Best American plays

Early series (1919-1929)

"The hairy ape" / Eugene O'Neill

Desire under the elms / Eugene O'Neill

What price glory? / Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson

They knew what they wanted / Signey Howard

Beggar on horseback / George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly

Craig's wife / George Kelly

Broadway / Philip Dunning and George Abbott

Paris bound / Phillip Barry

The road to Rome / Robert E. Sherwood

The second man / S.N. Behrman

Saturday's children / Maxwell Anderson

Porgy / Dorothy and DuBose Heyward

The front page / Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur

Machinal / Sophie Treadwell

Gods of the lightning / Maxwell Anderson and Harold Hickerson

Street Scene / Elmer Rice

Strictly dishonorable / Preston Sturges

Berkeley Square / John L. Balderston

The clod / Lewis Beach

Trifles / Susan Glaspell

Ile / Eugene O'Neill

Aria da Capo / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poor Aubrey / George Kelly

White dresses / Paul Green

Minnie field / E.P. Conkle.

First series (1930-1939)

Winterset / Maxwell Anderson

High Tor / Maxwell Anderson

Idiot's delight / Robert E. Sherwood

Johnny Johnson / Paul Green

Green Pastures / Marc connelly

You can't take it with you / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart

End of summer / S.N. Behrman

The animal kingdom / Philip Barry

Boy meets girl / Bella and Samuel Spewack

The women / Clare Boothe

Yes my darling daughter / Mark Reed

Three men on a horse / George Abbott and J.C. Holm

The children's hour / Lillian Hellman

Tobacco Road / Jack Kirkland and Erskine Caldwell

Of mice and men / John Steinbeck

Dead End / Sidney Kingsley

Bury the dead / Irwin Shaw

The fall of the city / Archibald Macleish

Golden Boy / Clifford Odets

Stage door / Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman.

Series 2 (1939-1946)

The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams

The time of your life / William Saroyan

I remember mama / John Van Druten

Life with father / Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse

Born yesterday / Garson Kanin

The voice of the turtle / John Van Druten

The male animal / James Thurber and Elliot Nugent

The man who came to dinner / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart

Dream girl / Elmer Rice

The Philadelphia story / Philip Barry

Arsenic and old lace / Joseph Kesselring

The hasty heart / John Patrick

Home of the brave / Arthur Laurents

Tomorrow the world / James Gow and Arnaud d'usseau

Watch on the Rhine / Lillian Hellman

The patriots / Sidney Kingsley

Abe Lincoln in Illinois / Robert E. Sherwood.

Series 3 (1945-1951)

Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller

A streetcar named desire / Tennessee Williams

The iceman cometh / Eugene O'Neill

The member of the wedding / Carson McCullers

The autumn garden / Lillian Hellman

Come back, little Sheba / William Inge

All my sons / Arthur Miller

Detective story / Sidney Kingsley

Billy Budd / Louis O Coxe and Robert Chapman

Medea / Robinson Jeffers

Mister Roberts / Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan

State of the Union / Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse

Darkness at noon / Sidney Kingsley

Anne of the thousand days / Maxwell Anderson

Bell, book and candle / John van Druten

The moon is blue / F Hugh Herbert

Summer and smoke / Tennessee Williams.

Series 4 (1951-1957)

I am a camera / John Van Druten

Cat on a hot tin roof / Tennessee Williams

The rose tattoo / Tennessee Williams

A moon for the misbegotten / Eugene O'Neill

A hatful of rain / Michael V. Gazzo

Picnic / William Inge

Bus stop / William Inge

Tea and sympathy / Robert Anderson

A view from the bridge / Arthur Miller

The crucible / Arthur Miller

Inherit the wind / Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

The Caine Mutiny court-martial / Herman Wouk

The fourposter / Jan de Hartog

The seven year itch / George Axelrod

The matchmaker / Thornton Wilder

No time for sergeants / Ira Levin and Mac Hyman

The solid gold Cadillac / George S. Kaufman and Howard Teichmann.

Series 5 (1957-1963)

A touch of the poet / Eugene O'Neill

The night of the iguana / Tennessee Williams

The dark at the top of the stairs / William Inge

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf / Edward Albee

The rope dancers / Morton Wishengrad

Look homeward, Angel / Ketti Frings

All the way home / Tad Mosel

Silent night, lonely night / Robert Anderson

Two for the seesaw / William Gibson

Mary, Mary / Jean Kerr

A thousand clowns / Herb Gardner

The cave dwellers / William Saroyan

Oh dad, poor dad, mamma's hung you in the closet and I'm feelin' so sad / Arthur L. Kopit

Orpheus descending / Tennessee Williams

Gideon / Paddy Chayefsky

J.B. / Archibald MacLeish

The best man / Gore Vidal.

Series 6 (1963-1967)

Tiny Alice / Edward Albee

Blues for Mister Charlie / James Baldwin

The last analysis / Saul Bellow

Hogan's goat / William Alfred

The Fantasticks / Tom Jones

The sign in Sidney Brustein's window / Lorraine Hansberry

The lion in winter / James Goldman

Hughie / Eugene O'Neill

The toilet / LeRoi Jones

You know I can't hear you when the water's running / Robert Anderson

Benito Cereno / Robert Lowell

Fiddler on the roof / Joseph Stein

Slow dance on the killing ground / William Hanley

In white America / Martin B. Duberman

The owl and the pussycat / Bill Manhoff

The odd couple / Neil Simon

The subject was roses / Frank D. Gilroy.

Series 7 (1967-1973)

The great white hope / Howard Sackler

The prisoner of Second Avenue / Neil Simon

The price / Arthur Miller

All over / Edward Albee

Scuba duba / Bruce Jay Friedman

1776 / Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards

Sticks and bones / David Rabe

Indians / Arthur Kopit

The house of blue leaves / John Guare

Lemon sky / Lanford Wilson

Subject to fits / Robert Montgomery

Tom Paine / Paul Foster

Morning / Israel Horovitz

Noon / Terrence McNally

Night / Leonard Melfi

Little murders / Jules Feiffer

The boys in the band / Mart Crowley

Ceremonies in dark old men / Lonne Elder III

Play it again, Sam / Woody Allen.

Series 8 (1974-1982)-)

Chapter two / Neil Simon

Same time, next year / Bernard Slade

For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange

A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur / Tennessee Williams

That championship season / Jason Miller

Talley's folly / Lanford Wilson

A little night music / Hugh Wheeler

The river niger / Joseph A. Walker

Buried child / Sam Shepard

A prayer for my daughter / Thomas Babe

Loose ends / Michael Weller

The Ritz / Terrence McNally

Streamers / David Rabe

American buffalo / David Mamet

Wings / Arthur Kopit

The elephant man / Bernard Pomerance

Crimes of the heart / Beth Henley.

Series Supp: Clarence / Booth Tarkington

Rain / John Colton

The adding machine / Elmer Rice

Green grow the lilacs / Lynn Riggs

The house of Connelly / Paul Green

Children of darkness / Edwin Justus Mayer

Biography / S. N. Behrman

On borrowed time / Paul Osborn

Morning's at seven

Ethan Frome / Owen Davis and Donald Davis

Men in white / Sidney Kingsley

Yellow Jack / Sidney Howard

Awake and sing! / Clifford Odets

Here come the clowns / Philip Barry

Harvey / Mary Chase

The teahouse of the August moon / John Patrick

The diary of Anne Frank / Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett.