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Best American plays.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York, Crown Publishers 1929-1982Description: volumes : 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISSN:
  • 0067-6225
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 812.5082
LOC classification:
  • PS634 .B4
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Early series (1919-1929) -- "The hairy ape" / Eugene O'Neill -- Desire under the elms / Eugene O'Neill -- What price glory? / Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson -- They knew what they wanted / Signey Howard -- Beggar on horseback / George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly -- Craig's wife / George Kelly -- Broadway / Philip Dunning and George Abbott -- Paris bound / Phillip Barry -- The road to Rome / Robert E. Sherwood -- The second man / S.N. Behrman -- Saturday's children / Maxwell Anderson -- Porgy / Dorothy and DuBose Heyward -- The front page / Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur -- Machinal / Sophie Treadwell -- Gods of the lightning / Maxwell Anderson and Harold Hickerson -- Street Scene / Elmer Rice -- Strictly dishonorable / Preston Sturges -- Berkeley Square / John L. Balderston -- The clod / Lewis Beach -- Trifles / Susan Glaspell -- Ile / Eugene O'Neill -- Aria da Capo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Poor Aubrey / George Kelly -- White dresses / Paul Green -- Minnie field / E.P. Conkle. -- First series (1930-1939) -- Winterset / Maxwell Anderson -- High Tor / Maxwell Anderson -- Idiot's delight / Robert E. Sherwood -- Johnny Johnson / Paul Green -- Green Pastures / Marc connelly -- You can't take it with you / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- End of summer / S.N. Behrman -- The animal kingdom / Philip Barry -- Boy meets girl / Bella and Samuel Spewack -- The women / Clare Boothe -- Yes my darling daughter / Mark Reed -- Three men on a horse / George Abbott and J.C. Holm -- The children's hour / Lillian Hellman -- Tobacco Road / Jack Kirkland and Erskine Caldwell -- Of mice and men / John Steinbeck -- Dead End / Sidney Kingsley -- Bury the dead / Irwin Shaw -- The fall of the city / Archibald Macleish -- Golden Boy / Clifford Odets -- Stage door / Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman. -- Series 2 (1939-1946) -- The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams -- The time of your life / William Saroyan -- I remember mama / John Van Druten -- Life with father / Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse -- Born yesterday / Garson Kanin -- The voice of the turtle / John Van Druten -- The male animal / James Thurber and Elliot Nugent -- The man who came to dinner / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- Dream girl / Elmer Rice -- The Philadelphia story / Philip Barry -- Arsenic and old lace / Joseph Kesselring -- The hasty heart / John Patrick -- Home of the brave / Arthur Laurents -- Tomorrow the world / James Gow and Arnaud d'usseau -- Watch on the Rhine / Lillian Hellman -- The patriots / Sidney Kingsley -- Abe Lincoln in Illinois / Robert E. Sherwood. -- Series 3 (1945-1951) -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller -- A streetcar named desire / Tennessee Williams -- The iceman cometh / Eugene O'Neill -- The member of the wedding / Carson McCullers -- The autumn garden / Lillian Hellman -- Come back, little Sheba / William Inge -- All my sons / Arthur Miller -- Detective story / Sidney Kingsley -- Billy Budd / Louis O Coxe and Robert Chapman -- Medea / Robinson Jeffers -- Mister Roberts / Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan -- State of the Union / Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse -- Darkness at noon / Sidney Kingsley -- Anne of the thousand days / Maxwell Anderson -- Bell, book and candle / John van Druten -- The moon is blue / F Hugh Herbert -- Summer and smoke / Tennessee Williams. -- Series 4 (1951-1957) -- I am a camera / John Van Druten -- Cat on a hot tin roof / Tennessee Williams -- The rose tattoo / Tennessee Williams -- A moon for the misbegotten / Eugene O'Neill -- A hatful of rain / Michael V. Gazzo -- Picnic / William Inge -- Bus stop / William Inge -- Tea and sympathy / Robert Anderson -- A view from the bridge / Arthur Miller -- The crucible / Arthur Miller -- Inherit the wind / Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- The Caine Mutiny court-martial / Herman Wouk -- The fourposter / Jan de Hartog -- The seven year itch / George Axelrod -- The matchmaker / Thornton Wilder -- No time for sergeants / Ira Levin