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A theater production is a production of a play or musical. If the play type represents the written form of the play, the theater production type represents a staging of the play. Properties include the cast, director, designers, crew, and producing company.
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| x The House of Blue Leaves |
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The House of Blue Leaves is a play by American playwright John Guare, first staged in 1966 by Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut.
Set in Sunnyside, Queens in 1965, on the day Pope Paul VI visited New York City, the black comedy...
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| x A Month in the Country |
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A Month in the Country is the fourth novel by J. L. Carr, first published in 1980 and nominated for the Booker Prize. The book won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1980.
The plot concerns a World War I veteran employed to uncover a mural in a village...
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| x Oleanna |
Oleanna is a two-character play by David Mamet, about the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students, who accuses him of sexual exploitation and, by doing so, spoils his chances of being accorded tenure. The play's...
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| x Kafka Dances | |||||
| x The Blind Giant Dancing | |||||
| x Sweet Phoebe | |||||
| x The Tempest |
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The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, estimated to have been written in 1610–11, (although some researchers have argued for an earlier dating). The play's protagonist is the banished sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, who initially...
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| x Electra | |||||
| x The Odyssey of Runyon Jones | |||||
| x Susan Traherne | |||||
| x Nina | |||||
| x Blanche DuBois |
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Blanche DuBois (married name Grey) is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Streetcar Named Desire. The role is challenging and controversial in that the former Southern belle has a lurid past (a marriage to...
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| x They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? | |||||
| x The Subject Was Roses |
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The Subject Was Roses is a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1964 play written by Frank D. Gilroy, who also adapted the work in 1968 for film with the same title.
The play premiered on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on 25 May 1964, starring Jack Albertson,...
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| x Or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up | |||||
| x The Music Man |
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The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson. The show is based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments...
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| x Little Shop of Horrors |
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Little Shop of Horrors is a rock musical by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little...
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| x Gypsy: A Musical Fable |
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Gypsy is a 1959 musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Gypsy is based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist, and focuses on her mother, Rose, whose name has become...
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| x The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the antebellum South, in the town of "St Petersburg", inspired by the town of Hannibal, Missouri, on the Mississippi River, where Mark Twain grew up...
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| x The Crucible |
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The Crucible is a 1953 play by Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witchcraft trials that took place in Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as a response to McCarthyism, when the US government...
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| x St. Louis Woman |
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St. Louis Woman is a musical by Harold Arlen (music) and Johnny Mercer (lyrics) based upon the novel God Sends Sunday by African-American writer Arna Bontemps. The musical opened at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York on March 30 1946 and ran for...
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| x Checkmates | |||||
| x One Man Band | |||||
| x Kiss of the Spider Woman |
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Kiss of the Spider Woman is a musical with music by John Kander and Fred Ebb, book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the Manuel Puig novel El Beso de la Mujer Araña. The musical had runs in the West End (1992) and Broadway (1993) and won the 1993...
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| x Into the Woods |
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Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch, and Joanna...
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| x Carmen Jones |
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Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical, later made into a 1954 musical film; the play also ran for a season in 1991 at London's Old Vic and most recently in London's Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre in 2007. It is an updating of the...
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| x One Man Band | |||||
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| x The Magic of David Copperfield | |||||
| x Grease |
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Grease is a 1972 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.
The musical has its name from the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School (loosely based on William...
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| x Beauty and the Beast |
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Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton, based on the 1991 Disney film of the same name. Seven new songs were written for the stage musical. Beauty ran on...
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| x Avenue Q |
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Avenue Q is a musical conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, who wrote the music and lyrics, and directed by Jason Moore. The book is by Jeff Whitty and is largely inspired by (and is in the style of) Sesame Street; most of the characters in the...
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| x En stjärt på himlen | |||||
| x Ängelen | |||||
| x The Age of Innocence | 1928 | The Age of Innocence | |||
| x Top Girls | Sydney Theatre Company | Top Girls | |||
| x Pygmalion | Apr 11, 1914 | Pygmalion | |||
| x Fool For Love | Magic Theater | Feb 8, 1983 | Fool for Love | ||
| x La Boîte en coquillages | |||||
| x An Ideal Husband |
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place over the...
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| x Hedda Gabler | |||||
| x Romeo et Jeannette | |||||
| x Starmania | |||||
| x No Time for Sergeants | |||||
| x Betrayal |
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Betrayal is a play written by 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter in 1978. Critically regarded as one of the English playwright's major dramatic works, it features his characteristically economical dialogue, characters' hidden emotions and veiled...
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| x L'échange | |||||
| x No Man's Land | |||||
| x Hughie | |||||
| x Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune | |||||
| x Any Given Day | |||||
| x The Cathy and Mo Show | |||||
| x Little Murders | |||||
| x It's Only a Play | |||||
| x The White House Murder Case | |||||
| x Starlight Express |
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Starlight Express is a rock musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber (music), Richard Stilgoe (lyrics) and Arlene Phillips (choreography), with later revisions by Don Black (lyrics) and David Yazbek (music and lyrics for the 2nd US tour). The story follows a...
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| x Grand Hotel |
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Grand Hotel is a musical with a book by Luther Davis and music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest, with additional lyrics and music by Maury Yeston.
Based on the 1929 Vicki Baum novel and play, Menschen im Hotel (People in a Hotel), and...
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| x Company |
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Company is a musical with a book by George Furth and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
Originally entitled Threes, its plot revolves around Bobby (a single man unable to commit fully to a steady relationship, let alone marriage), the five...
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| x Guys and Dolls |
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Guys and Dolls is a musical, with the music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon. It also borrows characters and...
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