michael Vincente); Weller, Michael, 1942-; Hyman, Mac, 1923-1963; Crowley, Mart, 1935-; Chase, Mary, 1907-1981; Wishengrad, Morton, 1913-1963; Connelly, Marc, 1890-1980; Hart, Moss, 1904-1961; Reed, Mark, 1890-1969; Duberman, Martin B.; Shange, Ntozake; Davis, Owen, 1874-1956; Stone, Peter, 1930-2003; Dunning, Philip, 1890-1968; Barry, Philip, 1896-1949; Sturges, Preston; Green, Paul, 1894-1981; Osborn, Paul, 1901-1988; Foster, Paul, 1931-; Chayefsky, Paddy, 1923-1981; Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983; Heggen, Thomas, 1919-1949; Babe, Thomas; Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975; McNally, Terrence; Mosel, Tad; Bruce, Thomas, 1928-; Sherwood, Robert E. (Robert Emmet), 1896-1955; Lee, Robert Edwin, 1918-1994; Chapman, Robert; Anderson, Robert, 1917-2009; Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977; Montgomery, Robert, 1946-; Jeffers, Robinson, 1887-1962; Crouse, Russel, 1893-1966; Howard, Sidney Coe, 1891-1939; Treadwell, Sophie, 1885-1970; Kingsley, Sidney, 1906-1995; Behrman, S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel), 1893-1973; Glaspell, Susan, 1876-1948; Spewack, Samuel, 1899-1971; Bellow, Saul; Edwards, Sherman; Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017; De Hartog, Jan, 1914-2002; Miller, Jason, 1939-2001; Kerr, Jean; Balderston, John L. (John Lloyd), 1889-1954; Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968; Kesselring, Joseph, 1902-1967; Stein, Joe, 1912-; Walker, Joseph A., 1935-; Patrick, John, 1905-1995; Guare, John; Colton, John, 1891-1946; Logan, Joshua; Holm, Johan Chr; Kirkland, Jack, 1902-1969; Van Druten, John, 1901-1957; Thurber, James, 1894-1961; Gow, James, 1907-1952; Baldwin, James, 1924-1987; Goldman, James; Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004; Feiffer, Jules; Frings, Ketti; Davis, Simon, 1963-; Saroyan, William, 1908-1981; Inge, William; Gibson, William, 1914-2008; Alfred, William, 1922-1999; Hanley, William, 1931-2012; Allen, Woody, 1935-
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 1929
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: American drama
Notes: Editors: Early-5th ser. J. Gassner; 6th ser., J. Gassner; 7th-   ser., C. Barnes.

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Table of contents: title: Early series (1919-1929); title: "The hairy ape"  -- Eugene O'Neill; title: Desire under the elms  -- Eugene O'Neill; title: What price glory?  -- Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson; title: They knew what they wanted  -- Signey Howard; title: Beggar on horseback  -- George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly; title: Craig's wife  -- George Kelly; title: Broadway  -- Philip Dunning and George Abbott; title: Paris bound  -- Phillip Barry; title: The road to Rome  -- Robert E. Sherwood; title: The second man  -- S.N. Behrman; title: Saturday's children  -- Maxwell Anderson; title: Porgy  -- Dorothy and DuBose Heyward; title: The front page  -- Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur; title: Machinal  -- Sophie Treadwell; title: Gods of the lightning  -- Maxwell Anderson and Harold Hickerson; title: Street Scene  -- Elmer Rice; title: Strictly dishonorable  -- Preston Sturges; title: Berkeley Square  -- John L. Balderston; title: The clod  -- Lewis Beach; title: Trifles  -- Susan Glaspell; title: Ile  -- Eugene O'Neill; title: Aria da Capo  -- Edna St. Vincent Millay; title: Poor Aubrey  -- George Kelly; title: White dresses  -- Paul Green; title: Minnie field  -- E.P. Conkle. -- First series (1930-1939); title: Winterset  -- Maxwell Anderson; title: High Tor  -- Maxwell Anderson; title: Idiot's delight  -- Robert E. Sherwood; title: Johnny Johnson  -- Paul Green; title: Green Pastures  -- Marc connelly; title: You