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SUGGESTED PLAYS

This section contains plays that I think are worthwhile reads.

The plays with a * next to them are my favorites. 

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EDWARD ALBEE

  1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf *

  2. The Zoo Story

  3. The American Dream

  4. Three Tall Women

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DAVID AUBURN

 1. Proof

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SHOLEM ASCH

 1. God of Vengeance *

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AMIRI BARAKA

  1. Dutchman

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J.M. BARRIE

  1. Peter Pan *

  2. Mary Rose *

  3. A Kiss for Cinderella

  4. Dear Brutus *

  5. A Well-Remembered Voice (a one scene play) *

  6. Barbara's Wedding (a one scene play)

  7. Seven Women (a one scene play)

  8. Alice Sit-by-the Fire

  9. The Admirable Mr. Crichton *

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ALICE CHILDRESS

 1. Florence

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CARYL CHURCHILL

  1. Cloud 9

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T.S. ELLIOT

  1. The Cocktail Party

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EVE ENSLER

 1. The Vagina Monologues *

 2. The Good Body

 3. Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War

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MARIA IRENE FORNES

  1. Fefu and Her Friends 

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A.R. GURNEY

  1. The Snow Ball

  2. The Dining Room

  3. Children *

  4. Later Life *

  5. A Cheever Evening

  6. Love Letters

  7. The Cocktail Hour

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RUTH and AUGUSTUS GOETZ

  1. The Heiress

 

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LILLIAN HELLMAN

  1. The Autumn Garden *

  2. The Little Foxes

  3. Days to Come *

  4. The Children's Hour

  5. Toys in the Attic

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LORRAINE HANSBERRY

  1. A Raisin in the Sun 

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HENRIK IBSEN

 1. Hedda Gabler

 2. A Doll's House *

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WILLIAM INGE

 1. Picnic 

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BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS 

  1. Appropriate

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JOSEP M. BENET I JORNET

  1. Salamander *

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RAJIV JOSEPH

  1. Gruesome Playground Injuries

  2. Guards at the Taj 

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GEORGE KAUFFMAN

  1. You Can't Take it With You *

  2. Dinner at Eight

  3. Stage Door *

  4. The Man Who Came to Dinner *

 

TONY KUSHNER

 1. Angels in America (Part 1 and 2) *

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KENNETH LONERGAN

 1. This is Our Youth

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DAVID MAMET

 1. Sexual Perversity in Chicago 

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MURIEL MIGUEL

 1. Hot 'n' soft

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ARTHUR MILLER

  1. After the Fall *

  2. All My Sons *

  3. The Crucible *

  4. Death of a Salesman

  5. The Archbishop's Ceiling

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PETER NICHOLS

  1. Passion*

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CLIFFORD ODETS

  1. Till the Day I Die

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EUGENE O'NEILL

  1. Long Day's Journey into Night *

  2. Abortion (a one-scene play)

  3. The Great God Brown

 

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NICK PAYNE

 1. Constellations

 

HAROLD PINTER

  1. Betrayal *

  2. The Homecoming

 

DAWN POWELL

  1. Jig Saw *

  2. Women at Four O'Clock

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REYNOLDS PRICE

 1. Early Dark 

 2. Full Moon

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SARAH RUHL

  1. In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play * 

  2. Stage Kiss

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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 

 1. No Exit *

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SHAKESPEARE

 1. Othello 

 2. Hamlet *

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NTOZAKE SHANGE

 1. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered          Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf

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SAM SHEPARD

 1. Buried Child â€‹*

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NEIL SIMON

  1. Rumors *

  2. Jake's Women *

  3. Lost in Yonkers

  4. Brighton Beach Memoirs

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SIMON STEPHENS

  1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time   (was originally a novel, written by Mark Haddon)

 

AUGUST STRINDBERG

  1. Playing with Fire

 

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DYLAN THOMAS

  1. Under Milk Wood *

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LUCY THURBER

  1. Where We're Born *

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Paula Vogel

 1. How I Learned to Drive *

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MAE WEST

 1. The Pleasure Man 

 2. The Drag

 3. Sex 

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WENDY WASSERSTEIN

 1. The Heidi Chronicles *

 2. Uncommon Women and Others

 3. The Sisters Rosensweig

 4. An American Daughter *

 5. Isn't It Romantic *

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MAURINE DALLAS WATKINS

  1. Chicago (yes, it was a play before a musical!) *

 

FRANK WEDEKIND

  1. Spring Awakening (yes, it was a play before a musical!) *

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OSCAR WILDE

 1. The Importance of Being Earnest

 2. Vera, or the Nihilists *

 

THORNTON WILDER

  1. Our Town *

 

TENESSEE WILLIAMS

  1. A Streetcar Named Desire *

  2. The Glass Menagerie *

  3. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

  4. Suddenly, Last Summer *

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AUGUST WILSON

  1. Fences

  2. The Piano Lesson 

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