Greek/Roman Mythology
Stephen Sondheim’s first Broadway musical for which he wrote the music and the lyrics was based on Plautus’ farces and was called A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to this Roman public square.
What is The Forum
Hamlet was used in part as the basis for a Disney animated feature which became this Broadway musical.
What is The Lion King?
Hamilton: An American Musical, by Lin-Manuel Miranda, depicts the life and death of Alexander Hamilton who dies in a duel with this US Vice President.
Who is Aaron Burr?
A character in High School Musical says, “A dream deferred and all that,” referring to Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem”; this play by Lorraine Hansberry takes its title from the same poem.
What is A Raisin in the Sun?
Robert E. Sherwood’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Abe Lincoln in (Blank) takes place in this state.
Where is Illinois?
Romeo and Juliet is based on this tragic Greek love story which is also humorously performed by the Rustics in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, both by William Shakespeare.
Who are Pyramus and Thisbe
The musical West Side Story is based on this Shakespeare play.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
The Crucible by Arthur Miller addresses the theme of guilt by accusation in the Salem Witch Trials and by allegory condemns hearings held by this congressional committee.
What is The House Un-American Activities Committee or McCarthy Trials?
Albert Einstein meets this title character, a Spanish painter, at a bar in Paris called the Lapin Agile, in a comedy by Steve Martin.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
In Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus, the composer Salieri drives this Austrian composer to his death.
Who is Mozart?
Eurydice, a play by Sarah Ruhl, is based on this mythological love story where Eurydice’s husband descends into Hades to retrieve her.
Who are Orpheus and Eurydice?
Tom Stoppard borrows characters from this Shakespeare play for his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
What is Hamlet?
Eight of Shakespeare’s English history plays cover this civil war between the House of Lancaster and the House of York.
What is The War of the Roses?
Pointillism is the subject of Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize winning musical, Sunday in the Park with this painter.
Who is George Surat?
Belle of Amherst by William Luce is a one-woman play about this nineteenth century New England poet, the most significant female poet of the Romantic era.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
The Gospel of Colonus is an African-American musical version of the second play by Sophocles about this Greek king who killed his father and married his mother.
Who is Oedipus?
Return to the Forbidden Planet is a jukebox musical, based on this Shakespeare play and the 1956 science fiction film Forbidden Planet which is also loosely based on the play.
The Pacific Theatre in this war is the backdrop for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical South Pacific.
What is World War II?
Art by Yasmina Reza focuses on the fracturing of a friendship over what constitutes art, when one of them buys a painting that is completely this color.
What is White?
This play is based on The Diary of a Young Girl, in which a Jewish girl chronicles her and her family’s two years spent in hiding from the Nazis in the Netherlands.
What is the Diary of Anne Frank?
Eugene O’Neill wrote a collection of plays called Mourning Becomes Electra based on a classic Greek trilogy about this king.
Who is King Agamemnon?
Because Tom writes poems on shoeboxes at work, his coworkers call him Shakespeare in this classic American play by Tennessee Williams.
What is The Glass Menagerie?
Playwrights who have depicted events from the life of this famous French saint include George Bernard Shaw, Maxwell Anderson, Jean Anouilh, Bertolt Brecht, and William Shakespeare.
The musical My Fair Lady is based on Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw which, in turn, is based on the Greek myth about this type of artist who falls in love with his work of art.
What is a Sculptor?
Sunrise at Campobello, by Dore Schary, chronicles this wheelchair-bound 32nd US president’s struggle with polio.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?