The Wall Street Journal‘s drama critic, Terry Teachout, shares a list of the eleven most frequently produced plays in the U.S. over the past decade. Teachout concludes:
This suggests that, Broadway producers notwithstanding, American theatergoers are not know-nothing neanderthals but intelligent people who are prepared to spend time and money grappling with straight plays that are artful, thoughtful and well written.
Let it also be noted that Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller appear nowhere on this list (relate that to the “artful, thoughtful and well-written” criteria as you choose). Anthologists of American literature, please take note!
Carissa Turner Smith is a compulsive reader, writer, and Irish dancer. She earned her Ph.D. in English at Penn State and currently teaches writing and American literature at Charleston Southern University. At age three, she announced that all she wanted to do was “sit at a desk and read and write,” and she has been trying to make good on that promise ever since. Fortunately, she is occasionally distracted from this mission by her husband Stephen and their cheese-obsessed cat. A loyal native of Arkansas, she has always loved the fact that Jesus dwelt in an underappreciated corner of Galilee (see John 1:46). 
