20 best-selling plays books like Indecent by Paula Vogel

Cover of Indecent by Paula Vogel

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…

"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

If you liked the plays plot in Indecent by Paula Vogel , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Sweat by Lynn Nottage

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

Similar categories in Lynn Nottage's Sweat book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman, Tectonic Theater Project

2. 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

Similar categories in Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

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

3. 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

Similar categories in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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4. Eurydice

By: Sarah Ruhl

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama

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

Similar categories in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

6. All the Way: A Play

By: Bryan Cranston , Robert Schenkkan

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A magnificent work. . . . a brilliant portrayal no less epic than the great tragedies of classic l… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Cranston's All the Way: A Play book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen

7. 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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  • lgbt
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Fefu and Her Friends by María Irene Fornés

8. Fefu and Her Friends

By: María Irene Fornés

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

This is one of the best-loved Off-Off-Broadway plays of recent decades. In the innovative original … read more

Similar categories in María Irene Fornés's Fefu and Her Friends book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • queer
  • feminism
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes

9. 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

Similar categories in Quiara Alegría Hudes's Water by the Spoonful book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

10. 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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11. M. Butterfly

By: David Henry Hwang

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterflyopens in the cramped prison cell where di… read more

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12. 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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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. 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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15. Ruined

By: Lynn Nottage

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage's beautiful, hi… read more

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16. Inherit the Wind

By: Jerome Lawrence , Robert E. Lee

3.93

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

A meaningful play based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was tried … 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. Intimate Apparel - Acting Edition

By: Lynn Nottage

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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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. The Normal Heart

By: Andrew Holleran , Larry Kramer , Joseph Papp

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

THE NORMAL HEARTis the explosive drama about our most terrifying and troubling medical crisis today… read more

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Cover of Indecent by Paula Vogel

21. 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

Similar categories in Paula Vogel's Indecent book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • drama
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • feminism
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • plays
  • queer
"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

Cover of The Triangle Factory Fire Project (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Christopher Piehler

22. The Triangle Factory Fire Project (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

By: Christopher Piehler

4.11

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Saturday, March 25, 1911. 4:45 P.M. In the Triangle Waist Factory off downtown Manhattan s Washingt… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Piehler's The Triangle Factory Fire Project (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • theatre
  • plays
Cover of Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury

23. Fairview

By: Jackie Sibblies Drury

4.27

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doome… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Once... Well, not once, not at all once. Many many many many times, there was a person who worked hard, a person who tried to work hard, and tried to do their best, and tried to do well by their fami…"

-Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview

Cover of Fat Ham by James Ijames

24. Fat Ham

By: James Ijames

4.06

Format: None pages, None

No publication details yet read more

Similar categories in James Ijames's Fat Ham book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • drama
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • queer
Cover of The Thanksgiving Play by Larissa FastHorse

25. 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

Similar categories in Larissa FastHorse's The Thanksgiving Play book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

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

26. 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

Similar categories in Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris

27. Slave Play

By: Jeremy O. Harris

4.18

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in th… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays) by Clare Barron

28. 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

Similar categories in Clare Barron's Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays) book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of A Doll's House, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath

29. 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

Similar categories in Lucas Hnath's A Doll's House, Part 2 book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of POTUS by Selina Fillinger

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

Similar categories in Selina Fillinger's POTUS book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch

31. The God of Vengeance

By: Sholem Asch

3.89

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

A new translation of the classic Yiddish drama by Sholem Asch about a Jewish brothel owner who trie… read more

Similar categories in Sholem Asch's The God of Vengeance book and Paula Vogel's Indecent

  • drama
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • queer

17 best-selling fiction books like Indecent by Paula Vogel

Transform Your Habits

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Topdog/Underdog

Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Eurydice

Sarah Ruhl

4.10

Appropriate

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.47

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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

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How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Eurydice

Sarah Ruhl

4.10

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