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- Hamlet by William Shakespeare. What doesn't this tragedy have? There's sublime poetry, rich psychology for characters of both sexes, a hefty dose of comedy to leaven the mood, and, depending on a director's interpretation, a crackling good mystery lying underneath the tale of "The Melancholy Dane."
- Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill. This autobiographical play about O'Neill's young adulthood scorches from start to finish. You can feel the rawness as soon as it starts, as a man—along with his two adult sons—strives to ensure that his wife remains serene after a stint in rehab for morphine addiction.
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. The language of theater—not in the stagecraft sense, but in the actual dialogue sense—became something new with this lacerating 1962 drama.
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. "Attention must be paid." Indeed. Not just to Willy Loman and the sad realities of his life as a mediocre traveling salesman and the delusions that barely keep him afloat, but also to Miller's exquisite modern tragedy about an average Joe.
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- Death of a Salesman (1949) By Arthur Miller. Attention must be paid. In the decades since its debut, Miller's drama about aging middle-class Everyman Willy Loman has become a classic evocation of the dark side of the American dream.
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) By Tennessee Williams. Blanche DuBois, a fading Southern beauty with delusions of grandeur, may depend on the kindness of strangers—but she falls under the sway of her brutish, brooding brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski in Williams' searing tragedy.
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) By Edward Albee. The worst house party ever. In Albee's explosive play, which returned to Broadway in 2012 for a Tony-winning revival, an embittered, long-married academic couple host a much younger prof and his wife for an evening of brandy and verbal abuse.
- Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956) By Eugene O'Neill. O'Neill recounts a fateful summer evening at the Tyrone family's seaside home, where members of the clan battle their addictions (to alcohol and morphine) as well as one another.
Jun 27, 2013 · The Number one play of the past 100 years is Arthur Miller’s 1949 play “Death of A Salesman,” according to Entertainment Weekly’s issue of July 5/12, 2013. Number 50 is Conor McPherson’s 1997 play “The Weir.”
May 31, 2018 · It has been 25 years since “Angels in America” redefined what a play could be. With the epic masterwork on Broadway once more, New York Times theater critics took the opportunity to rank the ...
The case remains one of the most important and iconic wins for freedom of speech and of the press in United States history. In honor of Free Speech Week 2021, the First Amendment Museum has compiled a list of ten great free speech moments from 20th century American history.
Dec 7, 2018 · Populism has become a recurring political theme in American politics and has inspired political reform, but has also been used to direct the hostilities of angry citizens to straw men.
Sep 28, 2024 · In its most democratic form, populism seeks to defend the interests and maximize the power of ordinary citizens, through reform rather than revolution. In the United States the term was applied to the program of the Populist Movement, which gave rise to the Populist, or People’s, Party in 1892.
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