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The Black Crook, which ran from 1866 to 1868, was the first Broadway show to run for over one year. [127] This is a list of shows that have held the record for being the longest-running show (including straight plays and musicals) on Broadway since 1853. A few probable longest-running plays prior to 1853 are also listed.
These four plays are argued to represent a phase of Shakespeare's career when he was experimenting with rhyming iambic pentameter as an alternative form to standard blank verse; Richard II has more rhymed verse than any other history play (19.1%), Romeo and Juliet more than any other tragedy (16.6%) and Love's Labour's and Midsummer Night more ...
Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise is a matter of scholarly debate. Shakespeare's plays are widely regarded as among the greatest in the ...
1759 plays (4 P) 1760 plays (7 P) 1761 plays (5 P) 1762 plays (6 P) 1763 plays (6 P) (previous page) ( next page ) Categories: Plays by period. Theatre by year.
Nineteenth-century theatre describes a wide range of movements in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert ...
In 2013, Top Girls made Entertainment Weekly's list of the "50 Greatest Plays of the Past 100 Years". [2] Also in 2013, Top Girls was featured in Lucy Kerbel's book of 100 Great Plays for Women. Kerbel had written the book in response to many of her theatre colleagues saying that "There just aren't any good plays for women".
The History Boys: 2004 Alan Bennett: 2006: 2005: Nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning six. The Homecoming: 1965 Harold Pinter: 1967: Nominated for six Tony Awards, winning four. The Humans: 2014 Stephen Karam: 2016: Nominated for six Tony Awards, winning four. I Am My Own Wife: 2003 Doug Wright: 2004: Nominated for three Tony Awards ...
The history of theatre charts the development of theatre over the past 2,500-2,600 years. While performative elements are present in every society, it is customary to acknowledge a distinction between theatre as an art form and entertainment, and theatrical or performative elements in other activities.