Famous Plays/Playwrights?

Question

Please suggest some famous plays and playwrights. I've got Shakespeare and Arthur Miller - what else have you guys got?

(no musicals please!)

Answer 1

these r titles of plays ive read so far :P

-Inherit the wind

-Raisin in the sun

-Marty

and thats about all cause they wer 4 a scool project lol.....but they were all nonetheless great :P....they r pretty short 2 so enjoy :P

Answer 2

Thorton Wilder - Skin of Our Teeth, Our Town

Eugene Ionesco - The Bald Soprano, The Chairs, Rhinoceros, The Lesson

Lillian Hellman - The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes

Tennessee Williams - Streetcar Named Desire, Glass Menagerie

Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Ernest

George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman, St. Joan

Bertold Brecht - Three Penny Opera, St. Joan of the Stockyards

David Mamet - Glengary Glenross, Bobby Gould In h**l, Speed the Plow

Wendy Wasserstine - The Heidi Chronicles

Answer 3

I don't know where you live.  Here (RSA) we go to 'DALRO' Dramatic arts literary rights organization.  They supply us with catalogs. Type, length, how many characters (3m, 2w, 2c), type of stage. Writing style. Whatever you want to know, about all plays - ever written.  And going for the famous (?) is difficult.  So many people have seen these plays by very famous (?) directors with very famous (?) Actors and actresses.

Musicals are death, heated twice up.  The actors can't sing and the singers know less then nothing about acting.

Strength.

Answer 4

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Edward Albee

"Rural Trilogy" Federico Garcia Lorca

"Angels in America" Tony Kushner

"True West" Sam Shepard

Answer 5

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett....it is the theatre of absurd aiming to define the meaninglessness of our existence and all of our activities in this universe of which we are out of key. Hope you'll enjoy.

Answer 6

charles dickens