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

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf *
The Zoo Story
The American Dream
Three Tall Women

DAVID AUBURN

1. Proof

SHOLEM ASCH

1. God of Vengeance *

B

AMIRI BARAKA

1. Dutchman

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 *

C

ALICE CHILDRESS

1. Florence

CARYL CHURCHILL

1. Cloud 9

D

E

T.S. ELLIOT

1. The Cocktail Party

EVE ENSLER

1. The Vagina Monologues *

2. The Good Body

3. Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War

F

MARIA IRENE FORNES

1. Fefu and Her Friends

G

A.R. GURNEY

The Snow Ball
The Dining Room
Children *
Later Life *
A Cheever Evening
Love Letters
The Cocktail Hour

RUTH and AUGUSTUS GOETZ

1. The Heiress

H

LILLIAN HELLMAN

The Autumn Garden *
The Little Foxes
Days to Come *
The Children's Hour
Toys in the Attic

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

1. A Raisin in the Sun

I

HENRIK IBSEN

1. Hedda Gabler

2. A Doll's House *

WILLIAM INGE

1. Picnic

J

BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS

Appropriate

JOSEP M. BENET I JORNET

1. Salamander *

RAJIV JOSEPH

1. Gruesome Playground Injuries

2. Guards at the Taj

K

GEORGE KAUFFMAN

You Can't Take it With You *
Dinner at Eight
Stage Door *
The Man Who Came to Dinner *

TONY KUSHNER

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

L

KENNETH LONERGAN

1. This is Our Youth

M

DAVID MAMET

1. Sexual Perversity in Chicago

MURIEL MIGUEL

1. Hot 'n' soft

ARTHUR MILLER

After the Fall *
All My Sons *
The Crucible *
Death of a Salesman
The Archbishop's Ceiling

N

PETER NICHOLS

Passion*

O

CLIFFORD ODETS

Till the Day I Die

EUGENE O'NEILL

Long Day's Journey into Night *
Abortion (a one-scene play)
The Great God Brown

P

NICK PAYNE

1. Constellations

HAROLD PINTER

Betrayal *
The Homecoming

DAWN POWELL

Jig Saw *
Women at Four O'Clock

REYNOLDS PRICE

1. Early Dark

2. Full Moon

Q

R

SARAH RUHL

In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play *
Stage Kiss

S

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

1. No Exit *

SHAKESPEARE

1. Othello

2. Hamlet *

NTOZAKE SHANGE

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

SAM SHEPARD

1. Buried Child *

NEIL SIMON

Rumors *
Jake's Women *
Lost in Yonkers
Brighton Beach Memoirs

SIMON STEPHENS

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

AUGUST STRINDBERG

Playing with Fire

T

DYLAN THOMAS

1. Under Milk Wood *

LUCY THURBER

1. Where We're Born *

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V

Paula Vogel

1. How I Learned to Drive *

W

MAE WEST

1. The Pleasure Man

2. The Drag

3. Sex

WENDY WASSERSTEIN

1. The Heidi Chronicles *

2. Uncommon Women and Others

3. The Sisters Rosensweig

4. An American Daughter *

5. Isn't It Romantic *

MAURINE DALLAS WATKINS

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

FRANK WEDEKIND

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

OSCAR WILDE

1. The Importance of Being Earnest

2. Vera, or the Nihilists *

THORNTON WILDER

Our Town *

TENESSEE WILLIAMS

A Streetcar Named Desire *
The Glass Menagerie *
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Suddenly, Last Summer *

AUGUST WILSON

1. Fences

2. The Piano Lesson

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FIFTEEN MINUTE INTERMISSION

An Exploration of Plays and Literature

“The theatre is something that’s gone on for hundreds and hundreds of years.....it’s part of civilization.”

SUGGESTED PLAYS