HOWARD RICHARDSON (1917 - 1985)
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Howard Richardson
Ark of Safety |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1977 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Comedy drama with music | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | written with Frances Goforth Based on 'tall Tales From Old Smoky' by C. Hodge Mathes | |||||
| Synopsis: | memory play of half forgotten tales of long ago in a tiny Appalachian community | |||||
Dark Of The Moon |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1944 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | William Heinemann Ltd, 1978 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | fairy story | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 28 roles | |||||
| Notes: | based on the ballad of Barbara Allen. Written by Howard Richardson and William Berney | |||||
| Synopsis: | recounts the story of an elfin witch boy who once beheld the beautiful Barbara Allen and immediately fell in love with her | |||||
Design For A Stained Glass Window |
| 1st Produced: | Mansfield Theatre, New York | 1950 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Written by Howard Richardson and William Berney | |||||
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Evening Star |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | written with Frances Goforth | |||||
| Synopsis: | about a group of elderly actors and actresses living in retirement on a converted Mississippi River showboat | |||||
Laundry, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1966 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1965 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | Original Playwright - David Guerdin | |||||
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Protective Custody |
| 1st Produced: | Ambassador Theatre, New York | 1956 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Drama | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Written by Howard Richardson and William Berney | |||||
| Synopsis: | A female American reporter is imprisoned on a trumped up charge in an Eastern European prison. When she is released some years later she has become a Communist | |||||
Thread of Scarlet, A |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1980 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 |
| Parts Other: | choral group | |||||
| Notes: | written with Ella Gerber Kasakoff | |||||
| Synopsis: | portrait of Victoria Woodhull who ran for office with Frederick Douglas on a women's suffrage and free love ticket but who was ruined by her affair with Henry Ward Beecher | |||||