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r/acting on Reddit - Essential Plays

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1

by William Shakespeare

33,585 members

295 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

2

by William Shakespeare

26,684 members

235 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

3

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,178 members

162 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

4

The Importance of Being Earnest

10,928 members

179 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

5

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

8,101 members

92 reviews

4.2

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

6

6,745 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

7

by Christopher Marlowe

5,147 members

74 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

8

The Duchess of Malfi

by John Webster

1,179 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

9

Arms and the Man

by George Bernard Shaw

1,111 members

17 reviews

3.8

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

10

The School for Scandal

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1,084 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

11

The Playboy of the Western World

by John Millington Synge

491 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

12

The Second Shepherds' Play In Plain and Simple English

1 member

2 Members: hipdeep, ahef1963

13

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

29,313 members

275 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

14

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

20,238 members

177 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

15

by William Shakespeare

17,328 members

131 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

16

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,514 members

119 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

17

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,230 members

96 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

18

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,713 members

71 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

19

A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

5,650 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

20

by Henrik Ibsen

5,497 members

92 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

21

by Thornton Wilder

5,211 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

22

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

by Edward Albee

4,755 members

71 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

23

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,552 members

37 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

24

by Aristophanes

2,953 members

41 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

25

by Tom Stoppard

2,756 members

54 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

26

The Misanthrope

1,635 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

27

She Stoops to Conquer

by Oliver Goldsmith

1,550 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

28

by Eugène Ionesco

1,465 members

16 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

29

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

1,464 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

30

Look Back in Anger

by John Osborne

1,360 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

31

Amadeus: A Play in Two Acts

by Peter Shaffer

1,246 members

19 reviews

4.2

Member: hipdeep

32

The Caucasian chalk circle

by Bertolt Brecht

1,143 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

33

by Jean-Paul Sartre

1,127 members

18 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

34

The Three Sisters

by Anton Tschechow

1,064 members

18 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

35

by Harold Pinter

1,037 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

36

Volpone, or The Fox

931 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

37

810 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

38

by August Strindberg

682 members

10 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

39

The Skin of Our Teeth

by Thornton Wilder

418 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

40

413 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

41

Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing

by Tomson Highway

170 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

42

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

by Martin McDonagh

153 members

2 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

43

Juno and the Paycock

by Seán O'Casey

111 members

2 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: hipdeep

44

by Edward Albee

63 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

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September 2021
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