DEPARTMENTAL READING-PLAY and MUSICAL LIST
Master List/Moree-8/06
The following list should direct your reading for play reports, scene and monologue
material, as well as design and technical projects. If you choose a play NOT on this list, it
must meet the following criteria:
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It must be by an author already on the list.
It must be approved by a member of the faculty who will add it to the
master list through the Director of Theatre.
* (year) indicates Pulitzer Prize Award
+
indicates awards including Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, etc.
Although they don’t suffice for experiencing the text first hand, movie versions of plays
and musicals are acceptable ways to meet this requirement.
Albee, Edward
Seascape*(1975), Three Tall Women*(1994), A
Delicate Balance*(1967), The Goat, or Who is
Sylvia+, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?+, The
American Dream et al., Zoo Story/The Sandbox
Anderson, Jane
Defying Gravity
Anderson, Maxwell
Elizabeth the Queen, Mary of Scotland, Anne of a
Thousand Days, Bad Seed, Winterset
Anderson, Robert
I Never Sang for My Father, Tea and Sympathy,
You Know I Can’t Hear You When the Water’s
Running
Anouilh, Jean
Antigone, Waltz of the Toreadors, Beckett
Auburn, David
Proof*(2001)+
Axelrod, George
The Seven Year Itch
Ayckbourn, Alan
Absurd Person Singular, Family Values, Season’s
Greetings, Relatively Speaking
Baldwin, James
The Amen Corner, Blues for Mr. Charlie
Barrie, J.M.
Peter Pan
Beckett, Samuel
Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days
Blessing, Lee
Cobb, Down the Road, Independence, Nice People
Dancing to Country Music, A Walk in the Woods,
Fortinbras, Going to St. Ives, The Authentic Life of
Billy the Kid, Two Rooms, Eleemosynary
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Bogosian, Eric
Red Angel, Suburbia
Bolt, Robert
A Man for All Seasons
Brecht, Bertolt
The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Mother Courage and
Her Children, The Good Woman of Stzuan
Buchner, Georg
Woyzeck
Capek, Joseph and Karel
R.U.R.
Chase, Mary
Harvey*(1945)
Chekov, Anton
The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Three Sisters,
Uncle Vanya
Churchill, Caryl
Cloud 9, Top Girls
Cleage, Pearl
Blues for an Alabama Sky, Bourbon at the Border,
Flyin’West
Coburn, Donald L.
The Gin Game*(1978)
Connelly, Marc
The Green Pastures*(1930)
Coward, Noel
Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives
Cowen, Ron
Summertree
Cristofer, Michael
The Shadow Box*(1977)
Crouse, Russel
Life with Father, Life with Mother
Crowley, Mart
Boys in the Band, A Breeze from the Gulf
Cruz, Nilo
Anna in the Tropics*(2003)
Dancing at Lughnasa
Brian Friel+
Druten, John Van
Bell, Book, and Candle
Durang, Christopher
Durrenmatt, Friedrich
The Visit
Edson, Margaret
Wit*(1999)
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Feldshuh, David
Miss Evers’ Boys
Ferber, Edna
Stage Door
Fishburne, Laurence
Riff Raff
Foote, Horton
The Young Man From Atlanta*(1995),
Note: Foote wrote the screenplay for To Kill a Mockingbird,
The Death of Papa, Laura Dennis, Lily Dale, The
Traveling Lady, The Trip to Bountiful
Foster, Hunter
Summer of 42
Frings, Ketti
Look Homeward, Angel
Fugard, Athol
Blood Knot, Master Harold and the Boys, My
Children! My Africa!
Fuller, Charles
A Soldier’s Play*(1982)
Gibson, William
The Miracle Worker
Gilroy, Frank D.
The Subject Was Roses*(1965)
Giraudoux, Jean
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Goetz, Augustus
The Heiress
Goldman, James
The Lion in Winter
Goodrich, Frances and
Hackett, Albert
The Diary of Anne Frank*(1956)+
Gordone, Charles
No Place to Be Somebody*(1970)
Graham, Bruce
Coyote on a Fence, Desperate Affection
Greenberg, Richard
Take Me Out+
Griffin, Tom
The Boys Next Door
Guare, John
Six Degrees of Separation, Marco Polo Sings a Solo
Gurney, A.R.
