Recommended Modern Plays (mid-20th Century to present) Alan Ayckbourn, Absurd Person Singular, The Snake in the Grass Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Zoo Story; The Goat or Who is Sylvia? Three Tall Women; Seascape; or, A Delicate Balance Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot; Endgame; Krapp's Last Tape; Collected Short Plays Alan Bennett, The History Boys Lee Blessing, A Walk Through the Woods; Eleemosynary; Fortinbras Bertold Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children; The Three Penny Opera; The Caucasian Chalk Circle Caryl Churchill, Top Girls; Cloud Nine; Far Away Noel Coward, Blithe Spirit; Private Lives, Fallen Angels Maria Irene Fornes, Fefu and Her Friends; The Conduct of Life; Mud Brian Friel, Translations; Dancing at Lughnasa; Philadelphia, Here I Come! A.R. Gurney, The Dining Room; Sylvia; The Cocktail Hour Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun David Hare, Plenty; A Map of the World David Harrower, Blackbird Amy Herzog, 4000 Miles; After the Revolution William Inge, Bus Stop; Picnic Denis Johnson, Soul of a Whore and Purvis: Two Plays in Verse Rajiv Joseph, Gruesome Playground Mysteries, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo Tony Kushner, Angels in America Parts I and II; Homebody/Kabul; Caroline or Change Neil LaBute, Reasons to be Pretty, Fat Pig, The Mercy Seat, In a Dark House Tracy Letts, August: Osage County, Killer Joe David Mamet, Oleanna; Glengarry Glen Ross; American Buffalo; Sexual Perversity in Chicago; Speed the Plow Patrick Marber, Closer Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; The Cripple of Inishman Terrence Alvin McCraney, The Brother/Sister Plays Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A View From the Bridge; All My Sons Eugene O'Neil, Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Iceman Cometh, The Hairy Ape Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw; Loot; Entertaining Mr. Sloane John Osborne, Look Back in Anger; Luther; Inadmissible Evidence Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog; Venus; The America Play Harold Pinter, Betrayal; The Homecoming; The Birthday Party; Old Times David Rabe, Hurly Burly; Streamers; In the Boom Boom Room Theresa Rebeck, Seminar; Mauritius, The Scene, Loose Knit, Sunday on the Rocks Yasima Reza, Art; God of Carnage Sarah Ruhl, Clean House; Eurydice; The Vibrator Play; Dead Man’s Cell Phone Peter Shaffer, Equus; Amadeus; Royal Hunt of the Sun; Lettice & Lovage John Patrick Shanley, Doubt; Four Dogs and a Bone; Danny and the Deep Blue Sea; Italian-American Reconciliation Sam Shepard, A Lie of the Mind; True West, Buried Child; Fool for Love Neil Simon, The Odd Couple; The Gingerbread Lady; Chapter Two; Rumors; Barefoot in the Park Anna Deavere Smith, Fires in the Mirror; Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 Simon Stephens, Port, Punk Rock Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Travesties; The Real Thing; Arcadia Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive; Baltimore Waltz; Desdemona Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles; The Sisters Rosensweig Frank Wedekind, Spring Awakening, Earth Spirit, The Lulu Plays Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Night of the Iguana; Sweet Bird of Youth August Wilson, Fences; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Two Trains Running; or, Gem of the Ocean; The Piano Lesson Lanford Wilson, The Hot l Baltimore; Balm in Gilead; Burn This
Recommended Plays: Classics
19TH CENTURY TO EARLY 20TH CENTURY Anton Chekhov, Seagull, Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, Ivanov Henrik Ibsen, A Dolls House, Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabble, Ghosts, The Master Builder August Strindberg, Miss Julie, The Father, A Ghost Sonata, A Dream Play, The Stronger Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, Salome
1600s to EARLY 1800s Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Life is a Dream Jon Ford, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore Ben Jonson, Volpone, The Alchemist Christopher Marlow, The Jew of Malta, Doctor Faustus, Edward II Moliere, Tartuffe, The Miser, The School for Wives Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, The Rivals Cyril Tourneir, The Revengers Tragedy John Webster, The Dutchess of Malfi
THE GREEKS Sophocles, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus the King, Electra, Ajax Euripides, Medea, Orestes, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women, Electra Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Oresteia, Prometheus Bound, The Persians Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lysistrata, The Frogs
SHAKESPEARE A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Richard III, Henry V, Rome