Memorize these and you could recognize 23.5% of all Plays clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eugene O'Neill | 6 | He won 3 times in the 1920s for "Beyond the Horizon", "Anna Christie" & "Strange Interlude" |
| 2 | Our Town | 4 | E.L. Masters' "Spoon River Anthology" is cited in this Thornton Wilder play in which the dead also talk |
| 3 | Death of a Salesman | 3 | 1949 Pulitzer Prize play in which the title character commits suicide for the insurance money |
| 4 | Volpone | 2 | This Ben Jonson play is subtitled "The Fox" |
| 5 | Thornton Wilder | 2 | His offbeat play "The Skin of our Teeth" features a talking baby dinosaur |
| 6 | The Seagull | 2 | In Act II of this Chekhov play, Treplev enters carrying a dead bird |
| 7 | The Odd Couple | 2 | It closes with "Then let's play poker--and watch your cigarettes, will you? This is my house, not a pig sty." |
| 8 | The Elephant Man | 2 | Actors who play John Merrick in this drama are advised to see a doctor before contorting themselves |
| 9 | The Diary Of Anne Frank | 2 | Based on a nonfiction work, this play set in the Netherlands won a 1956 Pulitzer Prize |
| 10 | Tennessee Williams | 2 | He rewrote his 1st full-length play "Battle of Angels" & called it "Orpheus Descending" |
| 11 | Sunrise at Campobello | 2 | This play about FDR opens in the living room of his Canadian home |
| 12 | Pygmalion | 2 | The preface to this 1913 play was entitled "A Professor of Phonetics" |
| 13 | Peter Pan | 2 | Play that asks the audience, "Do you believe in fairies? If you believe, clap your hands" |
| 14 | Neil Simon | 2 | "Visitor from Mamaroneck" is the title of the first act of his "Plaza Suite" |
| 15 | Inherit the Wind | 2 | This drama inspired by the Scopes trial is set "in and around the Hillsboro Courthouse" |
| 16 | Edward Albee | 2 | He won prizes for "Seascape" & "A Delicate Balance", but not for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" |
| 17 | David Mamet | 2 | He won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his play "Glengarry Glen Ross" |
| 18 | Arsenic and Old Lace | 2 | The Baltimore Sun called this 1941 comedy "the funniest play about murder ever written" |
| 19 | Anne Frank | 2 | The play based on her diary won the Pulitzer in 1956 |
| 20 | "A Streetcar Named Desire" | 2 | The original cast of this prizewinner included Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter & Marlon Brando |
| 21 | The Man Who Came to Dinner | 2 | Kaufman & Hart play dedicated to Alexander Woollcott "for reasons that are nobody's business" |
| 22 | The Crucible | 2 | Written in 1953 & set in the late 17th c., this play takes place about 16 miles northeast of where we are right now |
| 23 | Harold Pinter | 2 | It's Teddy who comes home in this playwright's "The Homecoming" |