and Mac Hyman -- The solid gold Cadillac / George S. Kaufman and Howard Teichmann. -- Series 5 (1957-1963) -- A touch of the poet / Eugene O'Neill -- The night of the iguana / Tennessee Williams -- The dark at the top of the stairs / William Inge -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf / Edward Albee -- The rope dancers / Morton Wishengrad -- Look homeward, Angel / Ketti Frings -- All the way home / Tad Mosel -- Silent night, lonely night / Robert Anderson -- Two for the seesaw / William Gibson -- Mary, Mary / Jean Kerr -- A thousand clowns / Herb Gardner -- The cave dwellers / William Saroyan -- Oh dad, poor dad, mamma's hung you in the closet and I'm feelin' so sad / Arthur L. Kopit -- Orpheus descending / Tennessee Williams -- Gideon / Paddy Chayefsky -- J.B. / Archibald MacLeish -- The best man / Gore Vidal. -- Series 6 (1963-1967) -- Tiny Alice / Edward Albee -- Blues for Mister Charlie / James Baldwin -- The last analysis / Saul Bellow -- Hogan's goat / William Alfred -- The Fantasticks / Tom Jones -- The sign in Sidney Brustein's window / Lorraine Hansberry -- The lion in winter / James Goldman -- Hughie / Eugene O'Neill -- The toilet / LeRoi Jones -- You know I can't hear you when the water's running / Robert Anderson -- Benito Cereno / Robert Lowell -- Fiddler on the roof / Joseph Stein -- Slow dance on the killing ground / William Hanley -- In white America / Martin B. Duberman -- The owl and the pussycat / Bill Manhoff -- The odd couple / Neil Simon -- The subject was roses / Frank D. Gilroy. -- Series 7 (1967-1973) -- The great white hope / Howard Sackler -- The prisoner of Second Avenue / Neil Simon -- The price / Arthur Miller -- All over / Edward Albee -- Scuba duba / Bruce Jay Friedman -- 1776 / Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards -- Sticks and bones / David Rabe -- Indians / Arthur Kopit -- The house of blue leaves / John Guare -- Lemon sky / Lanford Wilson -- Subject to fits / Robert Montgomery -- Tom Paine / Paul Foster -- Morning / Israel Horovitz -- Noon / Terrence McNally -- Night / Leonard Melfi -- Little murders / Jules Feiffer -- The boys in the band / Mart Crowley -- Ceremonies in dark old men / Lonne Elder III -- Play it again, Sam / Woody Allen. -- Series 8 (1974-1982)-) -- Chapter two / Neil Simon -- Same time, next year / Bernard Slade -- For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange -- A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur / Tennessee Williams -- That championship season / Jason Miller -- Talley's folly / Lanford Wilson -- A little night music / Hugh Wheeler -- The river niger / Joseph A. Walker -- Buried child / Sam Shepard -- A prayer for my daughter / Thomas Babe -- Loose ends / Michael Weller -- The Ritz / Terrence McNally -- Streamers / David Rabe -- American buffalo / David Mamet -- Wings / Arthur Kopit -- The elephant man / Bernard Pomerance -- Crimes of the heart / Beth Henley. -- Series Supp: Clarence / Booth Tarkington -- Rain / John Colton -- The adding machine / Elmer Rice -- Green grow the lilacs / Lynn Riggs -- The house of Connelly / Paul Green -- Children of darkness / Edwin Justus Mayer -- Biography / S. N. Behrman -- On borrowed time / Paul Osborn -- Morning's at seven -- Ethan Frome / Owen Davis and Donald Davis -- Men in white / Sidney Kingsley -- Yellow Jack / Sidney Howard -- Awake and sing! / Clifford Odets -- Here come the clowns / Philip Barry -- Harvey / Mary Chase -- The teahouse of the August moon / John Patrick -- The diary of Anne Frank / Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) PS 634 .B4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 122783
Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) PS 634 .B4 1945- 1951 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 122784
Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) PS 634 .B4 1951- 1957 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 122786
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) PS 634 .B4 1714- 1916 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 122790
Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) PS 634 .B4 1963- 1967 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 122791
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PS 634 .B4 1951- 1957 Best American plays. PS 634 .B4 1957- 1963 Best American plays. PS 634 .B4 1963- 1967 Best American plays. PS 634 .B4 1967- 1973 Best American plays. PS 634 .C4167 Four contemporary American plays / PS 634 .C4169 Plays of our time / PS 634 .C418 Six American plays for today /

Editors: Early-5th ser. J. Gassner; 6th ser., J. Gassner; 7th- ser., C. Barnes.

