Project 1

American Conservatory Theater1

1 ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore By John Ford 2008
http://www.curtainup.com/pityshesawhore.html
“introduction to Jacobean/Carolinian dramatic literature at its most lurid.”
http://www.sfstation.com/tis-pity-she-s-a-whore-a10191
“is one of the most gruesome morality plays”

2 The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol 2008
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/onstage/24751174.html
“Hysterical might actually be the best way to describe the Guthrie's rollicking production of Gogol's satire”
http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts-reviews/the-government-inspector/2007/10/29/1193555564625.html
“Two hands better than 19 in this slimmed-down version of Gogol's classic comedy.”

3 Blood Knot by Athol Fugard 2008
http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-02-15/entertainment/17139792_1_blood-knot-athol-fugard-drama
“excoriatingly honest drama”
http://www.enotes.com/blood-knot-salem/blood-knot
“Psychological realism”

4 Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet 2008
http://www.nytix.com/Links/Broadway/Shows/Current/speedtheplow.html
“Dark Comedy”
http://www.offwestend.com/index.php/plays/view/1336
“Classic Comedy”

5 The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash 2007
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-01-08/stage/the-rainmaker-and-little-women/
“N. Richard Nash’s comedy is, in many respects, conventional Broadway fare of the 1950s”
http://minnesotatheatre.blogspot.com/2009/08/rainmaker.html
“The Rainmaker is both a thought provoking drama about human fears”

6 The Imaginary Invalid byMolière; adapted by Constance Congdon 2007
http://www.theateronline.com/playbill.xzc?PK=17269
“A comedy for the entire family”
http://www.goldstar.com/events/san-francisco-ca/the-imaginary-invalid.html
“In this cheeky satire, an old hypochondriac believes in nothing and no one--except the dubious diagnoses his quack doctors keep delivering”

7 Blackbird by David Harrower 2007
http://theater.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/theater/reviews/11blac.html
“a drama that promises to be the most powerful of the season”
http://blogs.uscannenberg.org/neontommy/2009/09/bye-bye-blackbird.html
“classical tragedy”

8 Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen; translated by Paul Walsh 2007
http://classiclit.about.com/od/heddagabler/fr/aa_heddagabler.htm
“a domestic tragedy “
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8607594.html
“the drama”

9 The Circle by W. Somerset Maugham 2007
http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/1184
“Comedy”
http://www.goldstar.com/events/san-francisco-ca/the-circle.html
“Witty Social Satire The Circle Brings W. Somerset Maugham's Classic to San Francisco”

10 The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman 2006
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/05/review-the-little-foxes-at-pasadena-playhouse.html
“the drama's angry relevance”
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/the-little-foxes-donmar-theatre-london-631347.html
“A well-done Southern melodrama”


San Francisco State University Theater

1 Two on a Party by Tennessee Williams 2010
http://www.theaterdogs.net/category/word-for-word/
“gay and lesbian theater”
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Comedy

2 High Fidelity the Musical by David Lindsay 2009
http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/news/014326.html
Musical
http://www.harthousetheatre.ca/html/current_season/season_spread/show_3/show_3.php "isn't your traditional musical comedy"

3 Juliet 2009 Shakespeare
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/facts.html
Tragic Drama
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2009/feb/24/theater-review-tragedy-romeo-and-juliet/
Tragedy

4Cosi Fan Tutte 2009 Mozart
http://opera.suite101.com/article.cfm/mozarts_cosi_fan_tutte
Comic opera
http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/n_8688/
Comedy

5 Henry IV 2009 Shakespeare http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/henry4pt1/context.html
History Play
http://www.bard.org/education/studyguides/henryivpartone/henryivpartonetragedy.html Comedy

6Twelfth Night 2009
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/twelfthnight/context.html
Comedy
http://www.cliffnotes.com/wileyCDA/LitNote/Twelfth-Night.id-152.html
Romantic Comedy

7 Cordelia (from Town to Town)" by Alberto Adellach 2009
http://news.eltecolote.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=fdb1c8cf8527f26b8d43498c437a7135
Modern Tragedy
http://www.playshakespeare.com/stories/250-features/3762-the-shakespearean-journey-leads-to-a-universal-crossroad
Musical Tragedy

8Proof 2009 by David Auburn
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/usplays/auburnd1.htm
Drama
http://www.curtainup.com/proof.html
family drama

9 Arcadia by Tom Stoppard 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/31/theater/theater-review-arcadia-stoppard-s-comedy-of-1809-and-now.html?pagewanted=1
“Stoppard's Comedy Of 1809 And Now”
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/stoppt/arcadia.htm
Drama

10 Machinal 2008 by Sophie Treadwell
http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-03-14/entertainment/17214105_1_sophie-treadwell-machinal-stage
Drama
http://www.jobsitetheater.org/shows/machinal/about.php
“feminist theater”