Celebrating 150 Playscripts
In November 1985, American Theatre magazine's second year of existence, Emily Mann's Execution of Justice appeared in its pages. It was the first full play text the magazine had published. In our April 2013 issue, Will Eno's The Realistic Joneses made a round 150. So, you could say the idea stuck (see the full list below).
To celebrate this milestone, we've launched the podcast series AT OffScript, in which we'll revisit many of these plays with their authors. Check out the first four episodes, featuring Young Jean Lee, Richard Foreman, David Lindsay-Abaire and Donald Margulies. Coming soon: Melissa James Gibson and Nicky Silver. Click on the titles linked in orange to listen to these new interviews, read previously published Q&As with the playwrights and more. To order plays that have appeared in back issues of American Theatre, contact Customer Service at 212-609-5900 or click here. (Supplies are limited.)
Find plays by playwright:
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Johnna Adams
Gidion's Knot; December 2012
David Adjmi
Stunning; September 2008
Edward Albee
Three Tall Women; September 1994
Edward Albee's Me, Myself & I ; December 2010Luis Alfaro
Electricidad: A Chicano Take on the Tragedy of Electra; February 2006
Woody Allen
Central Park West; July 1995
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Jon Robin Baitz
Three Hotels; September 1993
Annie Baker
The Aliens; July/August 2010
Tanya Barfield
Blue Door; December 2006
Neil Bartlett, Translator
Moliere's The Misanthrope; July 1990
John Belluso
Pyretown; April 2004
Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen
Aftermath; April 2010
Lee Blessing
A Body of Water; July/August 2006
Eric Bogosian
Talk Radio; November 1987
Thomas Bradshaw
The Ashes; December 2011
Laurie Brooks
The Wrestling Season; November 2000
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Sheila Callaghan
That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play; April 2009
Julia Cho
BFE; September 2005
Ping Chong
Truth & Beauty; March 2001
Anthony Clarvoe
The Living; December 1993
Pearl Cleage
Blues for an Alabama Sky; July 1996
Constance Congdon
Tales of the Lost Formicans; May 1989
Kia Corthron
Breath, Boom; November 2001 (out of print)
Culture Clash
Chavez Ravine; November 2003
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Lisa D'Amour
Detroit; February 2011
Don DeLillo
The Day Room; September 1986 (out of print)
Steven Dietz
Lonely Planet; December 1995
Rita Dove
The Darker Face of the Earth; November 1996
Steven Drukman
The Prince of Atlantis; July/August 2012
Christopher Durang
Betty's Summer Vacation; December 1999
The Marriage of Bette and Boo; March 1986
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Rinde Eckert
Highway Ulysses; September 2003
Elizabeth Egloff
The Swan; January 1992
Yussef El Guindi
Pligrims Musa and Sheri in the New World ; September 2012
Will Eno
The Realistic Joneses; April 2013
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David Feldshuh
Miss Evers' Boys; November 1990
Horton Foote
The Young Man from Atlanta; September 1995
Richard Foreman
The Gods Are Pounding My Head! (AKA Lumberjack Messiah); April 2005
Maria Irene Fornes
Abingdon Square; February 1988 (out of print)
Athol Fugard
Playland; March 1993 (out of print)
The Train Driver; September 2010 - G
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Mary Gallagher
De Donde?; November 1989
Melissa James Gibson
Brooklyn Bridge; July/August 2005
This; February 2010 Janusz Glowacki
Hunting Cockroaches; May 1987 (out of print)
Philip Kan Gotanda
Ballad of Yachiyo; February 1996
Richard Greenberg
Three Days of Rain; March 1998
Stuart Greenman
Silence, Cunning, Exile; January 1994
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Our Lady of 121st Street; February 2003
Bob Glaudini
Jack Goes Boating; July/August 2007
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Noah Haidle
Mr. Marmalade; February 2005
Jerome Hairston
A.M. Sunday; July 2002
Vaclav Havel
Temptation; March 1990
Amy Herzog
4000 Miles; April 2012
David Hirson
La Bete; June 1991 (out of print)
Danny Hoch
Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop; July 1998
Quiara Alegria Hudes
26 Miles; July/August 2009
Samuel D. Hunter
The Wahle; February 2013
David Henry Hwang
M. Butterfly; July 1988 (out of print)
Yellow Face; April 2008
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Naomi Iizuka
36 Views; February 2002
Anon(ymous); February 2007David Ives
All in the Timing; July 1994
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Rolin Jones
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow; September 2006
Rajiv Joseph
Gruesome Playground Injuries; April 2011
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Stephen Karam
Sons of the Prophet; February 2012
Moisés Kaufman
