20 Best plays books like Blood at the Root by Dominique Morisseau

Cover of Blood at the Root by Dominique Morisseau

Blood at the Root

By: Dominique Morisseau

4.32

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

A striking new ensemble drama based on the Jena Six; six Black students who were initially charged …

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Cover of Agnes of God by John Pielmeier

1. Agnes of God

By: John Pielmeier

3.96

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Drama / Characters: 3 FemalesSummoned to a covent, Dr. Martha Livingstone, a court-appointed psychi… read more

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  • 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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  • plays
  • drama
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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

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  • plays
  • drama
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4. Our Town

By: Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Our Townwas first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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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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  • plays
  • drama
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6. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • plays
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7. All My Sons

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

4.50

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

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  • plays
  • drama
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8. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • plays
  • drama

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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  • plays
  • drama
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10. Fat Pig

By: Neil LaBute

3.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • plays
  • drama
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11. Anna in the Tropics

By: Nilo Cruz

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama . . . there are many kinds of light. The light of fires… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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12. Timeline

By: Michael Crichton

3.87

Format: 489 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In an Arizona desert, a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-fou… read more

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"In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the pa…"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

"Because in the late twentieth century, you couldn't seriously ask other people to think that you believed in honor and truth, and the purity of the body, the defense of women, the sanctity of true lo…"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

"In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A …"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

"But where will this mania for entertainment end? What will people do when they get tired of television? When they get tired of movies? We already know the answer—they go into participatory activities…"

-Michael Crichton, Timeline

13. The Effect

By: Lucy Prebble

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

You're on a placebo, Tristan. Least I've got an excuse. She told me: you're nothing, you're a contr… read more

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14. 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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15. M. Butterfly

By: David Henry Hwang

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterflyopens in the cramped prison cell where di… read more

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16. 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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17. True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

By: David Mamet

3.18

Format: 159 pages,

The Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, director and teacher has written a blunt, unsparingly honest… read more

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18. 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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19. 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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20. Machinal

By: Sophie Treadwell

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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21. 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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22. Fat Ham

By: James Ijames

4.06

Format: None pages, None

No publication details yet read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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23. 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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  • plays
  • drama
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24. The Book of Will

By: Lauren Gunderson

4.30

Format: 132 pages, None

Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But with… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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25. PATRIOTS

By: Peter Morgan

4.05

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

If the politicians cannot save Russia, then we businessmen must. We have not just the responsibilit… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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26. Dracula

By: Kate Hamill

3.84

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

A bit of a feminist revenge fantasy, really Based loosely on the novel by Bram Stoker read more

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  • 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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  • plays
  • drama
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28. 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
  • drama
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29. Blood at the Root

By: Dominique Morisseau

4.32

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

A striking new ensemble drama based on the Jena Six; six Black students who were initially charged … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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30. After Ashley

By: Gina Gionfriddo

3.59

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

AFTER ASHLEY is a blisteringly funny and deeply affecting story about a teenage boy navigating the … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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31. Mercy

By: Adam Szymkowicz

3.58

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Orville is trying to get on with his life after his wife was killed in a car accident. His father i… read more

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4.07

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3.85

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