Playwrights Trivia Questions
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Who won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1945 for the play 'The Glass Menagerie'?
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tennessee williams
Who is the playwright whose first play, 'The Trumpet Shall Sound', premiered in 1926, 12 years before 'Our Town'?
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thornton wilder
Who is the playwright of 'Plaza Suite', which features 'Visitor from Mamaroneck' as the title of its first act?
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neil simon
Who wrote the last installment of his semi-autobiographical trilogy titled 'Broadway Bound'?
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neil simon
Which playwright set his comedy 'Barefoot in the Park' in an old brownstone on East 48th Street?
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neil simon
Which playwright's quarrelsome acting couple from a 1976 comedy reappears in a 1995 play, specifically in 'California Suite' and 'London Suite'?
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neil simon
Who is the playwright who in 1955 described 'A View From The Bridge'?
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arthur miller
Which playwright rewrote his first full-length play 'Battle of Angels' and renamed it 'Orpheus Descending'?
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tennessee williams
Which Norwegian playwright wrote the 1866 play 'Brand' in rhyming verse?
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henrik ibsen
Who was the playwright whose birthday coincided with the opening of 'The Cherry Orchard' at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904?
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anton chekhov
Which playwright's experiences shared with his brother in a bachelor pad inspired 'Come Blow Your Horn'?
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neil simon
Who began writing his first play 'Come Blow Your Horn' while working as a writer for 'The Garry Moore Show'?
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neil simon
Who is the playwright of 'Long Day's Journey into Night'?
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eugene o'neill
Who wrote the play 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' that is set in a small house in Brooklyn in 1937?
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neil simon
Which playwright wrote the comedy 'The Star-Spangled Girl' set in a duplex apartment overlooking San Francisco Bay?
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neil simon
Which playwright's early work 'The Birthday Party' was initially panned by critics and only lasted a week in its London run?
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harold pinter
Who wrote the play 'The Matchmaker,' which served as the basis for the musical 'Hello, Dolly!'?
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thornton wilder
What is the middle name of the playwright born Samuel Rogers who wrote 'Fool for Love'?
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sam shepard
Which playwright from the South revised his work 'Summer and Smoke' into the 1964 play 'The Eccentricities of a Nightingale'?
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tennessee williams
What beach area does Neil Simon like his plays about the best because they are related to the best times of his life?
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brighton beach
Who is the playwright that wrote the line, "I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!"?
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arthur miller
Who is the playwright depicted in 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black,' who also wrote 'A Raisin in the Sun'?
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lorraine hansberry
Which playwright won his second Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for 'The Piano Lesson'?
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august wilson
Who wrote the play that was adapted into the 1995 Hallmark Hall of Fame production 'The Piano Lesson'?
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august wilson
Which playwright, known for writing 'The Piano Lesson,' was born in April but has a different month in his name?
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august wilson
Who wrote the play 'The Rose Tattoo' that featured Mercedes Ruehl as Serafina Delle Rose in its 1995 revival?
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tennessee williams
Who is the playwright known for writing 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957 and 'The Caretaker' in 1960?
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harold pinter
Who is the author of the 1995 play 'The Cryptogram' in which Ed Begley Jr. starred?
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david mamet
Who is the playwright whose work 'The Heidi Chronicles' won the 1989 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best new play?
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wendy wasserstein
Who is the playwright known for including a character named Berenger in several of his works such as 'Rhinoceros' and 'Exit the King'?
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eugène ionesco
Which playwright wrote the play 'Fool for Love' that is set in a 'stark...motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert'?
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sam shepard
Which playwright wrote the 1892 comedy that inspired the 1960 musical 'A Delightful Season'?
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oscar wilde
Who is the playwright of 'The Dance of Death' and 'Miss Julie'?
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august strindberg
Who is the playwright of the series that includes the drama 'Seven Guitars' and also wrote 'The Piano Lesson'?
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august wilson
What is the middle name of the absurdist playwright whose last name is Beckett?
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samuel beckett
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