Plays
The stage comes alive through timeless dramas, comedies, and theatrical works that capture the full spectrum of human experience. Whether studying performance craft or losing yourself in Shakespeare's soliloquies, these scripts and stagecraft guides reveal the magic that unfolds when the curtain rises.
Plays Book Summaries
By Any Other Name
Her ancestor wrote for Shakespeare in secret. Now her own play wears a man's name too.
Historical Fiction
Contemporary
Women
Feminism
Book Club
By Any Other Name
Her ancestor wrote for Shakespeare in secret. Now her own play wears a man's name too.
Historical Fiction
Contemporary
Women
Feminism
Book Club
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Albus Potter steals a time-turner to save a dead boy and erases his father from history.
Fantasy
Harry Potter
Young Adult
Plays
Magic
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Albus Potter steals a time-turner to save a dead boy and erases his father from history.
Fantasy
Harry Potter
Young Adult
Plays
Magic
Hamnet
After her son dies of plague, her husband writes Hamlet and buries his grief on stage.
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Historical
Adult
Book Club
Hamnet
After her son dies of plague, her husband writes Hamlet and buries his grief on stage.
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Historical
Adult
Book Club
Look Back in Anger
In a cramped flat, a bitter man's verbal war on the world lands hardest on the wife who loves him.
Plays
Drama
Classics
Theater
British
Look Back in Anger
In a cramped flat, a bitter man's verbal war on the world lands hardest on the wife who loves him.
Plays
Drama
Classics
Theater
British
Into the Woods
Every story hides a fractal skeleton. From Greek tragedy to prestige TV, the bones are identical.
Writing
Film
Television
Plays
Books About Books
Into the Woods
Every story hides a fractal skeleton. From Greek tragedy to prestige TV, the bones are identical.
Writing
Film
Television
Plays
Books About Books
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
In 1930s Alabama, Scout's father defends a Black man, forcing her to see her town's hidden face.
Plays
Drama
Theatre
Classics
Historical Fiction
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
In 1930s Alabama, Scout's father defends a Black man, forcing her to see her town's hidden face.
Plays
Drama
Theatre
Classics
Historical Fiction
The God of Carnage
Over coffee and clafoutis, two couples discuss a child's lost teeth and lose their own civility.
Plays
Drama
Literary Fiction
France
Contemporary
The God of Carnage
Over coffee and clafoutis, two couples discuss a child's lost teeth and lose their own civility.
Plays
Drama
Literary Fiction
France
Contemporary
The Tempest
A vengeful sorcerer shipwrecks his betrayers on a haunted island. The hardest magic is letting go.
Classics
Plays
Literary Classics
Drama
Fantasy
The Tempest
A vengeful sorcerer shipwrecks his betrayers on a haunted island. The hardest magic is letting go.
Classics
Plays
Literary Classics
Drama
Fantasy
Fuente Ovejuna by Félix Lope de Vega
A Castilian village, preyed upon by its commander, finds no rescue from the distant crown.
Classics
Plays
Drama
Theatre
Spain
Fuente Ovejuna by Félix Lope de Vega
A Castilian village, preyed upon by its commander, finds no rescue from the distant crown.
Classics
Plays
Drama
Theatre
Spain
Enter Ghost
A British-Palestinian actress joins a West Bank Hamlet, where the play's ghosts never stay onstage.
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Middle East
Drama
Plays
Enter Ghost
A British-Palestinian actress joins a West Bank Hamlet, where the play's ghosts never stay onstage.
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Middle East
Drama
Plays
Julius Caesar
A triumphant Caesar returns to Rome, and senators who fear his ambition reach for their blades.
Classics
Plays
Drama
Historical Fiction
Tragedy
Julius Caesar
A triumphant Caesar returns to Rome, and senators who fear his ambition reach for their blades.
Classics
Plays
Drama
Historical Fiction
Tragedy
Caligula and Three Other Plays
Four plays by Albert Camus where grief becomes tyranny, silence kills, and justice demands blood.
Plays
Drama
Philosophy
Classics
Literature
Caligula and Three Other Plays
Four plays by Albert Camus where grief becomes tyranny, silence kills, and justice demands blood.
Plays
Drama
Philosophy
Classics
Literature
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
A 1927 recording pits Ma Rainey against her ambitious trumpeter, white producers holding the keys.
Plays
Drama
Historical Fiction
African American
Classics
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
A 1927 recording pits Ma Rainey against her ambitious trumpeter, white producers holding the keys.
Plays
Drama
Historical Fiction
African American
Classics
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Morning hope dissolves into a night of morphine, whiskey, and devastating truths for the Tyrones.
Plays
Drama
Classics
Literature
American
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Morning hope dissolves into a night of morphine, whiskey, and devastating truths for the Tyrones.
Plays
Drama
Classics
Literature
American
