Project # 1 Genres

Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama

1.The Other Shore
By Gao Xingjian

‘‘pure drama’’
http://www.enotes.com/other-shore/
"drama"
http://chicago.metromix.com/theater/theater_event/the-other-shore-lincoln-square/796597/content


2.Into the Woods
Music and LyricsBy Stephen Soundheim
Book by James Lapine

"fractured fairy tale"
http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000106

"original musical"
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2441/




3.Mill on the Floss
By Helen Edmundson

"adaptation" "Based on the novel by George Eliot"
http://deptorg.knox.edu/newsarchive/news_events/releases_1997-98/Mill_on_the_Floss.html
"adaptation of George Eliot's gothic novel"
http://jam.canoe.ca/Theatre/Reviews/M/The_Mill_On_The_Floss/

4.The London Cuckolds
By Edward Ravescroft

"Restoration comedy."
http://theguide.latimes.com/fairfax-district/performing-arts/the-london-cuckolds-event
"seventeenth century British sex farce"
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/ob/3_5A_01.html


5.The Illusion
By Tony Kushner an adaptation of Pierre Corneille


adaptation of "French neo-classicist Pierre Corneille's 1636 comedy"
http://shakespearenj.org/past/2002/illusion_critical.html
"17th Century fairytale-fable"
http://www.broadwayplaypubl.com/Kushner.htm



6.Eurydice
By Sarah Ruhl


"interpretation of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth"
http://www.observer.com/2007/curiouser-and-curiouser-ruhl-wrecks-eurydice-whimsy
"love story"
http://www.culturevulture.net/Theater/Eurydice.htm




7.Heart of a Dog
By Mikhail Bulgakov


"bitingly satiric.....dramatization"
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=940DEFDC173FF932A35751C0A96E948260


"wickedly funny farce"
http://www.brad.ac.uk/admin/theatre/season/dog.php




8.Radiant Baby
Music and Lyrics by John Bucchino



"frantic....new musical"
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9C07EED71E3CF930A35750C0A9659C8B63
"New York City musical"
http://www.haringkids.com/lessons/envs/live/htdocs/lesson102.htm



9.Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
By Frank McGuiness


"veers from tragedy to high comedy"
http://www.discoverireland.ie/DI/resultsengine/IndividualResultTCS.aspx?touristItemID=75057
"searing drama"
http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/16980/someone-wholl-watch-over-me.php/16980/someone-wholl-watch-over-me/



One Flea Spare
By Naomi Wallace

"A Modern Classic"
http://tech.mit.edu/V122/N22/dramashop_fred.22a.html
"poetic drama"
http://www.stagepage.info/reviews/flea.html



Pittsburgh Public Theatre
1.METAMORPHOSES
By Mary Zimmerman

"adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses"
http://drama.arts.uci.edu/faculty_bios/rcohen/mary.html

"story-theater adaptation of some of the mythical Greek tales in Ovid's Metamorphoses"
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1083/is_1_76/ai_81764245/


2.THE WORLD GOES 'ROUND
By John Kander and Fred Ebb

"glittering revue"
http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000140
"musical revue"
http://talkingbroadway.org/regional/dallas/dallas7.html



3.A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN
By Eugene O'Neill

"O’Neill’s last completed drama"
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/theater/reviews/10moon.html

"comic drama"
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/103750.html


4.HARRY'S FRIENDLY SERVICE
By Rob Zellers

"world-premiere comedy"
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/115005.html


5. The Chief
by Rob Zellers and Gene Collier

"one man play"
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/pitt/p78.html






6.Radio Golf
by August Wilson

"drama"
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/108750.html

"bustling comedy crossed with an old-fashioned melodrama"
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/theater/reviews/09radio.html




7. The Lady With All The Answers
by David Rambo

"solo show"
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-lady27-2008oct27,0,207072.story

"biographical drama"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-lady-answers-ovn-0602jun02,0,4890176.story



8.The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare

"comedy"
http://www.onlinereviewlondon.com/reviews/ComedyOfErrors.html

"Shakespeare's own take on the Plautus comedy"
http://www.curtainup.com/comedyoferrorsberk.html




9.This Wonderful Life
by Steve Murray

"...stage adaptation of the perennially popular holiday film, It’s a Wonderful Life."
http://www.sjrep.com/plays/2008/this-wonderful-life/


"one-man show"
http://broadwayworld.com/article/This_Wonderful_Life_and_Neil_Casey_Soar_Like_Angels_20071128




10.Amadeus
by Peter Shaffer

"biographical drama"
http://plays.about.com/b/2008/10/17/amadeus-peter-shaffers-masterful-tribute-to-mozart.htm

"drama" http://broadwayworld.com/article/Peter_Shaffers_Amadeus_Chicago_Shakespeare_Sept_6_20080815