Love's Fire

Love's Fire
Written by	John Guare Wendy Wasserstein Eric Bogosian Ntozake Shange Tony Kushner William Finn Marsha Norman
Date premiered	1998
Original language	English

Love's Fire is a collection of short plays by American writers based on Shakespeare's Sonnets.

Plays

"Bitter Sauce" by Eric Bogosian, inspired by Sonnet 118
"Hydraulics Phat Like Mean" by Ntozake Shange, inspired by Sonnet 128, Original Music by Chico Freeman , Choreography by Dyane Harvey
"140" by Marsha Norman, inspired by Sonnet 140
"Terminating" by Tony Kushner, inspired by Sonnet 75
"Painting You" by William Finn, inspired by Sonnet 102
"Waiting for Philip Glass" by Wendy Wasserstein, inspired by Sonnet 94
"The General of Hot Desire" by John Guare, inspired by Sonnets 153 and 154 and The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Varagine, Original Music by Adam Guettel

Adam Guettel musicals

Floyd Collins Love's Fire Saturn Returns The Light in the Piazza

Works of Ntozake Shange

Novels	Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982) Betsey Brown (1985) Liliane (1994)

Plays	for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf spell #7

Other works	if i can cook / you know god can nappy edges The Sweet Breath of Life lost in language & sound

William Finn musicals

In Trousers March of the Falsettos America Kicks Up Its Heels Romance in Hard Times Falsettoland Falsettos A New Brain Infinite Joy Elegies: A Song Cycle The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Make Me a Song Little Miss Sunshine