The 200 Plays That Every Theatre Major Should Read

Aeschylus The Persians (472 BC) McCullers A Member of the Wedding The Orestia (458 BC) (1946) Prometheus Bound (456 BC) Miller Death of a Salesman (1949) Sophocles Antigone (442 BC) The Crucible (1953) Oedipus Rex (426 BC) A View From the Bridge (1955) Oedipus at Colonus (406 BC) The Price (1968) Euripdes Medea (431 BC) Ionesco The Bald Soprano (1950) Electra (417 BC) Rhinoceros (1960) The Trojan Women (415 BC) Inge Picnic (1953) The Bacchae (408 BC) Bus Stop (1955) Aristophanes The Birds (414 BC) Beckett Waiting for Godot (1953) Lysistrata (412 BC) Endgame (1957) The Frogs (405 BC) Osborne Look Back in Anger (1956) Plautus The Twin Menaechmi (195 BC) Frings Look Homeward Angel (1957) Terence The Brothers (160 BC) Pinter The Birthday Party (1958) Anonymous The Wakefield Creation The Homecoming (1965) (1350-1450) Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun (1959) Anonymous The Second Shepherd’s Play Weiss Marat/Sade (1959) (1350- 1450) Albee Zoo Story (1960 ) Anonymous Everyman (1500) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Machiavelli The Mandrake (1520) (1962) Udall Ralph Roister Doister Three Tall Women (1994) (1550-1553) Bolt A Man for All Seasons (1960) Stevenson Gammer Gurton’s Needle Orton What the Butler Saw (1969) (1552-1563) Marcus The Killing of Sister George Kyd The Spanish Tragedy (1586) (1965) Shakespeare Entire Collection of Plays Simon The Odd Couple (1965) Marlowe Dr. Faustus (1588) Brighton Beach Memoirs (1984 Jonson Volpone (1606) Biloxi Blues (1985) The Alchemist (1610) Broadway Bound (1986) Webster The Dutchess of Malfi (1612) Lost in Yonkers (1991) Ford Tis a Pity She’s a Whore (1629) Wilson, Langford 5th of July (1978) Calderon de Barca Life is a Dream (1635) Talley’s Folley (1980) Comeille The Cid (1637) Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Moliere School for Wives (1663) are Dead (1966) The Misanthrope (1666) Arcadia (1993) The Doctor in Spite of Himself Nichols Joe Egg (1967) (1666) Crowley The Boys in the band (1968) The Miser (1668) Kopit Indians (1969) Tartuffe (1669) Wings (1978) The Imaginary Invalid (1673) Guare The House of Blue Leaves Wycherley The Country Wife (1672) (1970) Dryden All for Love (1677) Six Degrees of Separation Congreve The Way of the World (1700) (1990) Farquhar The Beaux Stratagem (1707) Zindel The Effects of Gamma Rays on Gay The Beggar’s Opera (1728) Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1971) Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer (1773) McNally Frankie and Johnny in the Clair Sheridan The Rivals (1775) de Lune (1987) The School for Scandal (1777) Master Class (1995) Beaumarchais The Barber of Seville (1782) Love! Valour! Compassion! Goethe Faustus, Part I (1808) (1995) Gogol The Inspector General (1842) Rabe In the Boom Boom Room Turgenev A Month in the Country (1850) (1972) Dumas Camille (1852) Hurlyburly (1984) Ibsen A Doll’s House (1879) Fugard Master Harold and the Boys An Enemy of the People (1882) (1982) Hedda Gabler (1890) Jones, Preston A Texas Trilogy (1973) Strindberg Miss Julie (1888) Medoff When You Comin’ Back, Red Chekov The Seagull (1896) Ryder? (1973) Uncle Vanya (1899) Friedman Steambath (1973) The Three Sisters (1900) Miller, Jason That Championship Season The Cherry Orchard (1903) (1973) Wilde The Importance of Being Ayckbourn Absurd Person Singular (1973) Earnest (1895) The Norman Conquests (1973) Shaw Arms and the Man (1894) Shaffer Equus (1973) Major Barbara (1905) Amadeus (1980) Misalliance (1909) Patrick Kennedy’s Children (1975) Pygmalion (1912) Mamet American Buffalo (1975) St. Joan (1923) Sexual Perversty in Chicago Synge Playboy of the Western World (1976) (1907) A Life in the Theatre (1977) Brecht Threepenny Opera (1928) Glengarry Glenross (1983) The Good Woman of Setzuan Speed the Plow (1992) (1938) Shange For colored girls who have Mother Courage and her considered suicide… (1976) Children (1941) Cristofer The Shadow Box (1977) The Caucasian Chalk Circle Hare Plenty (1978) (1944) Shepard Buried Child (1978) Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Fool For Love (1979) Author (1921) True West (1982) O’Neill The Emporer Jones (1921) A Lie of the Mind (1985) The Hairy Ape (1922) Sharman Bent (1979) Desire Under the Elms (1924) Thompson On Golden Pond (1979) Mourning Becomes Electra Pomerance The Elephant Man (1979) (1931) Fuller A Soldier’s Play (1982) Ah! Wilderness (1933) Henley Crimes of the Heart (1981) Long Day’s Journey into Night Fierstein Torch Song Trilogy (1982) (1941) Frayn Noises Off (1982) The Iceman Cometh (1946) Gurney The Dining Room (1982) Coward Hay Fever (1925) Another Antigone (1987) Blythe Spirit (1941) Lucas Reckless (1983) Hellman The Children’s Hour (1934) Howe Painting Churches (1983) The Little Foxes (1938) Wilson, August The Piano Lesson (1986) Odets Waiting for Lefty (1935) Fences (1987) Golden Boy (1937) Hwang M Butterfly Eliot Murder in the Cathedral (1935) Wertenbaker Our Country’s Good (1988) The Cocktail Party (1950) Uhry Driving Miss Daisy (1988) Kaufman & Hart You Can’t Take it with You Wasserstein The Heidi Chronicles (1988) (1936) Ives All in the Timing (1988) The Man Who Came to Dinner Friel Dancing at Lughnasa (1990) (1939) Kushner Angels in America: Millenium Saroyan The Time of Your Life (1939) Approaches (1991) Kesserling Arsenic and Old Lace (1941) Perestroika (1991) Anouilh The Lark (1953) McPherson Marvin’s Room (1991) Camus Caligula (1945) Schenkkan The Kentucky Cycle (1992) Giraudoux The Madwoman of Chaillot Foote Young Man from Atlanta (1995) (1945) Vogel How I Learned to Drive (1997) Williams The Glass Menagerie (1945) Labute, Neil The Complete Bash – The A Streetcar Named Desire(1947) Latterday Plays A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954) Kanin Born Yesterday (1946)