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Amadeus
Peter Shaffer

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

How I Learned to Drive
Paula Vogel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1997

Ubu Roi
Alfred Jarry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1896

Topdog/Underdog
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

Dutchman
Amiri Baraka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Crimes of the Heart
Beth Henley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

Anna In The Tropics
Nilo Cruz

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

Water By The Spoonful
Quiara Alegría Hudes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
Anna Deavere Smith

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

Machinal
Sophie Treadwell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1928

Barefoot In The Park
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1963

Man And Superman
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1903

Doubt: A Parable
John Patrick Shanley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

Betrayal in the City
Francis Imbuga

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

The Lion and the Jewel
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1962

Edward II
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1593

The Balcony
Jean Genet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Molière

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1670

Othello
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1604

Pseudolus
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult

Between Riverside And Crazy
Stephen Adly Guirgis

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Fiddler on the Roof
Joseph Stein, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Macbeth
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1623

Dream on Monkey Mountain
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

Fuenteovejuna
Lope de Vega

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1618

Copenhagen
Michael Frayn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Six Degrees of Separation
John Guare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

No Sugar
Jack Davis

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

Look Back in Anger
John Osborne

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

The Brothers Menaechmus
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult

Trojan Women
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Wit
Margaret Edson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

The Children's Hour
Lillian Hellman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1934

Philoctetes
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Krapp's Last Tape
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

Fires In The Mirror
Anna Deavere Smith

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Antigone
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Rez Sisters
Tomson Highway

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

Les Belles Soeurs
Michel Tremblay

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1968

The Maids
Jean Genet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947

A Dance of the Forests
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1963

The Bacchae
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 405

Spike Heels
Theresa Rebeck

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Cost of Living
Martyna Majok

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2016

Everybody
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2018

A Tempest
Aimé Césaire

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

The Laramie Project
Moises Kaufman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

Harlem Duet
Djanet Sears

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1997

Intimate Apparel
Lynn Nottage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

Disgraced
Ayad Akhtar

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

The America Play
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

Flyin' West
Pearl Cleage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

The Father
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1887

Nathan the Wise
Gotthold Lessing

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1779

Helen
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Ion
Ed. John C. Gilbert, Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Caesar and Cleopatra
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1898

Orestes
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 409

The Hitchhiker
Lucille Fletcher

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1962

Caligula
Albert Camus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944

The Homecoming
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Electra
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 450

Hamilton: The Revolution
Lin Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Oedipus
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 60

Everyman
Anonymous

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1485

Antigone
Jean Anouilh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944

Alcestis
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Iphigenia in Aulis
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 410

Medea
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 49

Heracles
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

Sorry, Wrong Number
Lucille Fletcher

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1943

Hecuba
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Martin McDonagh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

Cyclops
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 422

The Lesson
Eugène Ionesco

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1951

She Kills Monsters
Qui Nguyen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

The Birds
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Electra
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Salome
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1891

The Alchemist
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1610

Thyestes
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 65

Phèdre
Jean Racine

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1677

The Emperor Jones
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920

Gem of the Ocean
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

The Vagina Monologues
Eve Ensler

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

Trouble in Mind
Alice Childress

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

Yellow Face
David Henry Hwang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2007

The Thanksgiving Play
Larissa Fasthorse

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2019

The Mountaintop
Katori Hall

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

Indecent
Paula Vogel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Father Comes Home From the Wars
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

What the Constitution Means to Me
Heidi Schreck

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2017

Crumbs From the Table of Joy
Lynn Nottage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

American Moor
Keith Hamilton Cobb

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2019

An Octoroon
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Vietgone
Qui Nguyen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Fairview
Jackie Sibblies Drury

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2018