Early series (1919-1929) -- "The hairy ape" / Eugene O'Neill -- Desire under the elms / Eugene O'Neill -- What price glory? / Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson -- They knew what they wanted / Signey Howard -- Beggar on horseback / George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly -- Craig's wife / George Kelly -- Broadway / Philip Dunning and George Abbott -- Paris bound / Phillip Barry -- The road to Rome / Robert E. Sherwood -- The second man / S.N. Behrman -- Saturday's children / Maxwell Anderson -- Porgy / Dorothy and DuBose Heyward -- The front page / Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur -- Machinal / Sophie Treadwell -- Gods of the lightning / Maxwell Anderson and Harold Hickerson -- Street Scene / Elmer Rice -- Strictly dishonorable / Preston Sturges -- Berkeley Square / John L. Balderston -- The clod / Lewis Beach -- Trifles / Susan Glaspell -- Ile / Eugene O'Neill -- Aria da Capo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Poor Aubrey / George Kelly -- White dresses / Paul Green -- Minnie field / E.P. Conkle. -- First series (1930-1939) -- Winterset / Maxwell Anderson -- High Tor / Maxwell Anderson -- Idiot's delight / Robert E. Sherwood -- Johnny Johnson / Paul Green -- Green Pastures / Marc connelly -- You can't take it with you / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- End of summer / S.N. Behrman -- The animal kingdom / Philip Barry -- Boy meets girl / Bella and Samuel Spewack -- The women / Clare Boothe -- Yes my darling daughter / Mark Reed -- Three men on a horse / George Abbott and J.C. Holm -- The children's hour / Lillian Hellman -- Tobacco Road / Jack Kirkland and Erskine Caldwell -- Of mice and men / John Steinbeck -- Dead End / Sidney Kingsley -- Bury the dead / Irwin Shaw -- The fall of the city / Archibald Macleish -- Golden Boy / Clifford Odets -- Stage door / Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman. -- Series 2 (1939-1946) -- The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams -- The time of your life / William Saroyan -- I remember mama / John Van Druten -- Life with father / Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse -- Born yesterday / Garson Kanin -- The voice of the turtle / John Van Druten -- The male animal / James Thurber and Elliot Nugent -- The man who came to dinner / George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart -- Dream girl / Elmer Rice -- The Philadelphia story / Philip Barry -- Arsenic and old lace / Joseph Kesselring -- The hasty heart / John Patrick -- Home of the brave / Arthur Laurents -- Tomorrow the world / James Gow and Arnaud d'usseau -- Watch on the Rhine / Lillian Hellman -- The patriots / Sidney Kingsley -- Abe Lincoln in Illinois / Robert E. Sherwood. -- Series 3 (1945-1951) -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller -- A streetcar named desire / Tennessee Williams -- The iceman cometh / Eugene O'Neill -- The member of the wedding / Carson McCullers -- The autumn garden / Lillian Hellman -- Come back, little Sheba / William Inge -- All my sons / Arthur Miller -- Detective story / Sidney Kingsley -- Billy Budd / Louis O Coxe and Robert Chapman -- Medea / Robinson Jeffers -- Mister Roberts / Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan -- State of the Union / Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse -- Darkness at noon / Sidney Kingsley -- Anne of the thousand days / Maxwell Anderson -- Bell, book and candle / John van Druten -- The moon is blue / F Hugh Herbert -- Summer and smoke / Tennessee Williams. -- Series 4 (1951-1957) -- I am a camera / John Van Druten -- Cat on a hot tin roof / Tennessee Williams -- The rose tattoo / Tennessee Williams -- A moon for the misbegotten / Eugene O'Neill -- A hatful of rain / Michael V. Gazzo -- Picnic / William Inge -- Bus stop / William Inge -- Tea and sympathy / Robert Anderson -- A view from the bridge / Arthur Miller -- The