24 Top plays books like Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau

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Skeleton Crew

By: Dominique Morisseau

4.13

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

At the start of the Great Recession, one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky gr…

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Cover of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Edward Albee

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more

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  • theatre
  • school
  • plays
"Honey: I know these people ..."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Cover of Sweat by Lynn Nottage

2. 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

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  • theatre
  • race
  • school
  • plays
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3. John

By: Annie Baker

4.20

Format: None pages,

"Annie Baker's Johnis so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light... By no… read more

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  • theatre
  • school
  • plays
Cover of The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman, Tectonic Theater Project

4. 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
  • school
  • plays
Cover of A Practical Handbook for the Actor by David Mamet, Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, None, None, None

5. A Practical Handbook for the Actor

By: David Mamet , Melissa Bruder , Lee Michael Cohn , Madeleine Olnek , None , None , None

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater. All have worked with playw… read more

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  • theatre
Cover of Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks

6. Topdog/Underdog

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the w… read more

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

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • school
  • plays
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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

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  • theatre
  • plays

9. Appropriate

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to… read more

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  • theatre
  • school
  • plays
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10. The Piano Lesson

By: August Wilson

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black exper… read more

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  • theatre
  • school
  • plays
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11. Dead Man's Cell Phone

By: Sarah Ruhl

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

"Satire is her oxygen. . . . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is foreve… read more

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  • theatre
  • school
  • plays
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12. You Got Older

By: Clare Barron

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

WINNER - 2015 Obie Award for Playwriting and PerformanceTHE KILROYS LIST - 1st Place - 2015 FINALIS… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
Cover of Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes

13. 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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  • theatre
  • school
  • plays

14. 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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15. Grendel

By: John Gardner

4.03

Format: 606 pages,

The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tel… read more

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16. 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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17. 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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18. The Aliens

By: Annie Baker

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Professional slackers and best friends KJ and Jasper spend their days talking music and Bukowski ou… read more

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19. Fat Ham

By: James Ijames

4.06

Format: None pages, None

No publication details yet read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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20. 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
  • plays
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21. Slave Play

By: Jeremy O. Harris

4.18

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in th… read more

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  • theatre
  • race
  • school
  • plays
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22. Horrid

By: Katrina Leno

3.56

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the author of You Must Not Miss comes a haunting contemporary horror novel that explores theme… read more

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"The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary, as far as Jane was concerned."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"... her ears were overcome by the sound of her own blood sloshing angrily through her veins, the sound of crashing waves, persistent and loud."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

"Her head was on fire, pounding. She felt like she was on a boat like the bed was gently rocking back and forth, tossed among huge rolling waves."

-Katrina Leno, Horrid

Cover of Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau

23. Skeleton Crew

By: Dominique Morisseau

4.13

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

At the start of the Great Recession, one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky gr… read more

Similar categories in Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew book and Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew

  • theatre
  • race
  • school
  • plays
Cover of Summer, 1976 by David Auburn

24. Summer, 1976

By: David Auburn

3.52

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

Starring four-time Emmy Award winner and Academy Award nominee Laura Linney and Tony Award nominee … read more

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  • plays
Cover of Becky Nurse of Salem by Sarah Ruhl

25. Becky Nurse of Salem

By: Sarah Ruhl

3.91

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A wry, innovative reckoning with the legacy of the Salem witch trials from one of America’s foremos… read more

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

26. 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
Cover of School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh

27. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
Cover of Is God Is by Aleshea Harris

28. Is God Is

By: Aleshea Harris

4.35

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2016 Relentless Award from the American Playwriting Foundation. Introduction by Dawn … read more

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  • school
  • plays
Cover of Bull in a China Shop by Bryna Turner

29. Bull in a China Shop

By: Bryna Turner

4.24

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

Inspired by the real letters between Mary Woolley and Jeannette Marks spanning from 1899 to 1937, t… read more

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  • plays
Cover of The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall

30. The Hot Wing King

By: Katori Hall

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ready, set, fry! It’s time for the annual "Hot Wang Festival" in Memphis, Tennessee, and Cordell Cr… read more

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  • plays
Cover of Fulfillment Center by Abe Koogler

31. Fulfillment Center

By: Abe Koogler

3.22

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In the New Mexico desert, a down-on-her-luck folk singer takes a job at a giant online retailer's s… read more

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  • plays

13 must-read school books like Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau

Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

Transform Your Habits

John

Annie Baker

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Laramie Project

Moisés Kaufman , Tectonic Theater Project

3.11

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23 Top plays books like School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh

Transform Your Habits

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Mountaintop

Michael Eric Dyson , Katori Hall , None

3.18

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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