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Buried Child
Buried Child is a 1978 play by American dramatist Sam Shepard and the winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Set in an Illinois farmhouse, it depicts a deeply dysfunctional family whose members conceal the death and burial of an infant, a secret that has poisoned their relationships and sense...
apps Top Buried Child Alternatives
The top alternative to Buried Child in 2026 is The Homecoming with a score of 8.6/10, followed by The Ferryman (8.4) and Ruined (8.4).
The Homecoming
The Homecoming is a 1965 play by British dramatist Harold Pinter. It follows Teddy, a philosophy professor, as he return...
The Ferryman
The Ferryman is a play by Jez Butterworth set on a family farm in rural County Armagh during the 1981 hunger strike in N...
Ruined
Ruined is a 2009 play by American playwright Lynn Nottage, set in a bar and brothel in the war-torn Democratic Republic...
True West
True West is a play by American dramatist Sam Shepard, first performed in 1980. Set in their mother's suburban Southern...
Doubt: A Parable
Doubt: A Parable is a play by John Patrick Shanley, first produced in 2004 and set at a Catholic school in the Bronx in...
Three Tall Women
Three Tall Women is a play by American dramatist Edward Albee, first produced in 1991. It examines aging, memory, family...
American Buffalo
American Buffalo is a play by David Mamet, first produced in 1975 and set almost entirely inside a Chicago junk shop. Do...
A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance is a 1966 play by Edward Albee about an affluent Connecticut household disrupted by the arrival of li...
The Humans
The Humans is a one-act play by Stephen Karam about three generations of the Blake family gathering for Thanksgiving in...
Appropriate
Appropriate is a play by American dramatist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, first produced in 2013. It follows the estranged Laf...
Mourning Becomes Electra
Mourning Becomes Electra is a 1931 dramatic trilogy by Eugene O'Neill that adapts the Oresteia of Aeschylus to a prosper...
The Flick
The Flick is a 2013 play by Annie Baker about three poorly paid employees working at a declining single screen cinema in...
Clybourne Park
Clybourne Park is a 2010 play by American dramatist Bruce Norris, conceived as a response to Lorraine Hansberry's A Rais...
Curse of the Starving Class
Curse of the Starving Class is a 1977 play by American dramatist Sam Shepard and the first work commonly grouped within...
What the Constitution Means to Me
What the Constitution Means to Me is an autobiographical play by American playwright and performer Heidi Schreck. It dra...
Between Riverside and Crazy
Between Riverside and Crazy is a play by American dramatist Stephen Adly Guirgis that premiered in 2014. Set largely in...
Lost in Yonkers
Lost in Yonkers is a play by Neil Simon set in Yonkers, New York, during World War II. After their mother's death, broth...
Fool for Love
Fool for Love is a one-act play by American dramatist Sam Shepard, first produced in 1983. Set in a motel room on the ed...
Beyond the Horizon
Beyond the Horizon is a tragedy by Eugene O'Neill, first produced in 1920, about brothers Robert and Andrew Mayo and the...
The Price
The Price is a drama by Arthur Miller, first produced on Broadway in 1968. It brings two estranged brothers together in...
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