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Sep 05, 2011 09:56AM
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Please begin to list the Top stage plays you've ever read here. Later we will vote on them
and present the list in a separate folder.
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message 2: by Lisa (new)
Sep 05, 2011 03:56PM
Romeo & Juliet
Antigone
Oedipus Rex
Our Town(kind of a play, kind of a book?)
The Crucible
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message 3: by David (last edited Sep 23, 2011 10:33AM) (new)
Sep 05, 2011 05:08PM
Goodreads Top 100 Stage Plays of All Time
Unranked/Raw Data
As of 9-21-11
1. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
2. No Exit by JP Sartre No Exit and Three Other Plays
3. The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
4. King Lear by Shakespeare King Lear
5. Hamlet by Shakespeare Hamlet
6. MacBeth by Shakespeare Macbeth
7. Endgame by Samuel Beckett Endgame

8. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman

9. View from a Bridge by Arthur Miller A View from the Bridge
10. Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill Mourning Becomes Electra-Complete
Summary & Analysis
11. The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill The Iceman Cometh
12. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Vol.
1: Battle of Angels / The Glass Menagerie / A Streetcar Named Desire
13. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
14. Angels in America by Tony Kushner Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National
Themes
15. Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? by Edward Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
16. The Misanthrope by Moliere The Misanthrope
17. Tartuffe by Moliere Tartuffe
18. Rhinocerous by Eugene Ionesco Plays: v. 4 (Calderbooks S.) Rhinocerous, the leader,
the future is in eggs
19. Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge The Playboy of the Western
World and Other Plays: Riders to the Sea; The Shadow of the Glen; The Tinker's
Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy ... of the Sorrows
20. Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey Sean O'Casey: Plays 1: Juno and the Paycock,
Within the Gates; Red Roses; Cock-a-Doodle Dandy
21. Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neil Long Day's Journey into Night:
Second Edition
22. An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband
23. Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
24. Salome by Oscar Wilde Salome/ Under the Hill: Oscar Wilde/Aubrey Beardsley
25. The Sea Gull by Anton Chekhov The Seagull
26. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard
27. Faust by Goethe Faust
28. Aristophenes The Frogs Frogs and Other Plays
29. Caligula by Albert Camus Caligula and Three Other Plays
30. Le Cid by Pierre Corneille Le Cid
31. Phaedre by Jean Racine Phdre
32. The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco The Bald Soprano and Other Plays: Bald
Soprano/the Lesson/Jack or the Submission/the Chairs
33. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz &
Guildenstern Are Dead
34. Travesties by Tom Stoppard Travesties
35. Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children
35. Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht The Threepenny Opera
36. Blood Wedding by Frederico Garcia Lorca Blood Wedding
37. The Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre No Exit and Three Other Plays
38. The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey Sean O'Casey: Plays 2: The Shadow of a
Gunman, The Plough and the Stars, The Silver Tassie, Purple Dust, Hall of Healing
39. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion
40. Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman
41. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House

42. The Tempest by William Shakespeare The Tempest

43. The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan The Complete Plays: The Hostage, The Quare
Fellow, Richard's Cork Leg
44. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by
Ntozake Shange for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
45. The Ginger Man by JP Donleavy: The Play The Ginger Man
46. The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B.: The Play by JP Donleavy The Beastly
Beatitudes of Balthazar B
47. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet
48. Othello by William Shakespeare Othello
49. Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream
50. The Crucible by Arthur Miller The Crucible
51. Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen Hedda Gabler and Other Plays
52. Hurlyburly by David Rabe Hurlyburly and Those the River Keeps: Two Plays
53. Iphegenia in Aulis by Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis
54. The Oresteia by Aeschylus An Oresteia
55. Equus by Peter Schaeffer Equus
56. Medea by Euripides Medea and Other Plays
57. The Weir by Conor McPherson The Weir
58. Antigone by Sophocles Antigone
59. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles Oedipus Rex
60. Our Town by Thorton Wilder Our Town
61. Dancing in Lughnasa by Brian Friel Dancing at Lughnasa
62. The Balcony by Jean Genet The Balcony
63. The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley The Boys in the Band
64. Steambath Steambath; a play
65. The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonaghThe Cripple of Inishmaan
66. Cyreno de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac
67. The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman The Children's Hour
68. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennesee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
69. The Way of the World by William Congreve The Way of the World
70. Fences by August Wilson Fences
71. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson The Miracle Worker
72. Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansbery A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney
Brustein's Window
73. The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
74. Speed the Plow by David Mamet Speed-the-Plow
75. Glengarry Glen Ross by David MametGlengarry Glen Ross
76. American Buffalo by David Mamet American Buffalo
77. She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer and Other
Comedies
78. The Skriker by Caryl Churchill The Skriker
79. 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane 4.48 Psychosis
80. Venus by Suzan Lori-Parks Venus
81. The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh The Pillowman
82. Focus by Arthur Miller Focus

83. Richard III by William Shakespeare The Tragedy of King Richard III
84. Cymbeline by William Shakespeare Cymbeline
85. Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida
86. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Twelfth Night
1)Hamlet
2)Macbeth
3)King Lear
4)Romeo and Juliet
5)The Tragedy of King Richard III
6)Cymbeline
7)Troilus and Cressida
8)A Midsummer Night's Dream
9)Twelfth Night
10)Othello
No Exit: A Play in One Act by JP Sartre
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
A Doll's House by Henrick Ibsen
Hedda Gabler by Henrick Ibsen
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Hurlyburly by David Rabe
Iphigenia in Aulis byEuripides
and Iphigenia in Taurus by Euripides
and Tartuffe by Molier