According to Marilyn Stasio writing in "Variety" the play "sets the bar for smart comic lunacy." "Chaucer in Rome", "said to be a sequel of sorts to ... 'The House of Blue Leaves' and includ[ing] the son of one of the earlier play's characters" received its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in July 1999 and was produced Off-Broadway in 2001 at Lincoln Center Theater's Newhouse Theater. Later plays include "Marco Polo Sings a Solo", produced at the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival in January to March 1977, with a cast that featured Joel Grey, Anne Jackson, Madeline Kahn, and Sigourney Weaver. "Bosoms and Neglect" was produced on Broadway in 1979, and revived Off-Broadway in 1998 by the Signature Theatre Company. "Moon Over Miami" was produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1987 and then at the Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven in February 1989. Guare's cycle of plays on nineteenth-century America are: "Gardenia" (1982) "Lydie Breeze" (1982) and "Women and Water" (1985). The so-called "Lydie Breeze" series, also called the "Nantucket" series, "follows a group of idealistic 19th century characters and their attempts to create a utopian society. "  "Six Degrees of Separation" was originally produced Off-Broadway at the Lincoln Center Theater, Newhouse Theatre in June 1990. "Six Degrees of Separation" is an intricately plotted comedy of manners about an African-American confidence man who poses as the son of film star Sidney Poitier. It has been the most highly praised and widely produced of Guare's full-length plays. It was made into a film in 1993, starring Stockard Channing and Will Smith. "Four Baboons Adoring the Sun" was presented on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre from February 22, 1992 to April 19, 1992, and was nominated for the 1992 Tony Award, Best Play. "Lake Hollywood" (1999) and "A Few Stout Individuals" (2002) both received their world premieres at Signature Theatre. "A Few Stout Individuals" is set in nineteenth century America, with a cast of characters that includes Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twain, soprano Adelina Patti and the Emperor and Empress of Japan. Guare has also been involved with musical theatre.