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1	Death of a Salesman	9	Willy Loman's last name in this Arthur Miller play describes his status in life
2	Our Town	6	Grover's Corners, New Hampshire from 1901 to 1913: This drama
3	Eugene O'Neill	6	In a play by this man, Brutus Jones, a former Pullman porter, is emperor of a small island
4	The Iceman Cometh	5	Patrons at Harry Hope's saloon eagerly awaiteth Theodore "Hickey" Hickman's arrival in this O'Neill play
5	Tennessee Williams	5	The town of Glorious Hill, Mississippi is the setting for his play "Summer and Smoke"
6	Willy Loman	4	On Feb. 10, 1949 Lee J. Cobb originated this "Death of a Salesman" role on Broadway
7	The Odd Couple	4	Oscar Madison & Felix Unger
8	The Miracle Worker	4	The Kellers' home in Tuscumbia, Alabama: This drama
9	Inherit the Wind	4	This 1955 drama: In & around the Hillsboro Courthouse in July
10	Eliza Doolittle	4	This woman wished to be taken to "Bucknam Pellis... don't you know where it is? In the Green Park, where the king lives"
11	Cyrano de Bergerac	4	Roxane & Christian
12	Henry Higgins	4	In "Pygmalion" this professor of phonetics has his laboratory on Wimpole Street
13	Driving Miss Daisy	4	Plays about driving include Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive" & this Alfred Uhry work
14	A Streetcar Named Desire	4	Kim Hunter was Stellllla! on stage in this play in 1947 & on screen 4 years later
15	Waiting for Godot	3	At the end of this play, Vladimir asks, "Well? Shall we go?" Estragon: "Yes, let's go." ("They do not move")
16	The Elephant Man	3	Bradley Cooper used no makeup or prosthetics in the role of John Merrick in a Broadway revival of this play
17	The Diary of Anne Frank	3	This play has 1 setting: "the top floor of a warehouse and office building in Amsterdam
18	The Cherry Orchard	3	This Chekhov play: Madame Ranevsky's estate in the full bloom of May
19	Pygmalion	3	First staged in 1913, this play was the basis for "My Fair Lady"
20	Peter Pan	3	"Peter and Wendy" was J.M. Barrie's retelling of this play in book form
21	Neil Simon	3	His "Brighton Beach Memoirs" & "Biloxi Blues" are autobiographical
22	Joan of Arc	3	In Schiller's play "the Maid of Orleans", she dies on the battlefield not at the stake
23	Harvey	3	In this play Veta Simmons tries to get her brother Elwood P. Dowd committed to a sanitorium
24	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	3	Brick & Maggie Pollitt
25	Harold Pinter	3	It's Teddy who comes home in this playwright's "The Homecoming"
26	Witchcraft	2	In Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" Abigail Williams accuses Elizabeth Proctor of this crime
27	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	2	George & Martha & Nick & Honey
28	Volpone	2	In a Ben Jonson play Voltore ("vulture") hopes to inherit the fortune of this title character whose name means "fox"
29	Thornton Wilder	2	Matthew Burnett turned this "Our Town" playwright's novel "Theophilus North" into a play that premiered in 2003
30	The Tempest	2	In 1995 Patrick Stewart played Prospero in a New York Shakespeare Festival production of this play
31	The Seagull	2	This title bird in a Chekhov play symbolizes the restless Nina
32	The Matchmaker	2	The musical "Hello, Dolly!" was based on this play by Thornton Wilder
33	The Importance of Being Earnest	2	Lady Bracknell & Algernon Moncrieff
34	The Glass Menagerie	2	Amanda, Tom & the fragile Laura Wingfield are all characters in this Tennessee Williams play
35	The Front Page	2	In 1928 writers Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur made big news with this play
36	Sweeney Todd	2	He's "The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
37	Sunrise at Campobello	2	Former MGM production chief Dore Schary wrote this play about FDR's bout with polio
38	Sherlock Holmes	2	The first dramatic portrayal of this private eye was in an 1899 play that angered purists by giving him a love interest
39	Othello	2	James Earl Jones has played this noble Moor in several productions
40	New Orleans	2	"A Streetcar Named Desire": spring, summer & early fall in this city
41	Mother Courage	2	In Bertolt Brecht's play, Anna Fierling is better known by this "maternal" nickname
42	Mister Roberts	2	Mad at his captain, this title Navy lieutenant dumps the captain's favorite potted plant overboard
43	M. Butterfly	2	In this David Henry Hwang drama a French diplomat has a love affair with an opera diva who turns out to be a he
44	London	2	This city is the setting for Harold Pinter's plays "The Caretaker" & "The Homecoming"
45	Judy Garland	2	"Evita"'s "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" was inspired by a 1969 concert of hers in London; she left the stage after 15 minutes
46	Hedda Gabler	2	The title character of this play was inspired in part by Emilie Bardach, a young woman Henrik Ibsen was infatuated with late in life
47	Gigi	2	This Colette novel about a 16-year-old girl was adapted into a play by Anita Loos
48	George Bernard Shaw	2	The play "Mrs. Warren's Profession" by this Irishman was considered so scandalous it was banned for years
49	Edward Albee	2	A very short-run play in 1963, written by D. Starkweather, was titled "So Who's Afraid of" this playwright
50	Dublin	2	Sean O' Casey's "Juno & The Paycock" takes place in a tenement house in this capital city

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Death of a Salesman 9x $388 avg J:4 DJ:4 FJ:1

J $100 1991 Lee J. Cobb was the first to star as Willy Loman in a production of this play

DJ $600 2001 After years on the road, a man realizes he's a failure as a vendor, father & husband in this drama

FJ 1990 1949 Pulitzer Prize play in which the title character commits suicide for the insurance money

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Our Town 6x $600 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1994 This play revolves around the Webb & Gibbs families of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire

J $800 2024 A lack of props didn't stop this Thornton Wilder play from getting its props—the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

DJ $1,600 2014 "Wait! One more look. Good-by, good-by world! Good-by, Grover's Corners"

Eugene O'Neill 6x $600 avg DJ:6

DJ $200 1994 His "Long Day's Journey into Night" is 3 acts longer than his "The Long Voyage Home"

DJ $600 1992 He won 3 times in the 1920s for "Beyond the Horizon", "Anna Christie" & "Strange Interlude"

DJ $1,000 1989 George M. Cohan starred in this playwright's only comedy, "Ah, Wilderness!"

