Plays Everyone Should Read — Page 3

Torch Song Trilogy

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Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
Friedrich Durrenmatt, The Visit
NOEL COWARD!!! (Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Design for Living, Present Laughter)

I have to second Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth and Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night.

Also, some modern 'classics':
Proof, by David Auburn
Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley
Last Night of Ballyhoo, by Alfred Uhry
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, by Stephen Adly Guirgis

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Angels in America
Our Town (if you haven't already)
The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder <--- Hello, Dolly play! Know that?
Pygmalian (Oscar Wilde?)
The Curcible
When Ya Coming Back Red Ryder? Mark Medoff (Read this in my Script Analysis class.
M Butterfly - Imagine BD Wong!
Buried Child - Sam Shepard (Freaky play! But good)
Crimes of the Heart
Mojo & String (Two separate plays. Samuel French.)
The Piano Lesson
The Good Person of Schezuan
The Laramie Project
Oedipius Rex
Antigone
The Winter's Tale - Shakespeare ... Just don't watch it being performed
School For Wives - Moliere.
Proof
Dearly Departed
Over Here! - Okay it's a lost musical that starred two of the Andrews Sisters, John Travolta, Treat Williams, Merilu Henner, and of course ... Ann Reinking! Good show... NO GREAT!

I guess Script Analysis class really got me reading.

Anything written by Shakespeare

Arcadia
The Crucible
The Kentucky Cycle
The Birthday Party
The Real Thing
The Goat
Waiting for Lefty
The Twilight of the Golds
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Fifth of July