Project #1: Genres

Washington, D.C. Professional Theatre: Studio Theatre
http://www.studiotheatre.org/plays/

Circle Mirror by Annie Baker  (2010)

Comedy/Drama
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=4189

Comedy
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsB/baker-annie.html#103581

Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven by Young Jean Lee (2010)

Parody
http://theater.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/theater/reviews/27drag.html

Stand-up Comedy
http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/reviews/09-2006/songs-of-the-dragons-flying-to-heaven_9090.html

Superior Donuts by Tracy Letts  (2010)

Comedic Drama
http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/9105

Comedy
http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/theater/reviews/02donuts.html

Mojo by Jez Butterworth (2010)

Comedy/Drama
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=2772

Drama
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsB/butterworth-jez.html#5578

Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet by Tarell Alvin McCraney  (2010)

Drama
http://www.theatermania.com/new-jersey/reviews/05-2009/marcus-or-the-secret-of-sweet_19192.html

Coming of Age Drama
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/10/AR2011011006563.html

Tynan by Richard Nelson and Colin Chambers (2011)

Adaptation
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsC/chambers-colin.html#41367

One-Man Show
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/26/AR2011012606808.html

The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh (2011)

Drama
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsW/walsh-enda.html#45172

Gothic Comedy
http://theater.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/theater/reviews/19walw.html

Venus In Fur by David Ives (2011)

Drama
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsI/ives-david.html#109261

Comedy-Drama
http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/theater/reviews/28venus.html

American Buffalo by David Mamet (2010)

Drama
http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/318

Classic Tragedy
http://velvet_peach.tripod.com/fzpacamericanbuffalo.html


The Solid Gold Cadillac by George S. Kaufman and Howard Taichmann (2009)
Comedy
http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/5535

Drama
http://www.theatreinchicago.com/playdetail.php?playID=3103


Washinton, D.C. Academic Theatre: George Washington University
http://www.gwu.edu/~theatre/Season/index.html

Oleanna by David Mamet (2011)

Drama
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=853

One Act Play
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940428?refcatid=33

The Tempest by William Shakespeare (2011)

Comedy
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

Light Romance
http://www.ericdsnider.com/theater/the-tempest/

Anyone Can Whistle by Arthur Laurents, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (2011)

Experimental
http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/reviews/04-2010/anyone-can-whistle_26446.html

Musical
http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/10/theater/reviews/10anyone.html

Little Shop of Horrors by Howard Ashman (2010)

Musical
http://www.ericdsnider.com/theater/little-shop-of-horrors/

Comedy
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/LittleShopHorrors.html


Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (2010)

Comedy
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

Romance
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/12/theater-review-much-ado-about-nothing-at-the-kirk-douglas-theatre.html

Hedda Gabler  by Henrik Ibsen (2009)

Drama
http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/4363

Revival
http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/theater/reviews/26bran.html

Three Penny Opera by Bertolt Brecht (2009)

Epic Theater
http://theater.nytimes.com/2006/04/21/theater/reviews/21thre.html

Musical Revival
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/Threepenny2006.html
Baby With The Bathwater by Christopher Durang (2008)

Comedy
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1216

Black Comedy
http://www.3ko.org/rvw_baby_tolucan_times.htm

Working by Stephen Schwartz (2008)

Musical
http://blogcritics.org/culture/article/theater-review-san-diego-working-by/

Adaptation
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/03/review-of-worki.html

The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker (2007)

Drama
http://www.playdatabase.com/play.asp?play=acc58ef7-c6b2-4fc9-b259-196ef8a506d4

Greek Tragedy
http://www.forgetoday.com/page1186/Review-The-Love-Of-The-Nightingale