A good addition to my list of “noir pastiche plays”:
Derek Ahonen, The Bad and the Better
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York, 2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bess-rowen/amoralizing-the-amoralist_b_1611015.html Gyda Arber/Wendy Coyle, Suspicious Package
Brick Theater, Brooklyn, 2008
http://www.suspiciouspackageshow.com/what.html http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/theater/reviews/07pack.html?_r=0 http://www.pointparkglobe.com/features/suspicious-package-makes-its-way-to-penn-ave-1.2922647 Patrick Barlow, The 39 Steps
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, 2005
Mike Bencivenga, Billy & Ray
Falcon Theatre, Los Angeles, 2013
http://www.backstage.com/review/la-theater/billy-and-ray-falcon-theatre-mike-bencivenga-garry-marshall-billy-wilder-raymond-chandler/ Stephen Blackburn, The Rock of Abandon
Fierce Backbone, Elephant Stages’ Lillian Theatre, Hollywood, 2012
http://www.backstage.com/review/la-theater/the-rock-of-abandon-fierce-backbone-euripides/ Joe Bone, Bane 1, 2, and 3
http://www.brucebane.co.uk/ Steve Braunstein, The Tangled Skirt
New Jersey Repertory Company, Long Branch, 2010-2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/nyregion/12playnj.html Sheila Callaghan, Roadkill Confidential
Son of Semele Theater, Los Angeles, 2012
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-theater-review-roadkill-confidential-at-son-of-semele-theater-20120626,0,4773389.story? Martin Casella/Larry Dean Harris, Play It Cool
Vanessa Cate, Absolute Black
Zombie Joe’s Underground, North Hollywood, 2012
http://www.fearnet.com/news/review/theater-review-zombie-joes-underground-presents-absolute-black Pat Cook, The Joker Fired Twice
http://365thingsinhouston.com/tag/film-noir/ Ed Dixon, Cloak and Dagger
Signature Theatre, Washington DC, 2014
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/192252-Film-Noir-Musical-Spoof-Cloak-and-Dagger-Makes-World-Premiere-at-Signature-Theatre-June-12?tsrc=nx Christopher Durang, Adrift in Macao
Philadelphia Theatre Company, 2005
Primary Stages, New York City, 2007
Tom Eyen, Women Behind Bars
Astor Place Theatre, New York, 1975
Evelina Fernandez, Premeditation
Los Angeles Theatre Center, 2014
http://blogcritics.org/theater-review-la-premeditation-by-evelina-fernandez/ Brad Geagley, Return from the Ashes
Theatre 40, Los Angeles, 2011
http://www.examiner.com/theater-in-los-angeles/stylized-film-noir-play-return-from-the-ashes-review Larry Gelbart, City of Angels
Chris Haddock, Helen Lawrence
Canadian Stage, Toronto, 2014
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/canadian-stages-next-season-runs-from-noir-thrillers-to-chekhov-to-puppets/article15983476/ http://m.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/its-a-3-d-movie-its-a-film-noir-play-its-a-great-big-fingers-crossed-experiment/article17368296/?service=mobile Dan Harder, A Killer Story
The Marsh Berkeley, Berkeley CA, 2013
http://www.themarsh.org/a_killer_story http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/THIS_IS_WHAT_HAPPENS_IN_THE_DETECTIVE_BUSINESS_11275.html http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_23114524/review-killer-story-crackling-noir-whodunit-at-marsh David Hare, Knuckle
Comedy Theatre, London, 1974
http://www.donshewey.com/theater_reviews/knuckle.html Jason Hedden/Michael Lister, The Big Goodbye
Gulf Coast State College Amelia Center Theatre Lab, Panama City FL, 2012
Michael Hollinger, Red Herring
Villanova Theater, Villanova PA, 2013
http://www.delconewsnetwork.com/articles/2013/10/08/entertainment/doc52543b745dd7c698856857.txt Rupert Holmes / John Kander / Fred Ebb, Curtains
Sarah Illiatovich-Goldman, The Oregon Tail Burlesque: You Have Died of Sexy
Gorilla Tango Burlesque
Gorilla Tango Theatre, Chicago, 2014
http://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Gorilla-Tango-Burlesque-to-Open-THE-OREGON-TAIL-BURLESQUE-YOU-HAVE-DIED-OF-SEXY-Today-20140109 Len Jenkin, Margo Veil
Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles, 2011
http://www.examiner.com/theater-in-los-angeles/surreal-trip-margo-veil-at-the-odyssey-theatre-review Greg Klein, Nursery Crimes
Last Act Theatre, Austin, Texas, 2013
http://www.broadwayworld.com/austin/article/BWW-Reviews-NURSERY-CRIMES-an-Inventive-Twist-on-Film-Noir-20131119# David Landau, Murder at Café Noir
1989
Stewart Lemoine, When Girls Collide
Workshop West/Teatro La Quindicina, Calgary, 1989
Stephen Mallatratt, The Woman in Black
Stephen Joseph Theatre-in-the-Round, Scarborough, U.K., 1987
http://www.thewomaninblack.com/ Nellie McKay, I Want to Live!
Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, New York NY, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/arts/music/nellie-mckays-take-on-a-bad-girl-at-feinsteins-review.html David Minton, So Deadly, Ex Machina
Lumina Studio Theatre, Silver Spring, Maryland, 2013
“the third in his Greco-Noir trilogy”
http://www.gazette.net/article/20130702/ENTERTAINMENT/130709927/1148/lumina-studio-actors-present-x2018-so-lovely-ex-machina-x2019&template=gazette Eddie Muller, Fear Over Frisco
Hypnodrome Theatre, San Francisco, 2011
http://www.eddiemuller.com/fearoverfrisco.html Richard O’Brien, The Stripper
http://everything-theatre.co.uk/2016/07/the-stripper-st-james-theatre-review.html Dan O’Connor, The Blue Dahlia
Pacific Resident Theater, Venice, California, 2005
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117928849 Eric Overmyer, Dark Rapture
Empty Space Theater, Seattle, 1992
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/24/theater/theater-review-film-noir-culprits-pursuing-the-loot.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm David Pichette/R. Hamilton Wright, Double Indemnity
San Jose Repertory Theater, San Jose, 2012
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/21/DDEQ1MQPBG.DTL Douglas Post, Earth and Sky
Bill Robens, Kill Me, Deadly
Theater of Note, Los Angeles, 2009
http://www.killmedeadly.com/the-play.html http://www.latheatrereview.com/2009/07/02/kill-me-deadly-at-theatre-of-note/ Sarah Ruhl, Dead Man’s Cell Phone
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington DC, 2007
Dawne Seifert, Preview of Murder
Old School Theatre Company, New York International Fringe Festival, 2001
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/ransom.html Sam Shepard, Murder in B Flat
Yale Repertory Theater, New Haven, 1976
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/29/arts/stage-shepard-s-suicide-in-b-flat.html Sam Shepard, The Tooth of Crime
R.A. Shiomi, Yellow Fever / Rosie’s Café / Fire in the New World
R.A. Shiomi / Marc Hiyashi / Lane Kiyomi Nishikawa, Once Is Never Enough
Katharine Sherman, Christopher Marlowe’s Chloroform Dreams
Kraine Theater/Red Room, New York University, 2012
http://www.lunarenergyproductions.com/#!christopher-marlowe%27s http://issuu.com/nyu.news/docs/wsn050212 Adam Szymkowicz, Incendiary
Wishbone Theatre Collective, Chicago, 2012
http://chicagotheaterbeat.com/2012/05/19/review-incendiary-wishbone-theatre-collective/ George F. Walker, Gossip
George F. Walker, Theatre of the Film Noir
Factory Theatre, Toronto, 1981
http://www.curtainup.com/filmnoir.html Scott Wentworth/Marion Adler/Craig Bohmler, Gunmetal Blues
Jewel Theater, Santa Cruz, 2012
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/entertainment/ci_21951969/jewel-plays-around-film-noir-funny-gunmetal-blues Stanley Werse, Noir
New York City Fringe Festival, 2011
http://www.trtnj.com/issues/110812/news2.php Apt. 4D
Beau Jest Moving Theatre, Charlestown MA, 2014
http://artsfuse.org/108783/fuse-theater-review-apt-4d-beau-jests-sly-comic-ode-to-film-noir/ http://artsfuse.org/108184/fuse-theater-interview-beau-jest-turns-30-davis-robinson-on-moving-into-apt-4d/ Farce Noir Presents…The Big Sheep
Ditto Productions
Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2013
http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/53399-farce-noir-presents-the-big-sheep/ Fast Film Noir
Braindead Theatre Company
Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2013
https://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/fast-film-noir http://flaneur.me.uk/08/fast-film-noir-theatre-at-the-edinburgh-fringe-edfringe-brainytheatre/ Kiss of the Killer:An Improvised Film Noir
Unexpected Productions Improv
Seattle, 2023
https://www.broadwayworld.com/seattle/article/KISS-OF-THE-KILLER-An-Improvised-Film-Noir-Opens-This-Month-20230802 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kiss-of-the-killer-an-improvised-film-noir-tickets-541813096557 The Lapsburgh Layover
The Berserker Residents
Ars Nova, New York NY, 2011
Sleep No More
Punchdrunk, Beaufoy Building, London, 2003
http://sleepnomorenyc.com/ http://blogs.artinfo.com/playbyplay/2012/10/26/poised-for-halloween-sleep-no-more-ups-the-ante-with-a-costumed-carnival/
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