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From the Serial
1983-84: Fool for love ; La cage aux folles ; Painting churches ; And a nightingale sang ; Noises off ; Real thing ; Beckett plays ; Glengarry Glen Ross ; Sunday in the park with George ; Miss Firecracker contest.
1984-1985: Split second ; Hurlyburly ; Ma Rainey's black bottom ; Foreigner ; Tracers ; Pack of lies ; As is ; Biloxi blues ; Doubles ; Marriage of Bette and Boo.
1985-1986: I'm not Rappaport
Seaon's greetings
Mystery of Edwin Drood
Aunt Dan and Lemon
Benefactors
It's only a play
Drinking in America
Execution of justice
Largo desolato
Perfect party.
1986-1987: Born in the R.S.A.
Broadway bound
Widow Claire
Wild honey
Kvetch
Les miserables
Fences
Driving Miss Daisy
Les liaisons dangereuses
Three postcards.
1987-1988: Steel magnolias
Mahabharata
Into the woods
Real estate
Walk in the woods
Wenceslas square
M. Butterfly
Joe Turner's come and gone
Road to Mecca
Speed-the-plow.
1988-1989: Road
Cocktail hour
Eastern standard
Emerald city
Heidi chronicles
Other people's money
Shirley Valentine
Gus and Al
Lend me a tenor
Aristocrats.
1989-90: The Loman family picnic / Donald Margulies
Love letters / A.R. Gurney
Grand Hotel, the musical / book by Luther Davis
My children! My Africa! / Athol Fugard.
City of angels / book by Larry Gelbart
Sex, drugs, rock & roll / Eric Bogosian
Prelude to a kiss / Craig Lucas
The grapes of wrath / Frank Galati
The piano lesson / August Wilson
Once on this island / book and lyrics by Lyn Ahrens.
1990-91: Six degrees of separation / John Guare
Falsettoland / William Finn and James Lapine
The sum of us / David Stevens
Shadowlands / William Nicholson
The American plan / Richard Greenberg
Lost in Yonkers / Neil Simon
The substance of fire / Jon Robin Baitz
Miss Saigon / Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schonberg
Our country's good / Timberlake Wertenbaker
The good times are killing me / Lynda Barry.
1991-92: Lips together, teeth apart / Terrence McNally
Dancing at Lughnasa / Brian Friel
Mad forest / Caryl Churchill
Marvin's room / Scott McPherson
Sight unseen / Donald Margulies
Conversations with my father / Herb Gardner
Crazy for you / book by Ken Ludwig ; music by George Gershwin ; lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Two trains running / August Wilson
Fires in the mirror / Anna Deavere Smith
The extra man / Richard Greenberg.
1992-93: Red diaper baby / Josh Kornbluth
Spic-O-Rama / John Leguizamo
The Destiny of me / Larry Kramer
The Sisters Rosensweig / Wendy Wasserstein
Oleanna / David Mamet
Joined at the head / Catherine Butterfield
Jeffrey / Paul Rudnick
Wings / book and lyrics by Arthur Perlman ; music by Jeffrey Lunden ; based on a play by Arthur Kopit
Kiss of the spider woman / book by Terrence McNally ; music by John Kander ; lyrics by Fred Ebb ; based on a novel by Manuel Puig
Angels in America: Millennium approaches / Tony Kushner
Later life / A.R. Gurney
The Who's Tommy / book by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff ; music and lyrics by Pete Townshend ; additional music and lyrics by John Entwistle and Keith Moon.
1993-94: A perfect Ganesh / Terrence McNally
The madness of George III / Alan Bennett
The Kentucky cycle / Robert Schenkkan
Laughter on the 23rd floor / Neil Simon
Angels in America, part II : perestroika / Tony Kushner
All in the timing / David Ives
Three tall women / Edward Albee
Twilight : Los Angeles, 1992 / Anna Deavere Smith
Passion / book by James Lapine ; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
SubUrbia / Eric Bogosian
American enterprise / Jeffrey Sweet.
1994-95: Love! Valour! Compassion! / Terrence McNally
Sunset Boulevard / Don Black
Hapgood / Tom Stoppard
A tuna Christmas / Jaston Williams
The young man from Atlanta / Horton Foote
Camping with Henry & Tom / Mark St. Germain
After-play / Anne Meara
Arcadia / Tom Stoppard
The cryptogram / David Mamet
Night and her stars / Richard Greenberg.
