". . . what unfurls on the stage . . . is brashly, unapologetically entertaining. . . ." - The New York Times Here are six enthusiastically received plays by Charles Mee inspired by immortal artists: Matisse's Self Portrait, Picasso's Masterpiece, Van Gogh's Sunflowers, bobrauschenbergamerica, Hotel Cassiopeia, and soot and spit. "Charles L. Mee's fascinating and luminous bobrauschenbergamerica . . . is awash with warmth and has a vibrant emotional and intellectual center. . . . It's a stunner." - Variety ". . . bobrauschenbergamerica is a stunning tableau of dance, comedy, memory, feeling, and storytelling." - The Indypendent "Bobrauschenbergamerica is a dizzying, exciting collage of America." - nytheatre.com

The Lives of the Artists (The Charles Mee Library)

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"Five Stars." - TimeOut.com Here are six enthusiastically received plays by Charles Mee inspired by Greek tragedies: Iphigenia 2.0, Trojan Women, Orestes 2.0, Agamemnon 2.0, Night and Day, and The Bacchae 2.1. "How fresh can a play based on a 2,400-year-old story possibly be? . . . Iphigenia 2.0 proves to be more timely than any drama in the city today." - nj.com "Playwright Charles Mee is a master at mining ancient myths for the truths that transcend memory-torturing details and reimagining those truths for contemporary theatergoers." - Hyperallergic.com

Greek Tragedies (The Charles Mee Library)

“Five Stars.” - TimeOut.com Here are six enthusiastically received plays by Charles Mee inspired by Greek tragedies: Iphigenia 2.0, Trojan Women, Orestes 2.0, Agamemnon 2.0, Night and Day, and The Bacchae 2.1. “How fresh can a play based on a 2,400-year-old story possibly be? . . . Iphigenia 2.0 proves to be more timely than any drama in the city today.” - nj.com “Playwright Charles Mee is a master at mining ancient myths for the truths that transcend memory-torturing details and reimagining those truths for contemporary theatergoers.” - Hyperallergic.com

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“Who’s the world’s greatest playwright? . . . I’ll toss in Charles Mee.” - Broadwayworld.com Here are six enthusiastically received plays about love by Charles Mee: Big Love, First Love, True Love, Summertime, Wintertime, and Fire Island. “Even before it begins . . . Big Love, one of Charles Mee’s most popular plays, surrounds us with a soothing and soaring beauty.” - The New Yorker “. . . provocative and profound and beautiful.” - Twin Cities Daily Planet “Big Love is a big, beautiful, fantastic mess. Just like love. . . .” - Theatre is Easy

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". . . sheer subversive bravado . . ."- The New York TimesHere are six enthusiastically received history plays by Charles Mee: The Life of George Washington, Full Circle, The War to End War, Vienna: Lusthaus, Gone, and Requiem for the Dead."The War to End War . . . is engrossing as it spins its arguments, brilliant even in its detours and diversions. . . . When the lights came back up, it was clear Mee had blown the collective mind of the audience. By sheer force of intellect and provocation, he had violated nearly all rules of theater-making and playwriting, in an evening that was never boring. . . . If there were more smart theater like this, more smart people would go to see theater."- theater2k.com"The titillating eeriness of impending doom is exploited so gorgeously in Vienna: Lusthaus that you can understand how civilizations become complicit in their own demise. A . . . seamless amalgam of dance, music and drama is set before World War I in Vienna, where Freud and Hitler overlapped, which it presents in a delicately surreal fashion as a hothouse of sensuality and incipient Nazism."- The New York Times"Through the ages, the tale of the judgment of the chalk circle has been told many times by many authors, but never, ever, not once in a blue moon, has it been told with the abundant imagination and affirmation of [Charles Mee's Full Circle] at Steppenwolf Theatre. . . . This is, as its final stage picture so beautifully shows, a play of hope, one that believes some good may someday come from our turbulent times. Rarely has that hope been expressed with such passion, such strength, such joy."- Chicago Tribune

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