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde; November 1997
Kevin Kling
Lloyd's Prayer; November 1988
Harry Kondoleon
Zero Positive; September 1988
Arthur Kopit
Road to Nirvana; March 1991
Howard Korder
Search and Destroy; June 1990
Tony Kushner
Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches (section 1); June 1992
Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches (section 2); July 1992 (out of print)
Corneille's The Illusion adapted by Tony Kushner; January 1991Christopher Kyle
The Monogamist; March 1996
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Larry Larson and Levi Lee
The Illuminati; May 1988
Warren Leight
Side Man; December 1998
Tracy Letts
Man from Nebraska; September 2004
David Lindsay-Abaire
Fuddy Meers; July 2000
Romulus Linney and Eleanor Cooney
Over Martinis, Driving Somewhere; September 2011
William Bryant Logan and Angel Gil Orrios, Translators
Federico Garcia Lorca's Once Five Years Pass; December 1986
Lisa Loomer
The Waiting Room; December 1994
Craig Lucas
Reckless; January 1989
Young Jean Lee
Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven; September 2007
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Eduardo Machado, Translator
Jose Cabrujas's The Day You'll Love Me; September 1989
Javier Malpica, translated by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
Our Dad Is in Atlantis; July/August 2008
David Mamet, Translator
Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters; July 1991 (out of print)
Emily Mann
Execution of Justice; November 1985
Ruth Margraff
Red Frogs; November 2002
Donald Margulies
Last Tuesday; July/August 2003
Sight Unseen; November 1992Steve Martin
Picasso at the Lapin Agile; November 1994 (out of print)
Mustapha Matura
The Coup; February 1993
Richard Maxwell
People Without History; Sept 2009
Tarell Alvin McCraney
In the Red and Brown Water; March 2008
Heather McDonald
An Almost Holy Picture; February 2000
Ellen McLaughlin
Tongue of a Bird; March 1999 (out of print)
Scott McPherson
Marvin's Room; March 1992
Charles L. Mee
bobrauschenbergamerica; September 2001 (out of print)
Stephen Metcalfe
The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers; January 1986
Marlane Meyer
The Chemistry of Change; September 1998
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Phyllis Nagy
The Scarlet Letter; February 1995
Richard Nelson
James Joyce's The Dead; September 2000 (with lyrics by Nelson and Shaun Davey)
Principia Scriptoriae; July 1986Lynn Nottage
Las Meninas; July 2001 (out of print)
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Robert O'Hara
Insurrection: Holding History; February 1998
Han Ong
Middle Finger; February 2001
Dael Orlandersmith
The Gimmick; September 1999
OyamO
I am a Man; November 1993
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Suzan-Lori Parks
The America Play; March 1994
In The Blood; March 2000Sybille Pearson
Unfinished Stories; January 1993
Reynolds Price
August Snow; January 1990
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David Rabe
A Question of Mercy; July 1997 (out of print)
Adam Rapp
Stone Cold Dead Serious; February 2004
John Henry Redwood
The Old Settler; February 1999
Ronald Ribman
Sweet Table at the Richelieu; July 1987
José Rivera
Maricela de la Cruz Lights the World; December 1996
Marisol; July 1993Paul Rudnick
I Hate Hamlet; November 1991
Sarah Ruhl
The Clean House; November 2004
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Louis Sachar
Holes; April 2002
Milcha Sanchez-Scott
Roosters; September 1987
Tanya Saracho
El Nogalar; July/August 2011
Sam Shepard
Buried Child; September 1996 (out of print)
Christopher Shinn
Where Do We Live; September 2002
Nicky Silver
Pterodactyls; February 1994
Octavio Solis
Santos & Santos; November 1995
Lydia; December 2008Diana Son
Stop Kiss; July 1999
Biljana Srbljanovic
Family Stories; April 2003
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Lloyd Suh
American Hwangap; Decemeber 2010
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Steve Tesich
The Speed of Darkness; July 1989 (out of print)
Lucy Thurber
Scarcity; December 2007
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Paula Vogel
The Baltimore Waltz; September 1991
The Mineola Twins; February 1997
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Stephen Wadsworth, Adaptor
Marivaux's The Triumph of Love; December 1992
Naomi Wallace
In the Heart of America; March 1995
The Retreating World; July/August 2003 Wendy Wasserstein
An American Daughter; September 1997
Third; April 2006Michael Weller
Spoils of War; March 1989
Thornton Wilder
Rivers Under the Earth; March 1997
August Wilson
Radio Golf; November 2005
Lanford Wilson
Lemon Sky; May 1986
Tracey Scott Wilson
The Story; July/August 2004
George C. Wolfe
The Colored Museum; February 1987 (out of print)
Spunk; September 1990
Anne Washburn
The Internationalist; April 2007