1995-96: Mrs. Klein / $r Nicholas Wright
$t Master class / $r Terrence McNally
$t New England / $r Richard Nelson
$t Valley song / $r Athol Fugard
$t Molly Sweeney / $r Brian Friel
$t Rent / $r Jonathan Larson
$t A fair country / $r Jon Robin Baitz
$t Seven guitars / $r August Wilson
$t The skriker / $r Caryl Churchill
$t Curtains / $r Stephen Bill.
1996-97: Old wicked songs
$t Skylight
$t Last night of Ballyhoo
$t Violet
$t Titanic
$t How I learned to drive
$t Jack and Jill.
1998-1999: Side man
Wit
Parade
Fosse
Not about nightingales
Closer
Book of days
Dinner with friends
Expecting Isabel.
1999-2000: The Season on and off broadway --
A Graphic glance by Hirschfeld --
The prizewinning plays : Synopses and excerpts. Contact ; James Joyce's The dead ; Dinner with friends ; Copenhagen ; Jitney ; The designated mourner --
Plays produced in New York --
The season off off broadway --
The season around the United States --
Facts and figures.
2000-2001: Boys gets girl
Invention of love
King headley II
Lobby Hero
Mnemonic
Nocture
Play about the baby
Producers
Proof
Urinetown.
2001-2002: Big love / Charles L. Mee
Breath, boom / Kia Corthron
The dazzle / Richard Greenberg
Franny's way / Richard Nelson
The glory of living / Rebecca Gilman
The goat, or who is Sylvia? / Edward Albee
Homebody/Kabul / Tony Kushner
Metamorphoses / Mary Zimmerman
[sic] / Melissa James Gibson
Topdog/underdog / Suzan-Lori Parks
Elaine Stritch at liberty / Elaine Stritch and John Lahr.
2002-2003: Book of days / by Lanford Wilson
I am my own wife / by Doug Wright
Mercy seat / by Neil LaBute
Stone cold dead serious / by Adam Rapp
Talking heads / by Alan Bennett
Dublin carol / by Conor McPherson
Imaginary friends / by Nora Ephron
Our lady of 121st street / by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Take me out / by Richard Greenberg
Yellowman / by Dael Orlandersmith.
2003-2004: Anna in the tropics / by Nilo Cruz
Caroline, or change / by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori
Frozen / by Bryony Lavery
Intimate apparel / by Lynn Nottage
Living out / by Lisa Loomer
The long Christmas ride home / by Paula Vogel
Omnium gatherum / by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros
Small tragedy / by Craig Lucas
The violet hour / by Richard Greenberg
Well / by Lisa Kron.
2004-2005: After Ashley / Gina Gionfriddo
Brooklyn boy / Donald Margulies
Democracy / Michael Frayn
Doubt, a parable / John Patrick Shanley
Gem of the ocean / August Wilson
Guantaþnamo : honor bound to defend freedom / Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo
Hot 'n' throbbing / Paula Vogel
A number / Caryl Churchill
The pillowman / Martin McDonagh
Romance / David Mamet
Singing forest / Craig Lucas
The clean house / Sarah Ruhl.
Adding Maching / Jason Loewith
August: Osage County / Tracy Letts
Dividing the Estate / Horton Foote
Eurydice / Sarah Ruhl
The Farnsworth Invention / Aaron Sorkin
100 Saints You Should Know / Kate Fodor
The Receptionist / Adam Bock
Rock 'n' Roll / Tom Stoppard
The Seafarer / Conor McPherson
Yellow Face / David Henry Hwang
Peter and Jerry / Edward Albee
Plays Produced on Broadway
Plays Produced Off Broadway
Cast Replacements and Toruing Companies
The Season Off Off Broadway / Sylviane Gold
Plays Produced Off Off Broadway
Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award and Citations / Moises Kaufman
Dead Man's Cell Phone / Sarah Ruhl
End Days / Deborah Zoe Laufer
A Directory of New United States Productions
Long Runs on Broadway
Long Runs Off Broadway
New York Drama Critics' Circle
Pulitzer Prize Winners
Tony Awards
Lucille Lortel Awards
Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award and Citations
Additional Prizes and Awards
Theater Hall of Fame
Margo Jones Citizen of the Theater Medal
In Memoriam
The Best Plays and Major Prizewinners, 1894-2008
From the Serial
1964-65: Subject was roses ; Fiddler on the roof ; Physicists ; Luv ; Odd couple ; Poor Bitos ; Slow dance on the killing ground ; Incident at Vichy ; Toilet ; Tiny Alice.
