{"id":4212,"date":"2017-08-15T14:11:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/?p=4212"},"modified":"2019-07-09T18:59:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:59:38","slug":"30-more-plays-all-high-school-seniors-should-read-before-they-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/30-more-plays-all-high-school-seniors-should-read-before-they-graduate\/","title":{"rendered":"30 MORE Plays All High School Seniors Should Read (Before They Graduate) Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

30 MORE Plays All High School Seniors Should Read (Before They Graduate) Part 2<\/h3>\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>

Written by Ashleigh Gardner<\/p>\n

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Read Part 1 of this series here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

You know what\u2019s great about being a high school senior? Graduating obviously! But another great thing about being on the cusp of your transition from high school to college (or the professional acting world) is that you\u2019ll now get the chance to audition for some of the greatest plays ever written. You\u2019ll have the opportunity to audition for theatres to earn the role of Freddy in Pygmalion<\/i>, Nick in Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?<\/i>, or Cory in Fences. <\/i>Ophelia from Hamlet<\/i>, Irina from Three Sisters, <\/i>or Lysistrata from \u2014 well \u2014 Lysistrata. <\/i><\/p>\n

To have a better chance at being cast in any of those amazing plays, you should read <\/i>them first. Below is Performer Stuff\u2019s addendum to our top 25 list of plays every high school senior should read before graduating<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — 30 MORE\u00a0<\/em>plays you should read! What are you waiting for? Get on it!<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0The Cherry Orchard<\/i> by Anton Chekhov<\/h4>\n
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Summary:<\/strong> \u201c<\/span>The Cherry Orchard<\/span><\/i> is the story of a mortgage, with the grounds and beautiful trees of the proud landowners going for sale at a public auction to pay off their debts to the boorish son of a peasant who has risen in the world. Mme Ranyevskaya’s family departs to take up their lives anew, leaving the old and forgotten First to die alone as the woodsmen’s axes thud ironically against the cherished trees.\u201d – Samuel French<\/span><\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0Our Town<\/i> by Thornton Wilder<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cDescribed by Edward Albee as \u2018\u2026the greatest American play ever written,\u2019 the story follows the small town of Grover\u2019s Corners through three acts: \u2018Daily Life,\u2019 \u2018Love and Marriage,\u2019 and \u2018Death and Eternity.\u2019 Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually \u2013 in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre \u2013 die. Thornton Wilder\u2019s final word on how he wanted his play performed is an invaluable addition to the American stage and to the libraries of theatre lovers internationally.\u201d – Samuel French<\/span><\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0The Little Foxes<\/i> by Lillian Hellman (1939)<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>\u201cPicture a charming home in the South. Into this peaceful scene put the prosperous, despotic Hubbard family\u2014Ben, possessive and scheming; Oscar, cruel and arrogant; Ben’s dupe, Leo, weak and unprincipled; Regina wickedly clever\u2014each trying to outwit the other. In contrast, meet lonely intimidated Birdie, whom Oscar wed for her father’s cotton fields; wistful Alexandra, Regina’s daughter; and Horace, ailing husband of Regina, between whom a breach has existed for years. The conflict in these lives has been caused by Ben’s ambition to erect a cotton mill. The brothers still lack $75,000 to complete the transaction. This, they hope, will come from Horace, who has been in a hospital with a heart ailment.\u201d – Dramatists Play Service<\/span><\/p>\n

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4.\u00a0A Streetcar Named Desire<\/i> by Tennessee Williams<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cThe play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject\u2014so far as possible\u2014the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and extremely ‘normal’ young husband of the latter, leads to a revelation of her tragic self-delusion and, in the end, to madness.\u201d – Dramatists Play Service<\/span><\/p>\n

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5.\u00a0Waiting for Godot<\/i> by Samuel Beckett<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>\u201cIn <\/span>Waiting for Godot<\/span><\/i>, two wandering tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, wait by a lonely tree, to meet up with Mr. Godot, an enigmatic figure in a world where time, place and memory are blurred and meaning is where you find it. The tramps hope that Godot will change their lives for the better. Instead, two eccentric travelers arrive, one man on the end of the other’s rope. The results are both funny and dangerous in this existential masterpiece.\u201d – Samuel French<\/span><\/p>\n

