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Playwrights!

Past and present, conventional and experimental, match the playwright to a sampling of their works.
All plays are non-musical, unless indicated in parentheses
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Not all plays have been produced on Broadway, but all have been professionally produced.
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Last updated: June 5, 2026
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Appropriate, Purpose, An Octoroon
The Seagull, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya
The Thanksgiving Play, What Would Crazy Horse Do?, Cherokee Family Reunion
The Heidi Chronicles, The Sisters Rosensweig, Uncommon Women and Others
Top Dog/Underdog, Venus, The America Play
Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, All My Sons
Fefu and Her Friends, Mud, Letters from Cuba
Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days
A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance
How I Learned to Drive, Indecent, The Baltimore Waltz
Fences, The Piano Lesson, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Top Girls, Cloud 9, Mad Forest
M. Butterfly, Soft Power, Yellowface
The Threepenny Opera (book & lyrics), Mother Courage and Her Children (co-written with Margarete Steffin), The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Another Part of the Forest
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Gruesome Playground Injuries, King James
The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Brighton Beach Memoirs
Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Electra
A Raisin in the Sun, Les Blancs, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Twelfth Night, Othello, Richard III
Fuddy Meers, Rabbit Hole, Shrek: The Musical (book and lyrics)
Sweat, Ruined, Intimate Apparel
Glengarry Glen Ross, Oleanna, American Buffalo
Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds
Anton Chekhov
Aristophanes
Arthur Miller
August Wilson
Bertolt Brecht
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Caryl Churchill
David Henry Hwang
David Lindsay-Abaire
David Mamet
Larissa FastHorse
Lillian Hellman
Lorraine Hansberry
Lynn Nottage
María Irene Fornés
Neil Simon
Oscar Wilde
Paula Vogel
Rajiv Joseph
Samuel Beckett
Sophocles
Suzan-Lori Parks
Tennessee Wiliams
Wendy Wasserstein
William Shakspeare
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