1965-66: Generation by William Goodhart.
The royal hunt of the sun by Peter Shaffer.
Hogan's goat by William Alfred.
Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman.
Inadmissible evidence by John Osborne.
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman by D. Newman and R. Benton.
Cactus flower by Abe Burrows.
The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat. . .by Peter Weis.
Philadelphia, here I come! by Brian Friel.
The Lion in winter by James Goldman.
1966-67: A delicate balance / Edward Albee
The killing of Sister George / Frank Marcus
Hamp / John Wilson
Cabaret / Joe Masteroff
The apple tree / Sheldon Harnick
American hurrah / Jean Claude Van Itallie
The homecoming / Harold Pinter
Black comedy / Peter Shaffer
You're a good man Charlie Brown / Clark Gesner
You know I can't hear you when the water's running / Robert Anderson.
1967-68: After the rain
Scuba Duba
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead
Staircase
Your own thing
A day in the death of Joe Egg
The price
Plaza suite
I never sang for my father
The boys in the band.
1968-69: Lovers ; Man in the glass booth ; Great white hope ; In the matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer ; Forty carats ; Hadrian VII ; Celebration ; 1776 ; No place to be somebody ; Adaptation ; Next.
1969-70: Indians ; Butterflies are free ; Last of the red hot lovers ; Child's play ; Effect of gamma rays on man in the moon marigolds ; Applause ; Company ; White house murder case ; What the butler saw ; Serpent: a ceremony.
1970-71: Boesman and Lena ; Steambath ; Conduct unbecoming ; Sleuth ; Trial of the Catonsville nine
Home ; Gingerbread lady ; House of blue leaves ; Philanthropist ; Follies.
1971-72: Where has Tommy Flowers gone?
Screens
That championship season
Ain't supposed to die a natural death
Sticks and bones
Prisoner of Second Avenue
Old times
Vivat! Vivat Regina!
Moonchildren
Small craft warnings.
1972-73: 6 rms riv vu, by Bob Randall.
Butley, by Simon Gray.
Green Julia, by Paul Ableman.
The creation of the world and other business, by Arthur Miller.
The River Niger, by Joseph A. Walker.
The sunshine boys, By Neil Simon.
Finishing touches, by Jean Kerr.
The changing room, by David Storey.
The hot l Baltimore, by Lanford Wilson.
A little night music, book by Hugh Wheeler, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
1973-74: The contractor / David Storey.
Bad habits / Terrence McNally.
Find your way home / by John Hopkins.
Short eyes / by Miguel Pi~nero.
Creeps / by David E. Freeman.
Noel Coward in two keys / by Noel Coward.
Jumpers / by Tom Stoppard.
The good doctor / by Neil Simon.
When you comin' back, Red Ryder? / by Mark Medoff.
The Sea horse / by Edward J. Moore.
1974-75: Equus ; Island ; All over town ; Ritz ; Seascape ; Same t/t year ; Chorus line ; Taking of Miss Janie ; National health ; Wager.
1975-76: Jesse and the bandit queen, by David Freeman.
Pacific overtures, by John Weidman.
Chicago, by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse.
Travesties, by Tom Stoppard.
The Norman conquests, by Alan Ayckbourn.
Knock knock, by Jules Feiffer.
Streamers, by David Rabe.
Serenading Louie, by Lanford Wilson.
Rebel women, by Thomas Babe.
The Runner stumbles, by Milan Stitt.
Special citation for best revival
Threepenny opera, by Bertolt Brecht.
1976-77: Sly fox, by L. Gelbart. Ashes, by D. Rudkin. Annie, by T. Meehan. California suite, by N. Simon. Oldest living graduate, by P. Jones. The last meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia, by P. Jones. Comedians, by T. Griffiths. Otherwise engaged, by S. Gray. American buffalo, by D. Mamet. Shadow box, by M. Cristofer.
