Project #1 Professional: Kansas City Repertory Theatre

Radio Golf
by August Wilson

"The production that opened last night at the Cort Theater, directed by Kenny Leon, has the crackle of a bustling comedy crossed with an old-fashioned melodrama."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/theater/reviews/09radio.html

"Wilson's...intense drama"

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/12/DDVR13D5SM.DTL

The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams

"New production of Tennessee Williams’s heartbreaking 1945 “memory play.”"

http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/theater/reviews/11599/

"Tennessee Williams’ 1944 drama, his first great success"

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_stage_theat/2008/10/theater-revie-2.html

The Arabian Nights
by Mary Zimmerman

Zimmerman plays fast and loose with time and space, sprawling her drama across a stunning landscape of the imagination.

http://www.villagetheatrewaterdown.ca/Arabian%20Nights/arabian%20nights%20spectator%20review.htm

It balances comedy with tragedy and universalizes moral truth through the filter of individual characters. 

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32919596_ITM

A Flea in Her Ear
by Georges Feydeau

It is Charon's first movie and it shows in the pacing that might seem slow in a drama but is positively elephantine in a bedroom farce.

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E06E5DD1730E034BC4051DFB7678383679EDE

This excellent farce works as a modern comedy.

http://www.chicagocritic.com/html/a_flea_in_her_ear.html

A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens

"A Christmas Carol plugs us into the drama that captured the world's imagination"

http://jam.canoe.ca/Theatre/Reviews/C/A_Christmas_Carol/2006/12/08/2686283.html

Theaterworks/NYC has dusted off the old Dickens skinflint for its welcome musical version of "A Christmas Carol."

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/theater/reviews/17chri.html

Doubt
by John Patrick Shanley

Above all, Doubt, is an engrossing drama

http://www.curtainup.com/doubt.html

"A tragedy about secrecy and rigidity destroying the lives of at least four players."

http://dirtyharrysplace.com/?p=6462

To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee

"An emotional courtroom drama about rape"

http://www.christiananswers.net/spotlight/movies/pre2000/tokillamockingbird.html

"The play is not a tragedy, though there are truly tragic elements here. It is not a comedy in the classic sense because a beloved character dies a tragic death."

http://www.blogtheberkshires.com/theater/2008/10/to_kill_a_mockingbird.html#more

A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry

"This compassionate human drama still works its magic on our emotions."

http://www.curtainup.com/raisininthesun.html

 "A Raisin In The Sun, is a tragi-comedy also mainly employing the dramatic techniques of contrast, parody and sarcasm. "

http://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/12053.html

Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
"Little women is a coming of age drama tracing the lives of four sisters."

http://www.amazon.com/Little-Women-Katharine-Hepburn/dp/B00005NRO2

Part comedy of manners, part morality tale, Little Women is more interested in its heroines "conquering themselves" than in a man conquering their hearts.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1012524-little_women/

Pirates of Penzance
by Gilbert and Sullivan

"Gilbert continued his practice of throwing his characters into an utterly ridiculous situation and then treating the drama with great seriousness."

http://www.answers.com/topic/the-pirates-of-penzance

"Gilbert and Sullivan's ever popular comedy"

http://www.sacramento365.com/event/detail/34099

Project #1 Academic: University of Missouri at Kansas City

The Heidi Chronicles
by Wendy Wasserstein

"Wasserstein's wise and witty comedy of manners, The Heidi Chronicles."
http://www.busbarn.org/shows/reviews.php?id=34

"This made-for-television drama"

http://www.spout.com/films/The_Heidi_Chronicles/108377/default.aspx

Tartuffe
by Moliere

"Molière's satirical comedy Tartuffe"
http://www.curtainup.com/tartuffelond.html

"Political drama and a metaphor for the seeming piety in our present public life."

http://talkingbroadway.org/regional/minn/minn170.html

Cloud Nine
by Caryl Churchill

"''Cloud Nine,'' an imaginative comedy by the British playwright Caryl Churchill."

http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9C06E1DC1539F93BA15753C1A962948260

"CLOUD NINE is...Caryl Churchill's audacious assault on gender, racial discrimination and social oppression."

http://inkpot.com/theatre/03reviews/03revclounine2.html

Our Town
by Thornton Wilder

"Our Town," a classic staple of theatrical literature by Thornton Wilder

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/education/k12education/highschool/article_2034535.php

"The timeless classic Our Town, a three-act play by Thornton Wilder"

http://www.napervillemagazine.com/index.php?q=node/84&catid=1

Three Sisters

by Anton Chekhov

"''Three Sisters,'' which is being presented at the Pearl Theater Company, is one of the saddest and most haunting dramas written in this century or any other."

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE5D91439F930A15752C1A96F948260

"Chekhov described the play as a comedy."

http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=846

House of Yes
by Wendy Mcleod

Wendy MacLeod's dark comedy "The House of Yes."

http://www.debbiebritthay.com/HOYReview.html

"The House of Yes is knowingly overripe, a kitsch melodrama"

http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/houseofyes

Noises Off
by Michael Frayn

"Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award--winning author of Copenhagen."

http://shopping.msn.com/reviews/noises-off/itemid1236422/?itemtext=itemname:noises-off

Michael Frayn's hysterical British farce Noises Off.

http://talkingbroadway.org/regional/sanfran/s766.html

Dancing at Lughnasa
by Brian Friel

Dancing at Lughnasa could almost be considered an "anti-melodrama."

http://www.reelviews.net/movies/d/dancing.html

"Dancing at Lughnasa, Friel's 1990 memory play"

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-99196817.html

Goodnight Children Everywhere
by Richard Nelson

" It is possible for all the characters in a comedy to be mad."

http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/theater/reviews/112/

Richard Nelson’s Olivier Award winning drama Goodnight Children Everywhere at the Geary Theater

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/sanfran/s99.html

The Country Wife
by William Wycherly

"Wycherley's comedy of marriage and infidelity"

http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780713666885

"The Country Wife is one of the most frequently read and performed examples of a type of drama known as Restoration comedy..."

http://www.amazon.com/Country-Wife-New-Mermaids/dp/0713666889