Broadway Quiz: Be a Theater Critic by Naming These Broadway Plays

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"The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.” - Death of a Salesman

Broadway is full of darkness and of diamonds. Plays and theater have been around since the first playwright picked up a pen. Broadway, itself, has been around since 1750, when the first theater was open on Nassau Street in New York City. Thomas Kean and Walter Murray's 280-patron theater saw plenty of operatic and Shakespearean performances. But that was only the beginning...

Our Broadway Plays Quiz is Theater: 101. See if you could pass for a theater critic!

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"To be or not to be...that is the question." – Hamlet

We've got plenty more questions where that came from with this Broadway Plays Quiz!

From Fences to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Broadway has seen plenty of dramatic and comedic non-musical plays. Do you think you can name them all? What Lorraine Hansberry-drama sees a Black family trying to move into a new neighborhood? What play navigates the family dynamics of a toxic mother? What play sees a son kill his father and marry his mother? Take our Broadway Plays Quiz to find out just how theatrical you are.

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Jessica Holom is a freelance writer and digital nomad with a background in literature, art, and writing. She believes curiosity never killed a single cat and enjoys learning, world-exploring, and writing about both.

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