Poject #1

Murderers
by Jeffrey Hatcher (2009)
"Murderers also plays with the conventions of the mystery genre."
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/philly/phil38.html
"an evening of three monologues —performance pieces rather than a play" (it is not a real genre lable, but I find it fasinating that she makes this distiction.)
http://www.curtainup.com/murderers.html

The Seafarer
by Conor McPherson (2009)
"Drama"
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=3957
"Christmas fable" (as if Christmas charol has created a new genre)
http://theater.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/theater/reviews/07seaf.html

Evie's Waltz
by Carter W. Lewis (2010)
"Evie's Waltz is simply a summer night's melodramatic entertainment."
http://talkingbroadway.org/regional/nj/nj367.html
"A thriller that examines teeenage violence"
http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/nyregion/28theatnj.html

The Mystery of Irma Vep:
A Penny Dreadful
by Charles Ludlam (2010)
"The Mystery of Irma Vep is a hilarious adventure mystery and door-slamming farce that is part horror movie, part melodrama, part Grand-Guignol, and part drag show"
http://chicagocritic.com/the-mystery-of-irma-vep/
"Irma is awash in bits and pieces parody, vaudeville, farce, melodrama and satire"
http://www.curtainup.com/irmavep.html

Escabana in Love
by Jeff Daniels (2008)
"Show Type: Comedy"
http://www.theatreinchicago.com/playdetail.php?playID=2781
"A terrific warm comedy you will love"
http://www.lakesuperiortheatre.com/escanaba_in_love.htm

A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare (2008)
"Comedy, Pastoral"
http://www.shmoop.com/midsummer-nights-dream/genre.html
"classified as a romance"
http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/shakespeare/mnd1.html

Hamlet
By William Shakespere
"looking at Hamlet as a failed revenge drama can be extremely enlightening"
http://shakespeare-tragedies.suite101.com/article.cfm/hamlet_as_failed_revenge_drama
"Tragedy, Revenge Tragedy"
http://www.shmoop.com/hamlet/genre.html

Almost, Maine
by John Cariani (2009)
"Romantic Comedy"
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=3759
"delightful romantic comedy"
http://www.colonytheatre.org/news/PRAlmostMaine.html

The Clean House
by Sarah Ruhl (2009)
"An intellectual comedy, The Clean House builds itself around a concept: cleaning."
http://seattlest.com/2007/04/17/sarah_ruhls_the_clean_house_act_theatre.php
"Comedy"
http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/6580

Blackbird
by David Harrower (2009)
" It's an intense psychodrama that won't let your mind wander even though there are times this story makes you wish you could switch channels."
http://www.curtainup.com/blackbirdny.html
"a taut two-character drama about an illicit affair between a young woman and an older man"
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/theater/09black.html
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Medea
Euripides (2007)
"Like most melodramas, it is virtually devoid of philosophical depth or moral insight"
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/07/arts/review-dance-a-fast-paced-medea-from-michael-smuin.html?pagewanted=1
"Gripping Greek tragedy"
http://www.samuelfrench.com/store/product_info.php/products_id/1696

Much ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare (2007)
"better known comedies"
http://www.reelviews.net/movies/m/much_ado.html
"a Shakespearean romantic comedy"
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F0CE7DD133DF934A35756C0A965958260

Summer and Smoke
Tennessee Williams (2009)
"Drama"
http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1805
"As drama, it’s all foreplay going nowhere"
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/ArticleDisplayGenContent.aspx?e=3233

Persians
Aeschylus (2009)
“its history lesson about power and its misuse is also the stuff of high drama’
http://www.curtainup.com/persians.html
"Even by the relatively static standards of Greek tragedy “The Persians” is stubbornly action-free."
http://theater.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/theater/reviews/18pers.html

Men in White
Sidney Kingsley (2010)
“The drama focuses on the personal sacrifices required by the medical profession.”
http://www.enotes.com/men-white
“Drama”
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsK/kingsley-sidney.html

O Pioneers!
Darrah Cloud (2010)
"bittersweet romance"
http://www.playdatabase.com/play.asp?play=829A4587-BA88-4A5C-AE61-02A5B4EEACC1
"Musical"
http://www.talkinbroadway.com/ob/5_3_01.html