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Theatre: Plays and Playwrights

Selected Playwrights: 1950-present

Albee, Edward
Baraka, Amiri
Bean, Richard
Bennett, Alan
Bolt, Robert
Churchill, Caryl
Cruz, Nilo
Durang, Christopher
Eno, Will
Fo, Dario
Fornés, María Irene
Friel, Brian
Fugard, Athol
Gibson, William
Gordon, Mick
Greenberg, Richard
Guare, John
Haidle, Noah
Hansberry, Lorraine
Hare, David
Hwang, David Henry
Howe, Tina
Ives, David
Kelly, Dennis
Kron, Lisa
Kushner, Toni
LaBute, Neil
Lavery, Bryony
Leight, Warren
Lindsay-Abaire, David
Lucas, Craig
Macmillan, Duncan
Mamet, David
Marber, Patrick
McCarthy, Cormac
McNally, Terrence
Medoff, Mark
Miller, Arthur
Nottage, Lynn
Osborne, John
Panych, Morris
Parks, Suzan-Lori
Pinter, Harold
Pomerance, Bernard
Rapp, Adam
Reza, Yasmina
Ruhl, Sarah
Schenkkan, Robert
Shaffer, Peter
Shange, Ntozake
Shanley, John Patrick
Shepard, Sam
Simon, Neil
Soyinka, Wole
Stoppard, Tom
Tregenna, Catherine
Vogel, Paula
Walcott, Derek
Wasserstein, Wendy
Williams, Tennessee
Wilson, August
Wolfe, George C.

Selected Playwrights: Late 19th Century - 1950

Anderson, Maxwell
Artaud, Antonin
Barry, Philip

Beckett, Samuel
Brecht, Bertolt
Büchner, Georg
Chekov, Anton
Coward, Noel
Eliot, T.S.
Feydeau, George
Genet, Jean
Gogol, Nikolai
Gorky, Maxim
Hart, Moss
Hauptmann, Gerhart
Hellman, Lillian
Ibsen, Henrik
Inge, William

Ionesco, Eugene
Kaiser, Georg
Kaufman, George S.
Kelly, George
Lorca, Federico Garcia
Luce, Claire Booth
Miller, Henry
Mitchell, Langdon
Moody, William Vaughan

Odets, Clifford
O'Neill, Eugene
Pirandello, Luigi
Rice, Elmer

Sartre, Jean-Paul
Shaw, George Bernard
Sherwood, Robert
Stallings, Laurence

Strindberg, August
Wilde, Oscar
Wilder, Thornton
Williams, Tennessee

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