#34 The Glass Menagerie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Tennessee Williams #33 Travesties and Arcadia – Tom Stoppard #26 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard #24 Blood Wedding – Federico García Lorca #14 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – Edward Albee ![]() #11 A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry Must Read Stage Plays for Actors (11-110) Updated: 28 September 2020 The Top 10 Best Plays of All Time But without further ado here is our list of best plays of all time… If you fervently disagree with this list, or any particular play included here, please let us know – we love a good debate. You may also be interested in the best modern plays. Aspects such as craftsmanship, popularity, story structure, contribution to theatre and many other factors were all considered. We tried to consider plays from throughout history, as well as look at plays of various styles and genres. I am a big fan of the IMDB top 250 films and have over the years tried to chip through that list, I encourage you to make that your goal with this comprehensive list. The goal of this list is not to set a definitive order of best plays, but to give passionate actors and theatre lovers a resource which we hope will encourage you to read more plays! I believe all actors should aim to read all the plays listed here. What started as a jumble of nonsense words over the years grew into a source of infinite joy and insight for me as an actor, and a human. ![]() This was the case for me with Shakespeare. ![]() Plays are also so open to interpretation and many different readings, and what means little to you at one stage in your life may be profound later on in life. A play is subjective and offers each reader, or theatregoer, a very different experience. Of course to make a list of the 110 best plays of all time is a difficult challenge. After a lot of discussions and heated debate, we have agreed on our list of best plays of all time.
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