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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.
Machinal was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1928–29. [21] In 2013, Machinal was included on Entertainment Weekly's list of the "50 Greatest Plays of the Past 100 Years". [2] In 2015, theatre critic Michael Billington included the play in his list of the "101 greatest plays" ever written in any western language. [3]
Shakespeare was living in the reign of Elizabeth I, the last monarch of the House of Tudor, and his history plays are often regarded as Tudor propaganda because they show the dangers of civil war and celebrate the founders of the Tudor dynasty. In particular, Richard III depicts the last member of the rival House of York as an evil monster ...
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.
Year Writer(s) Tony Olivier Notes [1] All the Way: 2012 Robert Schenkkan: 2014: Won both Tony Awards for which it was nominated. Amadeus: 1979 Peter Shaffer: 1981: Nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning five. Angels in America: Millennium Approaches: 1991 Tony Kushner: 1993: Nominated for nine Tony Awards, winning four. Angels in America ...
The Fatal Constancy. The Father and the Assassin. Faulkener (play) The Female Prelate. Foscari (play) Francis the First (play) Fredolfo. French history in the English-speaking theatre. The French Libertine.
The list includes four Shakespearean plays; The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of a Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, and Love's Labour's Won. Up until 1953, only Meres's reference was known, until Hunt's two pages of handwriting were discovered in the backing of a copy of Thomas Gataker 's Certaine Sermones.
The history play first took its modern form in Tudor England. Literary scholar Irving Ribner, in his influential study of the genre, connects the emergence of the history play with "a new birth of historical writing in England" [7] during the sixteenth century, which included new books of English history written by Polydore Vergil (1534), Edward Hall (1543), and Raphael Holinshed (1577), among ...