17 Best plays books like Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl

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Dead Man's Cell Phone

By: Sarah Ruhl

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

"Satire is her oxygen. . . . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is foreve…

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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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  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • 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?

Cover of Sweat by Lynn Nottage

2. 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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  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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3. 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
  • fiction
"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

Cover of The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman, Tectonic Theater Project

4. The Laramie Project

By: Moisés Kaufman , Tectonic Theater Project

3.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

For a year and a half following the murder of Matthew Shepard, Moises Kaufman and his Tectonic Thea… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
  • drama
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5. Blasted

By: Sarah Kane

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Blastedis Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that ye… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks

6. Topdog/Underdog

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the w… read more

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  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, William Archer

7. Hedda Gabler

By: Henrik Ibsen , William Archer

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hedda Gabler, the daughter of a deceased General, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of… read more

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  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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8. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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9. Dead Man's Cell Phone

By: Sarah Ruhl

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

"Satire is her oxygen. . . . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is foreve… read more

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  • magical realism
  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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10. Disgraced

By: Ayad Akhtar

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

The story of Amir Kapoor (Aasif Mandvi), a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly movi… read more

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  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Betrayal by Harold Pinter

11. Betrayal

By: Harold Pinter

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Betrayalis Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play b… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama

12. Almost, Maine

By: John Cariani

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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13. Stop Kiss

By: None

3.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ben Brantley of the New York Times summed up the critical reaction to Diana Son's play Stop Kiss wh… read more

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14. 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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15. 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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16. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By: Tennessee Williams

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more

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  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

17. 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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18. Kiss of the Spider Woman

By: Manuel Puig

4.01

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glitt… read more

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  • fiction
  • school
"¿Qué pasa que a veces alguien dice algo y conquista para siempre a otra persona?"

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

"--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again."

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

"– Io non ci credo alla faccenda del godi e non pensare al domani, Molina. Nessuno gode senza pensare al domani. Va bene solo per il paradiso terrestre."

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

"—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some queen, can't be sensitive, too, if he's got a mind to? —I don't know, but sometimes that kind of be…"

-Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

19. 'night, Mother

By: Marsha Norman

4.15

Format: None pages,

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20. Fences (The Century Cycle #6)

By: August Wilson

4.23

Format: 690 pages,

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture directed by Denzel Washington, and starring Denzel Washington and… read more

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21. 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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22. Doubt

By: John Patrick Shanley

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty w… read more

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23. Intimate Apparel - Acting Edition

By: Lynn Nottage

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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24. 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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25. Crimes of the Heart

By: Beth Henley

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

This drama in three acts won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981. Set in a small Mississippi town,… read more

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26. 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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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

27. 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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  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Bluebeard's Castle by Anna Biller

28. Bluebeard's Castle

By: Anna Biller

3.22

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

A subversive take on the famous French fairy tale from the acclaimed director of The Love Witch, an… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays) by Clare Barron

29. 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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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau

30. Skeleton Crew

By: Dominique Morisseau

4.13

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

At the start of the Great Recession, one of the last auto stamping plants in Detroit is on shaky gr… read more

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  • theatre
  • school
  • plays
Cover of Body Awareness by Annie Baker

31. 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

16 Best fiction books like Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl

Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Pillowman

Martin McDonagh

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Blasted

Sarah Kane

3.81

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15 Best fiction books like The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

Transform Your Habits

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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