Project 1: Genres

Professional: Pittsburgh Public Theater

A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill (2009)

"Genres: Drama, Psychological drama, Autobiographical drama"

http://www.enotes.com/moon-for-misbegotten-salem/moon-for-misbegotten-9250000201

"Drama"

http://www.theatreinchicago.com/playdetail.php?playID=2882

A Midsummer Night's Dream (2010)

"Comedy, Pastoral"

http://www.shmoop.com/midsummer-nights-dream/genre.html

" Comedy; fantasy; romance; farce"

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/msnd/facts.html

The Price by Arthur Miller (2010)

"Drama"

http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsM/miller-arthur.html

"psychological problem drama"

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/12/specials/miller-price.html

Art by: Yasmina Reza (2010)

"Art," a serio-comedy
http://director.goluxstudio.com/art/sun-gazette-review.html

Art is a perfect bauble, a comedy of manners stripped down to its glittering essentials
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/arts/theater/documents/01655591.htm

Ella Jeffrey Hatcher (2009)

"bio-play"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/06/AR2008010602354.html

"Musical"

http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/hatcher-jeffrey.html

Radio Golf by August Wilson (2008)

"Radio Golf: Drama"

http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-10-13/entertainment/17137705_1_radio-golf-blight-wilson

Radio Golf: August Wilson's Political Comedy

http://www.goldstar.com/events/washington-dc/radio-golf.html

Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman (2009)

"Drama/Comedy"

http://www.scottsdalecc.edu/news/metamorphoses.html

"Drama"

http://openlibrary.org/b/OL3552367M/Metamorphoses

This Wonderful Life By Steve Murray (2007)

"Monologue play"

http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsM/murray-steve.html

"Pacific Theatre is delighted to join you in your Christmas festivities with this quintessential holiday show. The heartwarming drama..."

http://www.pacifictheatre.org/productions/2007-2008/wonderful-life/THIS-WONDERFUL-LIFE-media-kit.pdf

Amadeus By peter Shaffer (2008)

"Drama"

http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/2195

"genre(s): Drama, Musical"

http://www.simplyscripts.com/genre/musical-scripts.html

Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (2007)

its genre has been a source of debate since Coleridge first called it a farce. Cribbed largely from a play by Plautus, this play has often been said to push the envelope of classical comedy.

http://www.curtainup.com/comedyoferrors.html

"problem comedy"

http://www.jstor.org/pss/1347291

Educational: University Of Pittsburgh

Count Dracula by Ted Tiller (2010)
"Mystery Comedy"
http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/1626

"Adaptation"

http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsT/tiller-ted.html

Alice in Wonderland based on Lewis Carroll’s classic (2010)

Adapted and directed
by Tamara Goldbogen

"Fantasy"
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1513

"Comedy * Fantasy * Literary Classic"

http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p36/Alice-in-Wonderland/product_info.html

Scapin by Bill Irwin and Mark O’Donnel (2010)

"Comedy"
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=2497

"Adaptation"

http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsI/irwin-bill.html

Tomato Plant Girl by Wesley Middleton (2009)

"Comedy"

http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/product_info.php?products_id=1574

"Childrens play"

http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsM/middleton-wesley.html

Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw (2004)

"Satirical Comedy"
http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/40

"Comedy"

http://www.gvpta.ca/vancouver-theatre-guide/event/arms-and-the-man/

Old Times by Harold Pinter (2005)

"Drama"
http://www.theatreinchicago.com/playdetail.php?playID=2760

"Memory Play"

http://www.play.pitt.edu/shows/archives.html

A Lie of the Mind (2005)

Off-Broadway Drama

http://www.bestofoffbroadway.com/shows/a-lie-of-the-mind.html

Genres: Drama, Psychological drama

http://www.enotes.com/lie-mind-salem/lie-mind

Tales of the Lost Formicans

By Contance Congdon (2006)

"science fiction"

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/957927/tales_of_the_lost_formicans_performance.html

"Genre: Comedy"

http://www.theateronline.com/pb.xzc?PK=14782

Mother Courage and her Children

By Bertolt Brecht (2003)

"Sub Genre: Play (Drama)"

http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/london_shows/show/item106246/Mother-Courage-And-Her-Children/

"black comedy"

http://www.rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/redeye/mother-courage-and-her-children

Bat Boy: The Musical

By Keythe Fleming, Brian Flemming & Laurence O'Keefe (2004)

"tragicomic musical."

http://www.fangoriaonline.com/fangoria-lifestyle/stage/3274-bat-boy-the-musical-stage-review.html

"The comic rock musical originated at the Actors' Gang in Hollywood"

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/21/entertainment/ca-53668