Mainstream/ White Male Playwrights

O'Neill The Emperor Jones (1920); Desire under the Elms (1924)

Strange Interlude (1926; 1927); A Touch of the Poet (1935-42)

Long Day's Journey into Night (1949); A Moon for the misbegotten (1952)

Williams The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire (1947); Summer and Smoke (1948)

The Rose Tattoo (1950); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955); Orpheus Descending (1957)

The Night of the Iguana (1961)

Miller Death of a Salesman (1949); The Crucible (1953); A View from the Bridge (1955)

After the Fall (1964); Broken Glass (1991); The Last Yankee (1993)

Albee The Zoo Story (1958); The American Dream (1961)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961-2); A Delicate Balance (1966)

Tiny Alice (1964); All Over (1971); The Lady from Dubuque (1977; 1980)

Three Tall Women (1994)

Shepard Buried Child (1978); Curse of the Starving Class (1978); Fool for Love

True West (1980); A Lie of the Mind (1986); Simpatico (1995)

Mamet American Buffalo (1976); Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974)

Glengarry Glen Ross (1982; 1983); A Life in the Theatre (1977)

The Woods (1979); Lakeboat (1981); Edmond (1983)

House of Games (1987); Oleanna (1992; 1993); Cryptogram (1995)

Guare The House of Blue Leaves (1971); Six Degrees of Separation (1990)

Gurney Sweet Sue (1987); Love Letters (1989)

L. Wilson Angels Fall (1983)

Asian American

Hwang The Sound of a Voice (1984); My American Son (1987); M. Butterfly (1988)

Female Playwrights

Terry Hothouse (1974); Babes in the Bighouse (1974)

American King's English for Queens (1978)

Hellman The Children's Hour (1934); Toys in the Attic (1960); The Little Foxes (1969)

Childress Wine in the Wilderness (1969)

Henley Crimes of the Heart (1981; 1982); Am I Blue? (1982)

Wasserstein The Heidi Chronicles (1990)

Norman Getting Out (1978); Third and Oak: The Laundromat (1980); night, Mother (1983)

Fornes Fefu and Her Friends (1978,1980,1990); Mud (1983); The Danube (1982)

Sarita (1984); The Conduct of Life (1985)

Black Female Playwrights

Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun (1959)

Kennedy "Funnyhouse of a Negro"; "A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White" (1988)

Shange Spell # 7 (1979; 1981)

Black Male Playwrights

August Wilson Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1985); Fences (1987)

Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988); The Piano Lesson (1990)

Gay Playwrights

Lucas Reckless & Blue Window (1989)

McNally The Lisbon Traviata (1990); Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991)  The Perfect Ganesh (1994); Love! Valour! Compassion! (1994)
 
Kramer The Normal Heart; The Destiny of Me (1993)

McPherson Marvin's Room (1993)

Kushner Angels in America Part I & II (1995)