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Test your knowledge of the playwrights in Signature’s 2014-15 Season!
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1. Sam Shepard portrayed pilot Chuck
Yeager in this classic 1983 film (3 words)
5. In Signature’s 1996-97 Season,
Signature’s Founding Artistic Director
James Houghton directed this acclaimed
Shepard play (2 words):
Curse of the ______ ______
9. While at Williams College, A.R. Gurney
wrote the annual spring musical with help
from this classmate, later the longtime
owner of the New York Yankees
10. This film, based on Athol Fugard’s
novel of the same name, won the
2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language Film and was also featured
as a part of Signature Cinema in 2012
11. The director of Our Lady of Kibeho,
who also helmed Signature’s 2010
production of Angels in America
14. Fugard’s 1973 play The Island,
written in collaboration with John Kani
and Winston Ntshona, was based on this
notorious South African prison (2 words)
19. The first play in Fugard’s Signature
Residency, and the first production
to be performed after the opening of
The Pershing Square Signature Center
(2 words)
20. Katori Hall’s first production in her
Residency at Signature, directed by
Patricia McGregor (2 words)
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21. The revolutionary website where
Charles Mee provides the full text of all
of his plays for public use: The _______
Project
22. Naomi Wallace’s plays often draw on
inspiration from her childhood in this state,
where she saw her first play at the famed
“Actors Theatre” in its largest city
23. Love in Buffalo, an early Gurney work,
was the first musical ever produced at this
famed drama school, Gurney’s alma mater
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2. When the Comédie-Française produced
Wallace’s One Flea Spare in 2012, it made
Wallace only the second American to
be added to the theatre’s permanent
repertoire, the other being this classic
Southern playwright whose work was
added posthumously in 2011 (2 words)
3. Mee collaborated with this Residency
Five playwright on the acclaimed
dance production of Vienna: Lusthaus
(2 words)
4. This actor, of TV’s “Hannibal” and
“Boardwalk Empire,” had his Off Broadway
debut in Wallace’s 1999 play
The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek.
Michael ____
6. Gurney’s New York hometown,
and a frequently used inspiration
7. Hall’s hometown, and the setting of
many of her plays
8. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize in
1979 for this play (two words)
9. This Fugard play won the 1975 Tony
Award for Best Play (2 words):
_____ _____ is Dead.
12. Hall’s new play, Our Lady of Kibeho, is
based on true events that took place in this
country in 1981
13. Signature’s production of Big Love will
be directed by this longtime collaborator
of Mee’s, who also directed Signature’s
2013 production of Old Hats (2 words)
15. In 2012, Shepard returned to
Signature with the world premiere of
Heartless, featuring this beloved
Signature actress (2 words)
16. Known for his inventive takes on
ancient plays, Mee’s Residency at Signature
in 2007 included such a work, ______ 2.0
17. In 2012, Wallace’s play The Liquid Plain
received a prize for Most Promising New
American Play, named in honor of this
Signature playwright (two words)
18. Gurney’s famous two-person play, first
produced in 1989, that has been performed
by a variety of celebrity pairs, including
Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman
(2 words)