Metropolitan Playhouse
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The Metropolitan Playhouse of New York, recipient of a 2011 Obie Award and grant from the Village Voice, is a producing theater in New York City
. Founded in 1992, the theater is devoted to presenting plays that explore American culture, including seldom-produced American classics and new plays about American history and literature. Included among its best known revivals are George L. Aiken's adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin
, The Great Divide by William Vaughn Moody, The Drunkard
by W. H. Smith, Inheritors
by Susan Glaspell
, The Melting Pot by Israel Zangwill
, The City by Clyde Fitch
, Metamora
by John Augustus Stone
, Sun-Up
by Lula Vollmer, and The New York Idea by Langdon Mitchell. The company has also staged two 'Living Newspapers' from the Federal Theater Project: Arthur Arent's Power in 2007 and One-Third of a Nation in 2011.
New York City
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. Founded in 1992, the theater is devoted to presenting plays that explore American culture, including seldom-produced American classics and new plays about American history and literature. Included among its best known revivals are George L. Aiken's adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman....
, The Great Divide by William Vaughn Moody, The Drunkard
The Drunkard
The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved is an American temperance play first performed in 1844. A drama in five acts, it was perhaps the most popular play produced in the United States before the dramatization of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the 1850s. In New York City, P.T. Barnum presented it at his...
by W. H. Smith, Inheritors
Inheritors (play)
Inheritors, by American dramatist Susan Glaspell concerns the legacy of an idealistic farmer who wills his highly coveted midwest farmland to the establishment of a college Forty years later, when his granddaughter stands up for the rights of Hindu nationals to protest at the college her...
by Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell
Susan Keating Glaspell was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, director, novelist, biographer and poet. She was a founding member of the Provincetown Players, one of the most important collaboratives in the development of modern drama in the United States...
, The Melting Pot by Israel Zangwill
Israel Zangwill
Israel Zangwill was a British humorist and writer.-Biography:Zangwill was born in London on January 21, 1864 in a family of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia, to Moses Zangwill from what is now Latvia and Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill from what is now Poland. He dedicated his life to championing...
, The City by Clyde Fitch
Clyde Fitch
Clyde Fitch was an American dramatist.-Biography:Born William Clyde Fitch at Elmira, New York, he wrote over 60 plays, 36 of them original, which varied from social comedies and farces to melodrama and historical dramas.As the only child to live to adulthood, his father, Captain William G...
, Metamora
Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags
Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags is a play originally starring Edwin Forrest. The play was written in 1829 by John Augustus StoneIt was first performed December 15, 1829, at the Park Theater in New York City....
by John Augustus Stone
John Augustus Stone
John Augustus Stone was an American actor, dramatist, and playwright.-Biography:He appeared on the New York stage beginning in 1822....
, Sun-Up
Sun-Up
Sun-Up is a 1925 drama film directed by Edmund Goulding based upon a successful 1924 play by Lula Vollmer. The film stars Lucille La Verne replaying her successful New York stage role, Pauline Starke and Conrad Nagel.-Cast:* Pauline Starke - Emmy...
by Lula Vollmer, and The New York Idea by Langdon Mitchell. The company has also staged two 'Living Newspapers' from the Federal Theater Project: Arthur Arent's Power in 2007 and One-Third of a Nation in 2011.