Best Metatheatrical
An Octoroon is a play by American dramatist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that reworks Dion Boucicault's 1859 melodrama The Octoroon. First produced in 2014, it uses metatheatrical commentary, racial masquerade, role doubling, and deliberate disruptions of theatrical convention to examine how race is repre...
The Real Inspector Hound is a comic one-act play by Tom Stoppard, first performed in 1968. Two theatre critics, Moon and Birdboot, watch and comment on a deliberately conventional country-house murder mystery, but the boundary between auditorium and stage gradually collapses as they enter the action...
David Henry Hwang's 2007 semi-autobiographical play satirizing racial identity politics in American theatre, inspired by a real casting controversy involving the playwright himself.
