21 Top theatre books like Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery

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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-…

If you liked the theatre plot in Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Constellations

By: Nick Payne

4.07

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

One relationship. Infinite possibilities. 'Let's go for a drink. I don't know what I'm doing here a… read more

Similar categories in Nick Payne's Constellations book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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2. John

By: Annie Baker

4.20

Format: None pages,

"Annie Baker's Johnis so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light... By no… read more

Similar categories in Annie Baker's John book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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3. Miss Julie

By: David French , August Strindberg

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The mortal conflict of the sexes, traced here by Strindberg in the clash between an aristocratic yo… read more

Similar categories in David French's Miss Julie book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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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

Similar categories in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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5. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama

6. Gravity and Grace

By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford

4.03

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more

Similar categories in Simone Weil's Gravity and Grace book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • religion

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

Similar categories in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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8. 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

Similar categories in Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • religion
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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9. 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 Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama

10. The Effect

By: Lucy Prebble

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

You're on a placebo, Tristan. Least I've got an excuse. She told me: you're nothing, you're a contr… read more

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11. 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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12. Danny and the Deep Blue Sea: An Apache Dance

By: John Patrick Shanley

3.98

Format: 240 pages,

The setting is a rundown bar in the Bronx, where two of society's rejects, Danny and Roberta, strik… read more

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13. Ivanov

By: Anton Chekhov , None , None

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first of Chekhov's full-length dramas, Ivanov treads a fine line between broad comedy and tragi… read more

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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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 Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"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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17. 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

Similar categories in Martyna Majok's Cost of Living book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

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

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18. 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 Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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19. 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 Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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20. 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 Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery

21. 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

Similar categories in Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

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

22. 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 Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

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

23. 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 Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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24. The Inheritance

By: Matthew López

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

You have to wonder why there isn't a word in the English language for the fireworks that go off in … read more

Similar categories in Matthew López's The Inheritance book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
"Enamorarse es coger cita con el sufrimiento"

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

"Leer no es suficiente, Leo. Tienes que poseer tus propios libros."

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

"If we are to learn what we mean to each other, we must first examine what we mean to ourselves. And we must be fearless and honest in that attempt —"

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

"A muchos de nosotros no nos han dado nunca un ejemplo sano de lo que significa ser homosexual. Lo que significa, por supuesto, que nunca nos han enseñado a serlo. A amar. A aceptar el amor."

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

Cover of What the Constitution Means to Me (TCG Edition) by Heidi Schreck

25. 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

Similar categories in Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me (TCG Edition) book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • theatre
  • politics
  • plays
  • drama
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26. 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

Similar categories in Sanaz Toossi's English book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • fiction
  • 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

Similar categories in Annie Baker's Body Awareness book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Gloria (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

28. Gloria (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

4.26

Format: 59 pages, Paperback

This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a no… read more

Similar categories in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Gloria (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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29. 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 Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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30. Félicité

By: Olivier Choiniere

3.29

Format: None pages, None

GÉRANT - C'est vrai - avant ça, elle a posé une main sur son coeur et elle a dit : « Merci », mais … read more

Similar categories in Olivier Choiniere's Félicité book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

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31. Queen Goneril

By: Erin Shields

4.28

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Set seven years before King Lear , Queen Goneril centres the struggles of Lear’s daughters as they … read more

Similar categories in Erin Shields's Queen Goneril book and Will Arbery's Heroes of the Fourth Turning

  • plays
  • drama

20 Best fiction books like Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery

Transform Your Habits

Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

Transform Your Habits

John

Annie Baker

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Miss Julie

David French , August Strindberg

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Topdog/Underdog

Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

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18 must-read fiction books like English by Sanaz Toossi

Transform Your Habits

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Fleabag: The Original Play

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Topdog/Underdog

Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Transform Your Habits

How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

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