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

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

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• 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