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Shubert Theatre, NY

1948

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1950

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Romantic Drama

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This beautiful presentation of the story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is played against the well-known historical background of the Court of Henry, and the arrangement of the present acting version follows that used for the Broadway production. As a matter of fact, there is almost no scenery, and the various scenes are played within a single setting in which lights and a half-dozen articles of furniture are all that are used

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1954

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1956

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Adaptation

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1 small girl

from William March's novel

The scene is a small southern town where Colonel and Christine Penmark live with their daughter, Rhoda. Little Rhoda Penmark is the evil queen of the story. On the surface she is sweet, charming, full of old-fashioned graces, loved by her parents, admired by all her elders. But Rhoda's mother has an uneasy feeling about her. When one of Rhoda's schoolmates is mysteriously drowned at a picnic, Mrs. Penmark is alarmed. For the boy who was drowned was the one who had won the penmanship medal that Rhoda felt she deserved!

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Play/Drama

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The playwright takes us through the period shortly before Socrates' enemies bring charges against him of corrupting the youth and treason against the state. The wife and sons of the philosopher are treated in a new and original manner, and Xantippe is shown to be something more than the shrew tradition has made of her. There is a tender husband, but a real understanding of the principles for which he gave up his life. There are charming scenes involving a king of Sparta and his efforts to kidnap the philosopher and bring him to his own capital. The climax is based on one of the greatest trials in the history of the world, where Socrates sets forth his deep faith in democracy

Royale Theatre, NY

1933

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Samuel French, NY,

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Play/Drama

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Plymouth Theatre, NY

1925

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Play/Drama

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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Play/Drama

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6

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Belasco Theatre, NY

1958

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Adaptation

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from novel by Brendan Gill. 4 previews performances only

The law offices of Morrow and Morrow in a Connecticut town. Not so long ago

Guild Theatre, NY

1930

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Verse Drama

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1942

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Plymouth Theatre, NY

1925

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Play/Drama

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Little Theatre, NY

1928

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Play/Drama

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written with Harold Hickerson

New York

1958

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1961

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Play/Drama

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As told by Judith Crist in the New York Herald-Tribune; "THE GOLDEN SIX is a colorful and cynical account of the four Caesars who ruled from 27 B.C. to 54 A.D., stopping short of Nero. . .The 'golden six' are the grandsons and step-grandsons of Augustus Caesar, who hopes to choose one as his heir. All but the limping and stuttering Claudius are handsome and heroic, and all six are staunch outspoken republicans opposed to their grandfather's consolidation of power and emergence as Emperor. Augustus' wife, Livia, plays the doting grandmother and the loyal spouse. . .By the end of Act I we know Livia for what she is. Two of the grandsons have been murdered and a third banished on perjured testimony." Livia poisons Augustus, having first forced him to name her son as his successor. Then she insists that Tiberius name Caligua, rather than his own son, as his successor. The Empire goes from bad to worse and Caligua comes to an untidy end, his power-mad tactics eventually bringing his own destruction. At the end of the

Klaw Theatre, NY

1929

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Play/Drama

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Martin Beck Theatre, NY

1937

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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Romantic Comedy

Comedy

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Towering above the Hudson River stands a magnificent headland, High Tor, which has been known to river folk ever since Hudson first sailed up the river. Some years ago a company mined High Tor, leaving only a false front. Now High Tor may meet with the same fate. Van Dorn, young heir to High Tor, is about to lose his rights to a double-dealing firm of real estate men. Van Dorn meets Judith, who wants him to leave High Tor and live in New York, but this he does not wish to do. Complications arise from a bank robbery in a neighboring town and the appearance of the robbers on High Tor. This is further complicated by the introduction of the ghosts of the Dutch crew of Hudson's lost ship "Onrust," with a resulting duel of wits between the conflicting groups

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1946

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998

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Romantic Drama

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Most persons are familiar with the story of Joan of Arc, so it is necessary only to say that this is a play within a play, the outer play (as it were) showing a group of actors in rehearsal on a bare stage, preparing to produce a Joan of Arc play. The story of Joan's visions and pilgrimage to court, her restoring faith to the French and the victory she wins, are beautifully dramatized. But Anderson has woven into the Joan story a parallel action, which takes place outside the Joan play proper, in which he shows the meaning of faith today and the necessity of believing in something. The actress who plays Joan claims that the role should show her never compromising her ideals, and she is ready to leave the cast because she thinks the part and the direction of herself shows Joan doing just that. But she learns, from her director and fellow players, that life is a series of compromises, and that she herself, as an actress, like the historical Joan, can and should give in on small things in order to achieve the gr

Medicine Show Theatre, NY, USA >>>

2006

Malverne Players

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written by Jean Anouilh, Maxwell Anderson, George Bernard Shaw

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1940

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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The dramatist has used as background the simple New Testament narrative covering the appearance of Jesus in Jerusalem and his talk with the priests. The youth's wisdom and his extraordinary prophetic power in seeing the implications of current political and ethical problems create a drama of extraordinary scope and power. Jesus' ideas and acts, according to the author, are shaped by him in an attempt to answer some of the problems of world dictatorship

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1939

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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Poetic Drama

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This was the basis for the movie of the same name.

