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Writer's pictureLaurie Swigart

PLAYS TO READ - TEACHER RECOMMENDATIONS

A Doll's House by Ibsen

Ah, Wilderness by Eugene O'Neil

All My Sons by Arthur Miller

American Buffalo by Mamet

Angels in America - Tony Kushner

Anne of a Thousand Days by Maxwell Anderson

Arcadia by David Stoppard

A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams

A Taste of Honey by Delaney

Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon

Bus Stop - William Inge

Camino Real by Tennessee Williams

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams

Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn

Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel

Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller

Equus by Peter Shaffer

Fences - August Wilson

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw

Hedda Gabler by Ibsen

HurlyBurly by David Rabe

I Never Sang for My Father - Robert Anderson

Inherit The Wind by Lawrence & Lee

It's All True by Jason Sherman

Joe Turner's Come and Gone - August Wilson

Juno & the Paycock by Sean O'Casey

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard

Little Foxes - Lillian Hellman

Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neil

Look Back in Anger by John Osborne

Medea by Seneca

Miss Julie by Strindberg

Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neil

Mr. Roberts - Thomas Heggan & Joshua Logan

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Our Town - Thornton Wilder

Paradise Lost by Clifford Odets

Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge

Rhinoceros by Ionesco

Riders to the Sea by John Millington Synge

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Stoppard

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner

Stuff Happens by David Hare

Success Story by John Howard Lawson

Tango by Mrozek

Tartuffe by Moilere

The Balcony by Genet

The Birthday Party by Pinter

The Caretaker by Pinter

The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht

The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov

The Connection by Gelber

The Crucible - Arthur Miller

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel

The Gingerbread Lady by Neil Simon

The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams

The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neil

The Lion in Winter - James Goldman

The Member of the Wedding - Carson MuCullers

The Moundbuilders by Lanford Wilson

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Lawrence & Lee

The Odd Couple by Neil Simon

The Quare Fellow by Behan

The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon

The Visit by Durenmatt

The Weir by Conor McPherson

Three Tall Women by Edward Albee

Throwing Your Voice by Craig Lucas

Toys in the Attic - Lillian Hellman

Uncle Vanya by Chekhov

Valentine's Day by Horton Foote

Via Dolorosa by David Hare

Waiting for Godot by Beckett

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Edward Albee

You Can't Take It With You - George Kaufman & Moss Hart


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