15 must-read fiction books like Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang

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Baby with the Bathwater

By: Christopher Durang

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Acting edition.

If you liked the fiction plot in Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Equus (Penguin Plays) by Peter Shaffer

1. Equus (Penguin Plays)

By: Peter Shaffer

3.91

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In "Equus," which took critics and public alike by storm and has gone on to become a modern classic… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave."

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?"

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

"To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!"

-Peter Shaffer, Equus (Penguin Plays)

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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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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

3. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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4. 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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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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5. Miss Julie

By: David French , August Strindberg

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic yo… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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6. 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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  • humor
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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7. Bad Jews

By: Joshua Harmon

4.12

Format: None pages,

Bad Jews is the story of Daphna Feygenbaum, a "Real Jew" with an Israeli boyfriend she met on Birth… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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8. Dinner With Friends

By: Donald Margulies , Matthew Arkin , None , None , None , None

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Filled with humor, warmth, insight and wisdom, Dinner w… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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9. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
Cover of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, William Archer

10. Hedda Gabler

By: Henrik Ibsen , William Archer

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hedda Gabler, the daughter of a deceased General, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of Der Besuch der alten Dame by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

11. Der Besuch der alten Dame

By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

>>Claire Zachanassian, eine amerikanische Multimillionarin, kehrt in ihr Heimatdorf Gullen zuruck, … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama

12. Happy Birthday, Wanda June

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

In his first published play, Kurt Vonnegut finds a powerful vehicle for his tragicomical imaginatio… read more

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13. Almost, Maine

By: John Cariani

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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14. Noises Off

By: Michael Frayn

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award--winning author of Copenhagen, is not one play but … read more

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15. 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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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. Wit

By: None

4.48

Format: None pages,

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Ou… read more

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Cover of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Michael   Meyer

18. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

19. Danny and the Deep Blue Sea: An Apache Dance

By: John Patrick Shanley

3.98

Format: 240 pages,

The setting is a rundown bar in the Bronx, where two of society's rejects, Danny and Roberta, strik… read more

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20. 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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21. Closer: A Play

By: Patrick Marber

3.97

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern rom… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
"I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"DAN What do you want? ALICE To be loved. DAN That simple? ALICE It's a big want."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

22. Oleanna

By: David Mamet

3.75

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

In David Mamet's latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss … read more

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23. Brighton Beach Memoirs

By: Neil Simon

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

The first in Neil Simon's "Eugene Trilogy," followed by Biloxi Bluesand Broadway Bound Winner of a… read more

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24. Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more

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25. 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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26. The Cherry Orchard

By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more

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27. Reasons to Be Pretty

By: Neil LaBute

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

In Reasons to Be Pretty, Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand re… read more

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28. Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

By: Tony Kushner

3.80

Format: 144 pages,

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29. Time Stands Still

By: Donald Margulies

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

In his "absorbing intelligent" (Los Angeles Times) and timely new play, Donald Margulies uncovers t… read more

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Cover of A Doll's House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath

30. A Doll's House, Part 2

By: Lucas Hnath

3.82

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

In the final scene of Ibsen’s 1879 groundbreaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decisi… read more

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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang

31. Baby with the Bathwater

By: Christopher Durang

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Acting edition. read more

Similar categories in Christopher Durang's Baby with the Bathwater book and Christopher Durang's Baby with the Bathwater

  • humor
  • poetry plays
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • family
  • plays
  • comedy
  • drama

15 Best plays books like Baby with the Bathwater by Christopher Durang

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Equus (Penguin Plays)

Peter Shaffer

3.91

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Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

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Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

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Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

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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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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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

3.95

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