Playwrites Flashcards
1
Q
David Mamet
1947- ?
A
Wrote:
- Sexual Perversity in Chicago
- American Buffalo
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- Oleanna
2
Q
August Wilson
1945-2005
A
Wrote:
- Fences
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- The Piano Lesson
3
Q
Tennesse Williams
1911-1983
A
Wrote:
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- The Glass Menagerie
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
4
Q
Lorraine Hansberry
1930-1965
A
1st play written by a black woman and produced on Broadway
Wrote:
-A Raisin in the Sun
5
Q
Arthur Miller
1915-2005
A
Wrote:
- The Death of a Salesman
- The Crucible
6
Q
Thornton Wilder
1897-1975
A
Wrote:
- Our Town
- The Skin of Our Teeth
7
Q
Royal Tyler
1757-1826
A
Writer of the 1st American play to be professionally performed
Wrote:
-The Contrast
8
Q
Terrence McNally
1939- ?
A
Wrote:
- Love! Valour! Compassion!
- Frankie and Johnny at the Claire de Lune
- The Ritz
9
Q
Eugene O’Neil
(1888-19530
A
America’s foremost dramatist 1st American playwright to receive Nobel Prize for literature Wrote: -Desire Under the Elms -Mourning Becomes Electra -The Iceman Cometh -Long Day’s Journey Into Night
10
Q
Edward Albee
1928- ?
A
Wrote:
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Three Tall Women
11
Q
Neil Simon
1927- ?
A
Wrote:
- The Odd Couple
- Lost in Yonkers
- Promises Promises
- Sweet Charity
12
Q
Lillian Hellman
1905-1984
A
Wrote:
- The Children’s Hour
- The Little Foxes
13
Q
William Gibson
1914- ?
A
Wrote two plays that were produced on Broadway and made into big screen films
Wrote:
-The Miracle Worker
-Two for the Seesaw
