Project #1: Professional: Goodman Theatre

King Lear
By William Shakespeare
"dramatic tragedy"
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"radical tragedy"
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Vigils
By Noah Haidle
"Is this a dark comedy or what?"
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"turns on a dime from riotous physical comedy to heartfelt sorrow"
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The Crossing
By Hugo Salcedo
"contemporary tragedy"
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"best Spanish language play of the year"
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Frank's Home
By Richard Nelson
"bafflingly banal drama"
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"dreary drama"
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Beyond Glory
By Stephen Lang
"Stephen Lang’s one-man show called “Beyond Glory”
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"solo drama-documentary"
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Romance
By David Mamet
"Comedy"
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"nonsense does not fine absurdist drama make?"
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Crumbs from the Table of Joy
By Lynn Nottage
"African-American drama"
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"coming-of-age story"
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Massacre
By José Rivera
"Jose Rivera's disturbing new drama"
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"José Rivera's overwritten and underdeveloped new morality play"
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The Clean House
By Sarah Ruhl
"Sarah Ruhl is writing the very best contemporary drama"
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"Sarah Ruhl’s Comedy-Drama The Clean House"
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Project #1: Academic: Northwestern University

Indians
By Arthur Kopit
"Arthur Kopit’s nineteenth century groundbreaking drama"
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"Indians" comes off as more diatribe than drama"
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Sweeney Todd
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
From an Adapatation by Christopher Bond
"In Stephen Sondheim's 1979 stage musical"
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"Sweeney Todd is a revenger’s tragedy"
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Marisol
By José Rivera's drama
"Rivera's gripping urban drama"
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"apocalyptic play"
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Thrush
By Caridad Svich
"A stark drama with songs about war"
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"drama"
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Spunk
By George C. Wolfe's
"The play is an anthology of Zora Neale Hurston folk tales[...]mini-musical"
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"the musical Spunk"
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The Bacchae
By Euripides
"The Bacchae is among the most primal of the Greek tragedies"
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"Athenian Drama"
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On The Verge
By Eric Overmyer
"Eric Overmyer's chimerical new comedy"
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"whimsical comedy"
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The Sins of Sor Juana
By Karen Zacarías
"The Sins of Sor Juana" is a historic fantasy of self-determination"
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"Drama"

The illusions
By Tony Kushner
"a rather fast paced, satiric comedy"
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"this Illusion is totally contemporary, brimming with drama, comedy, action, and most important, ideas"
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Ghetto
By Joshua Sobol
"Holocaust Drama With Music"
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"conventional drama"
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