14 best-selling plays books like Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson

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Silent Sky

By: Lauren Gunderson

4.28

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed…

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Cover of Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays by David Ball, Michael Langham, David  Ball

1. 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

Similar categories in David Ball's Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays book and Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky

  • school
  • theatre
  • nonfiction
  • plays
  • drama
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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

Similar categories in Lynn Nottage's Sweat book and Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky

  • school
  • theatre
  • college
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Tartuffe by Martin Sorrell, Molière, Curtis Hidden Page

3. Tartuffe

By: Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Condemned and banned for five years in Moliere's day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. … read more

Similar categories in Martin Sorrell's Tartuffe book and Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky

  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
Cover of The Mountaintop by Michael Eric Dyson, Katori Hall, None

4. The Mountaintop

By: Michael Eric Dyson , Katori Hall , None

3.18

Format: 183 pages,

Winner of the Olivier Award and set to open on Broadway in September 2011, The Mountaintop is set a… read more

Similar categories in Michael Eric Dyson's The Mountaintop book and Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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5. Uncommon Women and Others

By: Wendy Wasserstein

4.29

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others book and Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs

6. Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

By: Jay Heinrichs

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Thank You for Arguingis your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by professors ranging fr… read more

Similar categories in Jay Heinrichs's Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion book and Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky

  • nonfiction
  • school
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7. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive book and Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky

  • school
  • theatre
  • college
  • plays
  • drama
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8. Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

By: Alan Ball

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identic… read more

Similar categories in Alan Ball's Five Women Wearing the Same Dress book and Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky

  • school
  • theatre
  • college
  • plays
  • drama
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9. 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 Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

10. 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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11. Stop Kiss

By: None

3.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ben Brantley of the New York Times summed up the critical reaction to Diana Son's play Stop Kiss wh… read more

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12. 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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13. The Children's Hour

By: Lillian Hellman

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

This is a serious and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious youn… read more

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14. Blue Stockings

By: Jessica Swale

4.15

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determi… read more

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15. 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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16. 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

Similar categories in Paula Vogel's Indecent book and Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"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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17. 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

Similar categories in Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves book and Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky

  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
  • drama
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18. 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 Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky

  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
  • drama
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

Similar categories in Clare Barron's Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays) book and Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson

20. Silent Sky

By: Lauren Gunderson

4.28

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky book and Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky

  • science
  • history
  • school
  • theatre
  • college
  • nonfiction
  • astronomy
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of In Love and Warcraft by Madhuri Shekar

21. In Love and Warcraft

By: Madhuri Shekar

3.03

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

From the back cover: Comedy. 3m, 3f. Unit set. Evie Malone - gamer girl, college senior, an… read more

Similar categories in Madhuri Shekar's In Love and Warcraft book and Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky

  • theatre
  • plays

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Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays

David Ball , Michael Langham , David Ball

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Tartuffe

Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

Jay Heinrichs

4.08

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Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

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Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

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Paula Vogel

3.85

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Sarah Ruhl

4.10

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