The 200 Plays That Every Theatre Major Should Read Aeschylus The Persians The Orestia Prometheus

Bound Antigone Oedipus Rex Oedipus at Colonus Medea Electra The Trojan Women The Bacchae The Birds Lysistrata The Frogs The Twin Minaechmi The Brothers The Wakefield Creation The Second Shepards Play Everyman The Mandrake Ralph Roister Doister Gammer Gurtons Needle The Spanish Tragedy All of the Masters Works Dr. Faustus Volpone The Alchemist The Dutchess of Malfi (1588) (1606) (1610) (1612) (472 BC) (458 BC) (456 BC) (442 BC) (426 BC) (406 BC) (431 BC) (417 BC) (415 BC) (408 BC) (414 BC) (412 BC) (405 BC) (195 BC) (160 BC) (1350-1450) (1350-1450) (1500) (1520) (1550-1553) (1552-1563) (1586)

Sophocles

Euripdes

Aristophanes

Plautus Terence Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Machiavelli Udall Stevenson Kyd Shakespeare Marlowe Jonson

Webster

Ford Calderon de Barca Comeille Moliere

Tis a Pity Shes a Whore Life is a Dream The Cid School for Wives The Misanthrope The Doctor in Spite of Himself The Miser Tartuffe The Imaginary Invalid The Country Wife All For Love The Way of the World The Beaux Stratagem The Beggars Opera She Stoops to Conquer The Rivals The School for Scandal The Barber of Seville Faustus, Part 1 The Inspector General A Month in the Country Camille A Dolls House An Enemy of the People Hedda Gabler Miss Julie

(1629) (1635) (1637) (1663) (1663) (1666) (1668) (1669) (1673) (1672) (1677) (1700) (1707) (1728) (1773) (1775) (1777) (1782) (1808) (1842) (1850) (1852) (1879) (1882) (1890) (1888)

Wycherley Dryden Congreve Farquhar Gay Goldsmith Sheridan

Beaumarchais Goethe Gogol Turgenev Dumas Ibsen

Strindberg

Chekov

The Seagull Uncle Vanya The Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard The Importance of Being Earnest Arms and the Man Major Barbara Misalliance Pygmalion St. Joan Playboy of the Western World Threepenny Opera The Good Woman of Setzuan Mother Courage and Her Children The Caucasian Chalk Circle

(1896) (1899) (1900) (1903) (1895) (1894) (1905) (1909) (1912) (1923) (1907) (1928) (1938) (1941) (1944)

Wilde Shaw

Synge Brecht

Pirandello ONeill

Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) The Emporer Jones The Hairy Ape Desire Under the Elms Mourning Becomes Electra Ah! Wilderness Long Days Journey into the Night The Iceman Cometh Hay Fever Blythe Spirit The Childrens Hour The Little Foxes Waiting for Lefty Golden Boy Murder in the Cathedral The Cocktail Party You Cant Take it with You The Man Who Came to Dinner (1921) (1922) (1924) (1931) (1933) (1941) (1946) (1925) (1941) (1934) (1938) (1935) (1937) (1935) (1950) (1936) (1939)

Coward

Hellman

Odets

Eliot

Kaufman & Hart

Saroyan Kesserling Anouilh Camus Giraudoux Williams

The Time of your Life Arsenic and Old Lace The Lark Caligula The Madwoman of Chaillot The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Born Yesterday A Member of the Wedding Death of a Salesman The Crucible A View From the Bridge The Price The Bald Soprano Picnic Bus Stop Waiting for Godot Endgame Look Back in Anger Look Homeward Angel The Birthday Party The Homecoming A Raisin in the Sun Marat/Sade Zoo Story Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf Three Tall Women A Man for All Seasons

(1939) (1941) (1953) (1945) (1945) (1945) (1947) (1954) (1946) (1946) (1949) (1953) (1955) (1968) (1950) (1953) (1955) (1953) (1957) (1956) (1957) (1958) (1965) (1959) (1959) (1960) (1962) (1994) (1960)

Kanin McCullers Miller, Arthur

Ionesco Inge

Beckett

Osborne Frings Pinter

Hansberry Weiss Albee

Bolt

Orton Marcus Simon

What the Butler Saw The Killing of Sister George The Odd Couple Brighton Beach Memoirs Biloxi Blues Broadway Bound Lost in Yonkers 5th of July Talleys Folley

(1969) (1965) (1965) (1984) (1985) (1986) (1991) (1978) (1980)

Wilson, Langford

Stoppard

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966) Arcadia (1993) Joe Egg The Boys in the Band Indians Wings The House of Blue Leaves Six Degrees of Seperation The Effects of Gamma Rays On Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Frankie and Johnny In the Clair de Lune Master Class Love! Valour! Compassion! In the Boom Boom Room Hurlyburly Master Harold and the Boys A Texas Trilogy When you Comin Back, Red Ryder? Steambath (1967) (1968) (1969) (1978) (1970) (1990)

Nichols Crowley Kopit

Guare

Zindel

(1971)

McNally

(1987) (1995) (1995) (1972) (1984) (1982) (1973) (1973) (1973)

Rabe

Fugard Jones, Preston Medoff Friedman

Miller, Jason Ayckbourn

That Championship Season Absurd Person Singular The Norman Conquests Equus Amadeus Kennedys Children American Buffalo Sexual Perversty in Chicago A Life in the Theatre Glengarry Glenross Speed the Plow

(1973) (1973) (1973) (1973) (1980) (1975) (1975) (1976) (1977) (1983) (1992)

Shaffer

Patrick Mamet

Shange

For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbo isnt enough (1976) The Shadow Box Plenty Buried Child Fool for Love True West A Lie of the Mind Bent On Golden Pond The Elephant Man A Soldiers Play Noises Off The Dining Room Another Antigone Reckless Painting Churches (1977) (1978) (1978) (1979) (1982) (1985) (1979) (1979) (1979) (1982) (1982) (1982) (1987) (1983) (1983)

Cristofer Hare Shepard

Sharman Thompson Pomerance Fuller Frayn Gurney

Lucas Howe

Wilson, August

The Piano Lesson Fences M Butterfly Our Countrys Good Driving Miss Daisy The Heidi Chronicles All in the Timing Dancing at Lughnasa Angels in America Perestroika Marvins Room The Kentucky Cycle Young Man from Atlanta How I Learned to Drive

(1986) (1987) (1986) (1988) (1988) (1988) (1988) (1990) (1991) (1991) (1991) (1992) (1995) (1997)

Hwang Wertenbaker Uhry Wasserstein Ives Friel Kushner

McPherson Schenkkan Foote Vogel