Man = Man
by Bertolt Brecht
translated by Gerhard Nellhaus
“This grotesque farce confronts pressing questions of personal accountability and the value of individuality…”
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Yale_School_of_Drama_to_Present_Brechts_MANMAN_Starting_1028_20081023
The archly comic drama uses staunch army clichés of the time…to imagine the creation of a perfect fighting machine.”
http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=10312
Jelly's Last Jam
Book by George C. Wolfe
"Based on the life and career of Morton, generally regarded as one of the primary driving forces behind the introduction of jazz to the American public in the early 20th century, it also serves as a social commentary on the African-American experience during the era."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly
"The show at the Virginia Theater is not merely an impressionistic biography of the man who helped ignite the 20th-century jazz revolution, but it is also a sophisticated attempt to tell the story of the birth of jazz in general and, through that story, the edgy drama of being black in the tumultuous modern America that percolated to jazz's beat."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9E0CEED6133EF934A15757C0A964958260
The Three Sisters
By Anton Chekhov
Translated by Carol Rocamora
"Three Sisters is a naturalistic play about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_%28play)
"The most nuanced and emotionally composed of Anton Chekhov's beloved works, this dark comedy has for more than a century offered the actor's dream of deeply hewn character studies."
http://www.sandiegoplaybill.com/news/news_ucsd_030115.html
Love's Labour's Lost
by William Shakespeare
"For this early Shakespearian romantic comedy..."
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117930601.html?categoryid=33&cs=1
"Resetting one of William Shakespeare's lesser comedies..."
"Resetting one of William Shakespeare's lesser comedies..."
http://www.musicals101.com/labours.htm
Baal
by Bertolt Brecht
"Though the episodic play is unwieldy and without the powerful political spine of Brecht's later work, it is a compelling piece of theater, filled with vitality and with the insatiable longings of youth."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9C0CE5DC1238F937A15750C0A966958260
"Brecht wrote Baal prior to developing the dramaturgical techniques of 'epic theatre' that characterize his later work."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_(play)
Ghost Sonata
by August Strindberg
"The Ghost Sonata is a key text in the development of modernist drama and a vivid example of a chamber play."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Sonata
"It is a highly modern text as it blurs the realms of real and illusion to expose the world in all its scary ambivalence, questioning the old doctrine and the notion of ‘one great truth’"
http://www.hausarbeiten.de/faecher/vorschau/119985.html
Peer Gynt
By Henrik Ibsen
"This stern admonition resounds powerfully in the plot of "Peer Gynt," Ibsen's sprawling verse epic that ranges wildly across realms rustic, exotic and fantastic."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/04/14/theater/reviews/14gynt.html
"For all of Ibsen's protestations that Peer Gynt was written entirely for publication and not for the stage, his master fairy tale remains not only a centerpiece of modern drama but also of the modern theatre."
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/theatre_journal/v048/48.2pr_ibsen.html
Eurydice
by Sarah Ruhl
"At the end of Eurydice, Ruhl's switcheroo, modernist take on the Orpheus and Eurydice Greek myth, I neither loved nor hated it."
http://donhall.blogspot.com/2008/10/review-eurydice.html
The Mistakes Madeline Made
by Elizabeth Meriwether
"There is less gimmickry in her latest comedy, "The Mistakes Madeline Made," a frenetic play about the horrors of low-level bureaucracy, pretentious writers and, more seriously, the death of a family member."
Baal
by Bertolt Brecht
"Though the episodic play is unwieldy and without the powerful political spine of Brecht's later work, it is a compelling piece of theater, filled with vitality and with the insatiable longings of youth."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9C0CE5DC1238F937A15750C0A966958260
"Brecht wrote Baal prior to developing the dramaturgical techniques of 'epic theatre' that characterize his later work."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_(play)
Ghost Sonata
by August Strindberg
"The Ghost Sonata is a key text in the development of modernist drama and a vivid example of a chamber play."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Sonata
"It is a highly modern text as it blurs the realms of real and illusion to expose the world in all its scary ambivalence, questioning the old doctrine and the notion of ‘one great truth’"
http://www.hausarbeiten.de/faecher/vorschau/119985.html
Peer Gynt
By Henrik Ibsen
"This stern admonition resounds powerfully in the plot of "Peer Gynt," Ibsen's sprawling verse epic that ranges wildly across realms rustic, exotic and fantastic."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/04/14/theater/reviews/14gynt.html
"For all of Ibsen's protestations that Peer Gynt was written entirely for publication and not for the stage, his master fairy tale remains not only a centerpiece of modern drama but also of the modern theatre."
