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West Side Story West Side 001 Adapted Work Leonard Bernstein Stephen Sondheim
West Side Story is a musical written by Arthur Laurents (book), Leonard Bernstein (music), and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics). The story is based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, which was based on a narrative poem by Arthur Brooke entitled The...
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Gypsy: A Musical Fable Original Broadway Cast Album Written Work Jule Styne Stephen Sondheim
Gypsy is a 1959 musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. It is usually referred to as simply Gypsy. Gypsy is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist, and...
Top Girls   Written Work    
Top Girls is a 1982 play by Caryl Churchill. It depicts the life of Marlene, a hard-bitten career woman who is employed at the 'Top Girls' employment agency, and her interactions with her family she left behind. Marlene left her working class...
Cyclops Polyphemus by Annibale Caracchi Written Work    
The Cyclops is an Ancient Greek satyr play by Euripides, the only complete satyr play that has survived. It is a comical burlesque-like play on the same story depicted in book nine of The Odyssey by Homer. Odysseus has lost his way on the voyage...
Medea Medea about to Kill her Children by Eugène Delacroix Written Work    
Medea is a tragedy written by Euripides, based on the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. Along with the plays Philoctetes, Dictys and Theristai, which were all entered as a group, it won the third prize (out of three) at the...
Hippolytus Hippolytus Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema Written Work    
Hippolytus (also known as Hippolytos) is an Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, based on the myth of Hippolytus, son of Theseus. The play was first produced for the City Dionysia of Athens in 428 BC and won first prize as part of a trilogy. ...
Henceforward... Henceforward... set (Midland Players 2006) Written Work    
The play Henceforward... is the first comedy in which Alan Ayckbourn includes elements of science fiction. It concerns Jerome, a composer, who develops a plan to persuade his estranged wife Corrina that his home life is sufficiently stable for her...
Prometheus Bound Vulcan Chaining Promethus by Dirck van Baburen Written Work    
Prometheus Bound is an Ancient Greek tragedy. In Antiquity, this drama was attributed to Aeschylus, but is now considered by some scholars to be the work of another hand, perhaps one as late as ca. 415 BC. Despite these doubts of authorship, the...
The Knights Sketch of Aristophanes Written Work    
Aristophanes' comedy Knights (Greek: Hippeîs) took the prize at the Lenaia festival in 424 BCE. The play is above all else an unbridled attack on Cleon, who was one of the most important political figures in Athens in the late 420s BCE and may well...
Peace Sketch of Aristophanes Written Work    
Peace (Greek: Eiréne) is an Athenian Old Comedy written and produced by the Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was staged in 421 BC and was awarded second prize at the City Dionysia festival. As inmany of his plays, Aristophanes attacks and lampoons...
Iphigeneia at Aulis Anger of Achilles by Jacques-Louis David Adapted Work    
Iphigenia at Aulis, written in 410 BC, is the last surviving work of the playwright Euripides. First produced four years after his death, the play won first place at the Dionysia. The play revolves around Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek...
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Kanjinchō "Yoshitsune and Benkei Viewing Cherry Blossoms", by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1885 Written Work    
Kanjinchō (勧進帳, The Subscription List) is a Japan kabuki play by Namiki Gohei III, based on the Noh play Ataka. It is one of the most popular plays in the modern kabuki repertory. Belonging to the repertoires of the Naritaya and Kōritaya guilds,...
Lysistrata Lysistrata illustration by Aubrey Beardsley Written Work    
Lysistrata (Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη Lysistratê, Doric Greek: Λυσιστράτα Lysistrata), loosely translated to "she who disbands armies", is a Greek comedy, written in 411 BC by Aristophanes. Led by the title character, Lysistrata, the story's female...
The Suppliants The Danaides by J.W. Waterhouse Written Work    
The Suppliants (Greek "Hiketides", also translated as The Suppliant Maidens) is a play by Aeschylus. It was probably first performed sometime after 470 BC as the first play in a trilogy which included the lost plays The Egyptians and The Daughters...
The Bacchae Bacchus by Caravaggio Written Work    
The Bacchae (also known as The Bacchantes) is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. It premiered posthumously at the Dionysia in 403 BC, where it won first prize. The Dionysus in Euripides' tale is a young god, angry that his mortal...
