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William Shakespeare

To speak of William Shakespeare is to speak of the infinite. Perhaps no other writer in history ha
Tags: 16th century (renaissance) poetry, 17th century literature, Charming, Dramatic, Epic, Excessive, Grand, Pop
John Cameron Mitchell

"I'm the new Berlin Wall. Try to tear me down." -- Hedwig An East German war bride looks after a yo
Tags: Angry, New american musical, Perverse, Pop, Tragic
David Henry Hwang

"M. Butterfly" is the ostensibly true story of a French diplomat who carries on a 17-year affair with
Tags: Eclectic, Epic, Layered, Off-broadway, Political
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde pursued a life -- an art -- of pure uselessness. This was not because he objected to prag
Tags: Aestheticist fiction, Clever, Mythic, Perverse, Surreal, Witty
Sean O'Casey

Sean O'Casey stormed the citadel of English cultural imperialism in his native Ireland with powerhous
Tags: Dark, Feminist, Gritty, Irish renaissance, Lyrical, Political

Maria Irene Fornes

"In the work of every American playwright at the end of the twentieth century, there are only two sta
Tags: Contemporary plays, Dark, Enigmatic, Event, Feminist theater, Ironic, Kinetic, Surreal
Paula Vogel

Paula Vogel has reaped success from risk, taking on controversial subjects such as AIDS (notably in '
Tags: Contemporary plays, Feminist, Feminist theater, Gay/lesbian theater, Intimate, Layered, Political, Queer, Self-reflection, Sophisticated, Witty
Anton Chekhov

"All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary yo
Tags: Absurd, Dark, Ironic, Melancholy, Pathos, Realist theater
Jonathan Larson

The unlucky landlord of "Rent" died the night his smash Broadway musical was born in 1996. Following
Tags: Bombast, Dramatic, New american musical, Overflowing, Pop, Tragic
Wendy Wasserstein

According to some, "the voice of a generation" echoes through the pen of playwright Wendy Wasserstein
Tags: Contemporary plays, Feminist, Feminist theater, Ironic, Jewish theater, Neurotic, Witty

Luigi Pirandello

From a small town in Sicily called (prophetically?) Chaos, there emerged one of the comic geniuses of
Tags: Absurd, Anxiety, Flux, Layered, Theater of the grotesque (italy)
Eve Ensler

In her poetical, feminist tracts, French Lacanian theorist Luce Irigaray imagines the female genitali
Tags: Feminist, Feminist theater, In-your-face, Political, Solo performance
William Butler Yeats

As Anglo-Irish tensions tore his country apart, William Butler Yeats sought to give Ireland songs of
Tags: Lyrical, Modernist poetry, Mythic, Rebel, Sublime, Tragic
Tony Kushner

Growing up white, Jewish, and homosexual in the turbulent South of the '60s does not lay the groundwo
Tags: Contemporary plays, Epic, Ethereal, Expansive, Funny, Gay/lesbian theater, Political, Queer, Sprawling
Stephen Sondheim

Stephen Sondheim earned his musical stripes alongside the best in the business: his first foray into
Tags: 20th-century music, Bubblicious, Grand, New american musical, Rhythmic, Witty

Anna Deveare Smith

Playwright, professor, and Performance artist Anna Deveare Smith grounds her avant-garde theater in t
Tags: Collage, Huge, Layered, Open-ended, Political, Polychromatic, Sincere, Social protest, Solo performance
Sam Shepard

Enigmatic, magnetic, elusive, and mysterious -- these words and others like them have been employed o
Tags: Dystopic, Melancholy, Off-broadway, Primal, Tense, Visceral
Harold Pinter

Although acting was the first career of Harold Pinter, his stage work was abruptly eclipsed by his pr
Tags: Post-war theater, Repetitive, Spare, Theater of the absurd
Arthur Miller

Born in New York's Harlem in 1915, Arthur Miller was not a good student. After a lackluster high scho
Tags: Empty, Political, Post-war theater, Tragic
Lorraine Hansberry

Dramatist Lorraine Hansberry broke social conventions by depicting black experiences of white prejudi
Tags: African american fiction, African american theater, Political, Queer literature, Social protest, Tense

Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray splashed into the national consciousness with the epic monologue-cum-performance piece
Tags: Agitated, Epic, Neurotic, Solo performance
Dario Fo

Italian playwright, performer, and 1997 Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo is known for his subversive polit
Tags: Cartoonish, Commedia dell'arte, Feminist, Political, Political theater, Wise assy
Alice Childress

Playwright Alice Childress blazed across off-Broadway like a supernova, startling audiences and criti
Tags: African american fiction, African american theater, Egalitarian, Feminist, Political
Bertolt Brecht

According to Lotte Lenya, longtime leading lady and intermittent wife of collaborator Kurt Weill,
Tags: Classical, Epic theater, Existentialist literature, Expressionist theater, Neurotic, Political, Sardonic
Samuel Beckett

Wary friend of Existentialism and gentle foe of nature's illusions, Irish novelist, poet, and playwri
Tags: Absurd, Depressive, Existentialist literature, Minimal, Modernist literature, Repetition, Repetitive, Theater of the absurd

Edward Albee

Edward Albee calls his work "an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of a
Tags: Absurd, Deconstructive, Minimal, Neurotic, Off-broadway, Open-ended, Social protest, Theater of the absurd
Tennessee Williams

America's premier poet of twentieth-century theater dominated the stage for almost 20 years. Despite
Tags: Agitated, Anxiety, Death, Homoerotic, Melancholy, Neurotic, Off-broadway, Post-war theater, Sexy, Southern gothic
Jean Cocteau

His artistic avocations were many -- poet, novelist, painter, playwright, set designer, actor -- but
Tags: Existentialist literature, Horror, Surreal, Surrealist film, Surrealist literature, Surrealist photography, Trippy
Antonin Artaud

"I salute Antonin Artaud," wrote Andre Breton, "for his passionate, heroic negation of everything tha
Tags: Absurd, Experimental, Literature of transgression, Severe, Surreal, Surrealist theater, Theater of cruelty, Theater of the absurd

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