PAUL SHYRE (1929 - 1989)
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Paul Shyre
Ah! Men! |
| 1st Produced: | South Street Theater, New York | 1981 | ||
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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: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Notes: by Paul Shyre, Music and lyrics by Will Holt | ||||
Synopsis: Man - the son, the lover, the husband, the father | ||||
Child Buyer, The |
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1962 | ||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 10 | Female | 4 |
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Notes: Adapted From The Novel By John Hersey | ||||
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Drums Under The Windows |
| 1st Produced: | Off Broadway | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | staged reading | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
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Notes: from the third of six autobiographical volumes by Sean O'Casey | ||||
Synopsis: Following the technique he utilized so brilliantly in I Knock at the Door, Paul Shyre has again adapted the rich and imaginative writings of Sean O'Casey into theatre of great variety and dramatic impact. In the present instance, Mr. Shyre has conceived his work in a modified play form, with narration and stage action cleverly interbalanced. The effect achieved is unique. Great prose and striking theatre combined into an experience of humor, pathos and moving power. | ||||
Hizzoner! |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1989 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Synopsis: The last days in office of Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia, New York, 1945 | ||||
I Knock At The Door |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1957 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: first of the six autobiographical volumes by Sean O'Casey | ||||
Synopsis: I Knock at the Door brings Johnny Cassidy into the world-the world of 19th century Dublin, with its horse-drawn trams and outdoor toilets, its pubs and parades, its Catholics versus its Protestants. Where did the boy with the diseased eyes find the pluck, guts, and humor to shoulder his way into productive life? We get to know the mother who stood guard over him, the scholar father who died so young but left his books, the doctors who helped the boy, and those who greatly hindered him. | ||||
Pictures in the Hallway |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | 1956 | ||
| 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 | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
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Synopsis: Pictures in the Hallway brings us the lively tale of an adolescent Johnny initiated into the rough and tumble of Dublin's adult world by a series of life-changing events. First job-in his early teens, because it's a fatherless home where every penny counts; first politics-in a society where even the singing of certain songs was a punishable offense; first sex-a reaching out for freedom in a world still gripped by repressive morals and sexual fear. O'Casey shares his joys, pain, discoveries and hopes as he traverses these rites of passage. As we vicariously join him, we relive our own initiations | ||||
U.S.A |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY | - | ||
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| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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Notes: written with John Dos Passos form Dos Passos' novel | ||||
Synopsis: a panorama of the first third of the 20th century as man falls in love with beautiful girl and works his way to the top of the heap | ||||
Whitman Portrait, A |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | - | ||
| 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 | 3 | Female | 1 |
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Synopsis: about Walt Whitman | ||||
Will Rogers' USA |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1974 | ||
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| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| 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: | - | Monologue play | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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