Noel Coward, Anna Deveare Smith, Claudia Shear, Mae West and Harold Pinter in several of their own works. David Hare in Via Dolorosa. Lynn Redgrave in Shakespeare for My Father. Anne Meara in After-Play. Stew in Passing Strange. Elaine Stritch in At Liberty Betty Comden and Adolph Green in On the Town and A Party with Comden and Green. George M. Cohan was often the star of his own shows. As, it is widely believed, was William Shakespeare.
As someone who saw Chris Durang attempt to play Vanya, it deserves no place on a list praising the best of anything.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body