PLAYS YOU SHOULD READ

GET SERIOUS READING LIST 
Plays you should be familiar with by the time you graduate college
 
'Night Mother
A Doll's House
A Man For All Seasons
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Streetcar Named Desire
Ah, Wilderness!
Antigone
Barefoot in the Park
Caucasian Chalk Circle
Crimes of the Heart
Death of a Salesman
Everyman
Fences
Fuente Ovejuna
Ghosts
Hamlet
Hedda Gabler
King Lear
Life is a Dream
Little Foxes
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Major Barbara
Medea
Oedipus Rex
Othello
Our Town
Phedre
Pygmalion
Raisin in the Sun
Shadowlands
Tartuffe
The Caretaker
The Cherry Orchard
The Crucible
The Glass Menagerie
The Good Woman of Setzuan
The Hairy Ape
The Menaechmi
The Misanthrope
The Odd Couple
The Piano Lesson
The Second Shepherd's Play
The Self-Tormentor
The Skin of Our Teeth
The Three Sisters
The Woman Taken in Adultery
Uncle Vanya
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"WHY THE LONG FACE?" READING LIST
Dramatic and serious plays

All My Sons
Angels in America
Assassins
Dancing at Lughnasa
Deathtrap
Enchanted April
Equus
I'm Not Rappaport
Inherit the Wind
Les Liaisons Dangerueses
Lion in Winter
Lost in Yonkers
Mother Courage
Picnic
Prelude to a Kiss
Proof
Rashomon
Six Characters in Search of an Author
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Miracle Worker
The Mousetrap
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Sea Horse
The Spitfire Grill
Wait Until Dark
Waiting for Godot
Waverly Gallery
Wit

"AIN'T LIFE FUNNY?" READING LIST
funny and farcical plays

Arsenic and Old Lace
Blithe Spirit
Chapter Two
Educating Rita
Harvey
I Hate Hamlet
Lettice and Lovage
Ludlow Fair
Noises Off
Private Lives
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
See How They Run
Steel Magnolias
The Art of Dining
The Curious Savage
The Foreigner
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
The Matchmaker
The Nerd
The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple - female version
The Rainmaker
The Underpants
You Can't Take It With You

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