LibGuides: Theatre: Finding Plays

Finding Playscripts

To search for plays in the WSU Libraries:

Search the online catalog through the "Advanced Search" option. Click HERE to search.
Enter the title of the play in a single search field. This option will try to locate the play as a single book, or within a larger collection, when the catalog record lists the contents of the anthology.
If you are searching for an older play that does not show up in your previous search, please consult one of the indexes (begin with Ottemiller's Index to Plays, as listed below in "Helpful Resources."
If you are searching for a recently published play, you may want to consult the Worldcat database or the Wichita Public Library to confirm that the play is published and to loan the item from another institution (see the "Can't Find it in Our Library? box below).

Find playscripts online in these databases:

Asian American Drama This link opens in a new window
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Asian American Drama is an online text collection that brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late 19th century and progresses to the writings of contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga. Terms of Use
Black Drama This link opens in a new window
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Black Drama, now in its third edition, contains the full text of more than 1,700 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. James Vernon Hatch, the playwright, historian, and curator of the landmark Hatch-Billops Collection, is the project’s editorial advisor. More than 40 percent of the collection consists of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others. Terms of Use
Contemporary World Drama This link opens in a new window
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Contemporary World Drama examines the richness and diversity of contemporary theatre and drama from a global context, bringing together new work from established and up-and-coming contemporary playwrights from around the world, including recently produced world premieres and previously unpublished works from every continent. At completion, the collection will include 1,000 contemporary plays, from 2000 to present day. Terms of Use
Drama Texts Collection This link opens in a new window
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With over 7,500 plays, the Drama Texts Collection is the supplemental text companion to North American Women's Drama, North American Indian Drama, and Asian American Drama. Terms of Use
Theatre & Drama Premium This link opens in a new window
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Theatre and Drama Premium provides everything you need to bring the spectacle of theatre and drama to your students, from interviews with giants like Arthur Miller or James Earl Jones to previously unpublished play manuscripts from the genius of Ed Bullins and Jeannie Barroga. Terms of Use

Internet Movie Script Database
This site provides a huge collection of movie scripts freely available on the web.
American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment 1870-1920
Includes 334 English and Yiddish language playscripts from 1870-1920.
Project Gutenberg: One Act Plays
Playscripts for one act plays in the public domain.

Looking for Monologues or Dialogues?

In the WSU Online Catalog, conduct a "keyword anywhere" search for: acting monologue?. The question mark will provide you with results for both "monologue" and "monologues." Likewise search for "acting dialogue?" when searching for a scene with 2 actors.

Monologue Websites:

Monologue Archive
An online index to monologues for men, women, children, and seniors.
Shakespeare's Monologues
Browse and/or search for monologues. Each monologue entry includes the character's name, the first line of the speech, whether it is verse or prose, and shows the act, scene & line number. Each entry provides a link to the full text of the scene.
Monologues from Plays by Stage Agent
Here are hundreds of monologues from plays for men and women of all ages.
monologuedb the Monologue Database
The monologue database organizes monologues on the web.
Ace Your Audition: Free Monologues
Selective monologues and audition tips. Mainly from sources other than published plays.

Information About Plays

Masterplots II, Drama Series by Frank N. Magill (Editor)
Call Number: PN6112.5 .M37 1990
ISBN: 0893564915
n 4 volumes, this series examines 327 works of twentieth century drama, English-language works or translations in English from other languages. Entries are arranged alphabetically by the title best-known to an English-speaking audience. Each essay provides essential factual information about the play, a synopsis, an examination of issues in the play, a discussion of theatrical elements in the work, an assessment of the play’s critical context, and a list of recommended readings. Volume 4 contains indices by title and author.
Theatre by William T. Leonard
Call Number: PN2189 .L44
ISBN: 0810813742
In 2 volumes this chronicles each works’ production on stage, in film and television. Each entry contains the number of acts, author and date, synopsis, commentary, critique, location, opening date, cast and credit listing for stage; studio, release date, cast and credit listings for screen; and series title, production company, televised date, cast and credit information for television productions. The second volume contains indices to composers, lyricists, librettists, authors and playwrights.
The Crown Guide to the World's Great Plays by Joseph T. Shipley
Call Number: PN6112.5 .S45 1984
ISBN: 0517553929
Though this does not venture past the early 1980s, it does cover a great number of plays, from Ancient Greece through most of the 20th century. Play entries are arranged by author, with background and an assessment of each title. The contents are subjective but this is still a good overview of some prominent titles.

Reviews of Plays

Please consult the following when searching for play reviews:

Library Guide for English
Search in the databases listed under the "Find Articles" tab.
Multidisciplinary Databases
Search in the databases listed here.

