25 Plays to read before you graduate HS...
1. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
2. Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
3. Romeo & Juliet
4. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
5. The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
6. Noises Off by Michael Frayn
7. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
8. Our Town by Thornton Wilder
9. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
10. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
11. Tartuffe by Moliere
12. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
13. Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
14. The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
15. Fences by August Wilson
16. Medea by Euripedes
17. Angels in America by Tony Kushner
18. Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco
19. Tea and Sympathy by Robert Woodruff Anderson
20. Proof by David Auburn
21. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
22. Wit by Margaret Edson
23. Lend Me a Tenor by Ken Ludwig
24. You Can't Take It With You by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart
25. Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare
25 Musicals to read & listen to...
1. My Fair Lady
2. West Side Story
3. Gypsy
4. Cabaret
5. Ragtime
6. Carousel
7. The Music Man
8. A Chorus Line
9. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
10. Guys and Dolls
11. Fiddler on the Roof
12. Chicago
13. The Fantasticks
14. Show Boat
15. Company
16. Little Shop of Horrors
17. Kiss Me, Kate
18. 1776
19. Evita
20. Les Miserables
21. Oklahoma!
22. Sunday in the Park With George
23. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
24. A Little Night Music
25. 42nd Street
More great plays that every actor should read
The History Boys by Alan Bennett
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
Private Lives by Noel Coward
Take Me Out by Richard Greenburg
Love Letters by A.R. Gurney
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, trans. by Christopher Hampton
The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman
M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
Reasons to be Pretty by Neil LaBute
Red by John Logan
Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas
American Buffalo by David Mamet
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
Oleanna by David Mamet