On a rocky hilltop in Spain four young American men, fighting for the Loyalist cause, face certain death if they remain to cover a retreat. King McCloud, their leader, surprises the others by deciding to pull out while he can still save himself. He orders the others to go, but they refuse, preferring to die than give in to tyranny and oppression. King flees, leaving the others to face the oncoming guns. The story concerns King's wanderings and his efforts to assuage his conscious for his cowardice. On a wharf in Key Largo he seeks the father and sister of one of his companions. Confession to them and their forgiveness will bring him peace, he thinks. There, in a swift-moving drama of gambling, treachery and murder, he is again faced with the necessity of choosing between death and escape. This time he chooses death to save an innocent man and to protect the honor of the girl he had grown to love; and in dying, he wins his own victory.

Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York

1938

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Musical Comedy

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Music Box Theater, New York

1949

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Original cast recording: MCA (10302)

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Adaptation

Musical

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Written with Alan Paton. Music by Kurt Weill. Lyrics by Maxwell Anderson & Alan Paton. Based on the book "Cry Beloved Country" by Alan Paton

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Alvin Theatre, NY

1933

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Samuel French, NY, 2000

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Verse Drama

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Shubert Theatre, NY

1936

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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Poetic Drama

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The unsolved mystery the violent deaths of the Crown Prince of Austria and his sweetheart, Marie Vetsera, have led novelists, historians and playwrights to construct fantastic theories. The known facts in the case are pure drama in themselves, but in THE MASQUE OF KINGS Mr. Anderson, while preserving the tragic and romantic elements, has added the beauty of language and characterization, and a philosophical viewpoint that makes his play unique. His chief contribution is Rudolph's abortive attempt to seize the government from his father, the Emperor, and the Prince. The human side of the story is used by the author as the basis for a magnificent discussion on dictatorship and democracy which gives this work its universal appeal

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in "North Dakota Quarterly", Spring, 1957

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Anderson House Pub, 1987

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Poetic Drama

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49th Street Theatre, NY

1932

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Play/Drama

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During the U.S.-Mexican War, which took place from 1846 to 1848, Mexico lost nearly half of its territory, including what is now the state of New Mexico. Night Over Taos is the true story about a Mexican freedom fighter, Pablo Montoya, who in 1847 led a bloody and ultimately futile siege to protect New Mexico from being ceded to the United States

Greenwich Village Theatre, NY

1925

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Play/Drama

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McFarland & Company, 1995

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Booth Theatre

1927

The Actors Theatre

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Play/Drama

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examines the marital problems of a young couple

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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Short Play

One Act

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In a cellar in a Russian city a group of refugees await the coming of the official who is to decide their fate. Among them are a princess and her two young daughters; a distinguished lawyer; a lad of twenty; a former officer in the army; a bishop; and an exile escaped from the Siberian mines. They have committed no crime, but know they are marked for execution by the revolutionaries. Gregor, the former exile, learning the name of the Commissar, assures the others they need not fear. He knew fought beside him in a former revolution, and his word will surely be sufficient to free them all. When the Commissar comes, however, he is deaf to Gregor's pleas. The group is to die-all but Gregor, who may come with the Commissar. But Gregor refuses, and then, through daring ruse, he frees his fellow refugees, but he remains to face the firing squad.

Empire Theatre, NY

1937

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Fantasy

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The scene is a small city in Ohio, and the chief characters are Stephen Minch, an inventor who works for the joy of inventing; his wife, Martha; and his assistant, Hanus Wicks. For thirty years the Minch family has lived uneventfully in the same city, and Hanus has lived with them. Their routine existence is blasted by a marvelous invention of Stephen's, through which various characters can return to their youth, and there enact not only what really happened, but also what might have been. The old bicycle shop, seen in 1902; the wonder and skepticism of people at the "horseless buggy"; the picnic by the lake and the choir practice scene in the church-carry one back into the romantic past. Finally, Stephen, Martha and Hanus return to the present wiser, richer in experience and more happily adjusted than before.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,

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