Stages of Drama: Classical to Contemporary Theater

READING AND WITNESSING A PLAY Susan Glaspell, Trifles CLASSICAL THEATER Aeschylus, Agamemnon Translated by Louis MacNeice Photographs of the Guthrie Theater Production, 1967-68 Photographs of the National Theater Production of The Oresteia, 1981 Review of the Guthrie Theater Production, 1967, by Roderick Nordell Peter Hall on Directing The Oresteia, 1981 Sophocles, Oedipus Rex Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald Photographs of the Guthrie Theater Production, 1972 Review of the Guthrie Theater Production, 1972, by Melvin Maddocks Anthony Burgess, Michael Langham, and Stanley Silverman, 1972, on Planning The Guthrie Theater Production Euripides, The Bacchae Translated by Kenneth Cavander Photographs of the Yale Repertory Theatre Production, 1969 Photographs of the American Repertory Theatre Production, 1998 Review of the Yale Repertory Theatre Production, 1969, by Jack Kroll Review of the American Repertory Theatre Production, 1998, by Scott Cummings Interview with Alvin Epstein on Acting in Two Productions of The Bacchae, 2002, by Emily Goodall Aristohphanes, Lysistrata Translated by Whitney Oates and Charles T. Murphy Photographs of the Peter Hall Company Production, 1993 Review of the Peter Hall Company Production, 1993, by Michael Coveney Plautus, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Wedding Translated by Richard C. Beacham Photographs of the J. Paul Getty Museum Production, 1994 Review of the J. Paul Getty Museum Production, 1994, by Don Shirley MEDIEVAL THEATER The Wakefield Master, The Second Shepherds' Play Modernized and Edited by Anthony Caputi Photographs of the Royal Shakespeare Company Production, 1978 Review of the Royal Shakespeare Company Production, 1978, by Ann Fitzgerald Anonymous, Everyman Modernized by Kate Franks Photographs of the University of Chicago Theater Production, 1973 Photographs of the Royal Shakespeare Company Production, 1996 Interview with Nicholas Rudall, Director of the University of Chicago Theater Introduction, 1973, by Bradford S. Field Review of the Royal Shakespeare Company Production, 1996, by Charles Spencer RENAISSANCE ENGLISH THEATER Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus Notes by Irving Ribner Photographs of the Poculi Ludique Societas Production at the University of Toronto, 1984 G.B. Shand on Directing the Poculi Ludique Societas Production of Doctor Faustus at the University of Toronto, 1984 William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing Notes by David L. Stevenson Photographs of the A.J. Antoon Production at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre, 1972 Review of the A.J. Antoon Production at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre, 1972, by Mel Gussow Commentary on the Collaboration of Joseph Papp and A.J. Antoon by Stewart W. Little, from Enter Joseph Papp, 1974 William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello Notes by Alvin Kernan Photographs of the National Theatre Production, 1964 Photographs of the Royal Shakespeare Production, Directed by Trevor Nunn, 1989 Interview with Laurence Olivier, 1964, by Kenneth Tynan Rehearsing Othello, 1964, by Kenneth Tynan Review of the National Theatre Production, 1964, by Ronald Bryden Interview with Imogen Stubbs, Marsha Hunt, and Zoe Wanamaker on Acting in Othello, 1989, by Gwyn Morgan Ben Jonson, Volpone Notes by Philip Brockbank Photographs of the Royal National Theatre Production, 1995 Review of the Royal National Theatre Production, 1995, by Sarah Hemming NEOCLASSICAL THEATER Molière, The Misanthrope Translated by Richard Wilbur Photographs of the A.P.A.-Phoenix Theatre Production, 1968 Photographs from the Classic Stage Production, 1999 Review of the A.P.A.-Phoenix Theatre Production. 