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1:28 p.m.'s 350 Stage Plays Challenge

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1

by William Shakespeare

33,040 members

308 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

2

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

28,756 members

280 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

3

by William Shakespeare

26,275 members

231 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

4

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,943 members

178 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

5

by William Shakespeare

17,060 members

132 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

6

by William Shakespeare

13,884 members

176 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

7

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

13,012 members

161 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

8

The Importance of Being Earnest

10,817 members

178 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

9

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,632 members

70 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

10

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

by Edward Albee

4,698 members

70 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

11

The Misanthrope

1,607 members

23 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

12

Arsenic and Old Lace : A Play in Three Acts

by Joseph Kesselring

672 members

7 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

13

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

by Arthur Miller

15,435 members

160 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

14

by William Shakespeare

15,155 members

147 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, awerling

15

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

12,269 members

116 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

11,498 members

113 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by William Shakespeare

10,850 members

113 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

10,748 members

100 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, awerling

19

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

8,092 members

96 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

8,046 members

90 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

6,637 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

5,534 members

79 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

5,484 members

71 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

by Henrik Ibsen

5,421 members

91 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

by Thornton Wilder

5,116 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

by Christopher Marlowe

5,086 members

72 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, awerling

27

The Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare

4,804 members

60 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, awerling

28

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams

2,970 members

32 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

29

by William Shakespeare

2,804 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, awerling

30

Titus Andronicus

by William Shakespeare

2,734 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, awerling

31

Inherit the Wind

by Jerome Lawrence

2,393 members

30 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, awerling

32

by Peter Shaffer

2,156 members

21 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

The Duchess of Malfi

by John Webster

1,171 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

Doubt: A Parable

by John Patrick Shanley

780 members

16 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

35

Oedipus at Colonus

553 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

You Can't Take It With You

498 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

37

by Noël Coward

327 members

11 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

38

323 members

6 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

39

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

8,822 members

91 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

40

by William Shakespeare

7,592 members

74 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

41

by George Bernard Shaw

6,783 members

78 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

42

by William Shakespeare

6,264 members

88 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

43

by William Shakespeare

6,080 members

53 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

44

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

5,533 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

45

Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

5,086 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

46

by William Shakespeare

4,200 members

54 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

47

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,501 members

38 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

48

The Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare

3,386 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

49

Murder in the Cathedral

3,121 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

50

A Man for All Seasons

3,116 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

51

by Aristophanes

2,927 members

41 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

Henry IV, Part 2

by William Shakespeare

2,565 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

53

Love's Labour's Lost

by William Shakespeare

2,415 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

54

by George Bernard Shaw

2,311 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

55

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

2,247 members

30 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

56

by August Wilson

1,829 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

The Miracle Worker [play]

by William Gibson

1,789 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

58

by William Shakespeare

1,756 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

59

She Stoops to Conquer

by Oliver Goldsmith

1,540 members

21 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

60

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

1,442 members

30 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

61

by Eugène Ionesco

1,426 members

16 reviews

3.9

Member: awerling

62

by William Shakespeare

1,400 members

21 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

63

An Ideal Husband

1,392 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

Timon of Athens

by William Shakespeare

1,369 members

26 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

65

by George Bernard Shaw

1,178 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

66

by Jean-Paul Sartre

1,103 members

18 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

67

Arms and the Man

by George Bernard Shaw

1,098 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

68

The School for Scandal

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1,060 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

69

by Harold Pinter

1,024 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

70

by Anton Tschechow

941 members

21 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

by Aristophanes

817 members

16 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

778 members

18 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

73

by August Strindberg

674 members

10 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

74

by Michael Frayn

604 members

16 reviews

4.2

Member: awerling

75

The Birds [in translation]

by Aristophanes

592 members

12 reviews

3.2

Member: ahef1963

76

The Reduced Shakespeare Co. presentsThe Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr

587 members

11 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: awerling

77

Crimes of the Heart

529 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: awerling

78

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

by August Wilson

472 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

404 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: awerling

80

Torch Song Trilogy

by Harvey Fierstein

397 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

81

Brighton Beach Memoirs

395 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

Mourning Becomes Electra

by Eugene O'Neill

353 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

The Boys in the Band: A Play in Two Acts

by Mart Crowley

306 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

Private Lives: An Intimate Comedy in Three Acts

by Noël Coward

300 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

The Man Who Came to Dinner

by George S. Kaufman

235 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

183 members

6 reviews

3.2

Member: ahef1963

87

164 members

1 review

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

88

Plaza Suite; a Comedy in Three Acts

137 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

Witness for the Prosecution: A Play in Three Acts

by Agatha Christie

127 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

90

by Patrick Hamilton

126 members

1 review

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

91

New Mermaids : Ford : 'Tis Pity She's a Whore : 2nd edition

by Martin Wiggins

119 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

The Mousetrap: A Play

by Agatha Christie

100 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

86 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

94

The Seven Year Itch

by George Axelrod

63 members

1 review

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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September 2022
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