Downstate
By: Bruce Norris
4.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In downstate Illinois, four men convicted of sex crimes against minors share a group home where the…
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1. Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones
By: Amiri Baraka
3.77
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
" Dutchman is designed to shock—its basic idea, its language and its murderous rage." — New York T… read more
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2. Jesus Hopped the A Train
By: Stephen Adly Guirgis
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
"Its aggressive high-octane style is like a shot of caffeine straight in the veins" - Lyn Gardner, … read more
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3. The Humans
By: Stephen Karam
3.91
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving a… read more
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4. Inferno (A Poet's Novel)
By: Eileen Myles
4.25
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
"All the lesbian intimacy you've yet to find on OKCupid can be found in this book." -- Lambda Liter… read more
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5. Into the Woods
By: James Lapine , Stephen Sondheim
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
"That joyous rarity, a work of sophisticated artistic ambition and deep political purpose that affo… read more
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6. 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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7. Buried Child
By: Sam Shepard
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Childis… read more
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8. A Murder of Quality
By: John Le Carré
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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- fiction
9. Attempts on Her Life
By: Martin Crimp
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Attempts on her Life 17 scenarios for the theatre by Martin Crimp Attempts to describe her? Attemp… read more
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10. Disgraced
By: Ayad Akhtar
4.83
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
The story of Amir Kapoor (Aasif Mandvi), a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly movi… read more
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11. Endgame
By: Samuel Beckett
4.67
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more
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12. 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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13. Rabbit Hole
By: David Lindsay-Abaire
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation--an intensel… 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. The Beauty Queen of Leenane
By: Martin McDonagh
4.08
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Set in the mountains of Connemara, County Galway, The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comi… read more
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16. Blood and Guts in High School
By: Kathy Acker , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… read more
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17. 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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18. The Glass Menagerie
By: Tennessee Williams
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more
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19. Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
By: Rajiv Joseph
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The lives of two American Marines and an Iraqi translator are forever changed by an encounter with … read more
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20. Blackbird
By: David Harrower
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship. They haven't set eyes on each other since. Now, y… read more
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21. In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
By: Sarah Ruhl
4.41
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
In the Next Room or the vibrator playis a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity. Set in … read more
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22. Fairview
By: Jackie Sibblies Drury
4.27
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doome… read more
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"Once... Well, not once, not at all once. Many many many many times, there was a person who worked hard, a person who tried to work hard, and tried to do their best, and tried to do well by their fami…"-Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview
23. 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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"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
24. Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
4.06
Format: None pages, None
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25. Heroes of the Fourth Turning
By: Will Arbery
4.03
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
It's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-… read more
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26. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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27. 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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28. Wolf Play
By: Hansol Jung
4.26
Format: None pages, None
A Korean boy is ushered into a new house by his adopted American father. This new house belongs to … read more
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"But wolves hate Katie. Katies hate Wolf. But Katies live with Peters. So even though Peters are very often allies, Peters are not a hundred percent for the wolf."-Hansol Jung, Wolf Play
29. Downstate
By: Bruce Norris
4.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In downstate Illinois, four men convicted of sex crimes against minors share a group home where the… read more
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30. Pass Over
By: Antoinette Nwandu
4.34
Format: 60 pages, None
A lamppost. Night. Two friends are passing time. Stuck. Waiting for change.Inspired by Waiting for … read more
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31. Rapture
By: Lucy Kirkwood
4.31
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Noah and Celeste Quilter met on a blind date organised by a newspaper, fell in love, got married an… read more
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