The Iceman Cometh 5x 20.0% stumper $780 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $500 2000 The characters in this O'Neill play aren't waiting for Godot, they're waiting for Hickey

J $1,000 2009 A seedy NYC hotel-saloon & the pipe dreams of its inhabitants are elements of this "cool" 1946 Eugene O'Neill play

J $800 2021 James Earl Jones & Jason Robards have both played Hickey in this chilly play by Eugene O'Neill

Tennessee Williams 5x 40.0% stumper $700 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $300 1991 His first major play, "Battle of Angels", was later rewritten as "Orpheus Descending"

DJ $800 1992 The town of Glorious Hill, Mississippi is the setting for his play "Summer and Smoke"

DJ $1,600 2017 Italian actress Anna Magnani inspired him to write "The Rose Tattoo"

Willy Loman 4x $533 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $200 2021 "Death of a Salesman" takes place during the last few days of his life

DJ $600 1988 Arthur Miller character who has a wife named Linda & sons name Biff & Happy

FJ 2022 A 1949 review noted the "wrong formulas for success" of this character & "fatal misconceptions about his place in the scheme of things"

The Odd Couple 4x $800 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $200 1996 Oscar Madison & Felix Ungar are the title pair in this comedy

DJ $2,000 DD 2022 Its last line is from Oscar: "And watch your cigarettes, will you? This is my house, not a pig sty"

FJ 1990 It closes with "Then let's play poker—and watch your cigarettes, will you? This is my house, not a pig sty."

The Miracle Worker 4x 25.0% stumper $1,950 avg DJ:4

DJ $200 1992 At the beginning of this play, "It is night over the Keller homestead"

DJ $600 1995 "Monday After the Miracle" was a sequel, set 17 years later, to this play about Helen Keller

DJ $2,000 DD 2014 From Act I of this play: "She can't see!... Or hear. When I screamed she didn't blind; not an eyelash"

Inherit the Wind 4x $1,150 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $400 1992 This drama inspired by the Scopes trial is set "in and around the Hillsboro Courthouse"

DJ $600 1994 In this Lawrence & Lee drama, Bertram Cates is tried for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution

DJ $1,600 2010 This 1955 play was based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925

Eliza Doolittle 4x $667 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $400 2021 In a play by Shaw, Henry Higgins attempts to refine the speech of this cockney flower seller

DJ $1,200 2002 This Cockney flower girl takes elocution lessons from Professor Henry Higgins

FJ 2009 This woman wished to be taken to "Bucknam Pellis... don't you know where it is? In the Green Park, where the king lives"

Cyrano de Bergerac 4x $533 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $200 1995 In a Rostand play, his enormous nose makes him reluctant to declare his love for Roxane

J $1,000 2021 This title character helps fellow soldier Christian de Neuvillette with his love letters

FJ 2020 This title character says, "Who find my visage's center ornament a thing to jest at—it is my wont... to let him taste my steel"

Henry Higgins 4x $533 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

DJ $400 2003 This Shaw character is a professor of phonetics

J $800 2021 In "Pygmalion" this professor of phonetics has his laboratory on Wimpole Street

FJ 2006 He is based partly on a philologist who wrote "A History of English Sounds" & "A Handbook of Phonetics"

Driving Miss Daisy 4x $400 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2014 "Hoke, what I'm looking for is somebody to drive my mother around"

DJ $400 2010 Plays about driving include Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive" & this Alfred Uhry work

DJ $400 1992 The 1988 prize went to this Alfred Uhry play about a feisty old woman & her chauffeur

A Streetcar Named Desire 4x $600 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $400 2017 From 1947: "A street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields & runs between the L & N tracks & the river"

DJ $800 1989 Shortly after the curtain rises in this modern classic, Stanley tells Stella he's going bowling

J $400 2024 Kim Hunter was Stellllla! on stage in this play in 1947 & on screen 4 years later

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Waiting for Godot 3 The Elephant Man 3 The Diary of Anne Frank 3 The Cherry Orchard 3 Pygmalion 3 Peter Pan 3 Neil Simon 3 Joan of Arc 3 Harvey 3 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 3 Harold Pinter 3 Witchcraft 2 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 2 Volpone 2 Thornton Wilder 2 The Tempest 2 The Seagull 2 The Matchmaker 2 The Importance of Being Earnest 2 The Glass Menagerie 2 The Front Page 2 Sweeney Todd 2 Sunrise at Campobello 2 Sherlock Holmes 2 Othello 2 New Orleans 2 Mother Courage 2 Mister Roberts 2 M. Butterfly 2 London 2 Judy Garland 2 Hedda Gabler 2 Gigi 2 George Bernard Shaw 2 Edward Albee 2 Dublin 2 David Mamet 2 Clifford Odets 2 Chekhov 2 Blanche DuBois 2 Big Daddy 2 Barefoot in the Park 2 August Wilson 2 Arsenic and Old Lace 2 Anne Frank 2 A Man For All Seasons 2 A Doll's House 2 "A Streetcar Named Desire" 2 The Man Who Came to Dinner 2 The Crucible 2 Ibsen 2