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6.\u00a0Picnic<\/i> by William Inge<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cThe play takes place on Labor Day weekend in the joint backyards of two middle-aged widows. The one house belongs to Flo Owens, who lives there with her two maturing daughters, Madge and Millie, and a boarder who is a spinster school teacher. The other house belongs to Helen Potts, who lives with her elderly and invalid mother. Into this female atmosphere comes a young man named Hal Carter, whose animal vitality seriously upsets the entire group.\u201d – Dramatists Play Service<\/span><\/p>\n

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7.\u00a0Cat on a Hot Tin Roof<\/i> by Tennessee Williams<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cIn a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, clawing hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds.\u201d – Dramatists Play Service<\/span><\/p>\n

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8.\u00a0The Diary of Anne Frank<\/i> by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1956 Pulitzer Prize. \u201cDuring the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands Anne Frank began to keep a diary on June 14, 1942, two days after her 13th birthday, and twenty two days before going into hiding with her mother, father, sister, and three other people. The group went into hiding in the sealed-off upper rooms of the annex of her father’s office building in Amsterdam. The sealed-off upper-rooms also contained a hidden door which the Franks would hide in during the parts when Nazi soldiers were investigating the buildings for harbored Jews. They remained hidden for two years and one month, until their betrayal in August 1944, which resulted in their deportation going to Nazi concentration camps.\u201d – Samuel French<\/span><\/p>\n

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9.\u00a0Look Homeward, Angel<\/i> by Ketti Frings (novel by Thomas Wolfe)<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cAn authentic American classic, this powerful and vital play captures the sardonic humor and the grief, both private and universal, of Wolfe’s novel about a youth coming of age. Concentrating on the last third of Wolfe’s story, the play vividly portrays Eugene Gant, his mother, who is obsessed by her material holdings and who maintains barriers against the love of her family, his father, a stonecutter imprisoned by his failures, and the brother who never breaks away.\u201d – Samuel French<\/span><\/p>\n

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10.\u00a0A Delicate Balance<\/i> by Edward Albee<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cWealthy middle-aged couple, Agnes and Tobias have their complacency shattered when Harry and Edna, longtime friends appear at their doorstep. Claiming an encroaching, nameless ‘fear’ has forced them from their own home, these neighbors bring a firestorm of doubt, recrimination and ultimately solace, upsetting the ‘delicate balance’ of Agnes and Tobias’ household.\u201d – Samuel French<\/span><\/p>\n

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11.\u00a0The Effect of Gamma Rays in the Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds <\/i>by Paul Zindel<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cFrowzy, acid-tongued Beatrice Hunsdorfer, supporting herself and her two daughters by taking in a decrepit old boarder, wreaks a petty vengeance on everybody around her. One daughter, Ruth, is a pretty but highly strung girl subject to convulsions, while the younger daughter, Matilda (\u2018Tillie\u2019), plain and almost pathologically shy, has an intuitive gift for science. Encouraged by her teacher, Tillie undertakes a gamma ray experiment with marigolds that wins a prize at her high school\u2014and also brings on the play\u2019s shattering climax. Proud and yet jealous, too filled with her own hurts to accept her daughter\u2019s success, Beatrice can only maim when she needs to love and deride when she wants to praise.\u201d – Dramatists Play Service<\/span><\/p>\n

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12.\u00a0The House of Blue Leaves <\/i>by John Guare<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>\u201cArtie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zookeeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night, plying his wares at piano bars in Queens, New York, where he lives with his wife, Bananas, much to the chagrin of Artie\u2019s downstairs mistress, Bunny Flingus, who\u2019ll sleep with him anytime but refuses to cook until they are married. On the day the Pope is making his first visit to the city, Artie\u2019s son Ronny goes AWOL from Fort Dix, stowing a homemade bomb intended to blow up the Pope in Yankee Stadium.\u201d – Samuel French<\/span><\/p>\n

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13.\u00a0The Shadow Box <\/i>by Michael Cristofer<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cIn this compelling dramatic triptych, three terminal cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital’s grounds. The three are attended and visited by family and close friends: Agnes and her mother Felicity, estranged further by the latter’s dementia; Brian and Beverly, whose marital complications are exacerbated by Brian’s new lover, Mark; and Joe and Maggie, unready for the strain of Joe’s impending death and its effect on their teenage son.\u201d – Samuel French<\/span><\/p>\n

