17 must-read drama books like Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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Everybody

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.84

Format: 55 pages, None

This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amo…

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1. Between Riverside and Crazy

By: Stephen Adly Guirgis

3.81

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

Written with humor, tenderness, grit, and wonderment by acclaimed playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Adly Guirgis's Between Riverside and Crazy book and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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2. Constellations

By: Nick Payne

4.07

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

One relationship. Infinite possibilities. 'Let's go for a drink. I don't know what I'm doing here a… read more

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  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
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3. Sweat

By: Lynn Nottage

4.06

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory wor… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Nottage's Sweat book and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody

  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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4. The Pillowman

By: Martin McDonagh

4.30

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more

Similar categories in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman book and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody

  • theatre
  • plays
"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

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5. The Laramie Project

By: Moisés Kaufman , Tectonic Theater Project

3.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

For a year and a half following the murder of Matthew Shepard, Moises Kaufman and his Tectonic Thea… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
  • drama
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6. Fleabag: The Original Play

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex… read more

Similar categories in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag: The Original Play book and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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7. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
  • drama
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8. Eurydice

By: Sarah Ruhl

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice book and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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9. Every Brilliant Thing

By: Duncan Macmillan

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

You're six years old. Mum's in hospital. Dad says she's 'done something stupid'. She finds it hard … read more

Similar categories in Duncan Macmillan's Every Brilliant Thing book and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody

  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
  • drama
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10. She Kills Monsters

By: Qui Nguyen

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

A comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games, " She Kills Monsters " tells the story… read more

Similar categories in Qui Nguyen's She Kills Monsters book and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody

  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school

11. That Championship Season

By: Jason Miller

4.72

Format: 64 pages,

Following their annual custom, five men a high-school basketball coach, now retired, and four membe… read more

Similar categories in Jason Miller's That Championship Season book and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

12. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

By: Stephen Adly Guirgis

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud relig… read more

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13. Gruesome Playground Injuries

By: Rajiv Joseph

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

The fourth play written by playwright Rajiv Joseph follows the lives of two best friends tumultuous… read more

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14. Almost, Maine

By: John Cariani

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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15. hir

By: Taylor Mac

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Discharged from the Marines under suspicious circumstances, Isaac comes home from the wars, only to… read more

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16. 4.48 Psychosis

By: Sarah Kane

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

4.48 Psychosissees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the se… read more

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17. Proof

By: David Auburn

3.63

Format: 256 pages,

"One of the most acclaimed plays of recent seasons, Proof explores the unknowability of love as muc… read more

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18. Circle Mirror Transformation

By: Annie Baker

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Thanks, you guys. I think this was a really, really great start. Five lost people come together at … read more

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19. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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20. Cloud 9

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

In colonial Africa, a Victorian English patrician represses the natives, his wife, his children, ho… read more

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21. Fences (The Century Cycle #6)

By: August Wilson

4.23

Format: 690 pages,

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture directed by Denzel Washington, and starring Denzel Washington and… read more

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22. Inherit the Wind

By: Jerome Lawrence , Robert E. Lee

3.93

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

A meaningful play based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was tried … read more

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23. Glengarry Glen Ross

By: David Mamet

4.49

Format: 563 pages,

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat rea… read more

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24. The Thanksgiving Play

By: Larissa FastHorse

3.87

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A mismatched but well-meaning foursome sets out to devise a politically correct school play that ca… read more

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  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
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25. The Wolves

By: Sarah DeLappe

4.27

Format: 175 pages, None

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburba… read more

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  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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26. Everybody

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.84

Format: 55 pages, None

This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amo… read more

Similar categories in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody book and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody

  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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27. Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Clare Barron

4.22

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

'Maybe this is the year, this is the moment, this is the dance where your lives will start!'Somewhe… read more

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  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
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28. Baby Reindeer

By: Richard Gadd

4.35

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

I looked at her, wanting her to laugh. Wanting her to share in the joke. But she didn't. She just s… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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29. The Moors

By: Jen Silverman

4.26

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
  • drama
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30. English

By: Sanaz Toossi

4.53

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Winner! 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama Winner! 2023 Obie Award for Best New American Play It's 2008,… read more

Similar categories in Sanaz Toossi's English book and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Everybody

  • plays
  • drama
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31. Primary Trust

By: Eboni Booth

4.12

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

Meet Kenneth, a 38-year-old bookstore worker who spends his evenings sipping mai tais at the local … read more

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  • plays
  • drama

7 must-read school books like Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Transform Your Habits

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Laramie Project

Moisés Kaufman , Tectonic Theater Project

3.11

Transform Your Habits

How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Every Brilliant Thing

Duncan Macmillan

3.82

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18 must-read fiction books like English by Sanaz Toossi

Transform Your Habits

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Fleabag: The Original Play

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Topdog/Underdog

Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Transform Your Habits

How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

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