Based on the unending popularity of the first list for the Theatre Reader Challenge, we bring you part II!
As always, being a good actor, director, theatre-person means reading as many plays as can, here’s a list to help guide your year of reading!
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Circle, Mirror, Transformation, Annie Baker
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Little Women, Peter Clapham & Louisa M. Alcott
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Rabbit Hole, David Lindsay-Abaire
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The Diary of Anne Frank, Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
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Arsenic & Old Lace, Joseph Kesselring
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Harvey, Mary Chase
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You Can’t Take It With You, Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman
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The Curious Savage, John Patrick
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Steel Magnolias, Robert Harling
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Crimes of the Heart, Beth Henley
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Almost, Maine, John Cariani
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Deathtrap, Ira Levin
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Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon
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The Play That Goes Wrong, Henry Lewis
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Red, John Logan
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Dinner with Friends, David Margulies
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When We Were Young and Unafraid, Sarah Treem
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The Great Gatsby, Adapted by Simon Levy
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Dale Wasserman & Ken Kesey
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A View From the Bridge, Arthur Miller
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Blithe Spirit, Noel Coward
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Cyrano de Bergerac, Adapted by Glyn Maxwell
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The Wolves, Sarah DeLappe
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Tribes, Nina Raine
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Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, Bert V. Royal
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The Heidi Chronicles, Wendy Wasserstein
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Moon Over Buffalo, Ken Ludwig
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The Women, Clare Booth Luce
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God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza
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American Son, Christopher Demos-Brown
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Peter and the Starcatcher, Rick Elice
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Radium Girls, D.W. Gregory
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These Shining Lives, Melanie Marnich
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Blackbird, David Harrower
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Waiting for Lefty, Clifford Odets
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Stop Kiss, Diana Son
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Clybourne Park, Bruce Norris
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Simon Stephens
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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang
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Venus in Fur, David Ives
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War Horse, Nick Stafford
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In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) Sarah Ruhl
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Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
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The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow
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The Goat, or Who is Slyvia? Edward Albee
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Amadeus, Peter Shaffer
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Butterflies Are Free, Leonard Gershe
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The Matchmaker, Thornton Wilder
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Bus Stop, William Inge
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Lysistrata, Aristophanes
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reasons to be pretty, Neil LaBute
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She Kills Monsters, Qui Nguyen