14 must-read plays books like The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later by Moisés Kaufman, Andy Paris, Tectonic Theater Project, Leigh Fondakowski

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The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later

By: Moisés Kaufman , Andy Paris , Tectonic Theater Project , Leigh Fondakowski , None

4.06

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming, savag…

If you liked the plays plot in The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later by Moisés Kaufman, Andy Paris, Tectonic Theater Project, Leigh Fondakowski, None , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. 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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  • plays
  • school
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2. October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard

By: Lesléa Newman

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A masterful poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard's murder on the world. On the night… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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3. Into the Woods

By: James Lapine , Stephen Sondheim

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

"That joyous rarity, a work of sophisticated artistic ambition and deep political purpose that affo… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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4. 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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  • plays
  • school

5. 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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  • plays
  • school
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6. Joe Turner's Come and Gone

By: August Wilson

3.54

Format: 256 pages,

When Herald Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boardinghouse after seven years' impressed labor o… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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7. The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later

By: Moisés Kaufman , Andy Paris , Tectonic Theater Project , Leigh Fondakowski , None

4.06

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence outside Laramie, Wyoming, savag… read more

Similar categories in Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later book and Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later

  • history
  • school
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • nonfiction
  • plays
  • queer
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8. Blithe Spirit

By: Noël Coward

3.97

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"An insane farce that is also uproarious."--NY Times "I will ever be grateful for the almost psych… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
"Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

9. The 39 Steps

By: John Buchan , Patrick Barlow

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps was the novel that introduced readers to the cunning Richard Ha… read more

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10. Under the Udala Trees

By: Chinelo Okparanta

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful … read more

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11. Wit

By: None

4.48

Format: None pages,

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Ou… read more

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12. 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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13. Stolen

By: Jane Harrison

3.37

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Stolen is a play by Australian playwright Jane Harrison. It is based upon the lives of five indigen… read more

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14. 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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15. Peter and the Starcatcher

By: Rick Elice

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

The hilarious script for the Broadway play Peter and the Starcatcher is in the perfect format for p… read more

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16. Girl

By: Jamaica Kincaid

3.97

Format: 480 pages,

Girlwas originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorkerand subsequently included … read more

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17. When the Emperor Was Divine

By: Julie Otsuka

3.29

Format: None pages,

Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any… read more

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18. Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

4.16

Format: 114 pages,

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19. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

By: Anna Deavere Smith

3.19

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Anna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater" in which she uses verbatim the word… read more

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20. Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

By: Tony Kushner

3.80

Format: 144 pages,

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21. The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed

By: Judy Shepard

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The mother of Matthew Shepard shares her story about her son's death and the choice she made to bec… read more

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22. Indecent

By: Paula Vogel

4.46

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“Revelatory…As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel’s play thrums with music, desire… read more

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  • theatre
  • queer
  • plays
  • lgbt
"I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

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23. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
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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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  • plays

25. Witch

By: Jen Silverman

4.32

Format: 94 pages, None

Mischief is afoot in the sleepy village of Edmonton and the fate of the world is at stake in this s… read more

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  • plays
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26. Dreaming in Cuban

By: Cristina García

3.68

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban… read more

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  • school
"In Cuba, everything seemed temporal, distorted by the sun."

-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban

"We speak in Spanish when we make love. English seems an impossible language for intimacy."

-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban

"I still love you, Gustavo, but it's a habitual love, a wound in the knee that predicts rain."

-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban

"Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains."

-Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban

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27. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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28. What the Constitution Means to Me (TCG Edition)

By: Heidi Schreck

4.37

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“ BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR” New York Times · New Yorker · TIME · Hollywood Reporter · Newsweek · BuzzF… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • plays
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29. Going Bicoastal

By: Dahlia Adler

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (an… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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30. POTUS

By: Selina Fillinger

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spin… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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31. Describe the Night

By: Rajiv Joseph

4.17

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel wanders the countryside with the Red Cavalry. Seventy years… read more

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  • plays

5 Top school books like The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later by Moisés Kaufman, Andy Paris, Tectonic Theater Project, Leigh Fondakowski

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Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

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Topdog/Underdog

Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Appropriate

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.47

Transform Your Habits

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Transform Your Habits

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

4.07

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Naomi Klein

4.22

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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Cynthia Carr

4.27

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Lucy Sante

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