Project # 1 Harvard University

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
By Tony Kushner

"At center stage, "Angels" is a domestic drama"
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9F0CE2DC1431F936A35756C0A965958260

"modern American play"
http://www.curtainup.com/angelsinamericalond.html

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Christopher Hampton

"French drama"
http://www.curtainup.com/liaisonsdangereuses.html

"nasty drama"
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/05/arts/hampton.php

The History Boys
by Alan Bennett

"comic drama"
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/04/24/theater/reviews/24boys.html

"classroom dramas"
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/bennetta/history.htm

The Birthday Party
by Harold Pinter

"workaday thriller"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3673347/Review-Harold-Pinter

"comedy of menace."
http://www.curtainup.com/birthdaypartynj.html

Lysistrata
by Aristophanes

"old comedy"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata

"classic comedy"
http://www.untitledtheater.com/Lysistrata.htm

The Vagina Monologues

by Eve Ensler


"episodic play"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vagina_Monologues

"pioneering play"

http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/606.cfm

'Tis Pity She's A Whore
by John Ford

"Revenge Tragedy"

http://www.answers.com/topic/tis-pity-she-s-a-whore-play-4



"Jacobean revenge tragedy"

http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8367

The Gondoliers

by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

"Savoy Opera"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gondoliers

"comic opera"
http://www.wfu.edu/news/release/2008.03.17.g.php

Assassins
music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman

"revusical"
http://www.theatermirror.com/TAautri.htm

"oft-maligned musical"
http://www.centerstagechicago.com/theatre/articles/assassins.html

Hamlet
by William Shakespeare

"tragedy"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet

"revenge play"
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/themes.html

Project # 1 Ameican Reportory Theatre

THE COMMUNIST DRACULA PAGEANT
by Anne Washburn

"theatrical satire"
http://www.amrep.org/comdracula/

"Comic, Dark"
http://www.newdramatists.org/anne_washburn.htm

AURÉLIA'S ORATORIO
written by Victoria Thierrée Chaplin

"circus spectacle"
http://www.savannahnow.com/node/287389

"black comedy"
http://www.wickedlocal.com/patriotledger/lifestyle/family/x466665843/Aurelias-Oratorio-full-of-visual-surprises

THE SEAGULL
by Anton Chekhov
translated by Paul Schmidt

"tragicomedy"
http://www.amrep.org/seagull/

"grim comedy"
http://plays.about.com/od/plays/a/chekhovfunny_3.htm

ENDGAME
by Samuel Beckett


"classical tragedy"

http://www.englishessays.org.uk/english-essays/tragedy-silence-beckett-bond.php



"dark comedy"

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2008/05/endgame_days_of_our_lives_envi.html


TROJAN BARBIE
by Christine Evans



"contemporary drama"

http://www.amrep.org/trojanbarbie/


"post-modern pastiche"

http://www.athe.org/wtp/html/chambers_2007winners.html


ROMANCE
by David Mamet



"courtroom comedy"

http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0307275183/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1



"comedy"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2005/sep/21/theatre.davidmamet

Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare

"Tragedy"
http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/julius_caesar/

"history play"
http://www.readbookonline.net/title/334/

WHEN IT'S HOT IT'S COLE
words and music by Cole Porter
conceived by Scott Zigler and Peter Bayne
musical arrangements by Peter Bayne

"revue"
http://www.amrep.org/cole/

"cabaret"
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=entertainment&sc=theatre&sc2=reviews&sc3=performance&id=75253

CARDENIO
by Stephen Greenblatt and Charles L. Mee



"modern comedy"

http://www.amrep.org/cardenio/

"contemporary romantic comedy"

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/theater/04mcge.html

Aloha, Say The Pretty Girls
by Naomi Iizuka

"Serio-Comedy"
http://www.newdramatists.org/naomi_iizuka.htm

"postmodern play"
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2001/11/08/3791/

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