What is your favorite play and why?

Answer 1

Waiting For Godot, by Samuel Beckett.

More than any other play I know, it directly addresses the fundamental dilemma of modern time - Why are we here? and Does it even matter? It does so in such a way that it is thought provoking, disturbing, moving, and wickedly funny.

Answer 2

HOW CAN I PICK A FAVORITE?!?!?
Well, my favorite play has got to be Shakespeare's Macbeth. The symbolism, the characters and the plot are all just fantastic. The visual you get from reading it and the thrill from seeing is make is amazing.
My favorite musical of all time is The Phantom of the Opera. I love the story and the music is just phenomanal.
But I also love RENT, and The Wedding Singer, Ragtime (I'm doing it - it's really intense!) and a million others.

Answer 3

Charley's Aunt By Brandon Thomas.

It's comical, has lasted through the years and many great actors have performed the role like Ray Bolger, Jack Benny, Art Carney,
Jose Ferrer, Roddy McDowell and Michael Keaton.

I have a Charley's Aunt costume that I wear to costume partieswhen I feel like being less serious and have a good time.

I also have created 5 additional "Aunt" characters in another outfit that I use to bring cheer to parties and benefits.

They are know as The Fabulous Aunties and all developed from the play know as Charley's Aunt

Answer 4

I love The Glass Menagerie by Tennesse Williams. I just saw an amazing production of it at the Berkeley Rep in CA.

I also am a huge fan of Julie Taymor's Opepus Rex. It was an opera not really a play but it was fantastic. George Tsypin is a fantastic designer. His West Side Story was AMAZING also!

Look him up!

Answer 5

Oedipus the King by Sophocles. Not only did Aristotle use it as an example of a perfect play, but it depicts the pathos of mankind at such a depth as to be almost unimaginable in its wonder as well as horror. An audience (or the reader) is carefully stripped of all human illusions simply by becoming part of the story.
I find his plays truly cathartic in nature, much like the plays he inspired by many later writers, including the wonderful Eugene O'Neill, who was no slouch at either plays or the resurrection of Greek Tragedy.

Answer 6

The Importance of Being Earnest
because it's my favorite Oscar Wilde play.

Answer 7

I love...
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - it explains itself

Lion King - it was the first "real" and live production I saw. It was at the Fox theater in St. Louis

Wizard of Oz - it's a classic!

West Side Story - The Choreography is amazing

Annie - How can you not like this one?

Annie Jr. - I was Miss Grace Ferrel in it at our school in the 5th Grade!

I couldn't say I have one favorite play.

Answer 8

"Proof" by David Auburn. It's alternatively laugh-out-loud funny and then cry-out-loud sad. I played Catherine in a local production and there was just something so wonderful about performing such wonderful writing. The last line of the second act would make the audience audibly gasp, which was always a great feeling. I love everything about it.

Answer 9

Camelot is my favorite all time play. I love the Arthurian legend and think the storytelling is just fantastic (and the music, too). I also love The King and I, especially the dance scene from the movie with Yul Brenner.

Answer 10

Anne Frank's Diary.Even though it wasn't written as a play,it's been done as such,and nothing can ever make me cry the way it does,I guess it's because it's all true,so recent in history,and so sad!.It can make you think about all the things one takes for granted,and about how easy it is to destroy life and about how we neglect what we can't see (in the sense that, atrocities may be commited on the other side of the world,yet we are oblivious to all of it)