1968, by Clive Barnes Review of the Classic Stage Company Production, 1999, by David Barbour Aphra Behn, The Rover Photographs of the Royal Shakespeare Company Production, 1986 Review of the Royal Shakespeare Company Production, 1986, by Benedict Nightingale Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal Notes by George Nettleton and Arthur Case Photographs of the Stratford Festival Production, 1970 Interview with Michael Langham, Director of the Stratford Festival Production, 1970, by Bradford S. Field, Jr. Review of the Stratford Festival Production, 1970, by Clive BarnesMODERN THEATER Georg Büchner, Woyzeck Translated by Henry J. Schmidt Photographs of the New York Shakespeare Festival Production, 1992 Review of the New York Shakespeare Festival Production, 1992, by Mel Gussow Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House Translated by Michael Meyer Photographs of the Playhouse Production, 1971 Photographs of the Belasco Theater Production, 1997 Review of the Playhouse Production, 1971, by Walter Kerr Review of the Belasco Theater Production, 1997, by Ben Brantley Interview with Janet McTeer by Peter Marks August Strindberg, Miss Julie Translated by Elizabeth Sprigge Photographs of the Royal Dramatic Theater of Sweden Production, 1991 Review of the Royal Dramatic Theater of Sweden Production,1991, by Mel Gussow Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest Photographs of the Globe Theatre Production, 1939 Photographs of the National Theatre Production, 1982 Review of the National Theatre Production, 1982, by Michael Billington John Millington Synge, In the Shadow of the Glen Photographs of the Royal Shakespeare Company Production, 1998 John Millington Synge on the Source of the Play, 1904 Review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production, 1998, by Alastair Macaulay Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard Translated by David Magarshack Photographs of the Royal Shakespeare Company Production, 1995 Penelope Wilton on Playing Madame Ranevskaya Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion Photographs of the London Production, 1974 Review of the London Production, 1974, by Ronald Bryden Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of An Author Translated by Frederick May Photographs of the Young Vic Production, 2001 a=Review of the Young Vic Production, 2001, by John Peter Eugene O'Neill, Homecoming (Part One of the Trilogy Mourning Becomes Electra) Photographs of the Shakespeare Theatre Production of Mourning Becomes Electra, 1997 Designers Lee and Greenwood on Collaborating with O'Neill, 1997 Federico García Lorca, The House of Bernarda Alba Translated by James Graham-Luján and Richard L. O'Connell Photographs of the Lyric Hammersmith Production, 1986 Review of the Lyric Hammersmith Production, 1986 by Michael Billington Bertolt Brecht, Galileo Translated by Charles Laughton Photographs of the New York Production, 1947 Review of the New York Production, 1947, by Irwin Shaw Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman Photograph of the original Broadway Production, 1949 Photographs of the Goodman Theatre Production, 1998 Making Willy Loman: A Look at Miller's Notebooks, by John Lahr, 1999 Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Photographs of the American Shakespeare Theater Production, 1974 Elizabeth Ashley on playing Maggie in the American Shakespeare Theater Production, 1974 Review of the American Shakespeare Theater Production, 1974, by Clive Barnes CONTEMPORARY THEATER Eugene Ionesco, The Lesson Translated by Donald Allen Photographs of the Phoenix Theatre Production, 1958 Review of the Phoenix Theatre Production, 1958, by Walter Kerr Samuel Beckett, Endgame Photographs of the Studio des Champs-Élysées Production, 1957 Photographs of the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T). Production, 1984 Photographs of the Donmar Warehouse Production, 1996 Review of the A.R.T. Production, 1984, by Mei Gusson Review of the Donmar Warehouse Production, 1996 Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun Photographs of the New York Production, 1959 Sidney Poitier on playing Walter Lee Younger in the New York Production Interview with Lloyd Richards on directing the New York Production by Arthur Bartow Review of the New York Production, 1959, by Brooks Atkinson Edward Albee, The Zoo Story Photographs of the Provincetown Playhouse Production, 1960 Review of the Provincetown Playhouse Production, 1960, by