John Guare

John Guare
John Guare's plays include Lydie Breeze; Bosoms and Neglect; The House of Blue Leaves, which won an Obie and NY Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best American Play of 1970-71 and four Tonys in its 1986 Lincoln Center revival; and Six Degrees of Separation, which received the NY Drama Critics Circle Award in 1991 for its LCT production and the Olivier Best Play Award in 1993. Grove Press publishes Landscape of the Body and A Few Stout Individuals. He wrote the lyrics and coauthored the book for the 1972 Tony-winning Best Musical Two Gentlemen of Verona. His screenplay for Louis Malle's Atlantic City earned him an Oscar nomination. In 2003 he won the PEN/Laura Pels Master Dramatist Award; in 2004, the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2005 the Obie for sustained excellence. He is a council member of the Dramatists Guild and co-editor of The Lincoln Center Theater Review.Perform John Guare
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, ComedyTwo Gentlemen of Verona
John Guare , Mel Shapiro , Galt MacDermot ,William Shakespeare
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 6m
This ebullient rock musical adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy features a score from Galt MacDermot, composer of Hair. In Renaissance Italy, lifelong friends Proteus and Valentine both fall for the fair Sylvia, and comic antics inevitably ensue.
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Babes in Arms (Guare Version)
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, ComedyBabes in Arms (Guare Version)
Richard Rodgers , Lorenz Hart , John Guare
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 2w, 1m, 3girl(s), 8boy(s)
Rodgers & Hart's Babes in Arms is the quintessential "Hey, kids, let's put on a show!" musical, boasting one of the greatest scores ever written for the stage.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, ComedyTwo Gentlemen of Verona
John Guare , Mel Shapiro , Galt MacDermot ,William Shakespeare
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 6m
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Babes in Arms (Guare Version)
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, ComedyBabes in Arms (Guare Version)
Richard Rodgers , Lorenz Hart , John Guare
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 2w, 1m, 3girl(s), 8boy(s)
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Guare Plays: v.1: 'House of Blue Leaves'; 'Landscape of the Body';...
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Six Degrees of Separation
John Guare
Six Degrees of Separation