Notable Plays in the WSU Libraries Collection

Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard
Call Number: ONLINE and in print: PR6069.T6 L46 2020
ISBN: 9780802157713
Publication Date: 2020-08-25
2023 Tony Award winner for Best Play.
Stoppard's epic yet intimate drama centers on Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptized Jew married to Catholic Gretl, whose extended family convene at their fashionable apartment on Christmas Day in 1899. Yet by the time the play closes, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, which stole the lives of 65,000 Austrian Jews alone.
The Lehman Trilogy by Ben Power; Stefano Massini
Call Number: PQ4913.A86 L446 2022
ISBN: 9780573709951
Publication Date: 2022-10-12
2022 Tony Award winner for Best Play.
The Lehman Trilogy is the quintessential story of western capitalism, rendered through the lens of a single immigrant family.
The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez
Call Number: PS3612.O642 I54 2020
ISBN: 9780571362264
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
2020 Tony Award winner for Best Play.
Inspired by E. M. Forster's novel Howards End, and set in New York three decades after the height of the AIDS epidemic, The Inheritance wrestles with what it means to be a gay man today, exploring relationships and connections across age and social class and asking what one generation's responsibilities may be to the next.
The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth
Call Number: PR6052.U894 F47 2017
ISBN: 9781848426382
2019 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Rural County Armagh, Ireland, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of hard work on the land and a traditional night of feasting and celebrations lie ahead. But this year they will be interrupted by a visitor.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two (Special Rehearsal Edition Script) by J. K. Rowling; Jack Thorne; John Tiffany
Call Number: PZ5 823 R8845h23
ISBN: 9781338099133
2018 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.
Oslo by J. T. Rogers
Call Number: PS3618.O463 O86 2017
ISBN: 9781559365567
Publication Date: 2017-05-09
2017 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Oslo tells the true story of the back-channel talks, unlikely friendships, and quiet heroics that led to the 1993 Oslo Accords between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
The Humans by Stephen Karam
Call Number: PS3611.A72 H86 2016
ISBN: 9780822235279
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
2016 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside the ramshackle pre-war duplex, eerie things start to go bump in the night and the heart and horrors of the Blake clan are exposed.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon; Simon Stephens (Adapted by)
Call Number: PR6119.T455 C87 2015
ISBN: 9781408173350
Publication Date: 2012-09-24
2015 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and the capital cities. And every prime number up to 7507. Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington. He has an extraordinary brain and is exceptional at math, but he is ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched and he distrusts strangers. But Christopher's detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that turns his world upside-down. Simon Stephens's adaptation of Mark Haddon's bestselling, award-winning novel, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" (PR6058.A245 C87 2003), offers a richly theatrical exploration of this touching and bleakly humorous tale.
All the Way by by Robert Schenkkan
Call Number: PS3569.C4833 A65 2014
ISBN: 9780822231080
2014 Tony Award Winner for Best Play.
November, 1963. An assassin's bullet catapults Lyndon Baines Johnson into the presidency. A Shakespearean figure of towering ambition and appetite, this charismatic, conflicted Texan hurls himself into the passage of the Civil Rights Act -- a tinderbox issue emblematic of a divided America -- even as he campaigns for reelection in his own right, and the recognition he so desperately wants.
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
Call Number: PS3554.U666 V36 2013
ISBN: 0802122388
Publication Date: 2013-08-13
2013 Tony Award Winner for Best Play.
Winner of the Outer Circle Critics Award for Best Play Winner of the Drama League Award for Best Production of a Play Winner of the Drama Desk Award for Best Play Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Production Winner of the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play Vanya and his adopted sister Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up, but their peace is disturbed when their movie star sister Masha returns unannounced with her twenty-something boy toy, Spike. A weekend of rivalry, regret, and raucousness begins!
Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
Call Number: PS3614.O768 C59 2012
ISBN: 0822226979
Publication Date: 2012-12-12
2012 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain price, unknowingly bringing the first black family into the neighborhood and creating ripples of discontent among the cozy white residents of Clybourne Park. In 2009, the same property is being bought by a young white couple, whose plan to raze the house and start again is met with equal disapproval by the black residents of the soon-to-be-gentrified area.
War Horse by Nick Stafford ; adapted for the stage from the novel by Michael Morpurgo
Call Number: PR6069.T1835 W37 2007
ISBN: 9780571240159
2011 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
"At the outbreak of the First World War, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. Caught up in enemy fire, fate takes Joey on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land. But Albert cannot forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a treacherous mission to find and bring him home. Nick Stafford's stage adaptation of the celebrated novel by the Children's Laureate (2003-5) Michael Morpurgo leads us on a gripping journey through history."--Publisher's description.
Red by John Logan
Call Number: PS3562.O4472 R44 2011
ISBN: 0822224836
Publication Date: 2011-04-27
2010 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
THE STORY: Master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art, a series of murals for New York's famed Four Seasons Restaurant. In the two fascinating years that follow, Rothko works feveri
The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza; Christopher Hampton (Translator)
Call Number: PQ2678.E955 D5413 2008
ISBN: 0571242588
Publication Date: 2009-04-28
2009 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behaviour of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need to teach ids how to behave properly? Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears before bedtime?Boys will be boys, but the adults are usually worse - much worse.Christopher Hampton's translation of Yasmina Reza's sharp-edged new play The God of Carnage premiered at the Gielgud Theatre, London, in March 2008.
August by Tracy Letts
Call Number: PS3612.E887 A75 2008
ISBN: 9781559363303
Publication Date: 2008-02-01
2008 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
August: Osage County is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest--and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed. The three-act, three-and-a-half-hour mammoth of a play combines epic tragedy with black comedy, dramatizing three generations of unfulfilled dreams and leaving not one of its thirteen characters unscathed.
Doubt by John Patrick Shanley
Call Number: PS3569.H3337 D68 2005
ISBN: 1559362766
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
2005 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
An inspired study in moral uncertainty with the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama.
I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright; Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
Call Number: PS3573.R53252 I3 2004
ISBN: 0571211747
Publication Date: 2004-02-09
2004 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
A one-man show, which explores the astonishing true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. A transvestite and celebrated antiques dealer who successfully navigated the two most oppressive regimes of the past century-the Nazis and the Communists--while openly gay and defiantly in drag, von Mahlsdorf was both hailed as a cultural hero and accused of colluding with the Stasi.
Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg
Call Number: PS3557.R3789 T35 2003
ISBN: 0571211186
Publication Date: 2003-08-06
2003 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Darren Lemming is the star center fielder for the champion New York Empires. An extraordinary athlete, he fills both his fans and his teammates with awe at his abilities and his presence on the field and off. When he makes the matter-of-fact announcement that he's gay, he throws his team into turmoil and confusion, while he also emboldens his closeted accountant, Mason Marzac, to come to terms with his own sexuality and to fully experience the pure joy of watching great athletes play a sport as well as it can be played. But Darren's announcement brings to the fore the confused and twisted hostilities of the Empires' brilliantly talented but deeply racist and homophobic pitcher, Shane Mungitt from whose rage tragic consequences ensue.
The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? by Edward Albee
Call Number: PS3551.L25 G63 2003
ISBN: 1585673641
Publication Date: 2003-05-12
2002 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
In the play, Martin, a successful architect who has just turned fifty, leads an ostensibly ideal life with his loving wife and gay teenage son. But when he confides to his best friend that he is also in love with a goat (named Sylvia), he sets in motion events that will destroy his family and leave his life in tatters. The playwright himself describes it this way: "Every civilization sets quite arbitrary limits to its tolerances. The play is about a family that is deeply rocked by an unimaginable event and how they solve that problem. It is my hope that people will think afresh about whether or not all the values they hold are valid."
Proof by David Auburn
Call Number: PS3551.U28 P7 2001
ISBN: 0571199976
Publication Date: 2001-03-05
2001 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Proof focuses on Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her father, Robert, a brilliant mathematician in his youth who was later unable to function without her help. His death has brought into her midst both her sister, Claire, who wants to take Catherine back to New York with her, and Hal, a former student of Catherine's father who hopes to find some hint of Robert's genius among his incoherent scribblings. The passion that Hal feels for math both moves and angers Catherine, who, in her exhaustion, is torn between missing her father and resenting the great sacrifices she made for him. For Catherine has inherited at least a part of her father's brilliance -- and perhaps some of his instability as well. As she and Hal become attracted to each other, they push at the edges of each other's knowledge, considering not only the unpredictability of genius but also the human instinct toward love and trust.
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
Call Number: PR6056.R3 C64 2000
ISBN: 9780385720793
Publication Date: 2000-08-08
2000 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart and friend Niels Bohr. Their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle had revolutionized atomic physics. But now the world had changed and the two men were on opposite sides in a world war. Why Heisenberg went to Copenhagen and what he wanted to say to Bohr are questions that have vexed historians ever since.
Side Man by Warren Leight
Call Number: PS3562.E458 S5 1998
ISBN: 0802136222
Publication Date: 1999-01-08
1999 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Side Man is the comic and tender story of Clifford, a young man who looks back on his family life prior to leaving home. Clifford reconciles the role that he has long played as parent to his parents. Smoothly gliding between present and past, the play tells the story of a time before the Beatles and Elvis, when jazzmen were heroic like ballplayers and there was no shortage of Saturday-night gigs. Side Man is both a tribute to the men whose lives were their music and a sober look at a family drama left in the wake of that passion.
'Art' in: Yasmina Reza - Plays 1 by Yasmina Reza; Christopher Hampton (Translator)
Call Number: PQ2678.E955 P5313 2005
ISBN: 0571221912
Publication Date: 2005-07-30
1998 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Yasmina Reza's award-winning comedy Art is collected here with three more of her sharp witty and sexy plays, all translated by Christopher Hampton. 'Art': Serge has bought a modern painting for a huge sum of money. Mark hates it and cannot believe that a friend of his could possibly want such a work. Yvan attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate both sides. The question is, are you who you think you are or are you who your friends think you are? If your friendship is based on tacit mutual agreement, what happens when one person does something completely different?
The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry
Call Number: PS3571.H7 L37 1997
ISBN: 1559361409
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
1997 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Set in Atlanta, Georgia, in December of 1939, Atlanta's elitist German Jews are concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season, especially the Freitag family. The family gets pulled apart and then mended together with plenty of comedy, romance and revelations along the way.
Master Class by Terrence McNally
Call Number: PS3563.A323 M37 1995
ISBN: 0452276152
Publication Date: 1995-12-01
1996 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Maria Callas is brought back to life in Sturm und Drang. Inspired by a series of master classes the great diva conducted at Juilliard toward the end of her career, this drama puts Maria Callas at center stage again as she coaxes, prods, and inspires students "victims" as she calls them into giving the performances of their lives while revealing her own. Dazzling theatricality comes from Callas's emotional explosions, her cutting wit, and the soaring music as each student sings an aria that exposes the Diva's vulnerabilities and her genius.
Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terrence McNally
Call Number: PS3563.A323 L6 1995b
ISBN: 0822214679
Publication Date: 1995-05-01
1995 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
At a beautiful Dutchess County farmhouse, eight men hash out their passions, resentments and fears over the course of three summer weekends.
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
Call Number: PR6056.R5 D3 1990
ISBN: 0571144799
Publication Date: 1998-12-30
1992 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after twenty-five years, and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of this menage, Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which they are nonetheless a part.
The Grapes of Wrath by Frank Galati (Adapted by); John Steinbeck
Call Number: PS3557.A3927 J6 1990
ISBN: 0822204754
Publication Date: 1991-10-01
1990 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Adaptation of John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning novel (PS3537.T3234 G8 1968), this is the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have-nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.
The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
Call Number: PS3573.A798 H4 1991
ISBN: 0679734996
Publication Date: 1991-07-02
1989 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Comprised of a series of interrelated scenes, the play traces the coming of age of Heidi Holland, a successful art historian, as she tries to find her bearings in a rapidly changing world. Gradually distancing herself from her friends, she watches them move from the idealism and political radicalism of their college years through militant feminism and, eventually, back to the materialism that they had sought to reject in the first place.
Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
Call Number: PR6069.T6 C63 2002
ISBN: 0571216609
2007 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
The Coast of Utopia comprises three plays that chronicle the lives of a group of friends who come of age under the Tsarist autocracy of Nicholas I, and for whom the term “intelligentsia” was coined.
The History Boys by Alan Bennett
Call Number: PR6052.E5 H57 2006
ISBN: 9780571224647
Publication Date: 2006-04-04
2006 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university.
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Call Number: PS3561.U778 A85 1995
ISBN: 1559361077
Publication Date: 1995-09-01
1993 & 1994 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Part I: Millennium Approaches in 1993 and Part II: Perestroika in 1994
Kushner tells the story of a handful of people trying to make sense of the world. Prior is a man living with AIDS whose lover Louis has left him and become involved with Joe, an ex-Mormon and political conservative whose wife, Harper, is slowly having a nervous breakdown. These stories are contrasted with that of Roy Cohn (a fictional re-creation of the infamous American conservative ideologue who died of AIDS in 1986) and his attempts to remain in the closet while trying to find some sort of personal salvation in his beliefs. Kushner's grand plan, which mixes magical realism with political speeches, high comedy with painful tragedy, and stitches it all together with a daring sense of irony and a moral vision that demands respect and attention. On one level, the play is an indictment of the government led by Ronald Reagan, from the blatant disregard for the AIDS crisis to the flagrant political corruption. But beneath the acute sense of political and moral outrage lies a meditation on what it means to live and die--of AIDS, or anything else--in a society that cares less and less about human life and basic decency.
Lost in Yonkers in: The Collected Plays of Neil Simon by Neil Simon
Call Number: PS3537.I663 A64 2005
ISBN: 9780684847856
Publication Date: 1998-04-28
Contains "Lost in Yonkers,"
1991 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
It is New York, 1942. After the death of their mother, two young brothers are sent to stay with their formidable grandmother for the longest ten months of their lives. Grandmother Kurnitz is a one-woman German front—a refugee and a widow who has steeled her heart against the world. Her coldness and intolerance have crippled her own children: the boys' father has no self-esteem . . . their Aunt Gert has an embarrassing speech impediment . . . their Uncle Louie is a small-time gangster . . . and their Aunt Bella has the mentality of a child. But it is Bella's hunger for affection and her refusal to be denied love that saves the boys—and that leads to an unforgettable, wrenching confrontation with her mother.
M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
Call Number: PS3558.W83 M2 1988
ISBN: 0822207125
Publication Date: 1988-10-01
1988 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Based on the true story of a French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, posted to Peking, who fell in love with a seductive opera singer, named Shi Pei Pu, apparently unaware that Pei Pu was a man.
Fences by August Wilson
Call Number: PS3573 .I45677 F4 1986
ISBN: 0452264014
Publication Date: 1986-06-01
1987 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle" plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation and in the 1960s a spirit that is changing the world. Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can...a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less.
I'm Not Rappaport by Herb Gardner
Call Number: PS3513.A6333 I4 1988
ISBN: 2702881718
Publication Date: 1988-03-01
1986 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
The play focuses on Nat Moyer, a feisty Jew, and Midge Carter, a cantankerous African-American, who spend their days sitting on a bench. They both mask the realities of aging, sharing tall tales that Nat spins. The play touches on several issues, including society's treatment of the aging, the difficulties dealing with adult children who think they know what's best for their parents, and the dangers that lurk in urban areas.
Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon
Call Number: PS3537.I663 B55 1986
ISBN: 0573690405
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
1985 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
The second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon's trilogy which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound. When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930's Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WW II, going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital 'L' along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943.
The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard
Call Number: PR6069.T6 R43 1982
ISBN: 0571119832
Publication Date: 1984-01-01
1984 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage written by her husband Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture because Henry and Annie have fallen in love. But is it the real thing?
Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein
Call Number: PS3556.I4213 T67 1979
ISBN: 9780573690105
Publication Date: 2011-01-03
1983 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Includes: The International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, Widows and Children First. The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a torch song singing Jewish drag queen living in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The four hour-plus play begins with a soliloquy in which he explains his cynical disillusionment with love. Each act focuses on a different phase in Arnold's life.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens; adapted for the stage by David Edgar
Call Number: PR6055.D44 L5 1982
Publication Date: 1982
1982 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
The play recaptures the sights and sounds of Victorian England, and the touching, funny, exhilarating saga of the virtuous young Nicholas as he meets and masters the challenges of poverty and corruption. In the end the play is a soaring affirmation of man's essential goodness—a thrilling, eloquent rendering of the diverse people, places and events which, in Dickens' time or in ours, make up the real stuff of life and draw on the deepest resources of the human spirit.
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
Call Number: PR6037.H23 A8 1981
ISBN: 0060935499
Publication Date: 2001-08-07
1981 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
An extraordinary work of historical fiction about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Children of a Lesser God by Mark Medoff
Call Number: PS3563.E27 C47 1983
ISBN: 0822202034
Publication Date: 1980-10-01
1980 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
After three years in the Peace Corps, James, a young speech therapist, joins the faculty of a school for the deaf, where he is to teach lip-reading. He meets Sarah, a school dropout, totally deaf from birth, and estranged both from the world of hearing and from those who would compromise to enter that world. Fluent in sign language, James tries, with little success, to help Sarah, but gradually the two fall in love and marry. At first their relationship is a happy and glowing one, as the gulf of silence between them seems to be bridged by their desire to understand each other's needs and feelings, but discord soon develops as Sarah becomes militant for the rights of the deaf and rejects any hint that she is being patronized and pitied.
The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance
Call Number: PR6066.O48 E4 1979
ISBN: 0802130410
Publication Date: 1994-01-19
1979 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
"The Elephant Man" is based on the life of John Merrick, who lived in London during the latter part of the nineteenth century. A horribly deformed young man, who has been a freak attraction in traveling side shows, is found abandoned and helpless and is admitted for observation to Whitechapel, a prestigious London hospital. Under the care of a famous young doctor, who educates him and introduces him to London society, Merrick changes from a sensational object of pity to the urbane and witty favorite of the aristocracy and literati. But his belief that he can become a man like any other is a dream never to be realized.
Da by Hugh Leonard
Call Number: PR6062.E7 D2 1978
ISBN: 9780689705809
Publication Date: 1978-10-01
1978 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Dublin, the 1960s. After Da's funeral, Charlie returns to his childhood home only to find his father's ghost stubbornly unwilling to leave the house or his son's mind. As the events of Charlie's youth and Da's troubled relationship with Mother are replayed, we discover the darkly comic, bittersweet relationship that existed between father and son.
Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer
Call Number: PS3553.R533 S5
ISBN: 0573616132
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
1977 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
In this compelling dramatic triptych, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital grounds. The three are attended and visited by family and close friends: Agnes and her mother Felicity, estranged further by the latter's dementia; Brian and Beverly whose martial complications are exacerbated by Brian's new lover, Mark; and Joe and Maggie, unready for the strain of Joe's impending death and it's effect on their teenage son.
Travesties by Tom Stoppard
Call Number: PR6069.T6 T7 1975b
ISBN: 0802150896
Publication Date: 1994-01-21
1976 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consul official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr.
Equus by Peter Shaffer
Call Number: PR6037.H23 E6 1977
ISBN: 0140481850
Publication Date: 1984-10-02
1975 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horses leads him to commit an unspeakable act of violence. As psychiatrist Martin Dysart struggles to understand the motivation for Alan's brutality, he is increasingly drawn into Alan's web and eventually forced to question his own sanity. Equus is a timeless classic and a cornerstone of contemporary drama that delves into the darkest recesses of human existence.
The River Niger by Joseph A. Walker
Call Number: PS3573.A42534 R5
ISBN: 0809012316
Publication Date: 1973-01-01
1974 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Johnny Williams is a working house painter and amateur poet who is trying to live in a contemporary ghetto in Watts, Los Angeles, California. Though he is trying to provide for his almost stable family, times are hard.
That Championship Season by Jason Miller
Call Number: PS3563.I412 T5 1972
ISBN: 0822211262
Publication Date: 1972-10-01
1973 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Following their annual custom, five men--a high-school basketball coach, now retired, and four members of the team that he guided to the state championship twenty years earlier--meet for a reunion.
Sticks and Bones in: The Tony Winners by Stanley Richards (Editor)
Call Number: PS634 .T59
ISBN: 0385113803
Publication Date: 1977-03-01
Contains ""Sticks and Bones"
1972 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
A savagely comic portrait of an archetypal, middle class family, Ozzie, Harriet, David and Ricky, falling apart. When David comes back from the war blinded, he is pursued by furies that haunt him. Wanting to return their son to normal, Ozzie and Harriet attempt their best parenting. But David grows even more vengeful. Finally it's up to guitar-playing, fudge-eating Ricky to save the day by enlisting the family in a tidy little atrocity all their own.
Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer; Peter Shaffer
Call Number: PR6069.H258 S6 1997
ISBN: 0714507636
Publication Date: 2000-07-01
1971 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Sleuth, a plot whose twists and turns are breathtakingly audacious and fiendishly cunning; suspense and excitement galore; and a brilliant parody of the Agatha Christie country-house thriller, mercilessly satirizing the genre at the same as using its technical devices to the full.
Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy by Frank McMahon; Brendan Behan
Call Number: PS3563.A31877 B7
ISBN: 0394470192
Publication Date: 1971-01-01
1970 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Schools for delinquents in England are called Borstal Institutions. This is Frank McMahon's adaptation of Brendan Behan's account of his years as a "Borstal Boy." See also: PR6003.E417 Z52 1971
Great White Hope by Howard Sackler
Call Number: PS3537.A156 G7
ISBN: 0573609608
Publication Date: 1968
1969 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Based on the tumultuous career of Jack Johnson, who in 1908 became the first Negro heavyweight champion of the world.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead in: Nine Plays of the Modern Theater by Tom Stoppard
Call Number: PN6112 .N56
ISBN: 0394174119
Publication Date: 1981-01-01
Contains "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"
1968 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of Waiting for Godot resound, where reality and illusion intermix, and where fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
Call Number: PR6066.I53 H6x 1966
ISBN: 0802151051
Publication Date: 1994-01-11
1967 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
In an old and slightly seedy house in North London there lives a family of men: Max, the aging but still aggressive patriarch; his younger, ineffectual brother Sam; and two of Max's three sons, neither of whom is married -- Lenny, a small-time pimp, and Joey, who dreams of success as a boxer. Into this sinister abode comes the eldest son, Teddy, who, having spent the past six years teaching philosophy in America, is now bringing his wife, Ruth, home to visit the family she has never met.
Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss; Robert Cohen (Editor)
Call Number: PT2685.E5 V43 1998
ISBN: 0826409636
Publication Date: 1998-07-01
1966 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
This extraordinary play, which swept Europe before coming to America, is based on two historical truths: the infamous Marquis de Sade was confined in the lunatic asylum of Charenton, where he staged plays; and the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed in a bathtub by Charlotte Corday at the height of the Terror during the French Revolution. But this play-within-a-play is not historical drama. Its thought is as modern as today's police states and The Bomb; its theatrical impact has everywhere been called a major innovation. It is total theatre: philosophically problematic, visually terrifying. It engages the eye, the ear, and the mind with every imaginable dramatic device, technique, and stage picture, even including song and dance.
The Subject Was Roses in: The Tony Winners by Frank Gilroy
Call Number: PS634 .T59
ISBN: 0385113803
Publication Date: 1977-03-01
1965 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
It is May of 1946 and Timmy Cleary has come home from the war to his estranged parents, John and Nettie, in the Bronx apartment where he grew up. As their reunion promises a return to life as it never was, John, giving up a lucrative business opportunity, attends a ball game with his son and grudgingly, at Timmy's request, returns with roses for Nettie in an insincere attempt at reconciliation. Reminiscing, the three attempt to recapture the past and all it symbolizes, but the ideal is shattered amidst recriminations.
Luther by John Osborne
Call Number: PR6029.S39 L8 1963
1964 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Here is an unparalleled portrait of the passionate priest - the rebel who challenged, and changed, the spiritual world of his time.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Call Number: PS3501.L178 W5 2003
ISBN: 9780743255257
Publication Date: 2003-07-29
1963 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
George, a disillusioned academic, and Martha, his caustic wife, have just come home from a faculty party. When a handsome young professor and his mousy wife stop by for a nightcap, an innocent night of fun and games quickly turns dark and dangerous. Long-buried resentment and rage are unleashed as George and Martha turn their rapier-sharp wits against each other, using their guests as pawns in their verbal sparring. By night's end, the secrets of both couples are uncovered and the lies they cling to are exposed.
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Call Number: PR6003.O474 M3 1962
ISBN: 0679728228
1962 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
The classic play about Sir Thomas More, the Lord chancellor who refused to compromise and was executed by Henry VIII.
Becket by Jean Anouilh; Translated by Lucienne Hill
Call Number: PQ2601.N67 B413
ISBN: 1573225088
1961 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
This celebrated play that draws from historical events in the Norman conquest of England to create a profound portrait of a man's soul and a transcendent vision of the human spirit From its powerful opening scene, of King Henry II praying at the tomb of Thomas Becket, to the final act of ultimate self-sacrifice, Jean Anouilh's Becket remains a towering achievement in the history of the theatre.
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Call Number: PS3513.I2824 M5 1967
ISBN: 1416590846
Publication Date: 2008-06-17
1960 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Based on the remarkable true story of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan, this inspiring and unforgettable play has moved countless readers and become an American classic. Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution because her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a "half-blind Yankee schoolgirl" named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Despite the Kellers' resistance and the belief that Helen "is like a little safe, locked, that no one can open," Annie suspects that within Helen lies the potential for more, if only she can reach her. Through persistence, love, and sheer stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helen's walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate, bringing her into the world at last.
J. B. by Archibald MacLeish
Call Number: PS3525.A27 J2 1958
ISBN: 0395083532
Publication Date: 1989-08-01
1959 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Based on the story of Job, this drama in verse tells the story of a twentieth-century American banker and millionaire whom God commands be stripped of his family and wealth, but who refuses to turn his back on God.
Sunrise at Campobello by Dore Schary
Call Number: PS3537.C253 S8 1958
ISBN: 0822211017
1958 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
The play covers thirty-four months when F.D.R.'s crisis was a private one--from the day in August, 1921, when he was stricken by infantile paralysis at his summer home at Campobello, to the day FDR "stands" to deliver the nominating speech for NY Governor, Alfred Smith.
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
Call Number: PS3529.N5 L6
ISBN: 0300046014
1957 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Long Day's Journey Into Night is an autobiographical play Eugene O'Neill wrote that--because of the highly personal writing about his family--was not to be released until 25 years after his death, which occurred in 1953. But since O'Neill's immediate family had died in the early 1920s, his wife allowed publication of the play in 1956. Besides the history alone, the play is fascinating in its own right. It tells of the "Tyrones"--a fictional name for what is clearly the O'Neills. Theirs is not a happy tale: The youngest son (Edmond) is sent to a sanitarium to recover from tuberculosis; he despises his father for sending him; his mother is wrecked by narcotics; and his older brother by drink. In real-life these factors conspired to turn O'Neill into who he was--a tormented individual and a brilliant playwright.
The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich; Albert Hackett
Call Number: PS3513.O53515 D5 1956
ISBN: 0822203073
1965 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Adapted from "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,"(D810.J4 F715 1952). In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
The Desperate Hours by Joseph Hayes
Call Number: PS3515.A942 D4 1956
1955 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
The Hilliards are a typical family living on the outskirts of Indianapolis; abruptly, their pleasant home becomes a jungle full of cunning and violence. Mr. Hilliard and 19 year old Cindy are allowed to go to work while Mrs. Hilliard and 10 year old Ralphie remain in the house as hostages. Meanwhile, the police search closes in inexorably, conducted by a deputy sheriff who has his own reasons for wanting to kill. The Hilliards are helpless. A murder occurs. The police move closer.
The Teahouse of the August Moon by Vern Sneider; John Patrick (Adapted by)
Call Number: PS3513.O27 T4 1952
ISBN: 0822211149
1954 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
As told by McClain in the New York Journal-American: "…pursues the career of an Army of Occupation officer stationed in a remote town in Okinawa. His duty is to teach Democracy to the natives, and there is a stern and stupid Colonel breathing down his neck to insure the strict enforcement of the Manual of Occupation. But the young officer has not prepared himself for the ingenious charm of the people.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Call Number: PS3525.I5156 C7 1953
ISBN: 0142437336
1953 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community. "I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote in an introduction to The Crucible, his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria.
Fourposter in: The Tony Winners by Jan de Hartog
Call Number: PS634.T59
ISBN: 0385113803
Contains "Fourposter"
1952 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
The play chronicles the life of a husband and wife from their wedding night in 1890 until they leave the house that has been their home, 35 years later.
The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams
Call Number: PS3545.I5365 R6 1951
ISBN: 0822209713
1951 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
Professional widow and dressmaker Serafina delle Rosa has withdrawn from the world, locking away her heart and her sixteen-year-old daughter Rosa. Then one day a man with the sexy body of her late Sicilian husband and the face of a village idiot, Mangiacavallo (Italian for “eat a horse”), stumbles into her life and clumsily unlocks Serafina’s fiery anger, sense of betrayal, pride, wit, passion, and eventually her capacious love.
The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot
Call Number: PS3509.L43 C6
ISBN: 0156182890
1950 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
A modern verse play about the search for meaning, in which a psychiatrist is the catalyst for the action.
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Call Number: PS3525.I5156 D4 1980
ISBN: 0822202905
1949 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
The story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness.
Mister Roberts in Six Great American Plays by Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan
Call Number: PS634 .S57 1978
Publication Date: http://libcat.wichita.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=54
1948 Tony Award Winner for Best Play
World War II play about the crew of the Reluctant, an imaginary cargo ship in the back waters of the Pacific.
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Call Number: PS3525.I5156 A7
1947 Tony Award for Author
During the war Joe Keller and Steve Deever ran a machine shop which made airplane parts. Deever was sent to prison because the firm turned out defective parts, causing the deaths of many men. Keller went free and made a lot of money. The twin shadows of this catastrophe and the fact that the young Keller son was reported missing during the war dominate the action. The love affair of Chris Keller and Ann Deever, the bitterness of George Deever returned from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free, are all set in a structure of almost
unbearable power. The climax showing the reaction of a son to his guilty father is fitting conclusion to a play electrifying in its intensity.

