can anybody give me a modern play written after 1956
2007-09-03 21:59:58 · 5 answers · asked by jessyyyy 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
english play
2007-09-03 22:13:24 · update #1
Okay Ms "I don't know how to find an award winning play since 1956" Here are the Tony Award winning plays since 1956 and some nominated plays as well. All are new plays at the time. I haven't included 1956 because they were introduced in 1955 in most cases. These are the years they were nominated or won.
1957
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Separate Tables
The Potting Shed
The Waltz of the Toreadors
1958
Sunrise at Campobello
The Rope Dancers
Two For The Seesaw
Time Remembered
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Look Back in Anger
Look Homeward, Angel
Romanoff and Juliet
1959
J.B.
A Touch of the Poet
Epitaph for George Dillon
The Disenchanted
The Visit
1960
The Miracle Worker
A Raisin in the Sun
The Best Man
The Tenth Man
Toys in the Attic
1961
Becket
All the Way Home
The Devil's Advocate
The Hostage
1962
A Man for All Seasons
Gideon
The Caretaker
The Night of the Iguana
1963
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A Thousand Clowns
Mother Courage and Her Children
Tchin-Tchin
1964
Luther
The Ballad of the Sad Café
Barefoot in the Park
Dylan
1965
The Subject Was Roses
Luv
The Odd Couple
Tiny Alice
1966
Marat/Sade
Inadmissible Evidence
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
The Right Honourable Gentleman
1967
The Homecoming
A Delicate Balance
Black Comedy
The Killing of Sister George
1968
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Plaza Suite
The Price
1969
The Great White Hope
Hadrian VII
Lovers
The Man in the Glass Booth
1970
Borstal Boy
Child's Play
Indians
The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1971
Sleuth
Home
The Philanthropist
Story Theatre
1972
Sticks and Bones
Old Times
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Vivat! Vivat Regina!
1973
That Championship Season
Butley
The Changing Room
The Sunshine Boys
1974
The River Niger
In the Boom Boom Room
The Au Pair Man
Ulysses in Nighttown
1975
Equus
Same Time, Next Year
Seascape
Short Eyes
Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island
The National Health
1976
Travesties
The First Breeze of Summer
Knock Knock
Lamppost Reunion
1977
The Shadow Box
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Otherwise Engaged
Streamers
1978
Da
Chapter Two
Deathtrap
The Gin Game
1979
The Elephant Man
Bedroom Farce
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Wings
1980
Children of a Lesser God
Bent
Home
Talley's Folly
1981
Amadeus
A Lesson From Aloes
A Life
Fifth of July
1982
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Crimes of the Heart
The Dresser
Master Harold...and the Boys
1983
Torch Song Trilogy
Angels Fall
Night, Mother
Plenty
1984
The Real Thing
Glengarry Glen Ross
Noises Off
Play Memory
1985
Biloxi Blues
As Is
Hurlyburly
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
1986
I'm Not Rappaport
Benefactors
Blood Knot
The House of Blue Leaves
1987
Fences (play)
Broadway Bound
Coastal Disturbances
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
1988
M. Butterfly
A Walk in the Woods
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Speed-the-Plow
1989
The Heidi Chronicles
Largely New York
Lend Me a Tenor
Shirley Valentine
1990
The Grapes of Wrath
Lettice and Lovage
Prelude to a Kiss
The Piano Lesson
1991
Lost in Yonkers
Our Country's Good
Shadowlands
Six Degrees of Separation
1992
Dancing at Lughnasa
Four Baboons Adoring the Sun
Two Shakespearean Actors
Two Trains Running
1993
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
The Sisters Rosensweig
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me
The Song of Jacob Zulu
1994
Angels in America: Perestroika
Broken Glass
The Kentucky Cycle
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
1995
Love! Valour! Compassion!
Arcadia
Having Our Say
Indiscretions
1996
Master Class
Buried Child
Racing Demon
Seven Guitars
1997
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Skylight
Stanley
The Young Man From Atlanta
1998
'Art'
Freak
Golden Child
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
1999
Side Man
Closer
The Lonesome West
Not about Nightingales
2000
Copenhagen
Dirty Blonde
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
True West
2001
Proof
The Invention of Love
King Hedley II
The Tale of the Allergist's Wife
2002
Edward Albee's The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia?
Fortune's Fool
Metamorphoses
Topdog/Underdog
2003
Take Me Out
Enchanted April
Say Goodnight, Gracie
Vincent in Brixton
2004
I Am My Own Wife
Anna in the Tropics
Frozen
The Retreat from Moscow
2005
Doubt
Democracy
Gem of the Ocean
The Pillowman
2006
The History Boys
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Rabbit Hole
Shining City
2007
The Coast of Utopia
Frost/Nixon
The Little Dog Laughed
Radio Golf
2007-09-03 22:54:10 · answer #1 · answered by David Y 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ummm,
why didn't you just do the research?
do you know how many plays have been written since 1956???
it's not that hard to find, google it...
2007-09-03 22:04:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is this play called Doubt. Check it out it's kind of a touchy subject to most people.
2007-09-03 22:06:52 · answer #3 · answered by falconwolfzero 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure! Umm.........Whiskey by Terrence McNalley
You are kidding, right? There have been thousands.
2007-09-06 19:06:34 · answer #4 · answered by d_cider1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, in which language and on what topic ?
2007-09-03 22:08:28 · answer #5 · answered by Rana 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