Friday, January 21, 2011

Project #1: Genre

Austin Collegiate Theatre: Saint Edward's University


The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere
Translated and Adapted by David Chambers

Comedy
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9070

Slapstick Comedy
http://www.theatermania.com/san-francisco/reviews/06-2007/the-imaginary-invalid_10965.html

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

Drama
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1623

Dramedy
http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/news/12879/theater-review-steppenwolfs-whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf-tracy-letts-redefines-edge-of-your-seat

Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl

Drama, Avant-Garde
http://www.observer.com/2007/curiouser-and-curiouser-ruhl-wrecks-eurydice-whimsy#

Dramatic Comedy
http://www.amazon.com/Eurydice-Sarah-Ruhl/dp/0573662444

On the Verge by Eric Overmyer

Speculative Comedy
http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9A0DE2DE123FF937A25756C0A960948260

Comedy
http://www.broadwayplaypubl.com/onthe.htm

Carousel by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein III

Musical
http://plays.about.com/od/reviews/fr/carousel.htm

Musical Play
http://www.theatrehistory.com/american/musical013.html

bobrauschenbergamerica by Charles L. Mee

Avant-Garde Dance Theatre
http://www.theasy.com/Reviews/bobrauschenbergamerica.php

Theatre-about-artists
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/16/arts/theater/16BOB.html

The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, translated by David Hare

Epic Drama
http://www.amazon.com/Brecht-Collected-Plays-Life-Galileo/dp/0413390608

Classical Tragedy
http://www.selectedworks.co.uk/mimesiskatharsis.html

Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Robert Bly

Drama
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/448714/Peer-Gynt

Poetry and Drama
http://www.theatredatabase.com/19th_century/henrik_ibsen_004.html

City of Angels by Cy Coleman, David Zippel and Larry Gelbart

Musical
http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_c/cityofangels.htm

Film Noir-style Musical Comedy
http://www.halleonard.com/product/viewproduct.do?itemid=313356

Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill

Drama
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsC/churchill-caryl.html

Dark Comedy
http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-9-Caryl-Churchill/dp/1559360992



Austin Professional Theatre: Austin Playhouse




The 39 Steps adapted by Patrick Barlow

Fast-Paced Farce
http://www.ithacatimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=68&ArticleID=12072

Comedy
http://www.alleytheatre.org/Alley/Patrick_Barlow_Biography_EN.asp?SnID=2

The Adventures of Iris and Momo

Original Play, Youth Audience
http://austinlivetheatre.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=9&Itemid=65&limitstart=72

Youth and Adult audiences
http://weareaustin.com/entertainment-story?nxd_id=85645

The Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote

Classic Drama
http://www.goldstar.com/events/north-hollywood-ca/the-trip-to-bountiful.html

American Classic
http://www.clevelandplayhouse.com/showinfo.asp?eventID=136

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Farce
http://www.theatredatabase.com/19th_century/oscar_wilde_004.html

Comedy of Manners
http://home.flash.net/~ghoyer/comedy/Earnest.htm

Laughter on the 23rd Floor by Neil Simon

Classic Comedy
http://www.1812productions.org/show.php?prod=66

Autobiographical Farce
http://austinlivetheatre.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=710:upcoming-laughter-on-the-23rd-floor-by-neil-simon-city-theatre-november-19-december-20&catid=77:city-theatre-austin&Itemid=85

Stop the World – I Want to Get Off! by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley

Muscial
http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=2917

New-Style Musical
http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_s/stop_world.htm

Three Viewings by Jeffrey Hatcher

Tragi-Comic Monologues
http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/seeingthings/entries/2010/10/21/review_three_viewings.html

Comedy
http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/blog-453-three-viewngs-exquisite-comedy-from-kopper-bear.html

Educating Rita by Willy Russell

Comedy-Drama
http://www.willyrussell.com/rita1.html

Comedy
http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/london_shows/show/item109696/Educating-Rita/

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Children, Youth, Families
http://www.classicsonstage.com/scriptschristmascarol.html

Christmas Story
http://www.alleytheatre.org/Alley/Charles_Dickens_Biography_EN.asp?SnID=2

Proof by David Auburn

Drama
http://dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=2961

Family Drama
http://www.curtainup.com/proof.html