English by Sanaz Toossi
2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
On Order

Fat Ham by James Ijames
Call Number: PS3609.J36 F38 2023
ISBN: 9781636701684
Publication Date: 2023-08-01
2022 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South. Juicy--a young, queer, Southern man, who is grappling with questions of identity--is visited by the ghost of his father (Pap) at his mother's wedding/family barbecue. Pap demands that Juicy avenge his recent murder. How will Juicy, a sensitive and self-aware young Black man, trying to break a cycle of trauma and toxic masculinity, avenge his father's premature death?

Hot Wing King - Katori Hall
2021 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Not yet published

A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson
Call Number: ONLINE
ISBN: 9781559369930
Publication Date: 2021
2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Usher is a Black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical: a piece about a Black, queer writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical.
Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury
Call Number: PS3604.R873 F35 2019
ISBN: 9781559369527
About race and power in America, explored through the lens of a family drama.Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doomed to go awry-the silverware is all wrong, the radio is on the fritz, and the rest of the family can't be bothered to lift a hand to help. And yet, what appears at first to be a standard family dramedy takes a sharp, sly turn into a startling examination of deep-seated paradigms about race in America.
Cost of Living (TCG Edition) by Martyna Majok
Call Number: PS3613.A3537 C68 2018
ISBN: 9781559365970
2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Overworked but struggling, Jess takes a job as a caregiver for John, a brusque but bright graduate student who has cerebral palsy. Eddie is an unemployed truck driver who reaches a fragile détente with his estranged wife Ani after a devastating car accident requires her to go through a double above-the-knee amputation. With an unsentimental but keen eye, Majok deftly challenges the typical perceptions of those living with disabilities and delves deep into the ways class, race, nationality, and wealth (or lack thereof) can create gulfs between people, even as they long for the ability to connect.
Sweat by Lynn Nottage
Call Number: PS3564.O795 S94 2017
ISBN: 9781559365321
Publication Date: 2017-06-13
2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory workers struggles to keep their present lives in balance, ignorant of the financial devastation looming in their near futures. Set in 2008, the powerful crux of this new play is knowing the fate of the characters long before it's even in their sights. Based on Nottage's extensive research and interviews with real residents of Reading, Sweat is a topical reflection of the present and poignant outcome of America's economic decline.
Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda; Jeremy McCarter
Call Number: ML50.M6733 H3 2016
ISBN: 9781455539741
Publication Date: 2016-04-12
2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The poor kid from the Caribbean who fought the British, defended the Constitution, and helped to found the United States. Fusing hip-hop, pop, R&B, and the best traditions of theater, this once-in-a-generation show broadens the sound of Broadway, reveals the storytelling power of rap, and claims our country's origins for a diverse new generation.
Between Riverside and Crazy by Guirgis, Stephen Adly
Call Number: PS3607.U49 B48 2016
ISBN: 9780822233404
2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
THE STORY: Ex-cop and recent widower Walter “Pops” Washington and his newly paroled son Junior have spent a lifetime living between Riverside and crazy. But now, the NYPD is demanding his signature to close an outstanding lawsuit, the landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed—and the church won’t leave him alone. When the struggle to keep one of New York City’s last great rent-stabilized apartments collides with old wounds, sketchy new house guests, and a final ultimatum, it seems that the old days may be dead and gone.
The Flick by Annie Baker
Call Number: PS3602.A5842 F58 2014
ISBN: 9781559364584
Publication Date: 2014-09-30
2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in the empty aisles and tend to one of the last thirty-five-millimeter projectors in the state. With keen insight and a ceaseless attention to detail, The Flick pays tribute to the power of movies and paints a heartbreaking portrait of three characters and their working lives.
Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
Call Number: PS3601.K53 D57 2013
ISBN: 0316324469
Publication Date: 2013-09-10
2013 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Amir Kapoor is a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly moving up the corporate ladder while distancing himself from his cultural roots. Emily, his wife, is white; she's an artist, and her work is influenced by Islamic imagery. When the couple hosts a dinner party, what starts out as a friendly conversation escalates into something far more damaging.
Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Call Number: PS3608.U3234 W38 2013
ISBN: 9780822227151
Publication Date: 2013-04-04
2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts keep each other alive, hour by hour, day by day. The boundaries of family and community are stretched across continents and cyberspace as birth families splinter and online families collide.
Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
Call Number: PS3614.O768 C59 2012
ISBN: 9780822226970
Publication Date: 2012-12-12
2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain price, unknowingly bringing the first black family into the neighborhood and creating ripples of discontent among the cozy white residents of Clybourne Park. In 2009, the same property is being bought by a young white couple, whose plan to raze the house and start again is met with equal disapproval by the black residents of the soon-to-be-gentrified area.
Next to Normal by Brian Yorkey; Tom Kitt
Call Number: ML50.K624 N4 2010
ISBN: 9781559363709
Publication Date: 2010-07-20
2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
A musical about a family's struggle to hold itself together while confronting the challenges of mental illness.
Ruined by Lynn Nottage; Nottage
Call Number: PS3614.O88 R85 2010
ISBN: 9780822223900
Publication Date: 2010-08-24
2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
THE STORY: Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of the Congo, this powerful play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on human life?
August by Tracy Letts
Call Number: PS3612.E887 A75 2008
ISBN: 1559363304
Publication Date: 2008-02-01
2008 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
August: Osage County is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest--and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed. The three-act, three-and-a-half-hour mammoth of a play combines epic tragedy with black comedy, dramatizing three generations of unfulfilled dreams and leaving not one of its thirteen characters unscathed.
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
Call Number: PS3562.I511925 R33 2006
ISBN: 1559362901
Publication Date: 2006-09-01
2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
A story of loss, heartbreak and forgiveness--told through daily moments and emotional hurdles--as a family moves on after the accidental death of their 4-year-old.
Doubt by John Patrick Shanley
Call Number: PS3569.H3337 D68 2005
ISBN: 1559362766
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty with the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama.
I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright; Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
Call Number: PS3573.R53252 I3 2004
ISBN: 0571211747
Publication Date: 2004-02-09
2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama. A one-man show, which explores the astonishing true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. A transvestite and celebrated antiques dealer who successfully navigated the two most oppressive regimes of the past century-the Nazis and the Communists--while openly gay and defiantly in drag, von Mahlsdorf was both hailed as a cultural hero and accused of colluding with the Stasi.
Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz
Call Number: PS3603.R895 A83 2003
ISBN: 1559362324
Publication Date: 2003-09-01
2003 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama This lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of Depression-era America.
Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
Call Number: PS3566.A736 T66 2002
ISBN: 0822219832
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.
Proof by David Auburn
Call Number: PS3551.U28 P7 2001
ISBN: 0571199976
Publication Date: 2001-03-05
2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Proof focuses on Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her father, Robert, a brilliant mathematician in his youth who was later unable to function without her help. His death has brought into her midst both her sister, Claire, who wants to take Catherine back to New York with her, and Hal, a former student of Catherine's father who hopes to find some hint of Robert's genius among his incoherent scribblings. The passion that Hal feels for math both moves and angers Catherine, who, in her exhaustion, is torn between missing her father and resenting the great sacrifices she made for him. For Catherine has inherited at least a part of her father's brilliance -- and perhaps some of his instability as well. As she and Hal become attracted to each other, they push at the edges of each other's knowledge, considering not only the unpredictability of genius but also the human instinct toward love and trust.
Dinner with Friends by Donald Marguiles
ISBN: 1559361948
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
As described by New York Magazine: "Two married couples have been best friends for years. In their Connecticut home, Karen and Gabe, international food writers, are giving a dinner for Beth and Tom, which he doesn't attend. It emerges from the heartbroken Beth that he has left her for another woman. Gabe and Karen are almost as crushed, having expected 'to grow old and fat together, the four of us.' When Tom shows up at his home in the next scene, late at night, he is enraged that Beth broke the news of their breakup in his absence. Late as it is, he rushes over to his friends in the next scene to present his side of the story. Act Two begins with another dinner, twelve and a half years earlier, in a summer house on Martha's Vineyard, where Karen and Gabe are introducing Beth to Tom. Then we skip five months after the events in Act One, as Beth reveals to Karen…that she has fallen in love with an old friend whom she intends to marry…Later that day, in a Manhattan bar, Tom, a lawyer, tells Gabe about his [newfound] happiness, to which Gabe reacts sourly. Still later that night, Gabe and Karen are going to bed in the Vineyard house, and discuss the Tom-and-Beth situation, as well as their own [marriage]…clinging to it like the shipwrecked to their raft…From this already you can gather that there is skillful construction here, as well as keen psychological insight…Donald Margulies is establishing himself as one of our leading playwrights."
Wit by Margaret Edson
Call Number: PS3555.D4845 W58 1999
ISBN: 0571198775
Publication Date: 1999-03-29
1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
As the play begins, Vivian Bearing, a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the intricate, difficult Holy Sonnets of the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Confident of her ability to stay in control of events, she brings to her illness the same intensely rational and painstakingly methodical approach that has guided her stellar academic career. But as her disease and its excruciatingly painful treatment inexorably progress, she begins to question the single-minded values and standards that have always directed her, finally coming to understand the aspects of life that make it truly worth living.
How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
Call Number: PS3572.O296 H88 1998
ISBN: 082221623X
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
1998 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
A wildly funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival as seen through the lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man. "How I Learned to Drive" is the story of a woman who learns the rules of the road and life from behind the wheel.
Rent by Jonathan Larson; Larry Fink (Photographer); Stewart Ferebee (Photographer); Kate Giel (Editor); Evelyn McDonnell (Contribution by); Kathy Silberger (Contribution by); Spot Design Staff (Contribution by); Melcher Media Inc. Staff (Produced by)
Call Number: Folio ML50.L334 R46 1997
ISBN: 0688154379
Publication Date: 1997-05-21
1996 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The story of Mark, Roger, Maureen, Tom Collins, Angel, Mimi, JoAnne, and their friends on the Lower East Side of New York City will live on, along with the affirmation that there is "no day but today."
The Young Man from Atlanta by Horton Foote
Call Number: PS3511.O344 Y6 1995
ISBN: 0525941142
Publication Date: 1995-12-01
1995 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
A brilliantly crafted drama of an aging couple coping with a son's suicide. The menace is the unspoken secret connected with the young man from Atlanta, their son's former roommate, and neither Houston businessman Will Kidder nor his childlike wife, Lily Dale, will name it or discuss it.
Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
Call Number: PS3551.L25 T48 1994
ISBN: 0822214202
Publication Date: 1994-10-01
1994 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
In Act One, a young lawyer, "C," has been sent to the home of a client, a ninety-two-year-old woman, "A," to sort out her finances. "A," frail, perhaps a bit senile, resists and is of no help to "C." Along with "B," the old woman's matronly paid companion/caretaker, "C" tries to convince "A" that she must concentrate on the matters at hand. In "A's" beautifully appointed bedroom, she prods, discusses and bickers with "B" and "C," her captives. "A's" long life is laid out for display, no holds barred. She cascades from regal and charming to vicious and wretched as she wonders about and remembers her life: her husband and their cold, passionless marriage; her son and their estrangement. How did she become this? Who is she? Finally, when recounting her most painful memory, she suffers a stroke. In Act Two, "A's" comatose body lies in bed as "B" and "C" observe no changes in her condition. In a startling coup-de-theatre, "A" enters, very much alive and quite lucid. The three women are now the stages of "A's" life: the imperious old woman, the regal matron and the young woman of twenty-six. Her life, memories and reminiscences—pondered in the first act—are now unceremoniously examined, questioned, accepted or not, but, at last, understood. In the end, her son arrives and kneels at her bedside, but it is too late.
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Book1) by Tony Kushner
Call Number: PS3561.U778 A85 1993
ISBN: 1559360615
Publication Date: 1993-05-01
