11 Best plays books like Usual Girls by Ming Peiffer

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Usual Girls

By: Ming Peiffer

4.16

Format: 71 pages, None

"Kyeoung has spent her entire life negotiating the double standards imposed on her as an Asian-Amer…

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Cover of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Edward Albee

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more

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  • drama
"Honey: I know these people ..."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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2. Top Girls

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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3. John

By: Annie Baker

4.20

Format: None pages,

"Annie Baker's Johnis so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light... By no… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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4. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • plays
  • drama
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5. Eurydice

By: Sarah Ruhl

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Fefu and Her Friends by María Irene Fornés

6. Fefu and Her Friends

By: María Irene Fornés

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

This is one of the best-loved Off-Off-Broadway plays of recent decades. In the innovative original … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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7. Anna in the Tropics

By: Nilo Cruz

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama . . . there are many kinds of light. The light of fires… read more

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  • plays
  • drama

8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. The Flick

By: Annie Baker

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in … read more

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13. The Aliens

By: Annie Baker

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Professional slackers and best friends KJ and Jasper spend their days talking music and Bukowski ou… read more

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14. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

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15. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

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"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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16. Plain Bad Heroines

By: Emily M. Danforth

3.65

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable stu… read more

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"Eleanor Faderman knew many books. But never before had she read a book that seemed to know her."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

"She was a person like this: full of opinion and firm standing, she planted her flag in more topics than you could quite believe she could actually care about."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

"I like it so much better when nobody expects anything from me and then I surprise them by delivering anything at all." "That bar’s so low you’re gonna stub your toe on it."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

"So many things felt so routinely disappointing to her that it seemed a shame to waste this evening on that mild unhappiness, one that she could admit to herself possibly wasn't deserved."

-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

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17. The Thanksgiving Play

By: Larissa FastHorse

3.87

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A mismatched but well-meaning foursome sets out to devise a politically correct school play that ca… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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18. They're Going to Love You

By: Meg Howrey

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York C… read more

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"Marriage is always kind of a net loss, for girls."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"I've had a life of interrupted things, you see. Perhaps I can't bear to have one more part of myself go unfinished."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"All this wasted time. For nothing. For ego. Because nobody could get exactly what they wanted. Because nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"What is the thing that happens in a friendship that isn't an absence of sex? The thing added, that's maybe only between women. Not a matter of our organs or whether we were born with them or what we …"

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

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19. The Moors

By: Jen Silverman

4.26

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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20. When We Were Young and Unafraid

By: Sarah Treem

4.15

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • drama
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21. Usual Girls

By: Ming Peiffer

4.16

Format: 71 pages, None

"Kyeoung has spent her entire life negotiating the double standards imposed on her as an Asian-Amer… read more

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  • plays
  • drama

11 must-read drama books like Usual Girls by Ming Peiffer

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

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Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

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John

Annie Baker

4.20

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How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

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The Good Woman of Setzuan

Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley

3.67

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Caryl Churchill

3.58

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The Rover

Aphra Behn , Simon Trussler

3.18

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Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain , Durga Bai

3.72

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