r/acting on Reddit - Essential Plays

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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
37,390 members
336 reviews
4.1
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
29,944 members
261 reviews
4
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Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
14,642 members
189 reviews
3.9
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The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
12,103 members
196 reviews
4.2
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
8,824 members
104 reviews
4.2
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Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles
7,607 members
81 reviews
½ 3.7
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Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
5,673 members
88 reviews
3.8
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The Duchess of Malfi
by John Webster
1,309 members
24 reviews
½ 3.5
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Arms and the Man
by George Bernard Shaw
1,244 members
22 reviews
3.8
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The School for Scandal
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1,173 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Playboy of the Western World
by John Millington Synge
542 members
11 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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12
The Second Shepherds' Play In Plain and Simple English
by BookCaps
1 member
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Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
32,935 members
308 reviews
½ 3.7
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
22,363 members
203 reviews
4
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Othello
by William Shakespeare
19,484 members
151 reviews
4
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Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
14,274 members
139 reviews
½ 3.6
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A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
9,237 members
114 reviews
3.9
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The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
7,459 members
76 reviews
½ 3.7
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A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
6,406 members
87 reviews
3.8
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A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
6,193 members
112 reviews
½ 3.6
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Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
5,899 members
80 reviews
½ 3.7
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee
5,216 members
81 reviews
4
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Long Day's Journey into Night
by Eugene O'Neill
3,902 members
43 reviews
4.1
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Lysistrata
by Aristophanes
3,222 members
47 reviews
3.8
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Arcadia: A Play
by Tom Stoppard
3,007 members
59 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Misanthrope
by Molière
1,811 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
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She Stoops to Conquer
by Oliver Goldsmith
1,682 members
21 reviews
½ 3.5
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Rhinoceros
by Eugène Ionesco
1,663 members
18 reviews
4
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
by Luigi Pirandello
1,655 members
38 reviews
3.8
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Look Back in Anger
by John Osborne
1,468 members
16 reviews
½ 3.5
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Amadeus: A Play in Two Acts
by Peter Shaffer
1,356 members
21 reviews
4.2
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No Exit
by Jean-Paul Sartre
1,298 members
23 reviews
4
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
by Bertolt Brecht
1,256 members
12 reviews
½ 3.6
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Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov
1,178 members
19 reviews
3.8
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The Homecoming
by Harold Pinter
1,128 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
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Agamemnon
by Aeschylus
969 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
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Volpone, or The Fox
by Ben Jonson
895 members
8 reviews
½ 3.5
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Miss Julie
by August Strindberg
755 members
11 reviews
½ 3.3
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The Skin of Our Teeth
by Thornton Wilder
474 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Rover
by Aphra Behn
457 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
by Tomson Highway
190 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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The Beauty Queen of Leenane
by Martin McDonagh
174 members
2 reviews
4
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Juno and the Paycock
by Seán O'Casey
130 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Zoo Story
by Edward Albee
79 members
2 reviews
3.8
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