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Stage Plays/Screenplays/Dialogues/Anything Dialogue-Storytelling Related

Rank Title Author Added

1

by William Shakespeare

33,043 members

308 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

28,759 members

280 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by William Shakespeare

26,276 members

231 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,945 members

178 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by William Shakespeare

17,061 members

132 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by William Shakespeare

13,884 members

176 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,014 members

161 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

by William Shakespeare

12,541 members

110 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,270 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

11,498 members

113 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

by William Shakespeare

10,857 members

113 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Importance of Being Earnest

10,818 members

178 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

10,749 members

100 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,092 members

96 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

8,047 members

90 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

6,639 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,634 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

5,535 members

79 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

19

by Henrik Ibsen

5,421 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Thornton Wilder

5,117 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

by Edward Albee

4,698 members

70 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams

2,971 members

32 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

An Ideal Husband

1,392 members

35 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

Oedipus at Colonus

553 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

22,064 members

142 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

26

by William Shakespeare

15,155 members

147 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

27

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

8,823 members

91 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

28

by William Shakespeare

7,592 members

74 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

29

by George Bernard Shaw

6,785 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

30

by William Shakespeare

6,264 members

88 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

31

by William Shakespeare

6,080 members

53 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

32

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

5,534 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

33

5,484 members

71 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

34

Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

5,086 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

35

by Christopher Marlowe

5,086 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

36

The Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare

4,804 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

37

Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare

4,412 members

51 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

38

by William Shakespeare

4,200 members

54 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

39

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,501 members

38 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

40

The Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare

3,386 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

41

Murder in the Cathedral

3,120 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

42

A Man for All Seasons

3,116 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

43

by William Shakespeare

2,804 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

44

Titus Andronicus

by William Shakespeare

2,734 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

45

Henry IV, Part 2

by William Shakespeare

2,565 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

46

Love's Labour's Lost

by William Shakespeare

2,415 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

47

Inherit the Wind

by Jerome Lawrence

2,393 members

30 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

48

Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare

2,321 members

24 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

49

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

2,247 members

30 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

50

by Peter Shaffer

2,156 members

21 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

The Merry Wives of Windsor

by William Shakespeare

2,057 members

38 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

52

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

by William Shakespeare

1,879 members

27 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

53

by August Wilson

1,829 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

The Miracle Worker [play]

by William Gibson

1,789 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

55

by William Shakespeare

1,756 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

56

The Misanthrope

1,607 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

57

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

by William Shakespeare

1,460 members

32 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

58

by William Shakespeare

1,400 members

28 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

59

by William Shakespeare

1,400 members

21 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

60

Timon of Athens

by William Shakespeare

1,369 members

26 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

61

by George Bernard Shaw

1,178 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

62

Arms and the Man

by George Bernard Shaw

1,099 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

63

Lady Windermere's Fan

1,087 members

31 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

Henry VI, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

1,086 members

25 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

65

Henry VI, Part 2

by William Shakespeare

965 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

66

Henry VI, Part 3

by William Shakespeare

885 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

67

by Aristophanes

817 members

16 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

68

Doubt: A Parable

by John Patrick Shanley

780 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

"Master Harold" … and the Boys

by Athol Fugard

766 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

70

by August Strindberg

674 members

10 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

71

Brighton Beach Memoirs

395 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

Mourning Becomes Electra

by Eugene O'Neill

353 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

73

323 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

The Boys in the Band: A Play in Two Acts

by Mart Crowley

306 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

75

Lost in Yonkers

284 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

76

A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay

by Lorraine Hansberry

214 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

77

Of Mice and Men: A Play in Three Acts

by John Steinbeck

143 members

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

78

Plaza Suite; a Comedy in Three Acts

137 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

The Seven Year Itch

by George Axelrod

63 members

1 review

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

Shakespeare in Love: Adapted for the Stage

18 members

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

81

8 members

1 review

2.8

Member: ahef1963

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