Scenes From American Life, The Dining Room,
Sylvia
Hansberry, Lorraine
Raisin in the Sun, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s
Window, To Be Young, Gifted, and Black
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Harelik, Mark
The Immigrant
Hart, Moss and George
S. Kaufman
You Can’t Take it With You*(1937)
Heggen, Thomas and
Joshua Logan
Mister Roberts+
Hellman, Lillian
The Children’s Hour, The Lark, Toys in the Attic,
Another Part of the Forest, The Little Foxes
Henley, Beth
Crimes of the Heart*(1981) Abundance, The
Debutante Ball, The Miss Firecracker Contest, The
Wake of Jamey Foster
Howe, Tina
Painting Churches, Coastal Disturbances
Hughes, Langston
Simply Heavenly
Hwang, David Henry
M. Butterfly+
Ibsen, Henrik
A Doll’s House, An Enemy of the People,
Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck,
When We Dead Awaken
Inge, William
Bus Stop, Picnic*(1953), Come Back Little Sheba,
Splendor in the Grass, Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Ionesco, Eugene
The Bald Soprano, The Chairs, The Lesson,
Rhinoceros
Ives, David
All in the Timing-Six One Act Comedies
Jones, Preston
The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White
Magnolia, Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander,
The Oldest Living Graduate
Kanin, Garson
Born Yesterday
Kaufman, Moises
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde,
The Laramie Project
Kesserling, Joseph
Arsenic and Old Lace
Ketron, Larry
Fresh Horses
King, Larry
The Night Hank Williams Died
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Kopit, Arthur
Oh, Dad, Poor Dad…, Wings
Korder, Howard
Boys’ Life
Kramer, Larry
The Normal Heart
Kramm, Joseph
The Shrike*(1952)
Kushner, Tony
Angels in America: Millennium
Approaches*(1993)
Lee, Robert E.
and Lawrence
Lindsay, Howard and
Crouse, Russell
Inherit the Wind, Auntie Mame
Lucas, Craig
Reckless
Ludwig, Ken
Lend Me a Tenor
MacLeish, Archibald
J.B.*(1959)
Mamet, David
Glengarry Glen Ross*(1984), American Buffalo,
Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Speed-The-Plow,
Oleanna
Mann, Emily
Still Life
Margulies, Donald
Dinner With Friends*(2000)
Martin, Jane
Anton in Show Business, Flaming Guns of the
Purple Sage, Keely and Du, Talking With, The Boy
Who Ate the Moon
McCullers, Carson
Ballad of the Sad Café
McDonagh, Martin
The Beauty Queen of Leeane, The Lieutenant of
Inishmore
McLure, James
The Day They Shot John Lennon, Laundry and
Bourbon/Lonestar, Pvt. Wars
McNally, Terrence
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Master
Class+, Love Valor Compassion+, Where Has
Tommy Flowers Gone?, Lips Together Teeth Apart
State of the Union*(1946)
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Medoff, Mark
When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder? Children of a
Lesser God+, The Hands of Its Enemy, The Heart
Outright, Tommy J and Sally
Miller, Arthur
All My Sons, The Crucible+, Death of a
Salesman*(1949)+, The Price, After the Fall,
Creation of the World and Other Business, A View
from the Bridge
Miller, Jason
That Championship Season*(1973)+
Milligan, Jason
And the Rain Came to May, Life After Elvis
Mosel, Tad
All the Way Home*(1961)
Nash, Richard N.
The Rainmaker
Norman, Marsha
‘Night Mother*(1983), Getting Out
Notage, Lynn
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
Odets, Clifford
Golden Boy, Country Girl
O’Neill, Eugene
Beyond the Horizon*(1920), Anna Christie*(1922),
Strange Interlude*(1928), Long Days Journey Into
Night*(1957)+, Ah Wilderness, Mourning Becomes
Electra, Desire Under the Elms, The Iceman
Cometh
Note: Eugene O’Neill won the Nobel Prize
Osborn, Paul
On Borrowed Time
Parks, Suzan-Lori
Topdog/Underdog*(2002)
Patrick, John
Teahouse of the August Moon*(1954)+, The
Curious Savage
Pielmier, John
Agnes of God, Impassioned Embraces
Pinter, Harold
Betrayl
Potok, Chaim
The Chosen
Pirandello, Luigi
Six Characters in Search of An Author
Pomerance, Bernard
Elephant Man
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Price, Reynolds
August Snow, Full Moon
Rabe, David
Hurlyburly+, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel,
In the Boom Boom Room, Streamers, Sticks and
Bones, A Question of Mercy
Reza, Yasmina
(trans. Christopher Hampton)
Art+
Rice, Elmer
Street Scene*1929), The Adding Machine
Rudnick, Paul
I Hate Hamlet, Jeffrey
Sackler, Howard
The Great White Hope*(1969)
Saroyan, William
The Time of Your Life*(1940), Hello Out There
Schenkkan, Robert
The Kentucky Cycle*(1992)
Schisgal, Murray
Luv
Sedaris, Amy and/or
Sedaris, David
The Book of Liz, The Santaland Diaries and
Season’s Greetings.
