Brantley, theatre critic for The New York Times, has said that Wilson's plays reflect "disenchantment with the state of the nation...A couple plays, at least, featured embittered Vietnam veterans. At the same time, he harked back to the era of more sentimental plays – of portraits of losers on the margins of life." Wilson and Marshall W. Mason encouraged method acting and often used Constantin Stanislavski's technique. In addition to John Malkovich, Judd Hirsch, Swoosie Kurtz, William Hurt, Jeff Daniels, David Morse, and Christopher Reeve were among the actors who starred in Wilson and Mason's productions. Selected works Home Free! (1964) The Madness of Lady Bright (1964) Balm in Gilead (1965) Ludlow Fair (1965) Wandering (1966) The Rimers of Eldritch (1967) The Gingham Dog (1968) (Wilson's first Broadway production in 1969) Lemon Sky (1968) Serenading Louie (1970) The Hot l Baltimore (1973) The Mound Builders (1975) Fifth of July (1978; Broadway 1980–82) Talley's Folly (1979; Broadway 1980) A Tale Told (1981, later revised and renamed Talley & Son) Angels Fall (1982; Broadway 1983) Burn This (1986; Broadway 1987–88) A Betrothal (1986) Abstinence (1989) Redwood Curtain (1992; Broadway 1993; TV 1995) A Sense of Place (1996) Sympathetic Magic (1998) Book of Days (2000) Rain Dance (2002) Brontosaurus (1978) Notes References Radavich, David. "Rabe, Mamet, Shepard, and Wilson: Mid-American Male Dramatists of the 1970s and '80s." The Midwest Quarterly XLVIII: 3 (Spring 2007): 342–58. External links Wilson's page on La MaMa Archives Digital Collections Robert Patrick's page on Lanford Wilson Robert Patrick's page of interviews with/about Wilson and other off-off-Broadway people Lanford Wilson Collection , Special Collections and Rare Books, University of Missouri Libraries Lanford Wilson 1937 births 2011 deaths 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights American male dramatists and playwrights American opera librettists Drama Desk Award winners American gay writers Deaths from pneumonia in New Jersey American LGBT dramatists and playwrights Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Obie Award recipients People from Lebanon, Missouri People from Sag Harbor, New York Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners Theatre World Award winners Writers from Chicago Writers from Missouri Writers from Manhattan People from Springfield, Missouri People from Ozark, Missouri 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers People from Greenwich Village LGBT people from Missouri