The First 100 Plays Read (Over the past year)

It seems like I've been away from theatre for too long. So, for the past year, I've been trying to scrape off the rust that's accumulated from my absence. One of the tasks I've given myself is to read plays; as many plays as I could manage. To be honest, it hasn't quite been a year since I started this task; I do believe it began back in August or September of 2012 with Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Either way, it's an accomplishment during a time when accomplishments have been few and far between.

In celebration, here's the list of plays I've read. In some cases, I've made a note if I've read more than one translation or version of a specific play. Years refer to the year the play was first performed to the best of my knowledge; two dates are given if the time between the play's creation and its staging was significantly long. Some of these are plays that are new to me, others are plays that I read way back during college and recently re-read.

• A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen - 1879
• A Memory of Two Mondays - Arthur Miller - 1955
• A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams - 1947
• A View from the Bridge - Arthur Miller - 1955
• Alcestis - Euripides - c. 438 B.C.E.
• All My Sons - Arthur Miller - 1947
• Alone Together - Lawrence Roman - 1984
• Angel Street - Patrick Hamilton - 1938 (Originally titled Gaslight)
• Antigone - Sophocles - c. 441 B.C.E.
• Arsenic and Old Lace - Joseph Kesselring - 1941
• 'Art' - Yasmina Reza - 1996
• August: Osage County - Tracy Letts - 2007
• Back of the Throat - Yussef El Guindi - 2005
• Bad Seed - Maxwell Anderson - 1954
• Adapted from the novel by William March
• Body Awareness - Annie Baker - 2008
• Bug - Tracy Letts - 1996
• Buried Child - Sam Shepard - 1978
• Bus Stop - William Inge - 1955
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams - 1955 (Two versions)
• Child's Play - Robert Marasco - 1970
• Come Back, Little Sheba - William Inge - 1950
• Crimes of the Heart - Beth Henley - 1980
• Dangerous Corner - J. B. Priestley - 1932
• Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller - 1949
• Dirty Hands - Jean-Paul Sartre - 1948
• Don't Drink the Water - Woody Allen - 1966
• Dracula - Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston - 1927
• Adapted from the novel by Bram Stoker
• Dream Girl - Elmer Rice - 1945
• Elizabeth the Queen - Maxwell Anderson - 1930
• Everyman - Anonymous (Morality Play) - c. 1510
• Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet - 1983
• God of Carnage - Yasmina Reza - 2006
• Harvey - Mary Chase - 1944
• Henry IV - Luigi Pirandello - 1922
• If - Edward Plunkett, Lord of Dunsany - 1922
• Key Exchange - Kevin Wade - 1981
• Killer Joe - Tracy Letts - 1993
• Look Back in Anger - John Osborne - 1956
• Low in the Dark - Marina Carr - 1989
• Medea - Euripides - c. 431 B.C.E.
• Miss Julie - August Strindberg - 1889 (Three translations)
• Mr. Marmalade - Noah Haidle - 2004
• Nickel and Dimed - Joan Holden - 2002
• Adapted from the non-fiction book by Barbara Ehrenreich
• 'Night, Mother - Marsha Norman - 1983
• No Exit - Jean-Paul Sartre - 1944
• No Sex Please, We're British - Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot - 1971
• Oedipus at Colonus - Sophocles - c. 401 B.C.E.
• Oedipus the King - Sophocles - c. 429 B.C.E.
• Our Country's Good - Timberlake Wertenbaker - 1988
• Adapted from the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally
• Picnic - William Inge - 1953
• Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus - c. 480 - 410 B.C.E.
• Pterodactyls - Nicky Silver - 1993
• R. U. R. - Karel Čapek - 1920 (Two translations)
• reasons to be pretty - Neil LaBute - 2008
• Red - John Logan - 2009
• Reynard the Fox - Arthur Fauquez - 1958
• Rope - Patrick Hamilton - 1929
• Say You Love Satan - Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa - 2001
• Seven Against Thebes - Aeschylus - c. 467 B.C.E.
• Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello - 1921 (Two translations)
• Six Degrees of Separation - John Guare - 1990
• Slasher - Allison Moore - 2009
• Sleuth - Anthony Shaffer - 1970
• Spring Awakening - Frank Wedekind - 1906
• Street Scene - Elmer Rice - 1929
• subUrbia - Eric Bogosian - 1994
• Summer and Smoke - Tennessee Williams - 1948
• The Adding Machine - Elmer Rice - 1923
• The Broken Heart - John Ford - c. 1625 - 1632
• The Crucible - Arthur Miller - 1953 (Two versions)
• The Curious Savage - John Patrick - 1950
• The Dark at the Top of the Stairs - William Inge - 1957
• The Flies - Jean-Paul Sartre - 1943
• The Foreigner - Larry Shue - 1983
• The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams - 1945
• The Haunting of Hill House - F. Andrew Leslie - 1964
• Adapted from the novel by Shirley Jackson
• The Homecoming - Harold Pinter - 1965
• The Letter - W. Somerset Maugham - 1927
• The Mystery Plays - Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa - 2001
• The Nerd - Larry Shue - 1981
• The Night of the Iguana - Tennessee Williams - 1961
• The Odd Couple - Neil Simon - 1965
• The Persians - Aeschylus - c. 472 B.C.E.
• The Pillowman - Martin McDonagh - 2003
• The Playboy of the Western World - John Millington Synge - 1907
• The Rats - Gerhart Hauptmann - 1911
• The Respectful Prostitute - Jean-Paul Sartre - 1946
• The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd - c. 1582 - 1592
• The Suppliants - Aeschylus - c. 470 - 463 B.C.E.
• The Waiting Room - Lisa Loomer - 1994
• The Way of the World - William Congreve - 1700
• The Weavers - Gerhart Hauptmann - 1893
• The Weird - Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa - 2004
• The Woman in Black - Stephen Mallatratt - 1987
• Adapted from the novel by Susan Hill
• The Women of Lockerbie - Deborah Brevoort - 2003
• 'Tis Pity She's a Whore - John Ford - c. 1629 - 1633
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Christopher Sergel - 1970
• Adapted from the novel by Harper Lee
• Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett - 1953
• Woman and Scarecrow - Marina Carr - 2006
• Woyzeck - Georg Büchner - 1837/1913 (Two translations)