Shange, Ntozake
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
When the Rainbow is Enuf
Shaffer, Peter
Equus, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Black Comedy,
Lettice and Loveage
Shanley, John Patrick
Doubt*(2005), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,
Beggars in the House of Plenty, Savage in Limbo
Shaw, George Bernard
Androcles and the Lion, Caesar and Cleopatra,
Candida, Heartbreak House, Major Barbara, Man
and Superman, Pygmalion, Saint Joan
Shawn, Wallace
Aunt Dan and Lemon
Sherwood, Robert E.
There Shall Be No Night*(1941), Abe Lincoln in
Illinois*(1939), Idiot’s Delight*(1936)
Shepard, Sam
Buried Child*(1979), Curse of the Starving Class,
True West, Fool for Love
Shue, Larry
The Foreigner, The Nerd
Simon, Neil
The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, Lost in Yonkers*(1991)
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Slade, Bernard
Same Time Next Year
Steinbeck, John
adapted by Frank Galati
The Grapes of Wrath+
Stoppard, Tom
Jumpers, The Real Inspector Hound, Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern are Dead, Travesties
Strindberg, August
Miss Julie, The Ghost Sonata, A Dream Play
Swicord, Robin
Last Days at the Dixie Girl Café
Synge, J.M.
The Playboy of the Western World, Riders to the Sea
Talley, Ted
Hooters
Taylor, Renee
Lovers and Other Strangers
Taylor, Samuel
Sabrina Fair
Thompson, Ernest
On Golden Pond, The West Side Waltz,
Tolan, Peter
Best Half Foot Forward/Stay Carl Stay/Pillow Talk
Uhry, Alfred
Driving Miss Daisy*(1988), The Last Night of Ballyhoo+,
Vogel, Paula
How I Learned to Drive *(1998), The BaltimoreWaltz, The
Mineola Twins, The Long Christmas Ride Home
Wade, Kevin
Key Exchange
Wasserstein, Wendy
The Heidi Chronicles*(1989)+, An American
Daughter, The Sisters Rosensweig, UncommonWomen
Watson, Ara
A Different Moon
Weller, Michael
Loose Ends, Moonchildren
Wilde, Oscar
The Importance of Being Earnest
Wilder, Thornton
Our Town*(1938), The Skin of Our Teeth*(1943),
The Matchmaker
Williams, Samm-Art
Eyes of the American, Woman from the Town
Williams, Tennessee
A Streetcar Named Desire*(1948), The Glass
Menagerie*(1949), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof*(1955)
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A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo+,
Battle of Angels, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly
Last Summer, Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of
Youth, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton/Other Plays
Wilson, August
Fences*(1987), The Piano Lesson*(1990), Ma
Rainey’s Black Bottom, Jitney, Joe Turner’s Come
and Gone, Seven Guitars, King Hedley II, Two
Trains Running
Wilson, Lanford
Talley’s Folly*(1980),Angels Fall, Balm in Gilead,
Burn This, Fifth of July, The Hot L Baltimore,
Lemon Sky, Rain Dance Redwood Curtain, The
Rimer sof Eldritch, A Sense of Place, Serenading
Louie
Wright, Doug
I Am My Own Wife*(2004
Wolfe, George C.
The Colored Museum
Zindel, Paul
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon
Marigolds*(1971), Amulets Against the Dragon
Forces, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Ladies at
the Alamo, The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild, The
Pigman
MUSICALS
Showboat
Oklahoma
My Fair Lady
Hello Dolly!
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying*
1776
Jesus Christ Superstar
Man of La Mancha
Carousel
A Little Night Music
Evita
A Chorus Line*
Les Miserables
Grease
Into the Woods
Chicago
The Wiz
Tommy
Once Upon a Mattress
Miss Saigon
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South Pacific
Assassins
Rent
Urinetown
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Cabaret
Cats
Company
Crazy for You
Guys and Dolls
Gypsy
Hair
The King and I
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Mame
The Music Man
Oliver
On the Town
Phantom of the Opera
Pippin (not for 2006-2008)
West Side Story
The Wiz
The Lion King
Ragtime
Purlie
The Sound of Music
Other musicals on request
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