21 must-read plays books like The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter

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The Cake

By: Bekah Brunstetter

4.14

Format: 73 pages, Paperback

Dramatic Comedy / 1m, 3f Della makes cakes, not judgment calls - those she leaves to her husband…

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1. 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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  • plays
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2. Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays

By: David Ball , Michael Langham , David Ball

4.11

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements… read more

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  • school
  • plays
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3. The Clean House

By: Sarah Ruhl

3.74

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

The play takes place in what the author describes as "metaphysical Connecticut," mostly in the home… read more

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  • school
  • plays
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4. Really Really

By: Paul Downs Colaizzo

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When morning-after gossip about privileged Davis and ambitious Leigh turns ugly, self-interest coll… read more

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  • school
  • plays
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5. Red

By: John Logan

3.66

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF SIX TONY AWARDS A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the twe… read more

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  • plays
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6. Stupid Fucking Bird

By: Aaron Posner

4.01

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother's generation. A nubile yo… read more

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  • plays
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7. Fefu and Her Friends

By: María Irene Fornés

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

This is one of the best-loved Off-Off-Broadway plays of recent decades. In the innovative original … read more

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  • school
  • plays
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8. Water by the Spoonful

By: Quiara Alegría Hudes

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The 2012 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned … read more

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  • school
  • plays
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9. Blithe Spirit

By: Noël Coward

3.97

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"An insane farce that is also uproarious."--NY Times "I will ever be grateful for the almost psych… read more

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  • plays
"Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

10. 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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11. Wit

By: None

4.48

Format: None pages,

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Ou… read more

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12. Danny and the Deep Blue Sea: An Apache Dance

By: John Patrick Shanley

3.98

Format: 240 pages,

The setting is a rundown bar in the Bronx, where two of society's rejects, Danny and Roberta, strik… read more

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13. 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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14. 'night, Mother

By: Marsha Norman

4.15

Format: None pages,

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15. The Flick

By: Annie Baker

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in … read more

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16. Doubt

By: John Patrick Shanley

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty w… read more

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17. Intimate Apparel - Acting Edition

By: Lynn Nottage

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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18. Mr. Burns, a post-electric play

By: Anne Washburn

3.43

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"What will endure when the cataclysm arrives--when the grid fails, society crumbles, and we're face… read more

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19. Copenhagen

By: Michael Frayn

3.85

Format: 144 pages,

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20. Cost of Living

By: Martyna Majok

4.14

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, reunites with his ex-wife Ani after she suffers a devastating ac… read more

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  • plays
"That's not a thing I'll ever know. Everything's started over for me—"

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"Self-pity has little currency in these characters' worlds. Humor, however, has much."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"It matters who you are. Family. Connections. If there's gonna be a net when you fall. Cuz everybody falls."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"The shit that happens is not to be understood. That's from the Bible. The shit that happens to you is Not To Be Understood."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

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21. 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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  • plays

22. Witch

By: Jen Silverman

4.32

Format: 94 pages, None

Mischief is afoot in the sleepy village of Edmonton and the fate of the world is at stake in this s… read more

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  • plays
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23. A Doll's House, Part 2

By: Lucas Hnath

3.82

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

In the final scene of Ibsen’s 1879 groundbreaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decisi… read more

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  • school
  • plays
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24. The Cake

By: Bekah Brunstetter

4.14

Format: 73 pages, Paperback

Dramatic Comedy / 1m, 3f Della makes cakes, not judgment calls - those she leaves to her husband… read more

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  • school
  • plays
Cover of Gloria (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

25. Gloria (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

4.26

Format: 59 pages, Paperback

This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a no… read more

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  • plays
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26. POTUS

By: Selina Fillinger

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spin… read more

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  • plays
Cover of Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat

27. Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them

By: A. Rey Pamatmat

4.40

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Three kids - Kenny, his sister Edith, and their friend Benji - are all but abandoned on a farm in r… read more

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  • plays
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28. Plot Points in Our Sexual Development

By: Miranda Rose Hall

4.50

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Theo and Cecily want to be honest about their sexual histories, but what happens when telling the t… read more

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29. Passage

By: Christopher Chen

3.57

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A fantasia inspired by E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, PASSAGE is set in the fictional Country X… read more

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  • plays
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30. School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play

By: Jocelyn Bioh

3.92

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Paulina, the reigning queen bee at Ghana's most exclusive boarding school, has her sights set on th… read more

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  • plays
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31. Cardboard Piano

By: Hansol Jung

4.31

Format: None pages, None

Northern Uganda on the eve of the millennium: The daughter of American missionaries and a local tee… read more

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8 Best school books like The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter

Transform Your Habits

Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays

David Ball , Michael Langham , David Ball

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Clean House

Sarah Ruhl

3.74

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Really Really

Paul Downs Colaizzo

3.66

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Fefu and Her Friends

María Irene Fornés

4.00

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Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

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The Mountaintop

Michael Eric Dyson , Katori Hall , None

3.18

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Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

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Paula Vogel

3.85

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