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American plays adapted into films

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Death of a Salesman
1949 play by Arthur Miller
West Side Story
American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
A Streetcar Named Desire
1947 US play by Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
stage play by Tennessee Williams
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1962 play by Edward Albee
The Glass Menagerie
play by Tennessee Williams
My Fair Lady
1956 musical based on Shaw's "Pygmalion"
Long Day's Journey into Night
drama in four acts by Eugene O'Neill
The Crucible
1953 play by Arthur Miller
A Thousand Clowns
1965 film directed by Fred Coe
Dear Evan Hansen
2016 musical
The Producers
2001 musical written by Mel Brooks
Hello, Dolly!
musical
All My Sons
1947 play by Arthur Miller
Hairspray
American musical
Our Town
play written by Thornton Wilder
Anna Christie
1921 play written by Eugene O'Neill
The Night of the Iguana
stage play by Tennessee Williams
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
musical
Crimes of the Heart
play by Beth Henley
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975 film by Melvin Frank
Desire Under the Elms
play by Eugene O’Neill
A Raisin in the Sun
1959 play by Lorraine Hansberry
The Music Man
1957 musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson
Without Love
1945 film directed by Harold S. Bucquet
Kiss Me, Kate
musical
Night of January 16th
play by Ayn Rand
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
1961 musical by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Harlow, and Willie Gilbert
Sweet Bird of Youth
1959 play by Tennessee Williams
The Cat and the Canary
play written by John Willard
The Odd Couple
1965 stage play by Neil Simon
A View from the Bridge
play written by Arthur Miller
Sherlock Holmes
four-act play written by William Gillette and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Rose Tattoo
play by Tennessee Williams
August: Osage County
darkly comedic play by Tracy Letts
A Little Night Music
1973 musical by Stephen Sondheim
The Miracle Worker
1957 three-act play by William Gibson
Arsenic and Old Lace
play by Joseph Kesselring
The Diary of Anne Frank
1955 theater play
Lost in Yonkers
play by Neil Simon
Fences
1983 play by August Wilson
Play It Again, Sam
play by Woody Allen
Inherit the Wind
American play about the Scopes trial
Glengarry Glen Ross
play by David Mamet
Suddenly, Last Summer
play written by Tennessee Williams
The Lion in Winter
play written by James Goldman
The Teahouse of the August Moon
1953 play written by John Patrick adapted from the 1951 novel by Vern Sneider
Barefoot in the Park
play written by Neil Simon
Bent
1979 play by Martin Sherman
The Heiress
1947 play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz
M. Butterfly
play written by David Henry Hwang
Ah, Wilderness!
play by Eugene O'Neill
The Emperor Jones
play written by Eugene O'Neill
The Boys in the Band
1968 play by Mart Crowley
Joan of Lorraine
play written by Maxwell Anderson
The Green Pastures
play by Marc Connelly
The Time of Your Life
play by William Saroyan
'night, Mother
1983 play by Marsha Norman
A Delicate Balance
play written by Edward Albee
The Iceman Cometh
1939 play written by Eugene O'Neill