9 Best plays books like Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays by John Patrick Shanley

Cover of Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays by John Patrick Shanley

Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays

By: John Patrick Shanley

3.64

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Contains the plays The Red Coat, Down and Out, Let Us Go Out into the Starry Night, Out West, A Lon…

If you liked the plays plot in Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays by John Patrick Shanley , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley

1. The Boys in the Band

By: Mart Crowley

4.01

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

"Boys can still hold its own . . . [Mart] Crowley's point is about how the humor is shaped and defi… read more

Similar categories in Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band book and John Patrick Shanley's Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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2. 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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  • theatre
  • 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

Cover of Pinocchio by John Boyne, Unknown, Monteiro Lobato, Carlo Collodi

3. Pinocchio

By: John Boyne , Unknown , Monteiro Lobato , Carlo Collodi

3.85

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A timeless classic to be read over and over. This is the story of Pinocchio, filled with harrowi… read more

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"Hunger is the best cook."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!"

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

"Laziness is a serious illness and one must cure it immediately; yes, even from early childhood. If not, it will kill you in the end."

-John Boyne, Pinocchio

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4. Ikigai

By: Francesc Miralles , Héctor García

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years." --Japanese proverb According to t… 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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6. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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7. De Profundis

By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann

4.03

Format: 246 pages,

De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… read more

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8. The Three Sisters

By: Anton Chekhov

3.06

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, The Three Sistersprobes the lives and dreams of … read more

Similar categories in Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters book and John Patrick Shanley's Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Cymbeline by William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom, Gabriele Baldini

9. Cymbeline

By: William Shakespeare , Harold Bloom , Gabriele Baldini

3.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Cymbeline also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain or The Tragedy of Cymbeline, is a play by Willia… read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's Cymbeline book and John Patrick Shanley's Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

10. True West

By: Sam Shepard

3.79

Format: 368 pages,

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11. The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

During an unnamed battle, 18-year-old private Henry Fleming survives what he considers to be a lost… read more

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12. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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13. Curse of the Starving Class

By: Sam Shepard

4.10

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A major work by one of our theatre's most respected and celebrated writers, this award-winning exam… read more

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14. The Gift of the Magi

By: O. Henry , Lisbeth Zwerger

4.11

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure. … read more

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"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl."

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with snif…"

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

"Единственное, что тут можно было сделать, это хлопнуться на старенькую кушетку и зареветь. Именно так Делла и поступила. Откуда напрашивается философский вывод, что жизнь состоит из слез, вздохов и у…"

-O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

15. 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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16. Bodas de sangre

By: Federico García Lorca , Juan Caballero , Allen Josephs

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

El tema de esta obra surgio a raiz de una noticia aparecida en prensa: dos amantes se fugan en la v… read more

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17. Measure for Measure

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Measure for Measureis among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare's plays. In it, a duke t… read more

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18. Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's Macbeth book and John Patrick Shanley's Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays

  • theatre
  • plays
"What, you egg?"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done, is done"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done cannot be undone."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What, you egg? / [He stabs him.]"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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19. 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

Similar categories in Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves book and John Patrick Shanley's Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

20. Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

By: Raphael Bob-Waksberg

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the univer… read more

Similar categories in Raphael Bob-Waksberg's Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory book and John Patrick Shanley's Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays

"People outgrow me,"

-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

"I don’t even think about you,"

-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

"Per-haps every can of cashews has a fake snake lurking, but you keep opening them, stupidly, because in your heart of hearts you still believe in cashews."

-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

"I fell in love with you a little bit, in that stupid way where you completely make up a fictional version of the person you’re looking at and fall in love with that person."

-Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

Cover of Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays by John Patrick Shanley

21. Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays

By: John Patrick Shanley

3.64

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Contains the plays The Red Coat, Down and Out, Let Us Go Out into the Starry Night, Out West, A Lon… read more

Similar categories in John Patrick Shanley's Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays book and John Patrick Shanley's Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

7 Top drama books like Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays by John Patrick Shanley

Transform Your Habits

The Boys in the Band

Mart Crowley

4.01

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

2.50

Transform Your Habits

The Three Sisters

Anton Chekhov

3.06

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Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

Transform Your Habits

How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Eurydice

Sarah Ruhl

4.10

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