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American Drama

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Title:	Ah, wilderness!
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7081 AV LIB
Subject:	American drama. Drama 20th century. Television plays.
Abstract:	A Long Wharf Theatre Company production of Eugene O'Neill's nostalgic paean to the rites of adolescence. This affectionate comedy presents a 17 year old boy's coming of age during a summer in 1906 New England where he experiments with his first romantic crush, poetry, politics, wicked women and alcohol.

Title:	All my sons
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4193 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama. Drama 20th century.
Abstract:	Set during World War II, a troubled father and son know that a second son will never return from the war, even though the mother believes her missing boy will soon come home. But such turmoil only conceals greater anguish as suspicion falls on the father for hiding a devastating secret.

Title:	America: Broadway and dramatic realism
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0248 AV LIB
Subject:	Theater United States History 20th century. Realism in literature. American drama 20th century History and criticism.
Abstract:	Theater director Sir Richard Eyre discusses dramatic realism on Broadway. Through interviews and archival footage, he explores playwrights who looked at the dark side of the American Dream, then studies musicals and their early innovators.

Title:	Angels in America
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0482 AV LIB
Subject:	Angels Drama. AIDS (Disease) United States Drama. Gay men United States Drama. American drama.
Abstract:	Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn, personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter, who is visited by an angel and deserted by his self-pitying lover, Louis. Louis moves on to a relationship with Joe Pitt, a Mormon lawyer whose closeted homosexuality drives his wife to delusions.

Title:	Arsenic and old lace
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7636 AV LIB
Subject:	Comedy films. Feature films. American drama (Comedy)
Abstract:	An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts, Abby and Martha, have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in their cellar.

Title:	Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT2235 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	A social drama about an ageing travelling salesman who recognizes the emptiness of his life and commits suicide.

Title:	August Wilson
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV1779 AV LIB
Subject:	African American dramatists 20th century Interviews. American literature African American authors. Historical drama, American. Biographical television programs.
Abstract:	Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson returns home to the Hill District of Pittsburgh in 1990 to review his life and career. Archival footage and interviews with Wilson, former New York Times theater critic Frank Rich, Rob Penny, fellow writers, and others provide insights into the African American experience, from the Great Black Migration to more recent times. Scenes from his plays "Jitney," "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," "Fences," "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," and "Two Trains Running" reveal the impact of the oral tradition and the blues on Wilson's poetic prose.

Title:	Beyond the horizon
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7630 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Television plays. American drama.
Abstract:	A McCarter Theatre Company production of Eugene O'Neil's first full-length play which won him a Pulitzer prize. The play concerns two brothers in love with the same girl. Her rejection of one of them and marriage to the other tears apart a family and sets the stage for all three characters' discontent and disallusionment.

Title:	Black theatre: the making of a movement
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4769 AV LIB
Subject:	African American theater History 20th century. American drama African American authors. African American actors. African American dramatists.
Abstract:	The meaning of black theatre is discussed by accomplished playwrights, directors, producers and performers. Includes interviews with James Earl Jones, Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins and others.

Title:	Boys in the Band
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4139 AV LIB
Subject:	Homosexuality in motion pictures. Feature films. Drama 20th century. American drama.
Abstract:	Boys in the Band was one of the first films to deal honestly with the miseries and heartbreaks of homosexual life in modern America.

Title:	Cat on a hot tin roof
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT2910 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its' members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy."

Title:	Children's hour
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4627 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	The story begins at an exclusive girls' school run by Karen Wright and Martha Dobie. When they discipline a vindictive little girl, the child twists an overheard comment into slander. She accuses her teachers of lesbianism, and her gullible grandmother spreads the gossip.

Title:	Crucible
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6361 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama. Witchcraft Massachusetts Salem Drama. American drama.
Abstract:	A film adaption of Arthur Miller's Salem witch trial play "the Crucible." A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. When their ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls suddenly find themselves accused of witchcraft and as the hysteria in the village grows, blameless victims are torn from their homes, leading to a devastating climax.

Title:	Death of a salesman
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0543 AV LIB
Subject:	Business failures Drama. American drama. Feature films.
Abstract:	Dark drama of a failed man, Willy Loman, whose life did not measure up to his expectations. Movie made for television.

Title:	Death of a salesman
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0222 AV LIB
Subject:	American drama. Television plays.
Abstract:	Arthur Miller's tragic masterpiece about a family's battle with an aging salesman who still wants to be somebody in today's society.

