| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Tracy Letts' play about a rundown food shop, its aging owner & his young African-American hire is called "Superior" these Donuts |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Her "A Raisin in the Sun" was the first play by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway (Lorraine) Hansberry |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | PIANISTS, PAINTERS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Part of American nobility, this jazz pianist & bandleader established his "Mood Indigo" in 1930 Duke Ellington |
| #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 |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: This American's play "The Zoo Story" was once staged in Regent's Park, near the menagerie Edward Albee |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: A performance of the farce "Our American Cousin" by Tom Taylor was cut short due to this tragedy in 1865 the assassination of President Lincoln |
| #6401, aired 2012-06-18 | PLAYWRIGHTS $600: His "The Crucible" was produced in 1953; in 1956 he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee 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 |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: No offense to Edward Albee, but this man is probably the hunkiest major American playwright Sam Shepard |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #3900, aired 2001-07-13 | PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS $300: The works of this two-time Pulitzer Prize winner are set largely in the American south Tennessee Williams |
| #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 |
| #3203, aired 1998-07-01 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: "An American Daughter" by this "Heidi Chronicles" playwright, opened on Broadway in 1997 (Wendy) Wasserstein |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: A "Giant" among American women novelists, she wrote the play "Stage Door" with George S. Kaufman Edna Ferber |
| #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 |
| #2347, aired 1994-11-15 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This American playwright won the first of his four Pulitzer Prizes for 1920's "Beyond the Horizon" Eugene O'Neill |
| #1794, aired 1992-05-21 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $600: George Bernard Shaw's play "The Devil's Disciple" takes place in America during this 18th century war the American Revolution |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: "A Touch of the Poet" & "More Stately Mansions" are 2 of the 11 plays he planned about 1 American family O'Neill |
| #1487, aired 1991-02-05 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: In 1947 Bertolt Brecht returned to Europe after testifying before this committee the House Un-American Activities Committee |
| #1197, aired 1989-11-14 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1952 she told the HUAC, "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions" Lillian Hellman |
| #758, aired 1987-12-16 | PLAYWRIGHTS $600: Ben Hecht's partner, Chas. MacArthur, was married to this "First Lady of the American Theater" Helen Hayes |
