Awards and Honors
- Muzeeka won an Obie in 1968.
- The House of Blue Leaves won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best American Play in 1971 and four Tony Awards for its 1986 revival at Lincoln Center Theater.
- Two Gentlemen of Verona won both the Tony Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical in 1972. Guare also received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics.
- Six Degrees of Separation won an Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and London’s Olivier Award for Best Play; it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
- Mr. Guare received the Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his plays The House of Blue Leaves, Rich and Famous, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Landscape of the Body and Bosoms and Neglect.
- In 1989, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters elected him a member.
- In 1993 he was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame.
- In 1996 he received the New York State Governor’s Arts Award.
- Signature Theatre honored him with a season 1998 - 1999.
- In 1999 he was honored at the William Inge Festival.
- In 2003 he received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a Master American Dramatist.
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