Orphans: A Play
By: Lyle Kessler
3.91
Format: 352 pages, ebook
A Best Revival Tony Award-nominated play starring Alec Baldwin. "A briskly entertaining, deeply aff…
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1. 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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"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
2. The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
By: Agatha Christie
3.85
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love… and flat broke. Just after Great… read more
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"It's dangerous to know too much."-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
"Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown."-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
"Shades of Pelmanism!’ said Tommy, and relapsed into silence."-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
"Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best."-Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence Mysteries, #1)
3. The Pillowman
By: Martin McDonagh
4.30
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more
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"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman
4. The Laramie Project
By: Moisés Kaufman , Tectonic Theater Project
3.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
For a year and a half following the murder of Matthew Shepard, Moises Kaufman and his Tectonic Thea… read more
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5. 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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6. 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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7. Lobby Hero
By: Kenneth Lonergan
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
With his acclaimed plays This Is Our Youth and The Waverly Gallery and his Oscar-nominated film You… read more
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8. Arcadia
By: Tom Stoppard
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
Arcadiatakes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nat… read more
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9. 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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10. Cleansed
By: Sarah Kane
3.89
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This stunning play from the controversial author of Blastedpremiered at the Royal Court Theatre, Lo… read more
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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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"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
14. 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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15. 'Art'
By: Yasmina Reza , Christopher Hampton
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Tony Award-winning play that focuses on the meaning of art (in the form of a solid white painti… read more
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16. Middletown
By: Will Eno
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
"Will Eno is an original, a maverick wordsmith whose weird, wry dramas gurgle with the grim humor a… read more
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17. 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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"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
18. A Feminine Ending
By: Sarah Treem
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Full Length, Dark Comedy 3m., 2f. Various, Unit set Amanda, twenty-five, wants to be a great compos… read more
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19. 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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20. Other Desert Cities
By: Honor Moore , Jon Robin Baitz
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
In OTHER DESERT CITIES, Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents after a six-… read more
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22. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
By: Rachel Maddow
4.45
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
23. Fat Ham
By: James Ijames
4.06
Format: None pages, None
No publication details yet read more
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24. 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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25. Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)
By: Agatha Christie
3.91
Format: 191 pages, Paperback
First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond... then came the “suicide” that was mu… read more
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"Uncertainty creates panic."-Agatha Christie, Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)
26. The Inheritance
By: Matthew López
4.51
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
You have to wonder why there isn't a word in the English language for the fireworks that go off in … read more
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"Enamorarse es coger cita con el sufrimiento"-Matthew López, The Inheritance
"Leer no es suficiente, Leo. Tienes que poseer tus propios libros."-Matthew López, The Inheritance
"If we are to learn what we mean to each other, we must first examine what we mean to ourselves. And we must be fearless and honest in that attempt —"-Matthew López, The Inheritance
"A muchos de nosotros no nos han dado nunca un ejemplo sano de lo que significa ser homosexual. Lo que significa, por supuesto, que nunca nos han enseñado a serlo. A amar. A aceptar el amor."-Matthew López, The Inheritance
27. The Lifespan of a Fact
By: Jeremy Kareken
3.93
Format: 59 pages, ebook
Jim Fingal is a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact-checker for a prominent but sinking New York magazine. Jo… read more
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28. Hand to God: A Play
By: Robert Askins
3.87
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
"The freshest and funniest Broadway comedy in years... Hand to God is to plays as The Book of Mormo… read more
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29. Prodigal Son (TCG Edition)
By: John Patrick Shanley
4.13
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
"A keen, passionate portrait of the author as a poetry-spouting romantic punk torn between literary… read more
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30. Orphans
By: Lyle Kessler
3.91
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
When Treat kidnaps Harold, a mysterious middle-aged man with a briefcase full of bonds, it changes … read more
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31. Vanity Fair: an (im-)morality play
By: Kate Hamill
3.73
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
Becky is "bad." Amelia is "good." But in an unfair world, it isn't always that simple... Two women … read more
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