9 Top theatre books like Nocturama by Annie Baker

Nocturama

By: Annie Baker

3.79

Format: None pages, None

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

1. 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
  • drama
Cover of Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1) by Sophocles, J.E. Thomas, Elizabeth Osborne

2. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
Cover of Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl

3. Lamb to the Slaughter

By: Roald Dahl

3.84

Format: 179 pages,

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4. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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5. Ghost World

By: Daniel Clowes

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ghost Worldhas become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire… read more

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6. Every Brilliant Thing

By: Duncan Macmillan

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

You're six years old. Mum's in hospital. Dad says she's 'done something stupid'. She finds it hard … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Crush by Richard Siken

7. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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Cover of Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2) by Sophocles, Eamon Grennan, Rachel Kitzinger

8. Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

By: Sophocles , Eamon Grennan , Rachel Kitzinger

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

The latest title to join the acclaimed Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, Sophocles' Oedipus… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

9. Uncle Vanya

By: Anton Chekhov

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revive… read more

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10. 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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11. Light Years

By: James Salter

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a mar… read more

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12. 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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13. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

By: Kelly Link

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more

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"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

Cover of A Shining by Jon Fosse

14. A Shining

By: Jon Fosse

3.49

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and lef… read more

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"but you can’t just touch a whiteness like that. because if you did you’d probably get it dirty. and imagine getting something so white dirty"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

"Es ist auch nicht zu begreifen, es ist etwas anderes, vielleicht etwas, das man nur erlebt und das nicht wirklich geschieht. Aber geht es an, dass man so etwas einfach erlebt. Alles, was man erlebt, …"

-Jon Fosse, A Shining

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15. 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

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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16. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

17. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

By: Ntozake Shange

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"i done forgot all abt words aint got no definitions"

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"Through my tears 1 found god in myself and I loved her fiercely"."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

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18. Barn Burning

By: Haruki Murakami

3.82

Format: 20 pages, None

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"You're a writer, so I thought you must be interested in patterns of human behavior. Writers are supposed to appreciate something for what it is, before they hand down a judgment."

-Haruki Murakami, Barn Burning

Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

19. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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20. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

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21. Nocturama

By: Annie Baker

3.79

Format: None pages, None

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  • plays
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4.07

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Lynn Nottage

4.06

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