American Plays

What play by Thornton Wilder is narrated by a Stage Manager and details the lives of Emily Webb and George Gibbs?

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

• Our Town

• Mourning Becomes Electra

• The Glass Menagerie

What play by Eugene O'Neil centers on Edmund and the dysfunctional Tyrone family, but is really an autobiographical account of O'Neil's home life?

• Long Day's Journey Into Night

• A Raisin in the Sun

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• The Crucible

What play by Edward Albee details the troubled marriages of Martha and George and Nick and Honey

• Death of a Salesman

• The Little Foxes

• The Iceman Cometh

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?

What play by Tennessee Williams has the two characters Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski represent William's two views of the south ("old romantic" vs. harsh modern)?

• Our Town

• The Crucible

• A Streetcar Named Desire

• The Little Foxes

What play by Lorraine Hansberry details the discrimination faced by the Younger family and whose title comes from Langston Hughes's "Harlem" (often called "A Dream Deferred")?

• A Streetcar Named Desire

• A Raisin in the Sun

• The Iceman Cometh

• Mourning Becomes Electra

What play by Arthur Miller details the witch trails of John and Elizabeth Proctor and was an allegorical protest against McCarthyism?

• The Crucible

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

• Long Day's Journey Into Night

What play by Arthur Miller details Willy Loman dealing with his shortcomings in order to create a better life for his sons, Biff and Happy?

• The Glass Menagerie

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• The Crucible

• Death of a Salesman

What play by Eugene O'Neil details the struggles of Lavina Mannon and her family and is based on Aeschylus's The Oresteia?

• The Iceman Cometh

• Long Day's Journey Into Night

• The Little Foxes

• Mourning Becomes Electra

What play by Tennessee Williams details Tom Wingfield and his mother Amanda trying to find a "gentleman caller" for his sister, Laura?

• The Glass Menagerie

• A Streetcar Named Desire

• Our Town

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

What play by Eugene O'Neil has patrons of the End of the Line Café anticipate the soon disappointing arrival of Theodore "Hickey" Hickman?

• The Iceman Cometh

• Our Town

• A Raisin in the Sun

• The Crucible