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The American Dream
The American Dream is a one-act play by Edward Albee that premiered in 1961 and uses absurdist comedy to examine an American household. Its characters include Mommy, Daddy, Grandma, Mrs. Barker, and a figure identified as the Young Man, whose interactions expose emotional emptiness beneath conventio...
apps Top The American Dream Alternatives
The top alternative to The American Dream in 2026 is Sunday in the Park with George with a score of 9.2/10, followed by Twelfth Night (9.2) and The Cherry Orchard (9.2).
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunday in the Park with George is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. Its fi...
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night is a comedy by William Shakespeare, generally dated to around 1601 or 1602 and set in the fictional land o...
The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard is Anton Chekhov's final play, first performed by the Moscow Art Theatre in January 1904. It follows...
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches is the first part of Tony Kushner's two-part theatrical work Angels in America,...
Angels in America: Perestroika
Angels in America: Perestroika is the second part of Tony Kushner's two-part drama Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on...
Antigone
Antigone is an ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles, first performed in Athens around 441 BCE. After a civil war in Thebes...
The Oresteia
The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies by Aeschylus, first performed in Athens in 458 BCE. Comprising Agamemnon, T...
The Bacchae
The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, produced posthumously around 405 BCE. Dionysus returns to Thebes t...
Phèdre
Phèdre is a French neoclassical tragedy by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 and based on stories from Greek mytholog...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play by Tom Stoppard first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966. I...
Three Tall Women
Three Tall Women is a play by American dramatist Edward Albee, first produced in 1991. It examines aging, memory, family...
Ubu Roi
Ubu Roi is an 1896 French play by Alfred Jarry centered on Père Ubu, a grotesque and cowardly figure who murders the kin...
The Chairs
The Chairs is a 1952 absurdist play by Eugène Ionesco in which an elderly couple prepares to receive a growing crowd of...
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 Zoo Story
The Zoo Story is a one act play by Edward Albee and one of his earliest produced works. First staged in Berlin in 1959,...
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...
The Lesson
The Lesson is a one-act play written by Romanian-born French dramatist Eugène Ionesco and first performed in 1951. It be...
Shopping and Fucking
Shopping and Fucking is a 1996 play by British dramatist Mark Ravenhill and his first professionally produced full-lengt...
Seascape
Seascape is a theatrical play by Edward Albee that premiered on Broadway in 1975, subsequently winning the Pulitzer Priz...
Tiny Alice
Tiny Alice is a 1964 play by Edward Albee that uses an enigmatic household and competing explanations to unsettle the bo...
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