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Playwrights, Lyricists, Composers

This page is designed to be a resource of links to specific theatre playwrights, Lyricists, and Composers. The list is in alphabetical order
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. Edward Albee

Master Sites on Playwrights:

• Playwrights on the web
  

• Biography page
  

"A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth". - Edward Albee

• Notes from a lecture in Denver by Albee

Anderson, Hans Christian

• Chronology
  

• Antonin Artaud
• Artaud: "Art Minimal and Conceptual Only"
• French Resource on Artaud
  

• Text of Lysistrata - Anonymous translator
• Text of Lysistrata - Anonymous translator
• Texts of Aristophanes Plays - (Does not include Lysistrata)
• Text of Aristophanes Plays - Includes multiple versions and formats
• Britannica Article
• Biography page
• Theatrehistory.com, Aristophanes Page
• On the Text of Aristophanes
• Aristophanes Timeline and Links Page
  

• Official Website

Howard Ashman

• Howard Ashman

James Barrie

• Info Please Bio
• Another Bio
• Designs for a Production of Peter Pan that toured to Russia in 1989
• Peter Pan history
• Peter Pan Resources from the hospital that holds the copyright!

Frank Baum & The Wizard of Oz

• Wizard of Oz Timeline
  

• Samuel Beckett Resources
• Lots of Beckett links.
• Yahoo Beckett links
• The Samuel Beckett Endpage - Includes an extensive timeline
• Very nice short biography
  

• Justin's Drama and Theatre Links Berkoff links
• Berkoff Site
  

• Short Bio
  

• The official Leonard Bernstein page

Eubie Blake

• Bio
• Interview of Eubie Blake by Max Morath
• Another Interview of Blake by Morath on the birth of Ragtime
• Credits from The Internet Broadway Database

Bertolt Brecht

• Brecht Chronology
• International Brecht Society - Lots of material here if you dig.
• Friends and Associates of Bertolt Brecht
• Mother Courage Production History (by Gideon Lester)
• Clasicnote site on Mother Courage
• Photos of a Production of Threepenny Opera
• NPR Story on the Berliner Ensemble
• NPR Story about Brecht's Borrowing of Text from Others
• City jungles and expressionist reifications from Brecht to Hammett - From Twentieth Century Literature
  

• The Cervantes Project
  

Chekhov

• Bibliographic References for Studying The Seagull
• Chekhov at the Circus. A really interesting article
• Chekhov Bio
• Chekhov Bio, e-texts of plays, and Timeline
• Chekhov Monologues
• Chekhov Now Festival - Based in NYC
• Anton Chekhov: Fragments of Recollections - Remembrances of Chekhov by Gorky
• Chekhov Bibliography
• Classic Notes on Chekhov
• Project Guttenberg E-Texts for Chekhov
• Uncle Vanya E-Text
• Uncle Vanya Text in HTML format - includes footnotes

• Brief Bio
• The Language of Caryl Churchill: the Rhythms of Feminist Theory, Acting Theory, and Gender Politics, by: John A. Price
• Bibliography
• Biography and critical notes
  

• Cocteau Gallery
• Biography

George M. Cohan

• Great site

Pierre Corneille

• Corneille web resource
  

• Noel Coward Society - extensive collection of resources!
• Library of Congress Citations
  

• Ken Dashow

Friedrich Dürrenmatt, playwright of The Visit

• German website

Euripides

• Euripides and His Tragedies - from theatrehistory.com
• Medea Script
• Teaching Euripides' Medea - Lots of Links
• ClasicNote on Medea - An extensive study guide

Georges Feydeau (Georges-Leon-Julie-Marie Feydeau)

• Internet Broadway Database Listing
• Feydeau Play Listing

• Biography Page
  

• Athol Fugard

Herb Gardner

• A Thousand Clowns Film Resource

George & Ira Gershwin

• Short George Gershwin Bio
• Another Bio of George along with a list of compositions
• Another George Gershwin Bio
• Another Gershwin Bio including his early years
• Atlantic Magazine article about George Gershwin

Gilbert and Sullivan

• Gilbert and Sullivan Discography - Includes a lot of research material too
• Gilbert and Sullivan Archives

• Short article on Theatrehistory.com

Lorenz Hart (first name is Milton)

• Rogers and Hammerstein Theatre Library
  

• PD Music Website Resource

John Heywood

• Catholic Encyclopedia Article
• Britannica 11th Edition Article
  

• Ibsen.net
• Ibsen
• A short bio
  

• Inge Festival
• Short Inge Bio

• Ionesco
• Chronology (in French)

John Kander / Fredd Ebb

• Site in French - Nice set of information here
• Kander & Ebb Show Listing
• BBCi Resource
• Australian Article with interview material
• Musicweb article

George S Kaufman

• Great article on his time spent in Pennsylvania

Tony Kushner

• Tony Kushner- - Interview in Mother Jones
• NPR Story on Kushner and his play Homebody/Kabul

Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee

• Inherit the Wind - A nice history site

Allan Jay Lerner

• David Mamet Society - And The Mamet Review
• David Mamet Info Page
• Bio from the Sony Pictures pages

• Emily Mann

Marivaux

• Le Théâtre de Marivaux

Christopher Marlowe

• The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe

Steve Martin

Alan Menken

• Thomas Middleton
  

Arthur Miller

• Arthur Miller Society
  

• Site-Moliere - Very thorough resource includes a concordance. Much is in French
• Moliere
• Moliere Bio
• Articles on Moliere from Theatrehistory.com
• e-texts of Moliere Plays
• On the Censorship of Tartuffe in France
• Photos of a production of The Miser
• Photos of a production of The Imaginary Invalid
• School for Husbands Notes
• School for Wives Notes
• School for Wives Notes

• Outline
  

• Electronic O'Neill Archive - Very thorough site. lots of resources

Suzan-Lori Parks

• Nice Resource
• Interview on WBUR (audio file)

Harold Pinter

• The Pinter Society

• Nice Resource

Cole Porter

• Cole Wide Web
• Virtual Cole Porter - GREAT site!
• Cole Reference Web
• Cole Porter Bio from American Masters (PBS)
• Cole Porter Lyrics Page

Jean Racine

• Jean Racine Bio

Rice, Elmer (Elmer Leopold Reizenstein)

• Dramaturgical Research on The Adding Machine from the Students at Goucher College in Baltimore
• Photos of a production of The Adding Machine

Richard Rodgers

• A Rodgers Timeline, from NPR
• Rodgers Song Archive - NPR
• NPR Stories on Rodgers - A Wealth of Resources!
• Rogers and Hammerstein Theatre Library

Harvey Schmidt / Tom Jones

• The Fantasticks Official Website
• Nice Info Site
• Article from Show Music Magazine
• Interview by Nancy Rosati
  

• Stephen Schwartz official site - good resource
• Stephen Schwartz Homepage - Another great website
• Pippin Page

Sam Shepard

• Gary Grant's Bucknel U Site - Very thorough, especially in listings of plays, films, research sources, etc.
• Short Biography
• Internet Movie Database Filmography of Shepard
• A Sam Shepard Bibliography
• Sam Shepard - by Stephen Fay, published in The Sunday Times on 28 August 1984 - an article/interview.
• Portrait of the Artist: Sam Shepard and the Anxiety of Identity - A masters thesis presented to the faculty of the University of Virginia on May 1, 1996. by John Blackburn

Shaw

• Artslynx Shaw Link Library
  

• Artslynx Shakespeare Resources
  

• Unofficial Homepage
• Neil Simon Interview via Real Audio

Stephen Sondheim

• Stephen Sondheim Stage - Lots of Resources
• The Sondheim Review- Great Journal and online resource includes as well a comprehensive collection of links
• Stephen Sondheim Society based in Britain
• Sweeney Todd on PBS - Very good and comprehensive resource

• Sophocles Play Texts - Great collection of downloadable play texts
• Short Sophocles bio
• Study Guide for Oedipus by Robin Mitchell-Boyask
• Study Guide for Oedipus by Roger Dunkle
• Study Guide for Oedipus by Andrew Wilson
• Study Guide for Antigone by Robin Mitchell-Boyask
• Study Guide for Antigone by Roger Dunkle
• Study Guide for Antigone by Andrew Wilson
  

• Strindberg
  

Tom Stoppard

• Tom Stoppard Bio Page
• Bibliography - Thorough site. Includes supplier info.
• Curtain Up Resource
  

• Suzuki Links
• Photos of the North American premiere of Suzuki's Clytemnestra
  

• Jeffrey Sweet
  

J. M. Synge

• Basic bio and story of Treadwell & Panco Villa

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

• Biographical site and selective bibliography
• Russian language Turgenev site

Vogel, Paula

• Paula Vogel Links
• Nice article on How I Learned to Drive
• PBS Interview with Vogel

Voltaire

• Voltaire Residence - Lots of Resources
  

• Lloyd Webber.NET -- The Andrew Lloyd Webber Online Magazine.
• The Really Useful Company -- official page maintained by Webber's production company.
  

• Kurt Weill Homepage

Oscar Wilde

• Artslynx Oscar Wilde Resources

Thornton Niven Wilder

• Thornton Niven Wilder Web Site - Comprehensive! Nice Site!

• Mississippi Writers Page Resource
• Streetcar Named Desire Study Guide
• Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference
• The Tennessee Williams Annual Review
• ClasicNotes study guide to The Glass Menagerie
• SparkNotes Guide to The Glass Menagerie
• PBS American Masters' Tennessee Williams Page
• Rare recording of Tennessee Williams Speaking, from NPR
• Tennessee Williams Archives at Columbia University in Missouri
• Tennessee Williams Archives, University of Texas

August Wilson

• A Timeline from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette
  

Robert Wilson

• Robert Wilson

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