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Q.1
True or false. Two productions of Romeo and Juliet opened in September within three blocks of one another, one on Broadway, the other Off-Off Broadway. The one Off-Off Broadway got better reviews.
True
False
Q.2
Which of these real people are not the subject of a biographical play or musical aiming for Broadway?
Carole King
LBJ
Liberace
The Comedian Harmonists
Roy Rogers
Tupac Shakur
Q.3
To promote their forthcoming performances on Broadway in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, what photograph have Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen NOT posed for side by side in costume?
At Nathan’s Famous in Coney Island
On the curb in front of New York City big black plastic garbage bags
In Times Square with Elmo
On the Observation Deck of the Empire State Building
On stage at the Cort Theater
Q.4
True or false. Pop stars Cyndi Lauper, Sheryl Crow,John Mellencamp, Sting, Tori Amos,Edie Brickell,David Byrne,Fatboy Slim, and Elvis Costello all have created, or are in the process of creating, musicals for the stage.
True
False
Q.5
Arguendo, a play by the Elevator Repair Service theater company that opened in September at the Public Theater, uses the actual transcript of a Supreme Court case about
Abortion
Gender discrimination
Interracial marriage
School desegregation
Stripping
Q.6
What television series inspired a theater piece by Anne Washburn that opened at Playwrights Horizons in September?
The Brady Bunch
Breaking Bad
I Love Lucy
The Simpsons
The Sopranos
The Walking Dead
Q.7
A 2013 MacArthur ‘Genius” Award (and $625,000) went to which theater artist?
Artistic director Ping Chong (creator of Undesirable Elements)
Monologuist Mike Daisey (who performed his 29 monologues All The Faces of the Moon in September)
Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney (author of Brother/Sister Plays)
Musical composer Dave Malloy, creator of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (which transferred to the theater district in September)
Q.8
Cherry Jones has been called one of the greatest stage actresses of her generation, and has played roles on Broadway in plays by playwrights ranging from Shakespeare to Shaw, Eugene O’Neill to Tony Kushner. True or False: Her current role as Amanda in the Broadway production of The Glass Menagerie, which opened to great praise in September, is her first one on Broadway in a play by Tennessee Williams.
True
False
Q.9
Which of the following filmmakers wrote his first full-length play that was produced on a New York stage in September?
Woody Allen
Ethan Coen
Clint Eastwood
Spike Lee
Steven Spielberg
Jerry Zucker
Q.10
All but one of the following quotations are from Breaking Bad, the TV series that had its finale in September and was frequently compared to Shakespeare’s plays. One of the quotations is by a villain in a play by Shakespeare. Pick the one by Shakespeare.
I've done a terrible thing. But I've done it for a good reason.
I’ll find a day to massacre them all
Our paths will never cross and we will tell this to no one.
Chick’s got an ass like an onion…makes me want to cry
it's done. He's gone. They're all gone.
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