1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Kushner tells the story of a handful of people trying to make sense of the world. Prior is a man living with AIDS whose lover Louis has left him and become involved with Joe, an ex-Mormon and political conservative whose wife, Harper, is slowly having a nervous breakdown. These stories are contrasted with that of Roy Cohn (a fictional re-creation of the infamous American conservative ideologue who died of AIDS in 1986) and his attempts to remain in the closet while trying to find some sort of personal salvation in his beliefs. Kushner's grand plan, which mixes magical realism with political speeches, high comedy with painful tragedy, and stitches it all together with a daring sense of irony and a moral vision that demands respect and attention. On one level, the play is an indictment of the government led by Ronald Reagan, from the blatant disregard for the AIDS crisis to the flagrant political corruption. But beneath the acute sense of political and moral outrage lies a meditation on what it means to live and die--of AIDS, or anything else--in a society that cares less and less about human life and basic decency.
The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan
Call Number: PS3569.C4833 K46 1993
ISBN: 0452269679
Publication Date: 1993-06-01
1992 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
This sweeping epic of three families in eastern Kentucky spans 200 years of American history from 1775 to 1975. Fast-paced and finely drawn, Schenkkan's stunning six-hour, nine-play cycle examines the myths of the American past which have created, for better or for worse, the country we are today.
Lost in Yonkers in: The Collected Plays of Neil Simon by Neil Simon
Call Number: PS3537.I663 A64 2005
ISBN: 9780684847856
Publication Date: 1998-04-28
Contains "Lost in Yonkers"
1991 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
It is New York, 1942. After the death of their mother, two young brothers are sent to stay with their formidable grandmother for the longest ten months of their lives. Grandmother Kurnitz is a one-woman German front—a refugee and a widow who has steeled her heart against the world. Her coldness and intolerance have crippled her own children: the boys' father has no self-esteem . . . their Aunt Gert has an embarrassing speech impediment . . . their Uncle Louie is a small-time gangster . . . and their Aunt Bella has the mentality of a child. But it is Bella's hunger for affection and her refusal to be denied love that saves the boys—and that leads to an unforgettable, wrenching confrontation with her mother.
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
Call Number: Call Number:PS3573.I45677 P54 2013
ISBN: 0452265347
Publication Date: 1990-12-01
1990 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
At the heart of the play stands the ornately carved upright piano which, as the Charles family's prized, hard-won possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, Berniece's exuberant brother, bursts into her life with his dream of buying the same Mississippi land that his family had worked as slaves, he plans to sell their antique piano for the hard cash he needs to stake his future. But Berniece refuses to sell, clinging to the piano as a reminder of the history that is their family legacy. This dilemma is the real "piano lesson," reminding us that blacks are often deprived both of the symbols of their past and of opportunity in the present.
The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein
Call Number: PS3573.A798 H4 1990
ISBN: 0679734996
Publication Date: 1991-07-02
1989 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Comprised of a series of interrelated scenes, the play traces the coming of age of Heidi Holland, a successful art historian, as she tries to find her bearings in a rapidly changing world. Gradually distancing herself from her friends, she watches them move from the idealism and political radicalism of their college years through militant feminism and, eventually, back to the materialism that they had sought to reject in the first place.
Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
Call Number: PS3571.H7 D7 1988
ISBN: 0930452887
Publication Date: 1988-09-01
1988 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Racial tensions are delicately explored when a warm friendship evolves between an elderly Jewish woman and her black chauffeur.
Fences by August Wilson; Lloyd Richards (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3573 .I45677 F4 1986
ISBN: 0452264014
Publication Date: 1986-06-01
1987 Pulitzur Prize Winner for Drama
The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle" plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation and in the 1960s a spirit that is changing the world. Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can...a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less.
Sunday in the Park with George by James Lapine; Andre Bishop (Introduction by); Stephen Sondheim (Composed by)
Call Number: ML50.S705 S8 1986
ISBN: 9781557830685
Publication Date: 2000-05-01
1985 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Inspired by the painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat, this complex work revolves around a fictionalized Seurat immersed in single-minded concentration while painting the masterpiece.
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
Call Number: PS3563.A4345 G56 1984
ISBN: 9780802130914
Publication Date: 1994-01-11
1984 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream.
'Night, Mother by Marsha Norman
Call Number: PS3564.O623 N5 1983
ISBN: 9780822208211
Publication Date: 1983-10-01
1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The scene is the living room/kitchen of a small house on an isolated country road, which is shared by Jessie and her mother. Jessie's father is dead; her loveless marriage ended in divorce; her absent son is a petty thief and ne'er-do-well; her last job didn't work out and, in general, her life is stale and unprofitable. As the play begins Jessie asks for her father's service revolver and calmly announces that she intends to kill herself. At first her mother refuses to take her seriously, but as Jessie sets about tidying the house and making lists of things to be looked after, her sense of desperate helplessness begins to build. In the end, with the inexorability of genuine tragedy, she can only stand by, stunned and unbelieving, as Jessie quietly closes and locks her bedroom door and ends her profound unhappiness in one fatal, stunning and deeply disturbing moment—a moment never to be forgotten by those who have witnessed, and come to understand, her plight.
A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller
Call Number: PS3556.U367 S6 1981
ISBN: 0809012448
Publication Date: 1982-10-01
1982 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
This is a tough, incisive exploration of racial tensions and ambiguities among blacks and between blacks and whites that gives no easy answers and assigns no simple blame.
Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
Call Number: PS3558.E4962 C7 1982
ISBN: 9780822202509
Publication Date: 1982-10-01
1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future—but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended.
Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson
Call Number: PS3573.I458 T3 1979
ISBN: 9780374521578
Publication Date: 1980-03-01
1980 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The scene is the ornate, deserted Victorian boathouse on the Talley place in Lebanon, Missouri; the time 1944. Matt Friedman, an accountant from St. Louis, has arrived to plead his love to Sally Talley, the susceptible but uncertain daughter of the family. Bookish, erudite, totally honest, and delightfully funny, Matt refuses to accept Sally's rebuffs and her fears that her family would never approve of their marriage. Charming and indomitable, he gradually overcomes her defenses, telling his innermost secrets to his loved one and, in return, learning hers as well. Gradually he awakens Sally to the possibilities of a life together until, in the final, touching moments of the play, it is clear that they are two kindred spirits who have truly found each other—two "lame ducks" who, in their union, will find a wholeness rare in human relationships.
Buried Child in: Seven Plays by Sam Shepard
Call Number: PS3569.H394 A6 1984b
ISBN: 9780553346114
Publication Date: 1984-05-01
Contains "Buried Child"
1979 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The setting is a squalid farm home occupied by a family filled with suppressed violence and an unease born of deep-seated unhappiness. The characters are a ranting alcoholic grandfather; a sanctimonious grandmother who goes on drinking bouts with the local minister; and their sons, Tilden, an All-American footballer now a hulking semi-idiot; and Bradley, who has lost one leg to a chain saw. Into their midst comes Vince, a grandson none of them recognizes or remembers, and his girlfriend, Shelly, who cannot comprehend the madness to which she is suddenly introduced. The family harbors a dark secret—years earlier the grandfather, Dodge, had buried an unwanted newborn baby in an undisclosed spot, creating a cloud of guilt which is dispelled only when Tilden unearths the child's mummified remains and carries it upstairs to his mother. His act purges the family, at last, of its infamy and suggests the perhaps slim possibility of a new beginning under Vince, whose estrangement from the others has spared him the taint of their sin.
Gin Game by Coburn, D.L.
Call Number: PS3553.O233 G5
1978 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Game is used here as a metaphor for life. Weller Martin is playing solitaire on the porch of a seedy nursing home. Enter Fonsia Dorsey, a prim, self righteous lady. They discover they both dislike the home and enjoy gin rummy so they begin to play and to reveal intimate details of their lives. Fonsia wins every time and their secrets become weapons used against one another. Weller longs for a victory to counter a lifetime of defeats but it doesn't happen. He leaves the stage a broken man and Fonsia realizes her self-righteous rigidity has led to an embittered, lonely old age.
Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer
Call Number: PS3553.R533 S5
ISBN: 9780573616136
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
1977 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
In this compelling dramatic triptych, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital grounds. The three are attended and visited by family and close friends: Agnes and her mother Felicity, estranged further by the latter's dementia; Brian and Beverly whose martial complications are exacerbated by Brian's new lover, Mark; and Joe and Maggie, unready for the strain of Joe's impending death and it's effect on their teenage son.
A Chorus Line by James Kirkwood; Nicholas Dante; Edward Kleban; Michael Bennett
Call Number: ML50.H2397 C5 1995
ISBN: 1557831319
Publication Date: 2000-05-01
1976 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
A Chorus Line examines one day in the lives of seventeen dancers, all vying for a spot in the “chorus line” of a Broadway musical.
Seascape by Edward Albee
Call Number: PS3551.L25 S4
ISBN: 9780822210047
Publication Date: 1975-10-01
1975 Pulizer Prize Winner for Drama
On a deserted stretch of beach a middle-aged couple, relaxing after a picnic lunch, talk idly about home, family and their life together. She sketches, he naps, and then, suddenly, they are joined by two sea creatures--lizards who have de
That Championship Season by Jason Miller
Call Number: PS3563.I412 T5 1972
ISBN: 9780822211266
Publication Date: 1972-10-01
1973 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Following their annual custom, five men--a high-school basketball coach, now retired, and four members of the team that he guided to the state championship twenty years earlier--meet for a reunion. The occasion begins in a light-hearted mo
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel
Call Number: PS3576.I518 E3 1971b
ISBN: 9780060757380
Publication Date: 2005-03-29
1971 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The old, converted vegetable shop where Tillie lives is more like a madhouse than a home. Tillie's mother, Beatrice, is bitter and cruel, yet desperate for her daughters' love. Her sister, Ruth, suffers epileptic fits and sneaks cigarettes every chance she gets. In the midst of chaos, Tillie struggles to keep her focus and dreams alive. Tillie -- keeper of rabbits, dreamer of atoms, true believer in life, hope, and the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds.
No Place to Be Somebody by Charles Gordone
Call Number: PS3557.O72 N6
1970 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Johnny Williams is a young black man who owns a bar in New York City in/around the late 1960s. The people who come in and out of the bar have their own set of agendas and each character fulfills a very specific role/purpose.
The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler
Call Number: PS3537.A156 G7
ISBN: 9780573609602
1969 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Jack Jefferson is the boxing heavyweight champion of early 1910s America. But as a black man, he's not only fighting other boxers, but discrimination and prejudice as well. The boxing fans and press resent the idea of a black champion and are actively searching for a "great white hope" that can defeat him. But it's Jefferson's activities outside the ring, primarily involving the white Eleanor Bachman that may prove to be his downfall.
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
Call Number: PS3551.L25 D4 1966
ISBN: 9781468303377
Publication Date: 2013-04-02
1967 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The play revolves around wealthy middle-aged couple Agnes and Tobias, who have their complacency shattered when their longtime friends Harry and Edna appear at their doorstep. Claiming an encroaching, nameless "fear" has forced them from their own home, these neighbors bring a firestorm of doubt, recrimination and ultimately solace, upsetting the "delicate balance" of Agnes and Tobias's household.In recent years, A Delicate Balance has enjoyed many and new stunning revivals, running now, including a Broadway production in 1996, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival, and another at the Alameida Theatre in London in 2011.
The Subject Was Roses: in The Tony Winners by Frank D. Gilroy
Call Number: PS634 .T59
1965 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
It is May of 1946 and Timmy Cleary has come home from the war to his estranged parents, John and Nettie, in the Bronx apartment where he grew up. As their reunion promises a return to life as it never was, John, giving up a lucrative business opportunity, attends a ball game with his son and grudgingly, at Timmy's request, returns with roses for Nettie in an insincere attempt at reconciliation. Reminiscing, the three attempt to recapture the past and all it symbolizes, but the ideal is shattered amidst recriminations.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and SWillie Gilbert with music by Frank Loesser
Call Number: M1503.L638 H6
1962 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Based on the book by Shepherd Mead, call number HF5386 .M48 1962.