Title:	Delicate balance
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0282 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	Agnes, as domineering and sarcastic as her husband Tobias is equivocating and guarded, finds her empty nest invaded by her alcoholic sister, their divorced daughter, and friends who are terrified of being alone for unknown reasons.

Title:	Enemy of the People
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7034 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Television adaptations. Television plays. Drama 20th century. American drama.
Abstract:	Arthur Miller's reworking of the classic play by Henrik Ibsen. A powerful study of an honest man persecuted because of his insistence on telling the truth.

Title:	Eugene O'Neill's long day's journey into night
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6994 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	Critically acclaimed production of Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical, Pulitzer-Prize winning drama unfolds over the course of a single day as the Tyrone family confronts its oldest, most haunting secrets.

Title:	Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman cometh
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7093 AV LIB
Subject:	Drama 20th century. American drama
Abstract:	A film version of Eugene O'Neill's play which centers around wornout drunks and whores who have found sanctuary in Harry Hope's saloon. Each has their own "pipe-dream" about the future that sustains them until Hickey, the "Iceman", attempts to free them from their illusions by stripping them of their lies and guilt.

Title:	Fires in the mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and other identities
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6309 AV LIB
Subject:	Violence New York (State) New York History 20th century Drama. African Americans New York (State) New York Drama. African Americans Relations with Jews Drama. Jews New York (State) New York Drama. American drama.
Abstract:	On Aug. 19, 1991 in Crown Heights (Brooklyn, N.Y.) a Hasidic man accidentally ran over a 7-year old Black boy (Gavin Cato). Three hours later a young Jewish scholar (Yankel Rosenbaum) was murdered by Black youths. Four days of fire-bombing and riots ensued. Utilizing verbatim excerpts from interviews,Actress Anna Deavere Smith, acts out the roles of 18 people involved in the racial conflict, trying to present the differing viewpoints. Includes actual film footage of the riots and violence.

Title:	Frank Capra's Arsenic and old lace
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2083 AV LIB
Subject:	Serial murders Drama. Aunts Drama. Feature films. Screwball comedy films. Comedy films. American drama 20th century Film and video adaptations. Films for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	An easy going drama critic discovers that his kind and gentle Aunts Abby and Martha have a bizarre habit of poisoning gentlemen callers and burying them in the cellar.

Title:	George C. Wolfe
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7750 AV LIB
Subject:	African American dramatists 20th century Interviews. Theatrical producers and directors United States Interviews. Authors, American Southern States Interviews.
Abstract:	This documentary follows [George C.] Wolfe, the African-American playwright/director who also heads New York's legendary Joseph Papp Public Theater, from rehearsal halls to hometown reunions and features excerpts from [various works he wrote and/or directed.

Title:	Glass menagerie
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3128 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	A strong willed woman attempts to impose her shattered dreams into the life and personality of her shy, reclusive daughter.

Title:	Heidi chronicles
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6892 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Drama 20th century. American drama.
Abstract:	Wendy Wasserstein's the Heidi Chronicles portrays a modern woman's personal struggles in the decades of the 60's, 70's, and 80's.

Title:	Iceman cometh
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0226 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	In the faded, Vermeer-like light of Harry Hope's 1912 New York skid row bar, a rag tag group of fallen men await the annual arrival of their friend Hickey. But now Hickey is sober, and he wants his drunken friends to give up their "pipe dreams." Eugene O'Neill's final masterpiece.

Title:	Little foxes
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT2036 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	Regina Giddens is a vicious woman who destroys everyone around her while trying to satisfy her desire for wealth and social position.

Title:	Long day's journey into night
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT2047 AV LIB
Subject:	American drama
Abstract:	Author Eugene O'neill gives an autobiographical account of his explosive homelife. Fused by a drug-addicted mother, a father who wallows in drink after realizing he is no longer a famous actor and an older brother who is emotionally unstable and misfit, the family is reflected by their youngest son, who at 23 is a sensitive and aspiring writer.

Title:	Loved one
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2049 AV LIB
Subject:	Undertakers and undertaking United States Drama. Businesspeople United States Drama. Poets, American Drama. Feature films. Comedy films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	A bemused would-be poet gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur, a mom-obsessed mortician and other bizarre characters.