Henry Hewes Amiri Baraka, Dutchman Photograph of the Cherry Lane Theater Production, 1964 Review of the Cherry Lane Theater Production, 1964, by Harold Clurman Review of the Cherry Lane Theater Production, 1964 by Howard Taubman Harold Pinter, Landscape Photographs of the National Theatre Production, 1994 Review of the National Theatre Production, 1994, by Nick Curtis Review of the National Theatre Production, 1994, by Alistair Macaulay Alan Ayckbourn, Absurd Person Singular Photographs of the Lander Production, 1973 Alan Ayckbourn on Absurd Person Singular Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman Photographs of the Terrace Theatre Production, 1979 Review of the Terrace Theatre Production by James Lardner, 1979 Derek Walcott, Pantomime Photographs of the Arena Stage Production, 1981 Photographs of the Round House Theatre Production, 1998 Interview with Derek Walcott on Staging Pantomime, 2002, by Andrew Wilson Brian Friel, Translations Photographs of the Donmar Warehouse Production, 1993 Review of the Donmar Warehouse Production, 1993, by Nicholas de Jongh Athol Fugard, "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys Photographs of the Yale Repertory Theatre Production, 1982 Review of the Yale Repertory Theatre Production, 1982, by Frank Rich Caryl Churchill, Top Girls Photographs of the Royal Court Theatre Production, 1982 Review of the Royal Court Theatre Production, 1982, by Robert Cushman Marsha Norman,'night, Mother Photographs of the John Golden Theater Production, 1983 Review of the John Golden Theater Production, 1983 by Douglas Watt Review of the John Golden Theater Production, 1983 by Frank Rich August Wilson, Fences Photographs of the Yale Repertory Theater Production, 1985 Interview with Mary Alice and James Earl Jones, 1985, by Heather Henderson David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly Photographs of the New York Production, 1988 Eiko Ishiaka on Designing the 1988 production Cherríe Moraga, Shadow of a Man Translated by María Elena Gaitán Photographs of the Eureka Theatre/Brava! Production, 1990 Review of of the Eureka Theatre/Brava! Production, 1990 David Mamet, Oleanna Photographs of the Orpheum Theatre Production, 1992 Review of the Orpheum Theatre Production, 1992, by John Lahr Interview with David Mamet, 1995, by Geoffrey Norman and John Rezek (for Playboy) Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches Photographs of the Walter Kerr Theater Production, 1993 Review of the Walter Kerr Theater Production, 1993, by Stefan Kanfer Tom Stoppard, Arcadia Photographs of the National Theatre Production, 1993 Review of the National Theatre Production, 1993, by Paul Taylor Yasmina Reza, "Art" Translated by Christopher Hampton Photographs of the Wyndham's Theatre Production, 1996 Review of Wyndham's Theatre Production, 1996, by Sarah Hemming Review of Wyndham's Theatre Production, 1996, by Tom Lubbock Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive Photographs of the Vineyard Theatre Production, 1997 Interview with Paula Vogel, 1998, by Arthur Holbert Suzan-Lori Parks, In the Blood Photographs of the Joseph Papp Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival Production, 1999 Review of the Joseph Papp Public Theatre/New York Festival Production, 1999, by Margo JeffersonIDEAS OF DRAMA: CLASSICAL TO CONTEMPORARY Aristotle, On the Nature and Elements of Tragedy Sir Philip Sidney, On Time and Place; on Comedy and Tragedy Oliver Goldsmith, A Comparison Between Sentimental and Laughing Comedy August Strindberg, Preface to Miss Julie William Butler Yeats, First Principles George Bernard Shaw, The Technical Novelty in Ibsen's Plays Constantin Stanislavski, Direction and Acting Bertolt Brecht, Theater for Pleasure or Theater for Instruction Antonin Artaud, No More Masterpieces Arthur Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man Martin Esslin, Theater of the Absurd Amiri Baraka, What is Black Theater? Marsha Norman, Ten Golden Rules for Playwrights Suzan-Lori Parks, Tradition and Individual Talent APPENDICES Appendix A: Analyzing a Play Appendix B: Film and Video Productions of Plays in Stages of Drama