JOHN GUARE
Name: John Guare
Variant Name: John (Edward) Guare
Birth Date: February 5, 1938
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
John Guare, born in 1938, is of the generation of American playwrights that
critics persist in calling "promising" and comparing with Edward Albee. After
winning an Obie in the 1967-1968 season for Muzeeka and being named the next
season's "most promising playwright" in Variety's poll of New York drama critics
for Cop-Out, Guare went on to produce his two most successful works to date in
the course of a single year. The House of Blue Leaves won both an Obie and the
New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best American Play, 1970-1971. Two
Gentlemen of Verona was awarded the Tony and the New York Drama Critics Circle
awards for best musical of 1971-1972, the Tony for best book of a musical, the
Drama Desk Award and the Variety poll award for best lyricist. Critics praised
The House of Blue Leaves for its savage, penetrating farce (a style which Guare
himself considers a marriage of Strindberg and Feydeau) and Two Gentlemen of
Name: John Guare
Variant Name: John (Edward) Guare
Birth Date: February 5, 1938
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
John Guare, born in 1938, is of the generation of American playwrights that
critics persist in calling "promising" and comparing with Edward Albee. After
winning an Obie in the 1967-1968 season for Muzeeka and being named the next
season's "most promising playwright" in Variety's poll of New York drama critics
for Cop-Out, Guare went on to produce his two most successful works to date in
the course of a single year. The House of Blue Leaves won both an Obie and the
New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the Best American Play, 1970-1971. Two
Gentlemen of Verona was awarded the Tony and the New York Drama Critics Circle
awards for best musical of 1971-1972, the Tony for best book of a musical, the
Drama Desk Award and the Variety poll award for best lyricist. Critics praised
The House of Blue Leaves for its savage, penetrating farce (a style which Guare
himself considers a marriage of Strindberg and Feydeau) and Two Gentlemen of