Andromache Captive Andromache by Frederic Leighton Written Work    
Andromache (c. 425 BC) is a play by Euripides. It follows Andromache during her life as a slave, years after the events of the Trojan War. During the Trojan War, Andromache's husband Hector was slain by Achilles. Their child Astyanax was dropped...
The Trachiniae Funeral of Hercules Written Work    
The Trachiniae or The Women of Trachis (Greek: Τραχίνιαι) is a play by Sophocles, notable mainly for the unsympathetic portrayal of Heracles. As in the play Ajax, Sophocles has cast a well-known hero in a negative light. The story begins with...
No Exit Cover of the Vintage edition Film    
No Exit is a 1944 existentialist play by Jean-Paul Sartre, originally published in French as Huis Clos (meaning In Camera or "behind closed doors"). English translations have also been performed under the titles In Camera, No Way Out, and Dead End....
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The Clouds Socrates Written Work    
The Clouds (Nephelae,Νεφέλαι) is an Athenian Old comedy written by the playwright Aristophanes that lampoons Socrates and his circle, and thus more generally some intellectual trends of late fifth-century Athens. The play placed badly in the...
Heracles Heracles and Cerberus by Francisco De Zurbaran Written Work    
Heracles or Hercules Furens is a play by Euripides (c. 416 BC). While Heracles is in the underworld obtaining Cerberus for one of his labors, his father Amphitryon, wife Megara, and children are sentenced to death in Thebes, Greece by Lycus....
Iphigeneia in Tauris Orestes and Pylades brought before Iphigenia by Joseph Strutt Written Work    
Iphigeneia in Tauris (in Greek: ) is a drama by the playwright Euripides, written sometime between 414 BC and 412 BC. It bears much in common with another of Euripides' plays, Helen, and is often described as a romance, a melodrama, or an escape...
Oedipus the King Antigone Leads Oedipus out of Thebes by Charles Francois Jalabeat Adapted Work    
Oedipus the King (Greek , Oedipus Tyrannus, or "Oedipus the Tyrant"), also known as Oedipus Rex, is a Greek tragedy, written by Sophocles and first performed ca. 429 BC. The play was the second of Sophocles' three Theban plays to be produced, but...
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The Sisters Rosensweig   Written Work    
The Sisters Rosensweig is a play by Wendy Wasserstein. The play was first performed on Broadway on March 18, 1993 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and closed on July 16 1994. Original Broadway Cast The Internet Broadway Database entry for "The...
Hamlet Hamlet quarto 3rd Play    
Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken...
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Electra Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon by Sir William Blake Richmond Written Work    
Euripides' Electra was probably written in the mid 410s BC, likely after 413 BC. It is unclear whether it was first produced before or after Sophocles' version of the Electra story. Years before, near the start of the Trojan War, the Greek general...
Seven Guitars Written Work    
Seven Guitars is a 1995 play by August Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. It focuses on seven African American characters in the year 1948. The play begins and ends after the funeral of one of the main characters, showing events...
Orestes William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - The Remorse of Orestes (1862) Written Work    
Orestes (408 BCE) is an Ancient Greek play by Euripides that follows the events of Orestes after he had murdered his mother. In accordance with the advice of the god Apollo, Orestes has killed his mother Clytemnestra to avenge the death of his...
Phoenician Women Farewell of Oedipus to the Corpses of His Wife and Sons by Edouard Toudouze Written Work    
The Phoenician Women (also known by the Greek title, Phoenissae) is a tragedy by Euripides based on the same story as Aeschylus' play Seven Against Thebes. The title refers to the Greek chorus, which is composed of Phoenician women on their way to...
Ajax Ajax preparing for suicide Written Work    
Ajax is a play by Sophocles. The date of its first performance is unknown, but most scholars regard it as early rather than late in Sophocles' career (J. Moore, 2). It chronicles the fate of the warrior Ajax after the events of the Iliad and the...
The Persians Darius I of Persia Written Work    
The Persians (, Persai) is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus. It is the oldest surviving play in the history of theater. It is also notable for being the only extant Greek tragedy based on contemporary events. The Persians was...