7 best-selling plays books like Sordid Lives: A Comedy in Four Chapters by Del Shores

Cover of Sordid Lives: A Comedy in Four Chapters by Del Shores

Sordid Lives: A Comedy in Four Chapters

By: Del Shores

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Comedy / 6m, 6f Winner! 14 DramaLogue awards including Best Production A black comedy about white t…

If you liked the plays plot in Sordid Lives: A Comedy in Four Chapters by Del Shores , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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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"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. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

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"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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

3. 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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  • plays
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4. 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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5. Kimberly Akimbo

By: David Lindsay-Abaire

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Playwright, David Lindsay-Abaire's Ki… read more

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  • plays

6. 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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7. Death and the King's Horseman: A Play

By: Wole Soyinka

3.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Based on events that took place in Oyo, an ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Wole Soyinka's … read more

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8. Death of a Salesman

By: Arthur Miller

3.57

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more

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"I’m tired to the death."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"LINDA [with infinite patience]"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"Be liked and you will never want."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

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 Children's Hour

By: Lillian Hellman

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

This is a serious and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious youn… read more

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11. 'night, Mother

By: Marsha Norman

4.15

Format: None pages,

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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. Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

By: Bryan Lee O'Malley

4.40

Format: 205 pages,

Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, he's in a rockband, he's "between jobs" a… read more

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14. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim, #2)

By: Bryan Lee O'Malley

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Does Scott and Ramona's burgeoning relationship have a future? Isn't Scott still supposedly dating … read more

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"Ooh, go ahead and poke fun at my poor queenology, Canada boy."

-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim, #2)

"Ewww! New girlfriends only want to hear bad stuff about ex-girlfriends, dude, come on."

-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim, #2)

"Scott, you are the salt of the earth. Oh, I'm sorry, excuse me. I meant scum of the earth."

-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim, #2)

"Scott! If we had a band, we would be cool. Even if we sucked! We would transcend our class status or whatever, and become automatically cool."

-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim, #2)

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. Fuddy Meers

By: David Lindsay-Abaire

4.47

Format: 907 pages,

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17. Christmas Belles

By: Jessie Jones , None , None

4.45

Format: 864 pages,

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18. 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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19. Sordid Lives: A Comedy in Four Chapters

By: Del Shores

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Comedy / 6m, 6f Winner! 14 DramaLogue awards including Best Production A black comedy about white t… read more

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7 must-read theatre books like Sordid Lives: A Comedy in Four Chapters by Del Shores

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