14 Top theatre books like Bootycandy by Robert O'Hara

Cover of Bootycandy by Robert O'Hara

Bootycandy

By: Robert O'Hara

4.02

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Robert O'Hara's semi-biographical subversive comedy exploded onto the New York theatre-scene with a…

If you liked the theatre plot in Bootycandy by Robert O'Hara , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Top Girls

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • read for school

2. Bloodchild

By: Octavia E. Butler

5.00

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

Contains the short story Bloodchild only. Years ago a group known as the Terrans left Earth in sear… read more

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3. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • queer

4. Yellow Face

By: Frank Rich , David Henry Hwang

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A thesis of a play, unafraid of complexities and contradictions, pepped up with a light dramatic f… read more

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  • plays

5. The 39 Steps

By: John Buchan , Patrick Barlow

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps was the novel that introduced readers to the cunning Richard Ha… read more

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6. This is Our Youth

By: Kenneth Lonergan

0.00

Format: None pages,

Starring Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton and Missy Yager, the original cast was reunited for this exclu… read more

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7. 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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8. 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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9. A Taste of Honey: A Play

By: Shelagh Delaney

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

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10. Choir Boy

By: Tarell Alvin McCraney

3.50

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Those melodies, the pitch harmonies and Rhythms, those are the maps and guides to the Promised Land… read more

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11. Radium Girls: A Play in Two Acts

By: None

3.83

Format: 35 pages, Paperback

From the book back: In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, an… read more

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12. Trifles

By: Susan Glaspell

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. Her short story, "A Jury of Her Peers", was adapted fr… read more

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13. Indecent

By: Paula Vogel

4.46

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“Revelatory…As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel’s play thrums with music, desire… read more

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  • lgbt
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • plays
  • queer
"I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

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14. Fat Ham

By: James Ijames

4.06

Format: None pages, None

No publication details yet read more

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  • theatre
  • queer
  • plays
  • lgbt
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15. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • read for school
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16. In the Dream House

By: Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"But this story? This one's mine."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"You tried to tell your story to people who didn't know how to listen."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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17. 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

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • read for school
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18. Peerless

By: Jiehae Park

4.01

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Asian-American twins M and L have given up everything to get into The College. So when D, a one-six… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • read for school
Cover of Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays) by Clare Barron

19. 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
  • plays
  • read for school
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20. The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window

By: Lorraine Hansberry

3.93

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

By the time of her death at age thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying master… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
"Don't you understand man? The slogans of capitulation can KILL! Every time we say "Live and let live"--death triumphs! Too much has happened, too much has happened to me. . . . That which warped and …"

-Lorraine Hansberry, The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window

"Don't you understand man? The slogans of capitulation can KILL! Every time we say "Live and let live"--death triumphs! Too much has happened, too much has happened to me. . . . That which warped and …"

-Lorraine Hansberry, The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window

Cover of Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner by Jasmine Lee-Jones

21. Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner

By: Jasmine Lee-Jones

3.01

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

In this innovative play blending real life and online culture, a young Black woman takes to Twitter… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Lee-Jones's Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner book and Robert O'Hara's Bootycandy

  • theatre
  • plays
  • read for school
Cover of Sovereignty: A Play by Mary Kathryn Nagle

22. Sovereignty: A Play

By: Mary Kathryn Nagle

4.01

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Sovereignty unfolds over two parallel timelines. In present-day Oklahoma, a young Cherokee lawyer, … read more

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  • plays
Cover of Tiny Beautiful Things by Nia Vardalos

23. Tiny Beautiful Things

By: Nia Vardalos

4.17

Format: 61 pages, Theater Script

Based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed and adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos, Tiny Be… read more

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  • plays
Cover of Bootycandy by Robert O'Hara

24. Bootycandy

By: Robert O'Hara

4.02

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Robert O'Hara's semi-biographical subversive comedy exploded onto the New York theatre-scene with a… read more

Similar categories in Robert O'Hara's Bootycandy book and Robert O'Hara's Bootycandy

  • lgbt
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • plays
  • queer
Cover of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 by Dave Malloy

25. Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812

By: Dave Malloy

4.43

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

From the celebrated and award winning composer, Dave Malloy comes Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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26. Leopoldstadt

By: Tom Stoppard

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

At the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. B… read more

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

27. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • read for school
Cover of Sagittarius Ponderosa by M.J. Kaufman

28. Sagittarius Ponderosa

By: M.J. Kaufman

3.64

Format: None pages, None

Archer (still Angela to his family) returns home to the forests of eastern Oregon to care for his s… read more

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

29. 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

Similar categories in A. Rey Pamatmat's Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them book and Robert O'Hara's Bootycandy

  • queer
  • plays
  • read for school
Cover of Killers and Other Family (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Lucy Thurber

30. Killers and Other Family (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

By: Lucy Thurber

3.46

Format: 41 pages, Paperback

Book by Lucy Thurber read more

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  • plays
Cover of Red Pitch by Tyrell Williams

31. Red Pitch

By: Tyrell Williams

4.16

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Playscript. First performed at the Bush Theatre, February 2022. read more

Similar categories in Tyrell Williams's Red Pitch book and Robert O'Hara's Bootycandy

  • plays

21 must-read plays books like Bootycandy by Robert O'Hara

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Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

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Fefu and Her Friends

María Irene Fornés

4.00

Yellow Face

Frank Rich , David Henry Hwang

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Indecent

Paula Vogel

4.46

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Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

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Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

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How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

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Eurydice

Sarah Ruhl

4.10

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