The Importance of Being Earnest by: Oscar Wilde
"There's a reason why Oscar Wilde's last social comedy...is regarded as his best play."
http://www.curtainup.com/importanceofbeingearnestberk.html
"In this satire, being earnest is made as superficial a trait as possible..."
http://www.angelfire.com/home/qaf/earnest.html
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by: August Wilson
"Wilson’s first major drama shortchanges the audience in layers of dilemma and meaning."
http://chicagotheaterblog.com/2009/10/02/review-ma-raineys-black-bottom-at-court-theatre/
""Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" is an important play in African-American theater."
http://gonyc.about.com/cs/broadway/gr/marainey.htm
Caroline, or Change Book and Lyrics by: Tony Kushner Music by: Jeanine Tesori
''Caroline, or Change,'' the carefully wrought chamber opera by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori.
http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9800E2DF103AF932A35751C1A9659C8B63
"As a result, the musical is less emotionally moving than intellectually stimulating."
http://www.minnesotamonthly.com/media/Blogs/Front-Center/April-2009/Review-quotCaroline-or-Change-quot-grooves-at-the-Guthrie/
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by: Edward Albee
"We dub it a tragicomedy, because it blends elements of both tragedy and comedy."
http://www.shmoop.com/afraid-of-virginia-woolf/genre.html
"'Virginia Woolf' may be the most vicious portrait of a marriage this side of Strindberg, it is also - deeply and truly - a love story."
http://theater.nytimes.com/2005/03/21/theater/reviews/21wool.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2
A Little Night Music Music and Lyrics by: Stephen Sondheim Book by: Hugh Wheeler
"Broadway Musical Comedy"
http://www.jimsdeli.com/theater/2009-2010/little-night-music.htm
"Highly stylized (this is a musical costume drama)"
http://www.broadway.com/shows/little-night-music/
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by: Tom Stoppard
" The play is an intellectual comedy, with intricate word plays"
http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?_r=1&res=9B0DE2DD133FF93BA25756C0A961948260&oref=slogin
"Stoppard's play brings a Shakespearian twist to the Theatre of the Absurd"
http://www.gradesaver.com/rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead/study-guide/about/
Arsenic and Old Lace By: Joseph Kesselring
"Queens Shakespeare, Inc. presentation of this brilliant black comedy"
http://blogcritics.org/culture/article/theater-review-queens-ny-arsenic-and/
"Dark Comedy Arsenic and Old Lace at Northwestern University"
http://www.goldstar.com/events/evanston-il/arsenic-and-old-lace.html
The Three Sisters by: Anton Chekhov
"Elements that validate the play as a tragi-comedy"
http://www.curtainup.com/3sisterscsc.html
"...is one of the saddest and most haunting dramas written in this century or any other."
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/23/theater/reviews-theater-chekhov-s-three-sisters-and-the-riddle-it-poses.html?pagewanted=1
King Lear by: William Shakespeare
"a tribal, tense production of Shakespeare’s tragedy"
http://www.curtainup.com/kinglearcth.html
"King Lear is at least as much a comedy as a tragedy."
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lady/lit/shakespeare/
Picnic by: William Inge
"Picnic- A Summer Romance."
http://dreamweaverstheatre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98&Itemid=62
"The Shape of Picnic is comedy-drama."
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19540511&id=ViINAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5GoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3290,2719720
Johns Hopkins University Theatre (Educational)
The House of Blue Leaves by: John Guare
"Archetypal artifact of late 1960's black comedy."
http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9A0DEEDA1538F933A15750C0A9609482600
"Full Length, Farce"
http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/1735
Book of Days By: Lanford Wilson
"As a genre it might be classified as a mystery."
http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:bjXCPSx_svgJ:www.curtainup.com/bookofdays.html+Book+of+Days+Lanford+Wilson+Genre&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
"It can also be debated that this is in fact a tragedy."
http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:7WWOLSXB51sJ:www.amazon.com/Book-Days-Lanford-Wilson/dp/0822217678+Book+of+Days+Lanford+Wilson+Genre+Drama&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
The Marriage of Bette and Boo by: Christopher Durang
"American playwrights who delve into the oeuvre known as dark comedy."
http://www.curtainup.com/marriageofbettyandboo.html
Dramatists Play Service - "Comedy"
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?index=0&key=1180
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by: Alan Ball
"The physical comedy is made extra entertaining by the ridiculous gowns."
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A5915733
"Five Women Wearing The Same Dress is a comedy-drama about five bridesmaids."
http://truebloodnet.com/kirby-theatre-presents-alan-balls-five-women-wearing-same-dress//
Follies Music and Lyrics by: Stephen Sondheim Book by: James Goldman
'“Follies,” Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s beautiful, broken-hearted musical"
http://theater.nytimes.com/2007/02/10/theater/reviews/10foll.html
'"Follies [Revival, Musical Drama]"
http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=12430
The Light in the Piazza Book by: Craig Lucas Music and Lyrics by: Adam Guettel
"Significant step forward for the endangered American musical"
http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/theater/reviews/11817/
"A musical drama by Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas"
http://www.onlineseats.com/theatre/the-light-in-the-piazza-tickets/index.asp
Picasso at the Lapin Agile by: Steve Martin
'“Picasso at the Lapin Agile” is a comedy of ideas"
http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:-ySHRsNbHIgJ:www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20091106/news/911059951%3FTitle%3DSteve-Martin-s-Picasso-at-the-Lapin-Agile-+picasso+at+the+lapin+agile+absurdist+comedy&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
"Steve Martin's Absurd Comedy Picasso at the Lapin Agile"
http://www.goldstar.com/events/fullerton-ca/picasso-at-the-lapin-agile.html
The Glorious Ones Book and Lyrics by: Lynn Ahrens Music by: Stephen Flaherty
"a new musical about the roistering life of the clowns ."
http://theater.nytimes.com/2007/11/06/theater/reviews/06glorious.html
"world premiere of a new musical comedy."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07120/782088-325.stm
The Arabian Nights by: Mary Zimmerman
"Sprawling her drama across a stunning landscape of the imagination."
http://www.villagetheatrewaterdown.ca/Arabian%20Nights/arabian%20nights%20spectator%20review.htm
"Emphasize slapstick and vaudeville-like comedy"
http://newcitystage.com/2009/06/01/review-arabian-nightslookingglass-theatre/
The Threepenny Opera Book and Lyrics by: Bertolt Brecht Music by: Kurt Weill
"Famous and popular example of what Brecht called "epic theater."'
http://theater.nytimes.com/2006/04/21/theater/reviews/21thre.html
"A pivotal work in the history of musical comedy."
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P3-1153900061.html
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