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/theatre_journal/v048/48.2pr_ibsen.html
Eurydice
by Sarah Ruhl
"At the end of Eurydice, Ruhl's switcheroo, modernist take on the Orpheus and Eurydice Greek myth, I neither loved nor hated it."
http://donhall.blogspot.com/2008/10/review-eurydice.html
The Mistakes Madeline Made
by Elizabeth Meriwether
"There is less gimmickry in her latest comedy, "The Mistakes Madeline Made," a frenetic play about the horrors of low-level bureaucracy, pretentious writers and, more seriously, the death of a family member."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/theater/reviews/25made.html
"Girl rage is powerful in Elizabeth Meriwether's absurdist comedy "The Mistakes Madeline Made."
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117930304.html?categoryid=33&cs=1
Black Snow
by Mikhail Bulgakov
"Girl rage is powerful in Elizabeth Meriwether's absurdist comedy "The Mistakes Madeline Made."
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117930304.html?categoryid=33&cs=1
Black Snow
by Mikhail Bulgakov
adapted by Keith Reddin
"The book is perhaps better described as an autobiographical episode, with Bulgakov renamed as the book’s central character, Maxudov."
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/philip-spires-reviews-black-snow-by-mikhail-bulgakov.html
"The Idyllwild Arts Academy Theatre Department is proud to present “Black Snow” by Mikhail Bulgakov a comic novel about the cloak-and-dagger world of the Russian theater in the politically calamitous 1930's."
http://events.pe.com/idyllwild-ca/events/show/85956730-black-snow-written-by-mikhail-bulgakov
Yale Repertory Theatre!
Passion Play
by Sarah Ruhl
"Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl, author of The Clean House and Eurydice, returns to Yale Rep with PASSION PLAY: an epic trilogy of plays performed in one evening."
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Flash_Passion_Play_by_Sarah_Ruhl_at_Yale_Repertory_Theatre_20080924
"But Sarah Ruhl's much-developed 3Ω-hour intimate epic, "Passion Play," delicately wafts over the didactic with her own special lyrical blend of poetry, humor and grace."
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117938519.html?categoryid=33&cs=1
Rough Crossing
by Tom Stoppard
"In Rough Crossing, he takes the unusual (for him) step of cloaking this game in a romantic musical comedy.
http://www.curtainup.com/roughc.html
"Who better to direct this seldom-performed Tom Stoppard comedy than Dave Sikula, who obviously loves sight gags and throws them at you every chance he gets."
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_/ai_n28088059
"And this summer, they could not have chosen better than to assay ROUGH CROSSING, a farce by Tom Stoppard, adapted from Ferenc Molnarís Play at the Castle and P.G. Wodehouseís The Playís the Thing, but as is evident from both titles, solidly grounded in or influenced by Shakespeare himself."
http://www.rogovoy.com/news1466.html
Lydia
by Octavio Solis
'"Lydia' is an astonishing, expertly crafted tragedy that seduces and repels you at once."
http://www.denverpost.com/theater/ci_8086972
"The book is perhaps better described as an autobiographical episode, with Bulgakov renamed as the book’s central character, Maxudov."
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/philip-spires-reviews-black-snow-by-mikhail-bulgakov.html
"The Idyllwild Arts Academy Theatre Department is proud to present “Black Snow” by Mikhail Bulgakov a comic novel about the cloak-and-dagger world of the Russian theater in the politically calamitous 1930's."
http://events.pe.com/idyllwild-ca/events/show/85956730-black-snow-written-by-mikhail-bulgakov
Yale Repertory Theatre!
Passion Play
by Sarah Ruhl
"Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl, author of The Clean House and Eurydice, returns to Yale Rep with PASSION PLAY: an epic trilogy of plays performed in one evening."
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Flash_Passion_Play_by_Sarah_Ruhl_at_Yale_Repertory_Theatre_20080924
"But Sarah Ruhl's much-developed 3Ω-hour intimate epic, "Passion Play," delicately wafts over the didactic with her own special lyrical blend of poetry, humor and grace."