J. Pierpont Finch (Robert Morse) is a lowly window cleaner with dreams of making it big in the business world. After finding a copy of the book "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," Finch decides to apply the tactics in the book to his own life. Soon, he's working as a mail-room clerk at the World Wide Wicket Company and quickly fighting his way up the corporate ladder with relative ease.
All the Way Home by Tad Mosel
Call Number: PS3525.O847 A7 1961
ISBN: 9780573605253
1961 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Death in the Family by James Agee and winner of the Pulitzer Prize as Best Play of the season, this is a portrait of a Tennessee family during four days in May, 1915: the warm and tender love that binds them and the tragic death of the husband which shatters the hearts of his wife and young son.
Fiorello! by Bock, Jerry
Call Number: ML50 .B62 F54 1960
1960 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
A musical about the rise to power of New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Beating all odds, La Guardia breaks the crooked Tammany Hall political machine and fights against vice and corruption. Meanwhile, he falls in love with his loyal secretary, Maria, and they eventually marry.
J.B. by Archibald MacLeish
Call Number: PS3525.A27 J2 1958
1959 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
A modern retelling of the story of the biblical figure Job.
Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings from the novel by Thomas Wolfe
Call Number: PS3545.O337 L64
ISBN: 9780573611728
1958 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
An authentic American classic, this powerful and vital play captures the sardonic humor and the grief, both private and universal, of Wolfe's novel about a youth coming of age. Concentrating on the last third of Wolfe's story, the play vividly portrays Eugene Gant, his mother, who is obsessed by her material holdings and who maintains barriers against the love of her family, his father, a stonecutter imprisoned by his failures, and the brother who never breaks away.
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill; Harold Bloom (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS3529.N5 L6
ISBN: 0300093055
Publication Date: 2002-02-08
1957 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Long Day's Journey Into Night is an autobiographical play Eugene O'Neill wrote that--because of the highly personal writing about his family--was not to be released until 25 years after his death, which occurred in 1953. But since O'Neill's immediate family had died in the early 1920s, his wife allowed publication of the play in 1956. Besides the history alone, the play is fascinating in its own right. It tells of the "Tyrones"--a fictional name for what is clearly the O'Neills. Theirs is not a happy tale: The youngest son (Edmond) is sent to a sanitarium to recover from tuberculosis; he despises his father for sending him; his mother is wrecked by narcotics; and his older brother by drink. In real-life these factors conspired to turn O'Neill into who he was--a tormented individual and a brilliant playwright.
The Diary of Anne Frank by Francis Goodrich & Albert Hackett.
Call Number: PS3513.O53515 D5 1956
1956 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Adapted from "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,"(D810.J4 F715 1952). In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Call Number: PS3545.I5365 C37 1986
ISBN: 9780822201892
Publication Date: 1958-10-01
1955 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, clawing hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddy's daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she's finally become pregnant by Big Daddy's favorite son, Brick, but Brick won't cooperate in Maggie's plans and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Maggie has her own interests at heart in wanting to become pregnant, of course, but she also wants to make amends to Brick for an error in judgment that nearly cost her her marriage. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son. By evening's end, Maggie's ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right, and Brick's love for his father, never before expressed, will retrieve him from his path of destruction and return him, helplessly, to Maggie's loving arms.
The Teahouse of the August Moon by Patrick, John
Call Number: PS3513.O27 T4 1952
1954 Pulitzer Prize Winner for drama
As told by McClain in the New York Journal-American: "…pursues the career of an Army of Occupation officer stationed in a remote town in Okinawa. His duty is to teach Democracy to the natives, and there is a stern and stupid Colonel breathing down his neck to insure the strict enforcement of the Manual of Occupation. But the young officer has not prepared himself for the ingenious charm of the people.
Picnic in: 4 Plays by Inge, William
Call Number: ONLINE and PS3517.N265 F6
1953 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Set in a small town in Kansas, Picnic details the lives of "ordinary" Americans, from hopeful widows and embittered spinster to idealistic teenagers and restless wanderers.
The Shrike by Kramm, Joseph
Call Number: PS3521.R37 S5
1952 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Jim Downs is brought to the psychiatric division of City Hospital after a suicide attempt. With the help of his es-tranged wife, who is with him night and day, he recovers. But this does not mean he is free to go home. His estranged wife conspires to keep Jim in the hospital until he renounces his girlfriend and agrees to go back with her. In the process, Jim is faced with well-meaning but inept institutional psy-chiatrists, who themselves have become victims of deadly routine. Through one test after another he is made to prove his sanity, until he almost loses it. Realizing the power of institutional law, Jim proceeds to give the "right answers," until he is finally released in the custody of his wife. Finally free, Jim knows that by compromising his integrity he has simply chosen the lesser of two evils.
South Pacific in: American Musicals, 1927-1949 by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II & Joshua Logan
Call Number: M1503.R63 S68
ISBN: 1598532588
Publication Date: 2014-09-25
1950 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The plot centers on an American nurse stationed on a South Pacific island during World War II, who falls in love with a middle-aged expatriate French plantation owner but struggles to accept his mixed-race children. A secondary romance, between a U.S. lieutenant and a young Tonkinese woman, explores his fears of the social consequences should he marry his Asian sweetheart.
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (Illustrator)
Call Number: PS3525.I5156 D4 1980
ISBN: 0822202905
Publication Date: 1952-10-01
1949 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness.
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams; E. Browne (Editor); Arthur Miller (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS3545.I5365 S8 and PS3545.I5365 S7 1987
ISBN: 0811216020
Publication Date: 2004-09-17
1948 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.
State of the Union by Howard Lindsey and Russel Crouse
Call Number: PS3523.I575 S65 1946
ISBN: 0822210746
Publication Date: 1947-10-01
1946 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
In 1946, several friends gather in the house of James Conover in Washington, DC. James is about 60; with him are Spike MacManus, a long-time political reporter and Grant Matthews, in his 40's, a businessman and Katherine (Kay) Thorndike, late 30s. The Republican Party has chosen Grant Matthews to run for President. Grant is estranged from his wife Mary, and he has become romantically involved with Kay Thorndike, a newspaper publisher.
Harvey by Mary Coyle Chase
Call Number: PS3505.H478 H3 1953
ISBN: 9780822205005
Publication Date: 1951-10-01
1945 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Elwood P. Dowd insists on including his friend Harvey in all of his sister Veta’s social gatherings. Trouble is, Harvey is an imaginary six-and-a-half-foot-tall rabbit. To avoid future embarassment for her family—and especially for her daughter, Myrtle Mae—Veta decides to have Elwood committed to a sanitarium. At the sanitarium, a frantic Veta explains to the staff that her years of living with Elwood’s hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also, and so the doctors mistakenly commit her instead of her mild-mannered brother. The truth comes out, however; Veta is freed, and the search is on for Elwood, who eventually arrives at the sanitarium of his own volition, looking for Harvey. But it seems that Elwood and his invisible companion have had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors. Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn’t so bad after all.
The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
Call Number: PS3545.I345 S5
1943 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Meet George and Maggie Antrobus (married only 5,000 years); their two children, Gladys and Henry (perfect in every way!); and their maid, Sabina (the ageless vamp) as they overcome ice, flood, and war -- by the skin of their teeth.
There Shall Be No Night by Robert Sherwood
Call Number: PS3537.H825 T45 1943
1941 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The entire play takes place in the Helsinki living room of Dr. Valkonen (who has recently won the Nobel Prize) and his wife Miranda. The play chronicles the interactions of the family and various friends from 1938-1940. In the early scenes, Valkonen spends an extensive amount of time talking about his reasons for being a pacifist and abhorring the war (Finland's Winter War with the Soviets) before his son Erik enlists. Eventually, Valkonen himself joins the medical corps. In undramatized moments, both Valkonen men die. American-born Miranda is left both a widow and a grieving mother who feels responsible for the care of Erik's unborn child and sends his fiancee to America to have the baby.
The Time of Your Life in: Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre by William Saroyan
Call Number: PS634 .B4 2d ser.
1940 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Joe, the wealthy loafer, tries to help his disciple Tom save Kitty Duval, the burlesque queen turned prostitute. We have Nick, the bartender who tries to help everyone he can while keeping his business open when the head of the vice squad threatens trouble. We have another cop who wants to quit his job and his philosopher best friend, the longshoreman, who may come to blows with each other during the workers strike at the docks. We have a budding song and dance team and characters ranging from Arabs, society couples, young men who are ready to take over the world and the nurses who are weary and hesitant to fall in love with them. All of these people are searching for a new path through life when the road has suddenly disappeared before them.
Abe Lincoln in Illinois by Robert Sherwood
Call Number: PS3537.H825 A63 1939
1939 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The play concerns Lincoln’s life and career—from his early, unsuccessful days as a postmaster in New Salem, Ill., through his initial forays into local politics, his relationship with Mary Todd, and his debates with Stephen Douglas, and culminates with his election to the presidency and imminent departure for Washington, D.C., 30 years later.
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Call Number: PS3545.I345 O9 2003
ISBN: 0060535253
Publication Date: 2003-09-23
1938 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
This drama of life in the town of Grover 's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic.
You Can't Take It with You by Moss Hart; George S. Kaufman
Call Number: PS3515.A7943 Y6 1964
ISBN: 0822212870
Publication Date: 1937-10-01
1937 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The plot shows how Tony, attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home on the wrong evening. The shock sustained by the Kirbys, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question. The Sycamores, however, though sympathetic to Alice, find it hard to realize her point of view. Meantime, Tony, who knows the Sycamores are right and his own people wrong, will not give her up, and in the end Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy madness of the Sycamores, particularly since he happens in during a visit by an ex-Grand Duchess, earning her living as a waitress. No mention has as yet been made of the strange activities of certain members of the household engaged in the manufacture of fireworks; nor of the printing press set up in the parlor; nor of Rheba the maid and her friend Donald; nor of Grandpa's interview with the tax collector when he tells him he doesn't believe in the income tax.
Idiot's Delight by Robert E. Sherwood
Call Number: PS3537.H825 I4 1936
ISBN: 9780822216186
Publication Date: 1936-10-01
1936 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
A young English couple on their honeymoon, a German scientist, a French munitions magnate, the inscrutable Irene, and the vulgar but lovable American Harry Van are thrown together in a small winter resort in the Alps. For a short time they are forced to depend upon their own resources under threat of an air-raid, which at the last descends upon the few who are left. The play throws into ironic relief the individual human being who, having brought upon himself the obscene idiocy of wholesale destruction by war, wakes up to find that he can do nothing more than make a futile gesture against the forces he has set in action.
The Old Maid by Zoë Akins from the novel by Edith Wharton
Call Number: PS3501.K5 05 1935
1935 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Set in the epoch of the early American 19th century, this insightful drama chronicles the efforts of an "old maid" Charlotte Lovell, to win the affections of her illegitimate daughter.
Men in White, a Play in Three Acts by Kingsley, Sidney
Call Number: PS3521.I55 M4 1934
1934 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The drama focuses on the personal sacrifices required by the medical profession. The main theme of the play is summed up in one of the doctor's final utterances: "It's not easy for any of us. But in the end our reward is something richer than simply living. Maybe it's a kind of success that world out there can't measure . . . maybe it's a kind of glory."
Both Your Houses by Maxwell Anderson
Call Number: PS3501.N256 B6 1933
1933 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Taking place during the Great Depression, this political satire that is as relevant today as it was when it was first performed in 1933. The title comes from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, in which Mercutio calls in his dying speech for "a plague on both your houses," referring to two warring families, the Montagues and the Capulets. In Anderson's play, the title refers to the two houses of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Of Thee I Sing by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind; lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Call Number: PS3521.A727 O4 1932
1932 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
"Of Thee I Sing" is a political satire focusing on the election campaign and Presidency of John P. Wintergreen. Wintergreen is a real empty shirt “ with no viable platform he runs simply on love. He even promises that if elected he will marry the girl chosen for him at an Atlantic City beauty pageant. However, trouble begins when he falls in love with his campaign secretary instead of the beauty pageant winner.