1977-78: The gin game : a play in two acts / by D. L. Coburn
A life in the theater : a play in one act and 26 scenes / by David Mamet
Chapter two : a comedy in two acts / by Neil Simon
A prayer for my daughter : a play in two acts / by Thomas Babe
Deathtrap : a play in two acts / by Ira Levin
Family business : a play in three acts / by Dick Goldberg
The 5th of July : a play in two acts / by Lanford Wilson
The best little whorehouse in Texas : a musical in two acts / book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson ; music and lyrics by Carol Hall
Tribute : a play in two acts / by Bernard Slade
"Da" : a play in two acts / by Hugh Leonard.
1978-79: First Monday in October, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
Wings, by Arthur Kopit.
On golden pond, by Ernest Thompson.
The elephant man, by Bernard Pomerance.
Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street: a musical in two acts, book by Hugh Wheeler, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
Getting out, by Marsha W. Norman.
Bedroom farce, by Alan Ayckbourn.
Nevis Mountain Dew, by Steve Carter.
Gimme Shelteer, by Barrie Keeffe.
Whose life is it anyway?, by Brian Clark.
1979-80: Loose ends ; Betrayal ; Bent ; Lady from Dubuque ; Children of a lesser God ; Home ; Talley's folly ; Table settings ; I ought to be in pictures ; Nuts.
1980-81: 42nd Street ; A life ; Lunch hour ; Lesson from Aloes ; Zooman and the sign ; Amadeus ; Crimes from the heart ; Translations ; Floating light bulb ; Cloud 9.
1981-82: Dance and the railroad ; Life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ; Dresser ; Mass appeal ; Soldier's play ; Torch song trilogy ; Dining room ; Agnes of God ; Master Harold and the boys ; Nine.
1982-83: Good / C.P. Taylor
Cats / words by T.S. Eliot ; music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Angels fall / Lanford Wilson
Plenty / David Hare
Foxfire / Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn
Extremities / William Mastrosimone
Quartermaine's terms / Simon Gray
K2 / Patrick Meyers
'Night, mother / Marsha Norman
My one and only / book by Peter Stone and Timothy S. Mayer ; music by George Gershwin ; lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
1983-84: Fool for love / Sam Shephard
La cage aux folles / book by Harvey Fierstein ; Musics & lyrics by Jerry Herman ; based on the play by Jean Poiret
Painting churches / Tina Howe
And a nightingale sang ... / C.P. Taylor
Noises off / Michael Frayn
The real thing / Tom Stoppard
Ohio impromptu; Catastrophe; What where; Enough; Footfalls; Rockaby / Samuel Beckett
Glengarry Glen Ross / David Mamet
Sunday in the park with George / book by James Lapine ; Music & lyrics / Stephen Sondheim
The Miss firecracker contest / Beth Henley.
From the Serial
1944-45: A bell for Adano / Paul Osborn
I remember Mama / John Van Druten
The hasty heart / John Patrick
The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams
Harvey / Mary Chase
The late George Apley / John P. Marquand and George S. Kaufman
Soldier's wife / Rose Franken
Anna Lucasta
Foolish notion / Philip Barry
Dear Ruth / Norman Krasna.
1945-46: State of the union ; Home of the brave ; Deep are the roots ; Magnificent Yankee ; Antigone ; O mistress mine ; Born yesterday ; Dream girl ; Rugged path ; Lute song. 1948-49: Death of a salesman ; Anne of the thousand days ; Madwoman of Chaillot ; Detective story ; Edward, my son ; Life with Mother ; Light up the sky ; Silver whistle ; Two blind mice ; Goodbye, my fancy.
1946-47: All my sons / Arthur Miller
The iceman cometh / Eugene O'Neill
Joan of Lorraine / Maxwell Anderson
Another part of the forest / Lillian Hellman
Years ago / Ruth Gordon
John loves Mary / Norman Krasna
The fatal weakness / George Kelly
The story of Mary Surratt / John Patrick
Christopher Blake / Moss Hart
Brigadoon / book by Alan Jay Lerner ; music by Frederick Loewe.
1947-48: A streetcar named Desire / Tennessee Williams
Mister Roberts / Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan
Commmand decision / William Wister Haines
The Winslow boy / Terence Rattigan
The heiress / Ruth and Augustus Goetz
Allegro / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Eastward in Eden / Dorothy Gardner
Skipper next to God / Jan de Hartog
An inspector calls / J.B. Priestley
Me and Molly / Gertrude Berg.
