#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | FRANCE VS. AMERICA $1600: As seen in the 2021 TV drama about him, this one-named fashion designer took part in a 1973 Franco-American runway battle at Versailles Halston |
#8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1200: "Raisin" is a musical version of this classic drama Raisin in the Sun |
#8231, aired 2020-06-08 | AMERICAN PLAYS $2000: The 1980 Tony winner for Best Play, this drama was specially written for deaf actress Phyllis Frelich Children of a Lesser God |
#8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $1200: In this Jason Miller drama, members of a high school basketball team celebrate the 20th anniversary of their state title That Championship Season |
#8013, aired 2019-06-12 | POP CULTURE FOOD & DRINK $2000: This 2001 book about the American quick meal became a movie drama with Bobby Cannavale as a meatpacking plant supervisor Fast Food Nation |
#7792, aired 2018-06-26 | REMEMBER THE LADIES $1000: The first drama by an African-American woman produced on Broadway was her "A Raisin in the Sun" Lorraine Hansberry |
#7742, aired 2018-04-17 | ACTING UP ON TV $1000: Played by Ricky Whittle, Shadow Moon deals with the powers that be on this drama American Gods |
#7556, aired 2017-06-19 | HOUSE FULL OF LIT $800: This Isabel Allende debut novel is a multigenerational drama set in an unnamed South American country House of the Spirits |
#7459, aired 2017-02-02 | EMMY-WINNING WOMEN $800: In 2015 she became the first African-American woman to win for Lead Actress in a Drama Series Viola Davis |
#7312, aired 2016-05-31 | DRAMA $1600: Samuel Beckett wrote "Waiting for Godot" & American playwright Clifford Odets wrote "Waiting for" him Lefty |
#6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BLUNT FORCE DRAMA $800: In this 1975 David Mamet drama, the theft of the title coin goes awry & Teach beats up Bob American Buffalo |
#6409, aired 2012-06-28 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTRESSES $2000: Loretta Devine, one of the original "Dreamgirls" on Broadway, plays Dr. Webber's wife Adele on this medical drama Grey's Anatomy |
#6377, aired 2012-05-15 | GREAT AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: In 1920 this "Round Table" wit was fired as drama critic for Vanity Fair: they said her reviews were too harsh Dorothy Parker |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $800: The first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, Gwendolyn Brooks won in this category in 1950 Poetry |
#5965, aired 2010-07-16 | A MAJOR IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): William Dunlap, "the Father of American Drama", wrote a hit 1798 play about this British major who was hanged Major John André |
#5876, aired 2010-03-15 | CLASSICAL TV THEMES $400: The 18th c. fanfare heard here is the theme for this PBS show that's brought class & drama to American TV Masterpiece Theatre |
#5875, aired 2010-03-12 | POP CULTURE $2000: During WWII this "All-American Boy" of radio drama helped track down Nazi spies & traitors Jack Armstrong |
#5775, aired 2009-10-23 | TOTAL DRAMA! $1600: British playwright Tom Taylor wrote this farce that played Ford's Theatre in April 1865 Our American Cousin |
#5479, aired 2008-06-05 | AMERICAN LIT $400: In this 1959 William Gibson drama, Helen Keller realizes things have names The Miracle Worker |
#5404, aired 2008-02-21 | RHYME TIME $400: A stage play about a woolly South American beast of burden a llama drama |
#5256, aired 2007-06-18 | AMERICAN PLAYS $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2007 revival of this classic courtroom drama cast Christopher Plummer in the role inspired by Clarence Darrow Inherit the Wind |
#5250, aired 2007-06-08 | BIOGRAPHIES $2,500 (Daily Double): Horowitz & Collier wrote the family bios "The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty" & them: "An American Drama" the Kennedys |
#4949, aired 2006-03-02 | BEYOND $1600: This American playwright won 4 Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, including one for 1920's "Beyond the Horizon" Eugene O'Neill |
#4370, aired 2003-09-12 | "AMERICAN" MOVIES $1000: Marlon Brando is the U.S. Ambassador to an Asian country in this 1963 drama The Ugly American |
#4335, aired 2003-06-06 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: "May All Your Fences Have Gates" is a book of "Essays on the Drama of" this African-American playwright August Wilson |
#4232, aired 2003-01-14 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $1200: His first major work, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", received a 1985 N.Y. Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play August Wilson |
#4232, aired 2003-01-14 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $1600: 1953 was his year: he won both the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award & the Pulitzer Prize for "Picnic" William Inge |
#4232, aired 2003-01-14 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $2000: Until his World War I drama "What Price Glory" was produced in NYC in 1924, he was a journalist & schoolteacher Maxwell Anderson |
#4006, aired 2002-01-21 | AMERICAN LIT $400: In this 1959 William Gibson drama, Helen Keller realizes things have names The Miracle Worker |
#3740, aired 2000-12-01 | NUTTY TV $400: Walnut Grove, Minnesota was the setting for this drama of the American West Little House on the Prairie |
#3587, aired 2000-03-21 | RECENT FILMS $400: Kevin Spacey & Annette Bening played an awesomely dysfunctional suburban couple in this 1999 drama American Beauty |
#3543, aired 2000-01-19 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $300: In 1941 her "Watch on the Rhine" was named best American play by the New York Drama Critics' Circle Lillian Hellman |
#2932, aired 1997-05-06 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1,000 (Daily Double): This American won a 1928 Pulitzer Prize for his very long, 9-act drama "Strange Interlude" Eugene O'Neill |
#2438, aired 1995-03-22 | PLAYS $400: In 1949 the N.Y. Drama Critics Circle chose his "Death of a Salesman" as the best new American play Arthur Miller |
#2126, aired 1993-11-29 | DRAMA $400: "American Buffalo", the title of a David Mamet play, refers to the buffalo on one of these coins Nickel |
#345, aired 1986-01-03 | DRAMA $800: Author of "The Caretaker", this Englishman admits American gangster films influenced him Harold Pinter |
#6755, aired 2014-01-17 | AMERICAN THEATER: This 1949 drama that ends with a requiem asks, "Why did you do it? I search & search & I search, & I can't understand it" Death of a Salesman |
#5156, aired 2007-01-29 | AMERICAN PLAYS: This drama is set at a summer home in August 1912; Act 1 takes place at 8:30 A.M.; Act 4 is 15 1/2 hours later, at midnight A Long Day's Journey into Night (by Eugene O'Neill) |
#3742, aired 2000-12-05 | AMERICAN DRAMA: The entire action of this Eugene O'Neill play takes place in 1850 at a New England farmhouse flanked by massive trees Desire Under the Elms |
#2397, aired 1995-01-24 | THE AMERICAN THEATRE: This Robert E. Sherwood play about a president won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
#1700, aired 1992-01-10 | AMERICAN DRAMA: This 1938 play's 3 acts are titled "Daily Life", "Love and Marriage" & "Death" Our Town |
#1534, aired 1991-04-11 | AMERICAN DRAMA: 1 of the last 2 Pulitzer Prize-winning plays with a woman's name in the title; they won in 1988 & 1989 The Heidi Chronicles or Driving Miss Daisy |
#777, aired 1988-01-12 | DRAMA: This play is divided into "parts", not acts, with the 2nd titled "The Gentleman Calls" The Glass Menagerie |
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