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Alison's House by Susan Glaspell
Call Number: PS3513.L35 A7 1930
1931 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
At the heart of this play is a poet, Alison Stanhope, who has been dead eighteen years. Although only a handful of her poems were published during her lifetime, they have captured the attention and affection of people all over the country. Alison's spirit lives on in the hearts of her family and her fans. Alison's House is about the poet's family, their relationships, and the discovery of a portfolio containing hundreds of previously unknown poems by Alison.
Glaspell wanted to write her play about enigmatic New England poet Emily Dickinson, but the Dickinson family refused to give her permission to use their name or to quote from Emily's poetry. Undaunted, Glaspell moved the setting to her home state of Iowa and recast the Dickinson family as the Stanhopes. Unable to quote Dickinson's poetry, Glaspell quoted from Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose work was beloved by Dickinson. Emerson's poem, “The House,” inspired the title of Glaspell's play.
The Green Pastures : a fable, suggested by Roark Bradford's southern sketches, "Ol' man Adam an' his chillun" by Marc Connelly
Call Number: PS3505.O4814 G7 1930
1930 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The play portrays episodes from the Old Testament as seen through the eyes of a young African-American child in the Depression-era South, who interprets The Bible in terms familiar to her.
Street Scene by Elmer Rice
Call Number: PS3535.I224 S7 1929
1929 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
This is a panorama of the comedy and tragedy of daily life played to the accompaniment of rumbling elevated trains and the tooting of whistles. Though this remarkable play is primarily a slice of life in a poor neighborhood, it is held together by a strikingly dramatic plot which has to do with a theatrical scene-shifter whose wife has been having a sordid affair with the milkman. The husband returns unexpectedly and kills them both. The incident serves chiefly to crystalize the viewpoint and very human reactions of the entire neighborhood.
Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill
Call Number: PS3529.N5 S7 1928
1928 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The plot centers on Nina Leeds, the daughter of an Ivy League professor, who is devastated when her adored fiancé is killed in World War I, before they have a chance to consummate their passion. Ignoring the unconditional love of the novelist Charles Marsden, Nina embarks on a series of sordid affairs before determining to marry an amiable fool, Sam Evans. While Nina is pregnant with Sam's child, she learns a horrifying secret known only to Sam's mother: insanity runs in the Evans family and could be inherited by any child of Sam's. Realizing that a child is essential to her own and to Sam's happiness, Nina decides on a "scientific" solution. She will abort Sam's child and conceive a child with the physician Ned Darrell, letting Sam believe that it is his. The plan backfires when Nina and Ned's intimacy leads to their falling passionately in love. Twenty years later, Sam's "son" Gordon Evans is approaching manhood, with only Nina and Ned aware of the boy's true parentage.
In Abraham's Bosom: in Pulitzer Prize Plays by Paul Green
Call Number: PS634 .C67 1935
Contains "In Abraham's Bosom"
1927 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Dram
This post Civil War story of a deeply troubled young man, son of a tyrannical white land owner and a poor black woman, who sees education as the means of raising himself and his African-American community out of the bondage of segregation. He strives heroically to fulfill his dream, but in the end is brought down by his own rage at the racist society and the hatred and jealously felt by his white half brother. Throughout his prolific writing life, Green's work focused largely on the struggles of individuals negatively affected by segregation and racism, and, he brought into stark focus, the continuing and discouraging plight of African Americans in the south in the 1920s.
Craig's Wife by George Kelly
Call Number: PS3521.E425 C7 1926a
1926 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Mrs. Harriet Craig, a woman of controlling will and vanity, succeeds in driving away her husband, friends, and anyone close to her, all for the sake of her pride.
They Knew What They Wanted in: Three Plays About Marriage by Sidney Howard
Call Number: PS634.M43x 1962
Contains "They Knew What They Wanted"
1925 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
In the 1920's, Napa Valley middle-aged wine-grower Tony wants to get married and decides to propose by letter to a waitress in San Francisco named Amy who waited on him once. He sends her a picture of his good looking young farmhand Joe instead of himself, which creates unforeseen complications in the lives and loves of these three ordinary yet complex people.
Hell-Bent for Heaven in: The Pulitzer Prize Plays by Hatcher Hughes
Call Number: PS634 .C67 1935
Contains "Hell-Bent for Heaven"
1924 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Theatre
When Sid Hunt returns from WWI, he announces his plans to marry his sweetheart, Jude Lowry, much to the displeasure of his brother Rufe, who is also in love with Jude. Jude's brother Andy has an old grudge against the family, and after some illicit drinking, he decides to murder Sid. Sid hears of this plot and crosses a dam to escape from Andy, but Rufe, hoping to get Jude for himself, blows up the dam. A religious fanatic, Rufe justifies this murder by claiming that God commanded it. Meanwhile, flood waters are rising from unprecedented rainfall, and when the family gets into their boat, Rufe finds that there is no room for him. He is told that if God commanded him to murder Sid, surely God will protect Rufe from the flood.
Icebound in: The Pulitzer Prize Plays by Owen Davis
Call Number: PS634 .C67 1935
Contains "Icebound"
1923 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The Jordan siblings have gathered to await the death of their mother, but it rapidly becomes clear that they are actually eagerly anticipating the reading of her will. They are all surprised to discover that she has (spitefully) left the sizable family fortune to second-cousin Jane. The plot thickens when Jane is presented with a letter from Mrs. Jordan that details her dying wish: for her youngest son Ben to be taken care of--by any means necessary. Though Ben is a fugitive and widely believed to be "good for nothing" Jane falls in love with him--with some ambiguity about whether this newfound love is due to his charm or her loyalty to Mrs. Jordan. Ben has some inappropriate relations with another "almost relative" named Nettie, but ultimately ends up proposing to Jane. The two will live "happily ever after" on the farm and fortune left by Mother Jones.
Anna Christie in: The Emperor Homes. Anna Christie. The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill
Call Number: PS3529.N5 A6 1972b
Contains "Anna Christie"
1922 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
A character study of a young woman who falls in love and her struggle to deserve the love she inspires.
Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale
Call Number: PS3513.A34 A6 2005 or PS3513.A34 M5 1921
ISBN: 1400095387
Publication Date: 2005-12-13
1921 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
Lulu Bett lives in a small town with her sister Ina and Ina's husband Dwight, a dentist who rules his household with self-righteous smugness. The unmarried Lulu has learned that she cannot question her role as chief cook, housekeeper, and gracious presence. But when Dwight's sophisticated brother Ninian comes to visit, Lulu finds in herself a surprising wit, and the boldness to accept his playful proposal of marriage. Through her appealing, determined heroine, Zona Gale satirically dispatches a sheaf of the social assumptions of her day, from male supremacy to the security of marriage.
Beyond the Horizon in: Plays by Eugene O'Neill
Call Number: PS3529.N5 B4x
Contains "Beyond the Horizon"
1920 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
The introspective and sensitive Robert falls in love with Ruth, who is engaged to his brother, Andrew; she marries Robert, and Andrew goes to sea. Ruth later discovers that her marriage has been a mistake and that she is still in love with Andrew. Three years pass, and Robert, sick and disillusioned, fails to make a go of the farm. Andrew returns, but brings with him only disillusion to Ruth and Robert. The latter, who yearns for the romance his brother is supposed to have enjoyed, sees in Andrew only an unimaginative materialist.
Why Marry? by Williams, Jesse Lynch
Call Number: PS3545.I5285 A7 1914
1918 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama
An analysis of a married relationship, in which two young scientists who love each other hesitate to marry because they are afraid it may interfere with the career of the man.

