16 Top plays books like For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday by Sarah Ruhl

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For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday

By: Sarah Ruhl

3.93

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

After their father dies, five siblings find themselves around the kitchen table of their childhood,…

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1. Pygmalion

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion was a rousing success on the London and Ne… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"La vida no consiste en buscarse a sí mismo, sino en crearse a sí mismo"

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

"I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you."

-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

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2. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
"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

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3. The Colossus and Other Poems

By: Sylvia Plath

3.31

Format: 267 pages,

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4. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

By: Sam Steiner

3.96

Format: None pages,

The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliv… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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5. Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

By: Grant Morrison , Dave McKean

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

In this groundbreaking, painted graphic novel, the inmates of Arkham Asylum have taken over Gotham'… 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

7. Appropriate

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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8. She Kills Monsters

By: Qui Nguyen

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

A comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games, " She Kills Monsters " tells the story… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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9. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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10. Water by the Spoonful

By: Quiara Alegría Hudes

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The 2012 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

11. Yellow Face

By: Frank Rich , David Henry Hwang

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A thesis of a play, unafraid of complexities and contradictions, pepped up with a light dramatic f… read more

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  • plays
  • drama

12. Gruesome Playground Injuries

By: Rajiv Joseph

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

The fourth play written by playwright Rajiv Joseph follows the lives of two best friends tumultuous… read more

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13. 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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14. 4.48 Psychosis

By: Sarah Kane

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

4.48 Psychosissees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the se… read more

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15. The Taming of the Shrew

By: William Shakespeare

3.78

Format: 438 pages,

Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more

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16. Circle Mirror Transformation

By: Annie Baker

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Thanks, you guys. I think this was a really, really great start. Five lost people come together at … read more

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17. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

By: Mark Haddon , Simon Stephens

5.00

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and the capital ci… read more

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18. Spring's Awakening

By: Eric Bentley , Frank Wedekind

4.03

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Spring's Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is kill… read more

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19. 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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20. A Lion Among Men (The Wicked Years, #3)

By: Gregory Maguire , Douglas Smith

4.29

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this much-anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the ey… read more

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21. Son of a Witch (The Wicked Years, #2)

By: Gregory Maguire , Douglas Smith , None

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Liir hid in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Left for dead in a gully, the… read more

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22. X

By: Alistair McDowall

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

It's a tax write-off. This is where they send the new, the under-qualified, the old. And most of al… read more

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23. 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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24. Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Clare Barron

4.22

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

'Maybe this is the year, this is the moment, this is the dance where your lives will start!'Somewhe… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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25. Sincerely, Your Autistic Child

By: Sharon daVanport

4.30

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A rare and diverse collection of autistic voices that highlights to parents the unique needs of gir… read more

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26. The Antipodes

By: Annie Baker

4.13

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“Endlessly fascinating … The Antipodes leaves you glowing with a wondering satisfaction. I mean the… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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27. Body Awareness

By: Annie Baker

3.86

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

It's "Body Awareness" week on a Vermont college campus and Phyllis, the organizer, and her partner,… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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28. Lost Girl

By: Kimberly Belflower

4.26

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Long after returning from Neverland, Wendy decides that she must find Peter in order to reclaim her… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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29. Silent Sky

By: Lauren Gunderson

4.28

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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30. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Cover of For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday by Sarah Ruhl

31. For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday

By: Sarah Ruhl

3.93

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

After their father dies, five siblings find themselves around the kitchen table of their childhood,… read more

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  • theatre
  • retellings
  • plays
  • drama

15 Best drama books like For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday by Sarah Ruhl

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Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

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Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

Sam Steiner

3.96

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3.82

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3.47

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4.07

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Lynn Nottage

4.06

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Paula Vogel

3.85

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4.10

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