1948-49: Death of a salesman ; Anne of the thousand days ; Madwoman of Chaillot ; Detective story ; Edward, my son ; Life with Mother ; Light up the sky ; Silver whistle ; Two blind mice ; Goodbye, my fancy.
1949-50: Cocktail party ; Member of the wedding ; Innocents ; Lost in the stars ; Come back Little Sheba ; Happy time ; Wisteria trees ; I know my love ; Enchanted ; Clutterbuck.
1953-54: Caine mutiny court martial ; In the summer house ; Confidential clerk ; Take a giant step ; Teahouse of the August moon ; Immoralist ; Tea and sympathy ; girl on the Via Flaminia ; Golden apple ; MAgic and the loss.
1950-51: Guys and dolls, by D. Runyon [musical version by Frank Loesser]; Darkness at noon, by S. Kingsley; Billy Budd, by L.O. Coxe and R. Chapman; Autumn garden, by L. Hellman; Bell, book and candle, by J. Van Druten; Country girl, by Clifford Odets; Rose tattoo, by T. Williams; Season in the sun, by W. Gibbs; Affairs of state, by L. Verneuil; Second threshold, by P. Barry.
1951-52: Mrs. McThing ; Shrike ; I am a camera ; Fourposter
Point of no return ; Barefoot in Athens ; Venus observed ; Jane ; Gigi ; Remains to be seen.
1952-53: The time of the cuckoo / Arthur Laurents
Bernadine / Mary Chase
Dial "M" for murder / Frederick Knott
The climate of Eden / Moss Hart
The love of four colonels / Peter Ustinov
The crucible / Arthur Miller
The emperor's clothes / by George Tabori
Picnic / William Inge
Wonderful town / book by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov ; music by Leonard Bernstein ; lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green (based upon the play My sister Eileen / Fields and Chodorov and the stories by Ruth McKenney)
My 3 angels / Sam and Bella Spewack ; based on La cuisine des anges / Albert Husson.
1954-55: The boy friend / by Sandy Wilson
The living room / by Graham Greene
Bad seed / by Maxwell Anderson
Witness for the prosecution / by Agatha Christie
The flowering peach / by Clifford Odets
The desperate hours / by Joseph Hayes
The dark is light enough / by Christopher Fry
Bus stop / by William Inge
Cat on a hot tin roof / by Tennessee Williams
Inherit the wind / by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
1955-56: View from the bridge
Tiger at the gates
Diary of Anne Frank
No time for sergeants
Chalk garden
Lark
MAtchmaker
Ponder heart
My fair lady
Waiting for Godot.
1956-1957: Separate tables ; Long day's journey into night ; Very special baby ; Candide ; Clearing in the woods ; Waltz of the toreadors ; Potting shed ; Visit to a small planet ; Orpheus descending ; Moon for the misbegotten.
1957-1958: Look back in anger ; Under Milk Wood ; Time remembered ; Rope dancers ; Look homeward, angel ; Dark at the top of the stairs ; Summer of the 17th doll ; Sunrise at Campobello ; Entertainer ; Visit.
1958-1959: Touch of the poet ; Pleasure of his company ; Epitaph for George Dillon ; Disenchanted ; Cold wind and the warm ; J.B. ; Requiem for a nun ; Sweet bird of youth ; Raisin in the sun ; Kataki.
1959-60: Tenth man ; Five finger exercise ; Andersonville trial ; Deadly game ; Caligula ; Toys in the attic ; Best man ; Duel of angels ; Thurber carnival ; Fiorello.
1960-61: Hostage ; Taste of honey ; Becket ; Period of adjustment ; All the way home ; Mary Mary ; Rhinoceros ; Devil's advocate ; Big fish, little fish ; Far country.
1961-62: Caretaker ; How to succeed in business without really trying ; Complaisant lover ; Gideon ; Man for all seasons ; Stone and star ; Night of the iguana ; The egg ; Oh Dad, poor Dad, Mamma's hung you in the closet and I'm feelin' so sad ; Thousand clowns.