can't take it with you  -- George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; title: End of summer  -- S.N. Behrman; title: The animal kingdom  -- Philip Barry; title: Boy meets girl  -- Bella and Samuel Spewack; title: The women  -- Clare Boothe; title: Yes my darling daughter  -- Mark Reed; title: Three men on a horse  -- George Abbott and J.C. Holm; title: The children's hour  -- Lillian Hellman; title: Tobacco Road  -- Jack Kirkland and Erskine Caldwell; title: Of mice and men  -- John Steinbeck; title: Dead End  -- Sidney Kingsley; title: Bury the dead  -- Irwin Shaw; title: The fall of the city  -- Archibald Macleish; title: Golden Boy  -- Clifford Odets; title: Stage door  -- Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman. -- Series 2 (1939-1946); title: The glass menagerie  -- Tennessee Williams; title: The time of your life  -- William Saroyan; title: I remember mama  -- John Van Druten; title: Life with father  -- Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse; title: Born yesterday  -- Garson Kanin; title: The voice of the turtle  -- John Van Druten; title: The male animal  -- James Thurber and Elliot Nugent; title: The man who came to dinner  -- George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; title: Dream girl  -- Elmer Rice; title: The Philadelphia story  -- Philip Barry; title: Arsenic and old lace  -- Joseph Kesselring; title: The hasty heart  -- John Patrick; title: Home of the brave  -- Arthur Laurents; title: Tomorrow the world  -- James Gow and Arnaud d'usseau; title: Watch on the Rhine  -- Lillian Hellman; title: The patriots  -- Sidney Kingsley; title: Abe Lincoln in Illinois  -- Robert E. Sherwood. -- Series 3 (1945-1951); title: Death of a salesman  -- Arthur Miller; title: A streetcar named desire  -- Tennessee Williams; title: The iceman cometh  -- Eugene O'Neill; title: The member of the wedding  -- Carson McCullers; title: The autumn garden  -- Lillian Hellman; title: Come back, little Sheba  -- William Inge; title: All my sons  -- Arthur Miller; title: Detective story  -- Sidney Kingsley; title: Billy Budd  -- Louis O Coxe and Robert Chapman; title: Medea  -- Robinson Jeffers; title: Mister Roberts  -- Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan; title: State of the Union  -- Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse; title: Darkness at noon  -- Sidney Kingsley; title: Anne of the thousand days  -- Maxwell Anderson; title: Bell, book and candle  -- John van Druten; title: The moon is blue  -- F Hugh Herbert; title: Summer and smoke  -- Tennessee Williams. -- Series 4 (1951-1957); title: I am a camera  -- John Van Druten; title: Cat on a hot tin roof  -- Tennessee Williams; title: The rose tattoo  -- Tennessee Williams; title: A moon for the misbegotten  -- Eugene O'Neill; title: A hatful of rain  -- Michael V. Gazzo -- Picnic / -- William Inge; title: Bus stop  -- William Inge; title: Tea and sympathy  -- Robert Anderson; title: A view from the bridge  -- Arthur Miller; title: The crucible  -- Arthur Miller; title: Inherit the wind  -- Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee; title: The Caine Mutiny court-martial  -- Herman Wouk; title: The fourposter  -- Jan de Hartog; title: The seven year itch  -- George Axelrod; title: The matchmaker  -- Thornton Wilder; title: No time for sergeants  -- Ira Levin and Mac Hyman; title: The solid gold Cadillac  -- George S. Kaufman and Howard Teichmann. -- Series 5 (1957-1963); title: A touch of the poet  -- Eugene O'Neill; title: The night of the iguana  -- Tennessee Williams; title: The dark at the top of the stairs  -- William Inge; title: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf  -- Edward Albee; title: The rope dancers  -- Morton Wishengrad; title: Look homeward, Angel  -- Ketti Frings; title: All the way home  -- Tad Mosel; title: Silent night, lonely night  -- Robert Anderson; title: Two for the seesaw  -- William Gibson; title: Mary, Mary  -- Jean Kerr; title: A thousand clowns  -- Herb Gardner; title: The cave dwellers  -- William Saroyan; title: Oh dad, poor dad, mamma's hung you in the closet and I'm feelin' so sad  -- Arthur L. Kopit; title: Orpheus descending  -- Tennessee Williams; title: Gideon  -- Paddy Chayefsky; title: J.B.  -- Archibald MacLeish; title: The best man  -- Gore Vidal. -- Series 6 (1963-1967); title: Tiny Alice  -- Edward Albee; title: Blues for Mister Charlie  -- James Baldwin; title: The last analysis  -- Saul Bellow; title: Hogan's goat  -- William Alfred; title: The Fantasticks  -- Tom Jones; title: The sign in Sidney Brustein's window  -- Lorraine Hansberry; title: The lion in winter  -- James Goldman; title: Hughie  -- Eugene O'Neill; title: The toilet  -- LeRoi Jones; title: You know I can't hear you when the water's running  -- Robert Anderson; title: Benito Cereno  -- Robert Lowell; title: Fiddler on the roof  -- Joseph Stein; title: Slow dance on the killing ground  -- William Hanley; title: In white America  -- Martin B. Duberman; title: The owl and the pussycat  -- Bill Manhoff; title: The odd couple  -- Neil Simon; title: The subject was roses  -- Frank D. Gilroy. -- Series 7 (1967-1973); title: The great white hope  -- Howard Sackler; title: The prisoner of Second Avenue  -- Neil Simon; title: The price  -- Arthur Miller; title: All over  -- Edward Albee; title: Scuba duba  -- Bruce Jay Friedman; title: 1776  -- Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards; title: Sticks and bones  -- David Rabe; title: Indians  -- Arthur Kopit; title: The house of blue leaves  -- John Guare; title: Lemon sky  -- Lanford Wilson; title: Subject to fits  -- Robert Montgomery; title: Tom Paine  -- Paul Foster; title: Morning  -- Israel Horovitz; title: Noon  -- Terrence McNally; title: Night  -- Leonard Melfi; title: Little murders  -- Jules Feiffer; title: The boys in the band  -- Mart Crowley; title: Ceremonies in dark old men  -- Lonne Elder III; title: Play it again, Sam  -- Woody Allen. -- Series 8 (1974-1982)-); title: Chapter two  -- Neil Simon; title: Same time, next year  -- Bernard Slade; title: For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf  -- Ntozake Shange; title: A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur  -- Tennessee Williams; title: That championship season  -- Jason Miller; title: Talley's folly  -- Lanford Wilson; title: A little night music  -- Hugh Wheeler; title: The river niger  -- Joseph A. Walker; title: Buried child  -- Sam Shepard; title: A prayer for my daughter  -- Thomas Babe; title: Loose ends  -- Michael Weller; title: The Ritz  -- Terrence McNally; title: Streamers  -- David Rabe; title: American buffalo  -- David Mamet; title: Wings  -- Arthur Kopit; title: The elephant man  -- Bernard Pomerance; title: Crimes of the heart  -- Beth Henley.; title: Series Supp: Clarence  -- Booth Tarkington; title: Rain  -- John Colton; title: The adding machine  -- Elmer Rice; title: Green grow the lilacs  -- Lynn Riggs; title: The house of Connelly  -- Paul Green; title: Children of darkness  -- Edwin Justus Mayer; title: Biography  -- S. N. Behrman; title: On borrowed time  -- Paul Osborn; title: Morning's at seven --; title: Ethan Frome  -- Owen Davis and Donald Davis; title: Men in white  -- Sidney Kingsley; title: Yellow Jack  -- Sidney Howard; title: Awake and sing!  -- Clifford Odets; title: Here come the clowns  -- Philip Barry; title: Harvey  -- Mary Chase; title: The teahouse of the August moon  -- John Patrick; title: The diary of Anne Frank -- Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett.