Favorite Plays

#1

Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/3/06 at 6:39pm

I am thinking about ordering a whole bunch of new plays off of an internet site, as I only have about 20 at the present time. Does anyone have any suggestions about their favorite plays to read?

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#2

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/3/06 at 6:41pm

Wit
Arsenic and Old Lace
Barefoot in the Park
Cyrano
Romeo and Juliet
Midsummer Night's Dream
Marvin's Room

#3

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/3/06 at 6:44pm

Arsenic and Old Lace? I'll check it out- I have enver heard of it. My school did Cyrano a few years back and I was in it, and I've read both of teh Shakespeare through required school reading. Thank you so much for the suggestions! I'll check them out!

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#4

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/3/06 at 6:46pm

Dark of the Moon, No Exit.

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#5

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/3/06 at 6:47pm

Death of a Salesman
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Man Who Came To Dinner

#6

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/3/06 at 7:02pm

if you didn't see it I suggest reading Pillowman gave me chills even after seeing it.

#7

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/3/06 at 7:02pm

Arsenic and Old Lace is a dark comedy about two older women and their secret. It was also a WONDERFUL movie with Cary Grant that I highly recommend.

Another one: Harvey

#8

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/3/06 at 8:19pm

Pillowman
The Lieutenant of Inishmore (don't get it if you are planning on seeing the show)
Frankie and Johnny
Stuff Happens (if you are into politics)

#9

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/3/06 at 9:26pm

Aresenic and old lace is great, I really liked it.

If you want a really good comedy, check out Lend Me a Tenor, one of my favorite plays.

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#10

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:05pm

Richard the Third
Hamlet
Noises off
Present Laughter
Saturday, Sunday, Monday

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#11

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:16pm

Angels in America, and almost anything by Tennesee Williams.

#12

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/3/06 at 11:29pm

Agreed on Williams. Also...

Come Back, Little Sheba
The Pillowman
Side Man
Waiting For Godot and Endgame
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (obviously)

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#13

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/4/06 at 12:00am

For the tradtional, ggreat drama: Death of a Salesman
For the tradtional, ggreat comedy: Odd Couple

Less exposed great, though somewhat conventional, dramas: The Diviners, The Kentucky Cycle

Great unconventional dramas: Equus, Angels in America

Take a look at Lanford Wilson and Christopher Durang collections for some good unconventional comedies.

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#14

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/4/06 at 12:16am

The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder! My favorite!

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#15

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/4/06 at 12:23am

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Visit
Ghosts
Burried Child
Equus
The Importance of Being Earnest
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Fools

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#16

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/4/06 at 12:48am

The Normal Heart
Waiting for Godot
Death of a Salesman
A Streetcar Named Desire

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#17

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/4/06 at 2:44pm

My absolute favorite play of all time: Four Dogs & A Bone by John Patrick Shanley. I recommend all of his plays. Women of Manhattan also (great roles for 3 women and two men).

Simpatico and A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard - excellent

Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon

#18

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/4/06 at 3:08pm

The Importance of Being Earnest
Hamlet
The Cherry Orchard
The Normal Heart
Equus
Proof
Noises Off
The Shape of Things
Angels in America

#19

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/4/06 at 3:23pm

The Maids - Genet
Camino Real - Williams
The Glass Menagerie - Williams
Ravenscroft - Nigro
The Illusion - Kushner
La Bete - Hirson
Dirty Blonde - Shear
Fefu and her Friends - Fornes
Everything in the Garden - Albee
Virgina Woolf - Albee

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#20

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/4/06 at 3:36pm

The House of Blue Leaves
The Crucible
Cloud Nine
The Glass Menagerie
Our Town
Lettice and Lovage

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#21

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/4/06 at 3:51pm

Riders To The Sea

He Who Gets Slapped

Pere Ubu

Winterset

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#22

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/4/06 at 4:06pm

Importance of Being Earnest
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#23

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/4/06 at 4:18pm

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
A Language of Our Own by Chay Yew

These are plays with majority non-white casts.

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#24

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/4/06 at 6:45pm

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is my absolute favorite play to read, but I would also recommend
Noises Off by Michael Frayn
The Glass Menagerie
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
or something really interesting,
Suddenly Last Summer
(The last three are by Tennessee Willaims)

#25

re: Favorite Plays

Posted: 4/4/06 at 6:50pm

Shakespearean- Macbeth
Greek- Oedipus Rex
Others: Importance of Being Earnest, I Hate Hamlet (play name, not personal feelings)

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