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20 timeless plays that should be on every theatre lover's list

Writer: Michael David
Michael David
Jan 14
1 min read

Updated: Jan 19

An admittedly subjective list below, in no particular order, but first ...

What are yours? (Please comment below)


  • Our Town (Thornton Wilder)

  • The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams)

  • Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)

  • A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)

  • Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)

  • Lysistrata (Aristophanes)

  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee)

  • 1776 (musical – book by Peter Stone)

  • The Odd Couple (Neil Simon)

  • Rhinoceros (Eugène Ionesco)

  • Buried Child (Sam Shepard)

  • Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)

  • King Lear (William Shakespeare)

  • Glengarry Glen Ross (David Mamet)

  • Fences (August Wilson)

  • Angels in America (Tony Kushner)

  • Sweat (Lynn Nottage)

  • Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

  • Three Sisters (Anton Chekhov)

  • How I Learned to Drive (Paula Vogel)


If you only read/see six to get the whole spectrum:

  1. Our Town

  2. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

  3. Oedipus Rex

  4. King Lear

  5. Angels in America

  6. Three Sisters

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