Avery Fisher Hall in October 1997, conducted by Kurt Masur with the New York Philharmonic. He revised the book (uncredited) of the Cole Porter musical comedy Kiss Me, Kate for its 1999 Broadway revival. He wrote the book for the musical Sweet Smell of Success, which premiered on Broadway in 2002, for which he received a 2002 Tony Award nomination, Book of a Musical. His play A Free Man of Color was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Pulitzer citation said: "An audacious play spread across a large historical canvas, dealing with serious subjects while retaining a playful intellectual buoyancy." Guare wrote the screenplay for Louis Malle's film Atlantic City (1980), for which he was nominated for an Oscar. Other activities He was an original member in 1965 of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut and Resident Playwright at the New York Shakespeare Festival, during which time he wrote Landscape of the Body, Rich and Famous, and Marco Polo Sings a Solo. He is a council member of the Dramatists Guild. He is Co-Executive Editor of the Lincoln Center Theater Review, which he founded in 1987. He co-produces the New Plays Reading Room Series at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts and teaches in the Playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama. Critical acclaim In his foreword to a collection of Guare's plays, Louis Malle wrote: Guare practices a humor that is synonymous with lucidity, exploding genre and clichés, taking us to the core of human suffering: the awareness of corruption in our own bodies, death circling in. We try to fight it all by creating various mythologies, and it is Guare's peculiar aptitude for exposing these grandiose lies of ours that makes his work so magical. Gregory Mosher, formerly the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theatre, said that Guare, "along with David Mamet, Sam Shepard and a handful of other dramatists, reshaped the face of contemporary American theater over the past quarter century." Works All plays for the stage unless otherwise noted. 1971: The House of Blue Leaves 1971: Two Gentlemen of Verona 1971: Taking Off (screenplay) 1974: Rich and Famous 1977: Landscape of the Body 1977: Marco Polo Sings a Solo – Off-Broadway 1979: Bosoms and Neglect 1980: Atlantic City (screenplay) 1981: In Fireworks Lie Secret Codes 1982: Lydie Breeze 1982: Gardenia 1985: Women and Water 1986: The Race