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117938519.html?categoryid=33&cs=1
Rough Crossing
by Tom Stoppard
"In Rough Crossing, he takes the unusual (for him) step of cloaking this game in a romantic musical comedy.
http://www.curtainup.com/roughc.html
"Who better to direct this seldom-performed Tom Stoppard comedy than Dave Sikula, who obviously loves sight gags and throws them at you every chance he gets."
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_/ai_n28088059
"And this summer, they could not have chosen better than to assay ROUGH CROSSING, a farce by Tom Stoppard, adapted from Ferenc Molnarís Play at the Castle and P.G. Wodehouseís The Playís the Thing, but as is evident from both titles, solidly grounded in or influenced by Shakespeare himself."
http://www.rogovoy.com/news1466.html
Lydia
by Octavio Solis
'"Lydia' is an astonishing, expertly crafted tragedy that seduces and repels you at once."
http://www.denverpost.com/theater/ci_8086972
"Octavio Solis has penned a great American family drama."
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/feb/07/theater-lydia/
Death of a Salesman
byArthur Miller
"The play raises a counterexample to Aristotle's characterization of tragedy as the downfall of a great man: though Loman certainly has Hamartia, a tragic flaw or error, his downfall is that of an ordinary man (a "low man")."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Salesman
"Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy DEATH OF A SALSEMAN is being given a strong production at Syracuse Stage."
http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/fullstory.php?storyid=9033
Richard II
by Earl of Oxford
"Richard II," one of the Bard's better-scripted but seldom-staged tragedies."
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934407.html?categoryid=33&cs=1
"King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to be written in approximately 1595."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II_(play)
Trouble in Mind
by Alice Childress
"Trouble in Mind, Alice Childress’s funny, fierce, and moving comedy..."
http://www.thenewhavenlife.com/calendar/task,view_detail/agid,69/year,2007/month,10/day,26/
"Alice Childress’s 1955 backstage comedy-drama, “Trouble in Mind,” seem as plausible in today’s world as they were back when the play opened Off Broadway."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/11theaterct.html
Tartuffe
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière
"Molière's timeless comedy"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/may/16/theatre.europeancapitalofculture2008
"Tartuffe...is a comedy by Molière, and arguably his most famous play."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartuffe
A Woman of No Importance
by Oscar Wilde
" It is a testimony of Wilde's wit and his brand of dark comedy"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Woman_of_No_Importance
"Set in the last decade of the 19th century this drama exposes the hypocritical moral code of that society."
http://www.edinburghguide.com/aande/theatre/reviews_06/w/woman_of_no_importance_pitlochry.shtml
Death of a Salesman
byArthur Miller
"The play raises a counterexample to Aristotle's characterization of tragedy as the downfall of a great man: though Loman certainly has Hamartia, a tragic flaw or error, his downfall is that of an ordinary man (a "low man")."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Salesman
"Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy DEATH OF A SALSEMAN is being given a strong production at Syracuse Stage."
http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/fullstory.php?storyid=9033
Richard II
by Earl of Oxford
"Richard II," one of the Bard's better-scripted but seldom-staged tragedies."
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934407.html?categoryid=33&cs=1
"King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to be written in approximately 1595."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II_(play)
Trouble in Mind
by Alice Childress
"Trouble in Mind, Alice Childress’s funny, fierce, and moving comedy..."
http://www.thenewhavenlife.com/calendar/task,view_detail/agid,69/year,2007/month,10/day,26/
"Alice Childress’s 1955 backstage comedy-drama, “Trouble in Mind,” seem as plausible in today’s world as they were back when the play opened Off Broadway."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/11theaterct.html
Tartuffe
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière
"Molière's timeless comedy"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/may/16/theatre.europeancapitalofculture2008
"Tartuffe...is a comedy by Molière, and arguably his most famous play."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartuffe
A Woman of No Importance
by Oscar Wilde
" It is a testimony of Wilde's wit and his brand of dark comedy"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Woman_of_No_Importance
"Set in the last decade of the 19th century this drama exposes the hypocritical moral code of that society."
http://www.edinburghguide.com/aande/theatre/reviews_06/w/woman_of_no_importance_pitlochry.shtml
Notes From Underground
by Fyodor M Dostoevsky
translated by RICHARD PEVEAR and LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY
adapted by BILL CAMP and ROBERT WOODRUFF
Happy Now?
by Lucinda Coxon
"Lucinda Coxon's new play belongs to a once-familiar genre: the middle-class comedy of recognition."
"Lucinda Coxon’s sharp, entertaining comedy-drama "
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