Title:	Man in the glass booth
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0283 AV LIB
Subject:	War crime trials Israel Drama. Trials (Crimes against humanity) Israel Drama. Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	Millionaire Jewish entrepreneur Arthur Goldman (Schell) rules a financial empire from his Manhattan penthouse. He is given to passionate and capricious ravings on a variety of subjects. His growing paranoia, dismissed by those close to him, is confirmed when he is kidnapped by Israeli agents and brought to trial in Israel for crimes against humanity. Is he Arthur Goldman or is he Adolph Dorf, former SS colonel who headed a Nazi concentration camp? As the trial progresses, the question becomes more confusing.

Title:	Member of the wedding
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4213 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama Women authors. Drama 20th century.
Abstract:	A motherless 12-year-old girl learns something about life when her sister gets married and a friend dies in this film adaption of Carson McCuller's play.

Title:	Memory of two Mondays
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7572 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Television plays. American drama.
Abstract:	A production of Arthur Miller's comedy-drama about life during the Great Depression. Includes an introduction by Arthur Miller.

Title:	Modern American drama: Eugene O'Neill: Long day's journey into night.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT0837 AV LIB
Subject:	American drama 20th century History and criticism.
Abstract:	Abridged version of an O'Neill masterpiece. Discovery is forced upon delusion and truth upon lies to produce a poetic portrait of O'Neill's morphine-addicted mother and her tragic family.

Title:	Moon for the misbegotten
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7575 AV LIB
Subject:	Alcoholics Drama. Television plays. American drama.
Abstract:	In a towering performance, the late, great Jason Robards portrays a cynical, self-hating alcoholic actor based on O'Neill's elder brother, Jamie. The majestic Colleen Dewhurst plays the earthy, gruff daughter of his scheming Irish tenant farmer with whom the failed actor spends a soul-baring night of guilt-ridden confessions, tenderness, and absolution.

Title:	Mourning becomes Electra
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7082 AV LIB
Subject:	American drama. Drama 20th century.
Abstract:	A television adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's classic American drama of love, revenge, murder and suicide. Set against the backdrop of a small New England town, it is a post-Civil War saga of a fictionalized family in a sometimes idealized, other times reflected version of O'Neill's own life and family. Loosely based on an ancient play by Sophocles.

Title:	Night of the iguana
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3932 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide. While travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, he becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.

Title:	Of mice and men
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7412 AV LIB
Subject:	Depressions 1929 California Salinas River Valley Drama. Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	This is the classic 1939 version starring Lon Chaney Junior and Burgess Meredith. Based on the play of John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men tells the story of the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are almostable to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to aweakness that yields to tragedy.

Title:	Of mice and men
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4130 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.

Title:	Orpheus descending
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3384 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	"Orpheus Descending" as Williams explained is the story of "a wild-spirited boy who wanders into a conventional community of the South and creates the commotion of a fox in a chicken coop." The protagonist, an itinerant guitarist, is a latter-day Orpheus who is destroyed when he descends into the arid hell of a small Southern town to rescue Lady from the impotent embrace of her cancer-doomed husband. The play is based on the character Orpheus from Greek mythology.

Title:	Our town
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0350 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	Famous American play by Thornton Wilder deals with life in a small New Hampshire community during the early years of the 20th century.

Title:	Our town
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT2048 AV LIB
Subject:	American drama
Abstract:	Classic story about everyday life at the turn of the century in Grovers Corners, a fictional small town in New England.

Title:	Paradise lost
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7338 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Television plays. American drama.
Abstract:	A production of the Clifford Odets' play about the Gordon family and their misfortunes during the depression.

Title:	Piano lesson
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6445 AV LIB
Subject:	Television plays. Feature films. Drama Black authors. Drama 20th century. American drama.
Abstract:	August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a family caught between their heritage and a dream for the future. The Charles family clashes over the fate of a magnificent, carved piano that carries their family's story from their days as slaves. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano to buy a farm--the same fields their family worked as slaves. But his sister, Berniece, refuses to part with it. For her, the piano is their very soul, a legacy of pride and struggle that symbolizes their survival as a family. To resolve the conflict they must first deal with the past.

Title:	Picnic
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4378 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama. Drama 20th century.
Abstract:	The story covers one Labor Day week-end in a small Kansas town, and tells about the impact a virile drifter has on the lives of several women in town.

Title:	Raisin in the sun
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6157 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations.

Title:	Raisin in the sun
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3546 AV LIB
Subject:	Drama 20th century. American drama African American authors.
Abstract:	Based in a Chicago ghetto in the mid-1950's, A Raisin in the Sun is the story of the Younger family. The just-widowed mother, her son and his wife, and the sister live together and cope with bigotry and hatred, as well as the strains of everyday living.

Title:	Roman spring of Mrs. Stone
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT4419 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama
Abstract:	A widowed American actress, who's career is on the decline, begins to drift into lassitude and moral decline in Rome, Italy.

Title:	Soldier's story
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0278 AV LIB
Subject:	Racism United States Drama. African American soldiers Drama. American Drama. Feature films. Detective and mystery films.
Abstract:	A black army attorney is sent to Fort Neal, Louisiana, near the end of World War II to investigate the murder of Sgt. Waters, a black man who despised his own roots.

Title:	Sorrows of gin
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT7445 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Families Drama. American drama. Drama 20th century
Abstract:	The story of an eight year old girl's search for a sense of family amid the sophisticated and detached whirl of her parents' lives in modern suburban America.

Title:	Streetcar named Desire
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT2911 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	Blanche (Leigh) goes to New Orleans to visit her sister Stella (Hunter) after the family estate dwindles to nothing. She is raped and driven mad by her brutal brother-in-law (Brando).

Title:	Streetcar named Desire
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0218 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	A famous film adaption of Tennessee William's powerful play. In Street Car Named Desire, a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans is raped and driven mad by her brutal brother-in-law.

Title:	Suddenly, last summer
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3819 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama. Drama 20th century.
Abstract:	A psychological drama about the effects of the sordid death of a young man upon his cousin, whose life and sanity are endangered, and upon his mother, a wealthy New Orleans widow whose diseased adoration of her son draws her into his depravity.

Title:	Summer and smoke
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT3616 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	A spinster's dreams are left behind like dying embers when the young doctor she loves descends into a seamy nightlife with a sultry vamp.

Title:	Sylvia
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV2164 AV LIB
Subject:	Women poets, American Drama. Feature films. Historical drama. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Abstract:	Born in Boston, MA, in 1932, Plath developed a talent as a writer and published her first poem when she was eight years old. That same year, Plath was forced to confront the unexpected death of her father. In 1950, she began studying at Smith College on a literary scholarship. In 1955, she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to study in England at Cambridge. There, Plath met Ted Hughes, a respected author. The two fell in love, and married in 1958. However, marriage, family, and a growing reputation as an important poet failed to bring Plath happiness.

Title:	Ten blocks on the Camino Real
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0224 AV LIB
Subject:	Americans Latin America Drama. American drama. Television plays. One-act plays, American.
Abstract:	Set in a fictional Latin American country populated by a worn-out Casanova, a nostalgic Camille, and a disillusioned Byron, Tennessee Williams' allegorical one-act play stars Martin Sheen as an American G.I. named Kilroy, an ex-boxer with the soul of a poet.

Title:	Tennessee Williams' The glass menagerie
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA DV0276 AV LIB
Subject:	American drama.
Abstract:	A strong willed woman attempts to impose her shattered dreams into the life and personality of her shy, reclusive daughter.

Title:	Thornton Wilder's Our town.
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT6931 AV LIB
Subject:	City and town life United States History Drama. Drama 20th century. American drama.
Abstract:	Presents Thornton Wilder's great American play about the residents of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, during the early years of the 20th century. Features Hal Holbrook (Stage Manager), Ned Beatty (Dr. Gibbs), Robby Benson (George Gibbs), and Barbara Bel Geddes (Mrs Webb)

Title:	Time of your life
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	MEDIA VT0755 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. American drama.
Abstract:	The assorted customers of a small saloon in the big city are a passing parade, relating their problems and accomplishments, their joy and sorrow to Joe, "whose hobby is people."

Title:	Touch of the poet
Library:	Downtown Library, Media Services
Call Number:	VT7101 AV LIB
Subject:	Feature films. Drama 20th century. American Drama.
Abstract:	"Produced on Broadway in 1958, five years after Eugene O'Neill's death, the play was conceived as part of a nine-play chronicle spanning 175 years in the life of an American family. 'A Touch of the Poet,' set in a shabby tavern outside Boston in 1828, centers on Cornelius Melody, a proud Irishman who clings to memories of European gentility."