Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival

[Jordan Catalano]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#1

Posted: 8/14/13 at 11:31pm

I love that there's another production of THE GLASS MENAGERIE opening and that we had another production of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF and that there will be something like three productions of MACBETH this year. But what are some modern plays that should be seen again?

For me, the top two would be SIDE MAN and THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE.

Updated On: 8/14/13 at 11:31 PM

[blaxx]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#2

Posted: 8/14/13 at 11:35pm

The Pillowman, please. I'd die to see it again.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[CapnHook]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#2

Posted: 8/14/13 at 11:51pm

THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[jonartdesigns]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#3

Posted: 8/14/13 at 11:53pm

I'd love for August: Osage County to come back

"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel

[jnb9872]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#4

Posted: 8/14/13 at 11:57pm

There've been a number of productions of ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD all around the world, but it's yet to be revived on Broadway (and it's been almost 20 years since Roundabout did it off-Broadway), though it is also pretty continuously done by small theatre companies.

Since we've been having fun with British actors in farces lately, I always advocate for NOISES OFF and WHAT THE BUTLER SAW as the two funniest pure farces written in the last fifty years.

I'd also definitely be interested in a full-throated revival of THE KENTUCKY CYCLE, which when I read it aloud with a class was one of the most thrilling and entertaining scripts I've ever encountered, or at least Part I was. Part II started to get old and repetitive, but man Part I packs some never-ending punches.

Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

[eatlasagna]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#5

Posted: 8/15/13 at 12:05am

NOISES OFF!

[FindingNamo]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#6

Posted: 8/15/13 at 12:06am

The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalusm and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures

Well

Picasso and Einstein at the Lapine Agile

Jackie: An American Life

Homebody/Kabul

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Updated On: 8/15/13 at 12:06 AM

[CATSNYrevival]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#7

Posted: 8/15/13 at 12:16am

TAKE ME OUT.

[N2N Nate.]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#8

Posted: 8/15/13 at 12:18am

The Curious Savage.

So Lauren Bacall me, anything goes! *wink*

[justincharacter]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#9

Posted: 8/15/13 at 12:36am

How was the 2002 revival of The Crucible?

[xxdrewboy85xx]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#10

Posted: 8/15/13 at 1:01am

I love how the first three suggestions were The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Pillowman, and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Martin McDonagh really is brilliant.

I personally would suggest The Pillowman and The Goat or Who is Syliva?

[wicked1492]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#11

Posted: 8/15/13 at 1:26am

BENT

"These rabid fans...possess the acting talent to portray the hooker...Linda Eder..." -The New York Times

[jbm2]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#12

Posted: 8/15/13 at 1:32am

Plaza Suite

The Boys Next Door

[broadwaybelter]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#13

Posted: 8/15/13 at 1:38am

I am hoping that The Cripple of Inishmaan transfers with Radcliffe.

Other titles I'd love to see again are: Topdog/Underdog, Intimate Apparel, Two Sisters and A Piano, and countless Jose Rivera plays.

[madbrian]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#14

Posted: 8/15/13 at 8:24am

Noises Off
Deathtrap

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[Phantom of London]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#15

Posted: 8/15/13 at 8:24am

How about Angels in America: Milennium Approaches/Perestroika

or

The Coast of Utophia

[tazber]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#16

Posted: 8/15/13 at 8:27am

The Kentucky Cycle

....but the world goes 'round

[givesmevoice]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#17

Posted: 8/15/13 at 8:38am

There've been a number of productions of ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD all around the world, but it's yet to be revived on Broadway (and it's been almost 20 years since Roundabout did it off-Broadway), though it is also pretty continuously done by small theatre companies.

Not Broadway, but The Acting Company is doing Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead this season and will be in New York (at The Pearl Theatre) for basically all of January.


The Acting Company On Tour

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[Roscoe]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#18

Posted: 8/15/13 at 9:06am

I'd give a lot to see a good production of THE PILLOWMAN. I'm kicking myself for not having seen the OBC.

I'll second ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN, too.

Glad to see the love for McDonagh.

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[morosco]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#19

Posted: 8/15/13 at 9:07am

Agnes of God (with Cherry Jones as Dr. Livingstone!)

[DEClarke]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#20

Posted: 8/15/13 at 9:46am

I second THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE!!!

[Wynbish]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#21

Posted: 8/15/13 at 9:51am

Arsenic and Old Lace

Rumors

Star-Spangled Girl

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[dramamama611]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#22

Posted: 8/15/13 at 9:53am

(Love the Agnes of God suggestion.)

Extremities
'Night Mother

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[Borstalboy]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#23

Posted: 8/15/13 at 10:04am

With Albee being re-appraised up the wazoo, I'd like to see COUNTING THE WAYS AND LISTENING as well as EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[Jordan Catalano]

Modern Plays In Need Of A Revival#24

Posted: 8/15/13 at 10:07am

Morosco, not too long ago I said there should be an AGNES OF GOD revival with Marcia Gay Harden & Judi Dench. If still give anything to see that!