Reading Material
Inspired by a fit of insomnia, I decided to catalog my collection of plays:
Okay, that's quite a lot, really. Somehow I doubt it will cause me to stop acquiring more. But perhaps I should actually read all the ones I have, first?
- Albee, Edward: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Auburn, David: Proof
- Beckett, Samuel: Waiting For Godot
- Bennett, Alan: The History Boys
- Bishop, John: The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
- Blessing, Lee: Eleemosynary
- Blessing, Lee: Two Rooms
- Bolt, Robert: A Man For All Seasons
- Chekov, Anton: Three Sisters
- Christie, Agatha: The Unexpected Guest
- Churchill, Caryl: Top Girls
- Coward, Noel: Blithe Spirit
- Coward, Noel: Hay Fever
- Coward, Noel: Private Lives
- Cruz, Nilo: Anna in the Tropics
- Cruz, Nilo: Two Sisters and a Piano
- Durang, Christopher: The Nature and Purpose of the Universe
- Durang, Christopher: Titanic
- Durang, Christopher: 'Dentity Crisis
- Durang, Christopher: The Actor's Nightmare
- Durang, Christopher: Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
- Durang, Christopher: Beyond Therapy
- Durang, Christopher: For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls
- Edson, Margaret: W;t
- Eliot, T.S.: Murder in the Cathedral
- Fo, Dario: Johan Padan and the Discovery of America
- Frayn, Michael: Democracy
- Frayn, Michael: Copenhagen
- Frayn, Michael: Noises Off
- Friel, Brian: Dancing at Lughnasa
- Fugard, Athol: "Master Harold"... and the boys
- Goldman, James: The Lion in Winter
- Gray, Spalding: Swimming to Cambodia
- Guare, John: The House of Blue Leaves
- Guare, John: Chaucer in Rome
- Guare, John: Six Degrees of Separation
- Hansberry, Lorraine: A Raisin in the Sun
- Hare, David: Blue Room
- Hwang, David Henry: M. Butterfly
- Ibsen, Henrik: Hedda Gabler
- Ibsen, Henrik: A Doll's House
- Inge, William: Bus Stop
- Ives, David: All in the Timing (collection)
- Jonson, Ben: Volpone
- Jonson, Ben: The Alchemist
- Kauffman, Moises: The Laramie Project
- Krasna, Norman: Dear Ruth
- Kushner, Tony: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
- Kushner, Tony: Angels in America: Perestroika
- Kushner, Tony: A Bright Room Called Day
- Kushner, Tony: Homebody/Kabul (original edition)
- Kushner, Tony: Homebody/Kabul (revised edition)
- LaBute, Neil: The Shape of Things
- LaBute, Neil: AutoBahn
- Lindsay-Abaire, David: Fuddy Meers
- Lorca, Federico Garcia: Bodas de Sangre
- Lori-Parks, Suzan: Top Dog/Underdog
- Lori-Parks, Suzan: The America Play (and other works)
- Lucas, Craig: Prelude to a Kiss
- Mamet, David: Boston Marriage
- Mamet, David: Sexual Perversity in Chicago
- Mamet, David: The Duck Variations
- Mamet, David: Glengarry Glen Ross
- Mamet, David: Oleanna
- Margulies, Donald: Dinner With Friends
- Martin, Steve: Picasso at the Lapin Agile
- McDonagh, Martin: The Cripple of Inishmaan
- McDonagh, Martin: The Pillowman
- McNally, Terrance: Master Class
- McNally, Terrence: Dedication, or The Stuff of Dreams
- McNally, Terrence: Lips Together, Teeth Apart
- McNally, Terrence: Frankie and Johnny in the Claire du Lune
- McNally, Terrence: 15 Short Plays
- McPherson, Scott: Marvin's Room
- Miller, Arthur: Death of a Salesman
- Miller, Arthur: The Crucible
- Moliere: Tartuffe
- Murray and Boretz: Room Service
- Neary, Jack: First Night
- Neary, Jack: Jerry Finnegan's Sister
- Norman, Marsha: 'night Mother
- Norman, Marsha: The Secret Garden --borrowed from jcaplan
- O'Neill, Eugene: Long Day's Journey into Night
- Osborne, John: Look Back in Anger
- Pirandello, Luigi: Six Characters in Search of an author
- Puig, Manuel: Kiss of the Spider Woman (and Two other plays)
- Pinter, Harold: Betrayal
- Racine, Jean: Phedre (tr. by Ted Hughes)
- Rapp, Adam: Red Light Winter
- Rostand, Edmond: Cyrano de Bergerac
- Rudnick, Paul: I Hate Hamlet
- Rudnick, Paul: The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
- Rudnick, Paul: Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach
- Schenkkan, Robert: The Kentucky Cycle
- Shaffer, Anthony: Sleuth
- Shaffer, Peter: Amadeus
- Shaffer, Peter: Equus
- Shakespeare, William: (lots)
- Shange, Ntozake: For Colored Girls...
- Shanley, John Patrick: Doubt
- Shaw, George Bernard: Mrs. Warren's Profession
- Shaw, George Bernard: Candida
- Shaw, George Bernard: Arms and the Man
- Shaw, George Bernard: Man and Superman
- Shaw, George Bernard: Saint Joan
- Shawn, Wallace: My Dinner With Andre
- Shepard, Sam: Seven Plays
- Simon, Neil: Brighton Beach Memoirs
- Smith, Anna Deavere: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
- Sondheim & Weidman: Pacific Overtures
- Sondheim & Goldman: Follies
- Stoppard, Tom: The Coast of Utopia: Voyage
- Stoppard, Tom: The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
- Stoppard, Tom: The Coast of Utopia: Salvage
- Stoppard, Tom: Dalliance
- Stoppard, Tom: Rough Crossing
- Stoppard, Tom: Undiscovered Country
- Stoppard, Tom: On the Razzle
- Stoppard, Tom: Travesties
- Stoppard, Tom: The Invention of Love
- Stoppard, Tom: Arcadia
- Stoppard, Tom: The Real Thing
- Stoppard, Tom: Night & Day
- Stoppard, Tom: Indian Ink
- Stoppard, Tom: Hapgood
- Stoppard, Tom: The Real Inspector Hound (and other plays)
- Stoppard, Tom: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
- Synge, J.M.: Complete Plays
- Vogel, Paula: The Baltimore Waltz (and other plays)
- Vogel, Paula: How I Learned To Drive
- Wasserstein, Wendy: The Sisters Rosensweig
- Wilde, Oscar: The Importance of Being Earnest (and other plays)
- Williams, Tennessee: The Night of the Iguana
- Williams, Tennessee: A Streetcar Named Desire
- Williams, Tennessee: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Wilson, August: The Piano Lesson
- Wilson, August: Fences
- Wilson, August: The Piano Lesson
- Wilson, August: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- Wilson, August: Seven Guitars
- Wilson, August: Joe Turner's Come and Gone
- Wilson, August: King Hedley II
- Wilson, Lanford: Burn This
- Wilson, Lanford: The Rimers of Eldritch
- Wright, Doug: Quills (and other plays)
- Wright, Doug: I Am My Own Wife
- Wright, J.: The Play of Antichrist
- Zeder, Suzan: Wiley and the Hairy Man
Okay, that's quite a lot, really. Somehow I doubt it will cause me to stop acquiring more. But perhaps I should actually read all the ones I have, first?