Webster University Reading List

ANTIQUITY
Aeschylus The Oresteia
Aristophanes Lysistrata
Euripides Medea
Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Plautus The Menaechmi

MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE
Anonymous Everyman
Webster The Duchess of Malfi
Calderon Life is a Dream
Lope de Vega Fuente Ovejuna
Marlowe The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Moliere Tartuffe; The Miser
Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream; Romeo & Juliet; Much Ado About Nothing;
As You Like It; Richard III; Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth; Henry V; The
Tempest

RESTORATION, 18th &19th CENTURY
Behn The Rover
Congreve The Way of the World
Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer
Ibsen A Doll's House; Hedda Gabler
Sheridan The School for Scandal
Strindberg Miss Julie
Wedekind Spring's Awakening
Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Wycherley The Country Wife
EARLY 20th CENTURY/UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENTAL
Beckett Waiting for Godot
Brecht Mother Courage; The Threepenny Opera
Buchner Woyzek
Chekov The Cherry Orchard; Three Sisters; The Sea Gull
Coward Private Lives
Duerrenmatt The Visit
Genet The Balcony
Ionesco Rhinoceros
Lorca Blood Wedding
Pinter The Birthday Party
Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author
Sartre No Exit
Shaw Pygmalion; Misalliance
Synge The Playboy of the Western World
Weiss Marat/Sade

EARLY 20th CENTURY/AMERICAN
Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
Hellman The Little Foxes
Inge Picnic
Kaufman & Hart You Can't Take It With You
Miller The Crucible; Death of a Salesman
O'Neill Ah, Wilderness; Long Day's Journey Into Night
Odets Waiting for Lefty
Saroyan The Time of Your Life
Treadwell Machinal
Wilder Our Town
Williams A Streetcar Named Desire; The Glass Menagerie

LATE 20th/21st CENTURY/INTERNATIONAL
Bennett The History Boys
Churchill Top Girls
Friel Dancing at Lughnasa
Fugard Master Harold and the Boys
Hare, A Map of the World
Kane Blasted
McDonagh The Cripple of Inishmaan
Orton What the Butler Saw
Osbourne, Look Back in Anger
Reza Art, God of Carnage
Shaffer Equus
Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Wertenbaker Our Country's Good

LATE 20th/21st CENTURY/AMERICAN
Abaire Rabbit Hole
Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia
Cleage Blues for an Alabama Sky
Congdon Tales of the Lost Formicans
Durang The Baby With The Bath Water, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Eno Middletown
Fornes Conduct of Life, Fefu and Her Friends
Fuller A Soldier's Play
Gilman Spinning Into Butter
Gotanda The Wash
Guare House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation
Hwang M. Butterfly
Jones Dutchman
Kaufman Gross Indecency
Kramer The Normal Heart
Kushner Angels in America: The Millenium Approaches/Peristroika
LaBute The Shape of Things
Leguizamo Mambo Mouth
Lonergan Lobby Hero
Lucas Reckless
Lopez Real Women Have Curves
Mamet American Buffalo; Oleanna
Muchado Broken Eggs
Norman Getting Out
Overmeyer On The Verge
Rebeck Spike Heels, Seminar
Rabe Hurlyburly
Rapp Red Light Winter
Ruhl Eurydice, The Vibrator Play
Shange For Colored Girls...
Shanley, Doubt
Schenkkan The Kentucky Cycle
Shepard True West; Fool for Love
Simon The Odd Coupl; Brighton Beach Memoirs
Smith Fires in the Mirror
Valdez Zoot Suit
Wilson, August Fences; The Piano Lesson
Wilson, Lanford Balm in Gilead; Burn This

MUSICALS
Bernstein, Sondheim & Laurents West Side Story
Bernstein, Comden & Green On The Town
Bock, Harnick & Stein Fiddler on the Roof
Buoblil, Schonberg & Kertzmer Les Miserables
Coleman, Zippel & Gelbart City of Angels
Flaherty & Ahrens Ragtime: The Musical
Gershwins & Kaufman & Hart Of Thee I Sing
Hamlisch, Kirkwood & Dante A Chorus Line
Herman & Stewart Hello Dolly
Jones & Schmidt The Fantastiks
Kander & Ebb & Masteroff Cabaret
Kern & Hammerstein Show Boat
LaChiusa Hello Again
Larson Rent
Lerner & Loewe My Fair Lady
MacDermot, Rado & Ragni Hair
Porter & Spewack Kiss Me Kate
Rodgers & Hammerstein Oklahoma
Schwartz, Holzman Wicked
Sondheim & Lapine Sunday in the Park With George
Sondheim & Wheeler Sweeney Todd
Styne, Sondheim & Laurents Gypsy
Weill & Hughes Street Scene
Weber & Rice Evita

OTHER BOOKS
Brook The Empty Space
Clurman On Directing
Crich & Chinoy Directors on Directing
Hodge Play Directing: Analysis, Communication and Style
Deer Directing in Musical Theatre: An Essential Guide

OPERAS
Aida, Giuseppe Verdi
La Boheme, Giacomo Puccini
Carmen, Georges Bizet
The Marriage of Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tannhauser, Richard Wagner
Nixon in China, John Adams.
FILMS
Citizen Kane, (1941, Orson Welles)
The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
Modern Times (1936, Charles Chaplin)
Some Like It Hot (1959, Wilder)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)
A Trip to the Moon (1902, Georges Melies)
Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)
The Seventh Seal (1956, Ingmar Bergman
The Bicycle Thief (1949, Vittorio DeSica)
Metropolis (1926, Fritz Lang)
Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)
Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)
The 400 Blows (1959, Francois Truffaut)
Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey)
The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)