crucible / Arthur Miller -- Inherit the wind / Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- The Caine Mutiny court-martial / Herman Wouk -- The fourposter / Jan de Hartog -- The seven year itch / George Axelrod -- The matchmaker / Thornton Wilder -- No time for sergeants / Ira Levin and Mac Hyman -- The solid gold Cadillac / George S. Kaufman and Howard Teichmann. -- Series 5 (1957-1963) -- A touch of the poet / Eugene O'Neill -- The night of the iguana / Tennessee Williams -- The dark at the top of the stairs / William Inge -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf / Edward Albee -- The rope dancers / Morton Wishengrad -- Look homeward, Angel / Ketti Frings -- All the way home / Tad Mosel -- Silent night, lonely night / Robert Anderson -- Two for the seesaw / William Gibson -- Mary, Mary / Jean Kerr -- A thousand clowns / Herb Gardner -- The cave dwellers / William Saroyan -- Oh dad, poor dad, mamma's hung you in the closet and I'm feelin' so sad / Arthur L. Kopit -- Orpheus descending / Tennessee Williams -- Gideon / Paddy Chayefsky -- J.B. / Archibald MacLeish -- The best man / Gore Vidal. -- Series 6 (1963-1967) -- Tiny Alice / Edward Albee -- Blues for Mister Charlie / James Baldwin -- The last analysis / Saul Bellow -- Hogan's goat / William Alfred -- The Fantasticks / Tom Jones -- The sign in Sidney Brustein's window / Lorraine Hansberry -- The lion in winter / James Goldman -- Hughie / Eugene O'Neill -- The toilet / LeRoi Jones -- You know I can't hear you when the water's running / Robert Anderson -- Benito Cereno / Robert Lowell -- Fiddler on the roof / Joseph Stein -- Slow dance on the killing ground / William Hanley -- In white America / Martin B. Duberman -- The owl and the pussycat / Bill Manhoff -- The odd couple / Neil Simon -- The subject was roses / Frank D. Gilroy. -- Series 7 (1967-1973) -- The great white hope / Howard Sackler -- The prisoner of Second Avenue / Neil Simon -- The price / Arthur Miller -- All over / Edward Albee -- Scuba duba / Bruce Jay Friedman -- 1776 / Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards -- Sticks and bones / David Rabe -- Indians / Arthur Kopit -- The house of blue leaves / John Guare -- Lemon sky / Lanford Wilson -- Subject to fits / Robert Montgomery -- Tom Paine / Paul Foster -- Morning / Israel Horovitz -- Noon / Terrence McNally -- Night / Leonard Melfi -- Little murders / Jules Feiffer -- The boys in the band / Mart Crowley -- Ceremonies in dark old men / Lonne Elder III -- Play it again, Sam / Woody Allen. -- Series 8 (1974-1982)-) -- Chapter two / Neil Simon -- Same time, next year / Bernard Slade -- For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf / Ntozake Shange -- A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur / Tennessee Williams -- That championship season / Jason Miller -- Talley's folly / Lanford Wilson -- A little night music / Hugh Wheeler -- The river niger / Joseph A. Walker -- Buried child / Sam Shepard -- A prayer for my daughter / Thomas Babe -- Loose ends / Michael Weller -- The Ritz / Terrence McNally -- Streamers / David Rabe -- American buffalo / David Mamet -- Wings / Arthur Kopit -- The elephant man / Bernard Pomerance -- Crimes of the heart / Beth Henley. -- Series Supp: Clarence / Booth Tarkington -- Rain / John Colton -- The adding machine / Elmer Rice -- Green grow the lilacs / Lynn Riggs -- The house of Connelly / Paul Green -- Children of darkness / Edwin Justus Mayer -- Biography / S. N. Behrman -- On borrowed time / Paul Osborn -- Morning's at seven -- Ethan Frome / Owen Davis and Donald Davis -- Men in white / Sidney Kingsley -- Yellow Jack / Sidney Howard -- Awake and sing! / Clifford Odets -- Here come the clowns / Philip Barry -- Harvey / Mary Chase -- The teahouse of the August moon / John Patrick -- The diary of Anne Frank / Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett.

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