Recap the Works of John Patrick Shanley

Tonight, John Patrick Shanley's masterpiece, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt, officially opens in its first Broadway revival since it premiered in 2005. This comes just weeks after his latest play, Brooklyn Laundry, opened off-Broadway at MTC.

Shanley isn't new to the writing game. In 2009, The Writers Guild of America awarded Mr. Shanley the Lifetime Achievement In Writing. His theatrical work is performed extensively across the United States and around the world.

He is also behind some of your favorite films, inlcuding Moonstruck- one of his first, for which he received both the Writers Guild of America Award and an Academy Award for best original screenplay.

He has nine other films to his credit, most recently Wild Mountain Thyme. His film of Doubt: A Parable, with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis, which he also directed, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Other films include Five Corners, Alive, Joe Versus the Volcano (which he also directed), and Live From Baghdad for HBO.

His early stage credits, many of which were performed off-Broadway, include: Welcome to the Moon (1982), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (1983), Savage in Limbo (1984), The Dreamer Examines His Pillow (1985), Italian American Reconciliation (1986), Women of Manhattan (1986), All for Charity (1987), The Big Funk (1990), Beggars in the House of Plenty (1991), The Wild Goose (1992), Four Dogs and a Bone (1993), Missing Marisa/Kissing Christine (1996), Psychopathia Sexualis (1998), Where's My Money? (2001), Cellini (2001), and Dirty Story (2003).

Shanley made his Broadway debut in 2005 with Doubt, which starred Cherry Jones, Brían F. O'Byrne, Heather Goldenhersh, and Adriane Lenox. It won four Tony Awards, including Best Play.

In 2014, he returned to Broadway with Outside Mullingar, again starring O'Byrne with Debra Messing. The play was turned into the 2020 feature film Wild Mountain Thyme, starring Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan.

In 2016 he ruturned to his unofficial off-Broadway home at Manhattan Theatre Club with Prodigal Son, a play led by Robert Sean Leonard and a young Timothée Chalamet.

His other plays have included: Sailor's Song (2004), Defiance (2005), Romantic Poetry (2007), Pirate (2010), Storefront Church (2012), The Portuguese Kid (2017), Candlelight (2021), and Brooklyn Laundry, which concludes its limited engagement on April 14, 2024.