The Niceties
By: Eleanor Burgess
4.28
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
At an elite East Coast university, an ambitious young black student and her esteemed white professo…
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1. The House of Yes
By: Wendy Macleod
4.12
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
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"Lesly: I don't think you're insane. Jackie-O: You don't? Lesly: No. Jackie-O: You don't think I'm an eensie weensie bit insane? Lesly: I don't think you're insane. I think you're just spoiled. Jackie…"-Wendy Macleod, The House of Yes
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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"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
3. 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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4. Mystic River
By: Dennis Lehane
4.17
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange… read more
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"We all die alone...... I could have helped her with the dying."-Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
"She was his wife, mother, best friend, sister, lover, and priest."-Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
"Men. If you give them half a chance, they'll fuck you over just to prove they can."-Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
"I’m just saying there are threads, okay? Threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected."-Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
5. Sweat
By: Lynn Nottage
4.06
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory wor… read more
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6. My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, #1)
By: Tananarive Due
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever … read more
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8. 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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9. Uncle Vanya
By: Anton Chekhov
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revive… read more
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10. Noises Off
By: Michael Frayn
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award--winning author of Copenhagen, is not one play but … read more
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11. Rabbit Hole
By: David Lindsay-Abaire
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation--an intensel… read more
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12. O Pioneers!
By: Willa Cather
3.90
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged ma… read more
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"Things away from home often look better than they are."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"Neither Oscar nor Lou has changed much; they have simply, as Alexandra said of them long ago, grown to be more and more like themselves."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while."-Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
13. 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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14. Ripcord
By: David Lindsay-Abaire
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
"A lyrical and understanding chronicler of people who somehow become displaced within their own liv… read more
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15. Steel Magnolias
By: None
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Presents the script of a 1988 play about a group of women in Chinquapin, Louisiana, who learn to dr… read more
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16. 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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17. 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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18. Medea
By: Euripides , Rex Warner
3.42
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more
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19. Twelve Angry Men
By: David Mamet , Reginald Rose
4.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival--featuring an introdu… read more
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20. Wait Until Dark
By: Frederick Knott
3.45
Format: 216 pages,
A sinister con-man, Roat, and two ex-convicts, Mike and Carlino, are about to meet their match. The… read more
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21. Cost of Living
By: Martyna Majok
4.14
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, reunites with his ex-wife Ani after she suffers a devastating ac… read more
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"That's not a thing I'll ever know. Everything's started over for me—"-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living
"Self-pity has little currency in these characters' worlds. Humor, however, has much."-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living
"It matters who you are. Family. Connections. If there's gonna be a net when you fall. Cuz everybody falls."-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living
"The shit that happens is not to be understood. That's from the Bible. The shit that happens to you is Not To Be Understood."-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living
22. 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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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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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. 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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26. Mary Jane (TCG Edition)
By: Amy Herzog
4.05
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
“The most profound and harrowing of Ms. Herzog’s many fine plays.” —Jesse Green, New York Times Arm… read more
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27. A Doll's House, Part 2
By: Lucas Hnath
3.82
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
In the final scene of Ibsen’s 1879 groundbreaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decisi… read more
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28. English
By: Sanaz Toossi
4.53
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Winner! 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama Winner! 2023 Obie Award for Best New American Play It's 2008,… read more
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29. Hookman
By: Lauren Yee
3.75
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
Freshman year at college is hard when your roommate is weird, you’re feeling homesick, and a hook-h… read more
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30. 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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31. The Niceties
By: Eleanor Burgess
4.28
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
At an elite East Coast university, an ambitious young black student and her esteemed white professo… read more
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