List of plays – Character/Scene Study I

Pre 1970

Chekhov:
Three Sisters
Uncle Vanya
The Seagull

Ibsen:
Ghosts
Doll’s House
Hedda Gabler

Tennessee Williams:
Orpheus Descending
Summer and Smoke
Glass Menagerie

Arthur Miller:
All My Sons
A View From the Bridge
Death of a Salesman

August Wilson:
7 Guitars
Fences
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

Clifford Odets:
Awake and Sing
Waiting for Lefty
Golden Boy

William Inge
Picnic
Bus Stop
Come Back, Little Sheba

Lorraine Hansberry:
A Raisin in the Sun
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
Les Blancs (The Whites)

Lillian Hellman:
Children’s Hour
The Little Foxes
Toys in the Attic

James Baldwin
The Amen Corner

William Branch
A Medal for Willie

Charles Fuller
A Soldier’s Play

Alice Childress
Trouble in Mind
Wedding Band

Post 1970

Lynn Nottage
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Intimate Apparel

Pearle Cleage
Blues for an Alabama Sky
Flyin West

Evelina Fernandez
A Mexican Trilogy

Matthew Lopez
The Whipping Man

Quiara Alegria Hudes

Water by the Spoonful
26 Miles, Daphne’s Dive
Elliot a Soldier’s Fugue

Karen Zacarias
Native Gardens

Nambi E Kelley
Native Son

Young Jean Lee

Straight White Men
Nilo Cruz
Anna in the Tropics
Two Sisters and a Piano

Ayad Ackhtar
Junk
The Who & the What
Disgraced

Tony Kushner
Angels in America (both parts)

John Patrick Shanley

Doubt
Danny in the Deep Blue Sea
The Dreamer Examines His Pillow

David Henry Hwang

Golden Child
Yellow Face

Sam Shepard
Fool for Love
Curse of the Starving Class
Buried Child

Paula Vogel
How I Learned to Drive
The Baltimore Waltz
Indecent

Annie Baker
Circle Mirror Transformation
The Flick
John

Rajiv Joseph
Gruesome Playground Injuries
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Huck & Holden

Eric Coble
Bright Ideas

Dani Gaurari
Eclipsed

Amy Tam and Susan Kim

The Joy Luck Club