1962-63: Stop the world- I want to get off ; Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? ; Tchin-tchin ; P.S. 193 ; The collection ; Milk train doesn't stop here anymore ; Andorra ; Mother courage and her children ; Rattle of a simple man ; She loves me
1963-64: Rehearsal ; Luther ; Chips with everything ; Barefoot in the park ; Next time I'll sing to you ; Hello, Dolly! ; Dylan ; After the fall ; Passion of Josef D. ; Deputy.
From the Serial
1924-25: What price glory / L. Stallings & M. Anderson
They knew what they wanted / S. Howard
Desire under the elms / E. O'Neill
The firebrand / E.J. Mayer
Dancing mothers / E. Selwyn & E. Goulding
Mrs. Partridge presents / M. Kennedy & R. Hawthorne
The fall guy / J. Gleason & G. Abbott
The youngest / P. Barry
Minick / E. Ferber & G.S. Kaufman
Wild birds / D. Totheroh.
1925-26: Craig's wife / George Kelly
The great God Brown / Eugene O'Neill
The green hat / Michael Arlen
The dybbuk / S. Ansky ; translated by Henry G. Alsberg and Winifred Katzin
The enemy / Channing Pollock
The last of Mrs. Cheyney / Frederick Lonsdale
The bride of the lamb / William Hurlbut
Young Woodley / John van Druten
The butter and egg man / George Kaufman
The wisdom tooth / Marc Connelly.
1927-28: Strange interlude ; Royal family ; Burlesque ; Coquette ; Behold the bridegroom ; Porgy ; Paris bound ; Escape ; The racket ; Plough and the stars.
1929-30: Green pastures ; Criminal code ; Berkeley Square ; Strictly dishonorable ; Last mile ; First Mrs. Fraser ; June Moon ; Michael and Mary ; Death takes a holiday ; Rebound.
1930-31: Elizabeth the queen ; Tomorrow and tomorrow ; Once in a lifetime ; Green grow the lilacs ; As husbands go ; Alison's house ; Five star final ; Overture ; Barretts of Wimpole Street ; Grand hotel.
1931-32: Of thee I sing ; Mourning becomes Electra ; Reunion in Vienna ; House of Connelly ; Animal kingdom ; Left bank ; Brief moment ; Another language ; Devil passes ; Cynara.
1932-33: Both your houses / Maxwell Anderson
Dinner at eight / George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber
When ladies meet / Rachel Crothers
Design for living / Noel Coward
Biography / S.N. Behrman
Alien corn / Sidney Howard
The late Christopher Bean / Sidney Howard
We, the people / Elmer Rice
Pigeons and people / George M. Cohen
One Sunday afternoon / James Hagan.
1933-34: Mary of Scotland ; Men in white ; Dodsworth ; Ah, wilderness ; They shall not die ; Her master's voice ; No more ladies ; Wednesday's child ; Shining hour ; Green bay tree.
1934-35: Children's hour ; Valley Forge ; Petrified forest ; Old maid ; Accent on youth ; Merrily we roll along ; Awake and sing ; Farmer takes a wife ; Lost horizons ; Distaff side.
1935-36: Winterset / Maxwell Anderson
Idiot's delight / Robert E. Sherwood
End of summer / S.N. Behrman
First Lady / Katharine Dayton and George S. Kaufman
Victoria Regina / Laurence Housman
Boy meets girl / Bella and Samuel Spewack
Dead end / Sidney Kingsley
Call it a day / Dodie Smith
Ethan Frome / Owen Davis and Donald Davis
Pride and prejudice / Helen Jerome.
1936-37: High Tor / Maxwell Anderson
You can't take it with you / Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
Johnny Johnson / Paul Green ; incidental music by Kurt Weill
Daughters of Atreus / Robert Turney
Stage door / Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman
The women / Clare Boothe
St. Helena / R.C. Sherriff and Jeanne de Casalis
Yes, my darling daughter / Mark Reed
Excursion / Victor Wolfson
Tovarich / Jacques Deval ; English adaptation by Robert E. Sherwood.
1937-38: Of mice and men / John Steinbeck
Our town / Thornton Wilder
Shadow and substance / Paul Vincent Carroll
On borrowed time / Paul Osborn
The star-wagon / Maxwell Anderson
Susan and God / Rachel Crothers
Prologue to glory / E.P. Conkle
Amphitryon 38 / S.N. Behrman
Golden boy / Clifford Odets
What a life / Clifford Goldsmith.
