| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Tennessee Williams modeled the character of Laura Wingfield in this play after his own sister The Glass Menagerie |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: The future of a family heirloom is at the heart of "The Piano Lesson", which earned him his second Pulitzer Prize August Wilson |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $4,000 (Daily Double): He's the playwright seen here with his famous second wife Arthur Miller |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $200: "True and False", David Mamet's no-nonsense book on this craft, includes a chapter called "Find Your Mark" acting |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $400: This playwright once said that his Aunt Belle, a Sunday School teacher, was the prototype of Blanche DuBois Tennessee Williams |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $600: You might desire the rings & garters worn by this "Desire Under the Elms" author; they're in the Yale library Eugene O'Neill |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $800: (Famous playwright Edward Albee delivers the clue.) My play "Fam and Yam" was inspired by a meeting I once had with this playwright for whom life was no "Picnic" (William) Inge |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: Pittsburgh's African American Cultural Center was renamed for this "Piano Lesson" author who was born in Pittsburgh August Wilson |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Playwright Langston Hughes formed the Suitcase Theater in Harlem & the New Negro Theater in this Calif. city L.A. (Los Angeles) |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $800: With its strong political message, Amiri Baraka's play "Dutchman" won one of these off-Broadway awards in 1964 an OBIE |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: This play about a family moving to the suburbs was the first Broadway play written & directed by African Americans A Raisin in the Sun |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: James Baldwin loosely based his play "Blues for Mister Charlie" on the '55 murder of Emmitt Till in this southern state Mississippi |
| #4565, aired 2004-06-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: This playwright of "Fences" & "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" founded Pittsburgh's Black Horizon Theatre Company August Wilson |
| #3935, aired 2001-10-12 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $200: He won a 1991 Pulitzer for his comedy "Lost in Yonkers" Neil Simon |
| #3935, aired 2001-10-12 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $400: "Our Teeth" & "Our Town" have been subjects for this Wisconsin-born playwright Thornton Wilder |
| #3935, aired 2001-10-12 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $600: Ira Levin, author of the creepy "Rosemary's Baby", wrote the jocular play "No Time for" these Sergeants |
| #3935, aired 2001-10-12 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $800: He wrote "To the Ladies" with Marc Connelly & "The Man Who Came to Dinner" with Moss Hart George S. Kaufman |
| #3935, aired 2001-10-12 | AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: David Rabe's next play after his 1982 "Goose and Tomtom" was this 1984 chaotic concoction Hurlyburly |
