Mary Roberts Rinehart, George Kaufman, Adrienne Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry
Welcome to the Twentieth-Century American Playwrights Guide! This guide is designed to connect users to many types of information sources available through the Gumberg Library on American Playwrights who influenced and shaped twentieth-century American Drama. It will connect you to quick biographies, reference works, books (print and ebooks), and databases for articles on major American dramatists.
Twentieth-Century Drama Database
This database features modern plays by over 300 playwrights, covering the years 1891-2008
To access it, please enter your Multipass information when prompted.
The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre by 
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre, 2nd ed. by 
An International Dictionary of Theatre Language by 
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance by 
The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: The Americas by This guide was created by Emily Kizina, English Department Intern,Gumberg Library, October 2020