1938-39: Abe Lincoln in Illinois ; Little foxes ; Rocket to the moon ; American way ; No time for comedy ; Philadelphia story ; White steed ; Here come the clowns ; Family portrait ; Kiss the boys goodbye.
1939-40: There shall be no night / Robert Sherwood
Key largo / Maxwell Anderson
The world we make / Sidney Kingsley
Life with father / Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
The man who came to dinner / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
The male animal / James Thurber and Elliott Nugent
The time of your life / William Saroyan
Skylark / Samson Raphaelson
Margin for error / Claire Boothe
Morning's at seven / Paul Osborn.
1940-41: Native son ; Watch on the Rhine ; Corn is green ; Lady in the dark ; Arsenic and old lace ; My sister Eileen ; Flight to the west ; Claudia ; Mr. and Mrs. North ; George Washington slept here.
1941-42: In time to come ; Moon is down ; Blithe spirit ; Junior Miss ; Candle in the wind ; Letters to Lucerne ; Jason ; Angel Street ; Uncle Harry ; Hope for a harvest.
1942-43: Patriots ; Eve of St. Mark ; Skin of our teeth ; Winter soldiers ; Tomorrow the world ; Harriet ; Doughgirls ; Damask cheek ; Kiss and tell ; Oklahoma.
1943-44: Winged victory ; Searching wind ; Voice of the turtle ; Decision ; Over 21 ; Outrageous fortune ; Jacobowsky and the colonel ; Storm operation ; Pick-up girl ; Innocent voyage.
From the Serial
1894-1895: The case of rebellious Susan, by H. A. Jones.- The heart of Maryland, by David Belasco.- Secret service, by William Gillette.- The little minister, by J. M. Barrie.- Trelawny of the Wells, by Sir A. W. Pinero.- Plays produced in New York 1894-1899.- Index.
1899-1909: Barbara Frietchie, by Clyde Fitch.
The climbers, by Clyde Fitch.
If I were king, by J. H. McCarthy.
The darling of the gods, by David Belasco and J. L. Long.
The county chairman, by George Ade.
Leah Kleschna, by C. M. S. McLellan.
The squaw man, by E. M. Royle.- The great divide, by W. V. Moody.
The witching hour, by Augustus Thomas.
The man from home, by Booth Tarkington and H. L. Wilson.
The plays and their authors.
Plays produced in New York, 1899-1909.
The decade's toll.
Pulitzer prize winners.
Previous volumes of best plays.
1919-20: Abraham Lincoln / John Drinkwater
Beyond the horizon / Eugene O'Neill
The famous Mrs. Fair / James Forbes
Declassee / Zoe Aikins
Jane Clegg / St. John Ervine
The Jest / Sem Benelli
Wedding bells / Salisbury Field
Mamma's affair / Rachel Benton Butler
Adam and Eva / Guy Bolton and George Middleton
Clarence / Booth Tarkington.
1920-21: Deburau ; First year ; Enter Madame ; Green goddess ; Liliom ; Mary Rose ; Nice people ; Bad man ; Emperor Jones ; Skin game. --
1921-22: Anna Christie / Eugene O'Neill
A bill of divorcement / Clemence Dane
Dulcy / George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly
He who gets slapped / Leonid Andreyev
Six-cylinder love / William Anthony McGuire - - The hero / Gilbert Emery
The Dover Road / A.A. Milne
The ambush / Arthur Richman
The circle / W. Somerset Maugham
The nest / Paul Geraldy.
1922-23: Rain / John Colton and Clemence Randolph
You and I / Philip Barry
Loyalties / John Galsworthy
Icebound / Owen Davis
Why not / Jesse Lynch Williams
The fool / Channing Pollock
Merton of the movies / George Kaufman and Marc Connelly
The old soak / Don Marquis
R. U. R. / Karel Capek
Mary the 3d
Rachel Crothers
1923-24: The show-off / George Kelly
Hell-bent fer heaven / Hatcher Hughes
The swan / Ferencz Molnar ; translated by M.P. Baker
Outward bound / Sutton Vane
The goose hangs high / Lewis Beach
Beggar on horseback / George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly
The changelings / Lee Wilson Dodd
Sun-up / Lula Vollmer
Chicken feed / Guy Bolton
Tarnish / Gilbert Emery.
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