Theater
| Date | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1848 | Philadelphia in 1848 | Text of play no longer exists. |
| 1939 | Philadelphia Story | Play written by Philip Barry and later adapted into a film. |
| 1969 | 1776 | Broadway musical, later adapted into a film. |
| 1980 | Zooman and the Sign | Off Broadway play written by Charles Fuller, first performed by the Negro Ensemble Company. |
| 2004 | Love on Lay-Away | Play written by David E. Talbert. |
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Famous quotes containing the word theater:
“...I have never known a “movement” in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various “uplifting” activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.”
—Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865–1932)
“We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd.... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)