9 Best plays books like Road Show by Stephen Sondheim

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Road Show

By: Stephen Sondheim

3.57

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner were brothers who, although they played only a minor role in the …

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Cover of Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) by Ted Chapin

1. Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books)

By: Ted Chapin

4.51

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

In 1971 college student Ted Chapin found himself front row center as a production assistant at the … read more

Similar categories in Ted Chapin's Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books) book and Stephen Sondheim's Road Show

  • theatre
  • musicals
  • plays
  • drama
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2. The Christians

By: Lucas Hnath

4.17

Format: 620 pages, Paperback

Sometimes it’s really hard to really know which voice is God, and which one is your wishful self. … read more

Similar categories in Lucas Hnath's The Christians book and Stephen Sondheim's Road Show

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

3. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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4. The Piano Lesson

By: August Wilson

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black exper… read more

Similar categories in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson book and Stephen Sondheim's Road Show

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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5. Gem of the Ocean

By: August Wilson

4.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

"No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much… read more

Similar categories in August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean book and Stephen Sondheim's Road Show

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

6. 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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7. A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney: A Play

By: Lucas Hnath

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Lucas Hnath's darkly clever A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Life of Walt Dis… read more

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8. The Seagull

By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more

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9. Heartburn

By: Nora Ephron

3.53

Format: 256 pages,

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the wri… read more

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10. A Little Night Music

By: Stephen Sondheim

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

(Applause Libretto Library). "Throwing caution to the winds, I assert that A Little Night Music com… read more

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11. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

Similar categories in John Milton's Paradise Lost book and Stephen Sondheim's Road Show

"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

12. 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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Cover of Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1) by Colson Whitehead

13. Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.74

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a … read more

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"Step back and the world is a classroom if need be."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

"Crooked world, straight world, same rules - everybody had a hand out for the envelope."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

"He was a strange mix--congenial but reserved in a way that told you being friendly was an act of will."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

"I'm an entrepreneur." "Entrepreneur?" Pepper said the last part like manure. "That's just a hustler who pays taxes."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

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14. Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers

By: Mary Rodgers

4.24

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The memoirs of Mary Rodgers Guettel--writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried eve… read more

Similar categories in Mary Rodgers's Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers book and Stephen Sondheim's Road Show

  • theatre
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15. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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16. I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir

By: Harvey Fierstein

4.37

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Awa… read more

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17. All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business

By: Mel Brooks

4.24

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, a… read more

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"I didn’t realize it but I might have created the first cell phone. Had I patented it, I probably would have made so much money that I wouldn’t have had to write this book."

-Mel Brooks, All About Me! My Remarkable Life in Show Business

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18. Follies

By: James Goldman

4.26

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

On the eve of its destruction, the once-glorious Weissman Theatre is filled with the ghosts of its … read more

Similar categories in James Goldman's Follies book and Stephen Sondheim's Road Show

  • theatre
  • musicals
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway by Michael Riedel

19. Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway

By: Michael Riedel

4.09

Format: 352 pages, ebook

“Fun and gossipy.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A masterful history.” —Publishers Weekly (starred re… read more

Similar categories in Michael Riedel's Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway book and Stephen Sondheim's Road Show

  • theatre
  • plays
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20. Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim

By: D.T. Max

3.71

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker writer's illuminating and deeply personal collection of interviews with the late Steph… read more

Similar categories in D.T. Max's Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim book and Stephen Sondheim's Road Show

  • theatre
  • musicals
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21. Tambo & Bones

By: Dave Harris

4.25

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Tambo and Bones are stuck in a minstrel show. It's hard to know what's real when you're stuck in a … read more

Similar categories in Dave Harris's Tambo & Bones book and Stephen Sondheim's Road Show

  • plays
Cover of Road Show by Stephen Sondheim

22. Road Show

By: Stephen Sondheim

3.57

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner were brothers who, although they played only a minor role in the … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Sondheim's Road Show book and Stephen Sondheim's Road Show

  • theatre
  • musicals
  • plays
  • drama

7 best-selling drama books like Road Show by Stephen Sondheim

Transform Your Habits

Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies (Applause Books)

Ted Chapin

4.51

Transform Your Habits

The Christians

Lucas Hnath

4.17

Appropriate

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.47

Transform Your Habits

The Piano Lesson

August Wilson

3.09

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9 Top fiction books like Paradise Lost by John Milton, John Leonard

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Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.

3.77

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The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Transform Your Habits

King Lear

William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

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