Skip to main content
My Shows
News on your favorite shows, specials & more!
Home For You Chat My Shows Register/Login Games Grosses

Plays that deal with crimes or courts

New Post Search Report Abuse Rules

Welcome Guest. Please Login or Register.

#1

Plays that deal with crimes or courts

Posted: 7/24/14 at 10:48am

A Few come to mind:
12 Angry Men
Inherit the Wind
The Merchant of Venice
Judgment at Nuremberg
Witness for the Prosecution
The Caine Mutiny
Anatomy of a Murder
A Few Good Men
Equus


Others? Any comedies?

Edit:
Murder by the Book
Dial M for Murder
The Lieutenant of Inishmoor
A Slight Case of Murder

Updated On: 7/24/14 at 10:48 AM

#3

Plays that deal with crimes or courts

Posted: 7/24/14 at 10:52am

The Winslow Boy

If you're looking at musicals, Legally Blonde.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#4

Plays that deal with crimes or courts

Posted: 7/24/14 at 10:55am

I am more interested in straight plays but if you can add to the musicals:
Adrift in Macao
Assassins
Baker Street
Bonnie & Clyde
Bullets Over Broadway
Catch Me If You Can
Chicago
City Of Angels
Clue
Destry Rides Again
Do Re Mi
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Fierello
A Gentlemen's Guide to Love & Murder
The Fix
Little Shop of Horrors
Lucky Stiff
Meet John Doe
Murder Ballad
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
9 to 5
Oliver!
Parade
Pippin
The Robber Bridegroom
Pirates of Penzance
Reefer Madness
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sister Act
Summer Stock Murder
Sunset Blvd
The Toxic Avenger
West Side Story
The Wild Party (Lippa)
The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
Whistle Down The Wind


Updated On: 7/24/14 at 10:55 AM

#5

Plays that deal with crimes or courts

Posted: 7/24/14 at 10:59am

Musical: The Scottsboro Boys

The Real Inspector Hound
An Inspector Calls
Crimes of the Heart
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.
#6

Plays that deal with crimes or courts

Posted: 7/24/14 at 11:11am

Had originally had "The Scottsboro Boys" in mind but forgot by the time I wrote them down.
#7

Plays that deal with crimes or courts

Posted: 7/24/14 at 11:38am

Les Misérables and Elisabeth could count in the musicals department, since Elisabeth has the Kaiserin's murderer narrating the story.
"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire
#9

Plays that deal with crimes or courts

Posted: 7/24/14 at 11:53am

A Case of Libel
Daughter of Silence
Hostile Witness
A Shadow of My Enemy
Inquest


Comedies:

Moose Murders
A Shot in the Dark
A Murderer Among Us
#10

Plays that deal with crimes or courts

Posted: 7/24/14 at 11:57am

Wait Until Dark

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.

Updated On: 7/24/14 at 11:57 AM

#20

Plays that deal with crimes or courts

Posted: 7/24/14 at 2:39pm

There is an amazing play about the Leopold and Loeb trial called "Never the Sinner".

Updated On: 7/24/14 at 02:39 PM

#22

Plays that deal with crimes or courts

Posted: 7/24/14 at 3:51pm

Agnes of God
Gross Indecency
"When you're a gay man, you have to feel good about yourself when a urologist says, "Yeah. I pick you". - Happy Endings
#23

Plays that deal with crimes or courts

Posted: 7/24/14 at 6:54pm

Here is a really old chestnut

Penthouse Legend - Mc Alpin Rooftop theater which is no longer there.

Believe it from an Ayn Rand novel
Poster Emeritus
#24

Plays that deal with crimes or courts

Posted: 7/24/14 at 7:37pm

A little google search found this neat link, the American Bar Association's list of the 12 Greatest Legal Plays: http://www.abajournal.com/gallery/12_greatest_legal_pl Of them, only OEDIPUS THE KING and THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH haven't been mentioned here, but still a neat and authoritative ranking.

And off the top of my head, some more plays, mostly that deal with crime, though some also courts:
ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST (farce!)
AMERICAN BUFFALO
BLACKBIRD (though it's a question of statute of limitations here, it's certainly the after-effects)
ELMINA'S KITCHEN
FUENTEOVEJUNA (thank you, Theatre Lit classes in college)
LOOT (farce!)
MAURITIUS (though not necessarily a crime-and-punishment story, more a would-I-if-it-comes-to-it?)
MURMURING JUDGES
SAINT JOAN
THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN
THE VIRTUOUS BURGLAR (farce! Man, Dario Fo is fun.)
THE VISIT
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.

← Back to Message Board

BroadwayWorld TV

View all Videos

Ticket Central
Ticket Central
Ticket Central
Hot Show
Tickets From $59
Hot Show
Tickets From $71
Hot Show
Tickets From $71
Hot Show
Tickets From $95
More Hot Shows Discounts
Recommended For You