20 best-selling plays books like Crooked by Catherine Trieschmann

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Crooked

By: Catherine Trieschmann

3.68

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Dramatic Comedy / 3f Fourteen year old Laney arrives in Oxford, Mississippi with a twisted back…

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1. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • plays
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

Cover of Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Donald Margulies, Tappan Wilder

2. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
Cover of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

3. The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

2.50

Format: None pages,

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
Cover of Fleabag: The Original Play by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

4. Fleabag: The Original Play

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex… read more

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

5. 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

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  • plays
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6. Their Eyes Were Watching God

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more

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7. 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

8. 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
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9. I and You

By: Lauren Gunderson

4.12

Format: 204 pages,

Only in high school would two completely unconnected people - cranky, chronically ill Caroline and … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays

10. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

By: Stephen Adly Guirgis

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud relig… read more

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11. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

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"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

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12. Les Bonnes

By: Jean Genet

3.60

Format: 222 pages, Pocket Book

The Maids (Les Bonnes) is Jean Genet's most oft-revived work for the stage. First performed in Pari… read more

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  • plays
"I, his mistress, mad with grief, shall follow him...I shall share his glory. You speak of widowhood and deny me the white gown - the mourning of queens."

-Jean Genet, Les Bonnes

13. 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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14. An Enemy of the People

By: Henrik Ibsen

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

An Enemy of the people (original Norwegian title: En folkefiende) is an 1882 play by Norwegian play… read more

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15. In the Blood

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

4.00

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

In this modern day riff on The Scarlet Letter, Hester La Negrita, a homeless mother of five, lives … read more

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16. 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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17. My Best Friend's Exorcism

By: Grady Hendrix

3.94

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fifth grade, when they bonded over a shared love of … read more

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"Are you going to do it?"

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

"Abby Rivers was a certified grown-up because she'd finally cried at a movie."

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

"I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley’s Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love…"

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

"Brother Lemon and Abby looked at each other, eyes gleaming in the shadows, and then he stood up. Rummaging in one of his duffle bags, he pulled out an athletic cup and slid it down the front of his p…"

-Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

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18. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
"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

19. Witch

By: Jen Silverman

4.32

Format: 94 pages, None

Mischief is afoot in the sleepy village of Edmonton and the fate of the world is at stake in this s… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
Cover of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

20. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

By: Amanda Montell

3.85

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more

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"Without language, there are no "cults"."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"Some say people who join cults are “lost."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"With words, we breathe reality into being."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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21. A Clockwork Orange

By: Anthony Burgess

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Te… read more

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"I was cured all right."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"I was always on my oddy knocky."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Civilised my syphilised yarbles."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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22. 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
Cover of Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays) by Clare Barron

23. 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
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24. The Moors

By: Jen Silverman

4.26

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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25. 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

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  • theatre
  • plays
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26. Pipeline

By: Dominique Morisseau

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Pipeline confirms Dominique Morisseau's reputation as a play wright of piercing eloquence . . . th… read more

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  • plays
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27. Dry Land

By: Ruby Rae Spiegel

4.04

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

Ester is a swimmer trying to stay afloat. Amy is curled up on the locker room floor. DRY LAND is a … read more

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  • plays
Cover of Crooked by Catherine Trieschmann

28. Crooked

By: Catherine Trieschmann

3.68

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Dramatic Comedy / 3f Fourteen year old Laney arrives in Oxford, Mississippi with a twisted back… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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29. Airness

By: Chelsea Marcantel

4.09

Format: None pages, None

None read more

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  • plays
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30. Usual Girls

By: Ming Peiffer

4.16

Format: 71 pages, None

"Kyeoung has spent her entire life negotiating the double standards imposed on her as an Asian-Amer… read more

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  • plays

18 Best theatre books like Crooked by Catherine Trieschmann

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Our Town

Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

2.50

Transform Your Habits

Fleabag: The Original Play

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

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Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

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The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

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William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

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