**Top 10* Most-Produced Plays of 2022-23** *Actually 14 due to ties.

Clyde’s, by Lynn Nottage (11 productions)
Chicken & Biscuits, by Douglas Lyons (8 productions)
Clue, adapted by Sandy Rustin from the film by Jonathan Lynn (7 productions)
Once, by Enda Walsh, Glen Hansard, and Markéta Irglová (7 productions)
Sweat, by Lynn Nottage (7 productions)
The Chinese Lady, by Lloyd Suh (6 productions)
Fairview, by Jackie Sibblies Drury (6 productions)
Into the Woods, by Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine (6 productions)
The Lifespan of a Fact, by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell & Gordon Farrell (6 productions)
Little Shop of Horrors, by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (6 productions)
Native Gardens, by Karen Zacarias (6 productions)
The Play That Goes Wrong, by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields (6 productions)
Steel Magnolias, by Robert Harling (6 productions)
Trouble in Mind, by Alice Childress (6 productions)

The Top 10* Most-Produced Plays of the 2019-20 Season * Actually 14 due to ties.

A Doll’s House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath: 12 (TIE)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens, based on the book by Mark Haddon: 12 (TIE)
Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe: 10
Bright Star with music by Steve Martin (also book) and Edie Brickell (also lyrics) 9 (TIE)
Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau: 9 (TIE)
Tiny Beautiful Things adapted by Nia Vardalos from the book by Cheryl Strayed: 8 (TIE)
Admissions by Joshua Harmon: 8 (TIE)
Cambodian Rock Band by Lauren Yee: 8 (TIE)
The Children by Lucy Kirkwood: 8 (TIE)
The Great Leap by Lauren Yee: 8 (TIE)
Murder on the Orient Express adapted by Ken Ludwig from the book by Agatha Christie: 8 (TIE)
School Girls or, The African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh: 8 (TIE)
The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse: 8 (TIE)
The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe: 8 (TIE)

AMERICAN THEATRE’S TOP 10 MOST-PRODUCED PLAYS OF 2017-18

Shakespeare in Love, adapted for the stage by Lee Hall, based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard: 15
Fun Home, adapted by Lisa Kron, based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, lyrics by Kron, and music by Jeanine Tesori: 12 PS3561.R584 F86 2015
Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau: 11
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, adapted by Simon Stephens from the novel by Mark Haddon: 9 PR6119.T455 C87 2015
Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison: 9 Available Online through the WSU Libraries catalog.
The Humans by Stephen Karam: 8 PS3611.A72 H86 2016
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry: 8 PS3515.A515 R3 1997
Heisenberg by Simon Stephens: 8
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon: 8
Sense and Sensibility (all adaptations): 8
adapted by Kate Hamill from Jane Austen: 7
adapted by Emma Whipday and Brian McMahon: 1

AMERICAN THEATRE’S TOP 10 MOST-PRODUCED PLAYS OF 2016–17 Actually 12, due to ties.

Hand to God by Robert Askins: 13
Constellations by Nick Payne: 10 PR6116.A97 C66 2014
Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar: 10 PS3601.K53 D57 2013
Million Dollar Quartet by Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott: 10
The Christians by Lucas Hnath: 8
Peter and the Starcatcher, adapted by Rick Elice from Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson: 8 PR6055.L43 P48 2012
The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez: 7
Sex With Strangers by Laura Eason: 7 PS3605.A78 S48 2014b
Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage: 6 Available online through the WSU Libraries Catalog
King Charles III by Mike Bartlett: 6
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry: 6 PS3515.A515 R3 1997
Sister Act with book by Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, music by Alan Menken, and lyrics by Glenn Slater: 6

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