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14. Buried Child<\/i> Sam Shepard<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize. \u201cThe setting is a squalid farm home occupied by a family filled with suppressed violence and an unease born of deep-seated unhappiness. The characters are a ranting alcoholic grandfather; a sanctimonious grandmother who goes on drinking bouts with the local minister; and their sons, Tilden, an All-American footballer now a hulking semi-idiot; and Bradley, who has lost one leg to a chain saw. Into their midst comes Vince, a grandson none of them recognizes or remembers, and his girlfriend, Shelly, who cannot comprehend the madness to which she is suddenly introduced. The family harbors a dark secret\u2014years earlier the grandfather, Dodge, had buried an unwanted newborn baby in an undisclosed spot.\u201d – Dramatists Play Service<\/span><\/p>\n

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15.\u00a0Talley\u2019s Folly<\/i> by Lanford Wilson<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cThe scene is the ornate, deserted Victorian boathouse on the Talley place in Lebanon, Missouri; the time 1944. Matt Friedman, an accountant from St. Louis, has arrived to plead his love to Sally Talley, the susceptible but uncertain daughter of the family. Bookish, erudite, totally honest, and delightfully funny, Matt refuses to accept Sally’s rebuffs and her fears that her family would never approve of their marriage. Charming and indomitable, he gradually overcomes her defenses, telling his innermost secrets to his loved one and, in return, learning hers as well.\u201d – Dramatists Play Service<\/span><\/p>\n

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16.\u00a0True West<\/i> by Sam Shepard<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Finalist for the 1983 of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cSons of a desert-dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold to producer Sal Kimmer when Lee, a demented petty thief, drops in. He pitches his own idea for a movie to Kimmer, who then wants Austin to junk his bleak, modern love story and write Lee’s trashy Western tale.\u201d – Samuel French<\/span><\/p>\n

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17.\u00a0The Colored Museum<\/em> by George C. Wolf<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>\u201c<\/span>The Colored Museum<\/span><\/i> has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining our ideas of what it means to be black in contemporary America. Its eleven \u2018exhibits\u2019 undermine black stereotypes old and new and return to the facts of what being black means.\u201d – Samuel French<\/span><\/p>\n

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18.\u00a0The Heidi Chronicles<\/i> by Wendy Wasserstein<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cComprised of a series of interrelated scenes, the play traces the coming of age of Heidi Holland, a successful art historian, as she tries to find her bearings in a rapidly changing world. Gradually distancing herself from her friends, she watches them move from the idealism and political radicalism of their college years through militant feminism and, eventually, back to the materialism that they had sought to reject in the first place. […] Eventually Heidi comes to accept the fact that liberation can be achieved only if one is true to oneself, with goals that come out of need rather than circumstance.\u201d – Dramatists Play Service<\/span><\/p>\n

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19.\u00a0The Piano Lesson<\/i> by August Wilson<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cIt is 1936, and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money right quick. He wants to sell an old piano that has been in his family for generations, but he shares ownership with his sister and it sits in her living room. She has already rejected several offers because the antique piano is covered with incredible carvings detailing the family\u2019s rise from slavery. Boy Willie tries to persuade his stubborn sister that the past is past, but she is more formidable than he anticipated.\u201d – Samuel French<\/span><\/p>\n

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20.\u00a0Lost in Yonkers<\/i> by Neil Simon<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cBy America’s great comic playwright, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is thirty-five years old, mentally challenged, and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne’er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady’s doorstep. He is financially strapped and taking to the road as a salesman. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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21.\u00a0Angels in America<\/i>, Parts 1 and 2 by Tony Kushner<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cIn the first part of Tony Kushner’s epic, set in 1980’s New York City, a gay man is abandoned by his lover when he contracts the AIDS virus, and a closeted Mormon lawyer’s marriage to his pill-popping wife stalls. Other characters include the infamous McCarthy-ite lawyer Roy Cohn, Ethel Rosenberg, a former drag queen who works as a nurse, and an angel. \u00a0In the second part, the plague of AIDS worsens, relationships fall apart as new ones form, and unexpected friendships take form.\u201d – Broadway Play Publishing<\/span><\/p>\n

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22.\u00a0Three Tall Women<\/i> by Edward Albee<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. \u201cA young lawyer, \u2018C,\u2019 has been sent to the home of a client, a ninety-two-year-old woman, \u2018A,\u2019 to sort out her finances. \u2018A,\u2019 frail, perhaps a bit senile, resists and is of no help to \u2018C.\u2019 Along with \u2018B,\u2019 the old woman’s matronly paid companion\/caretaker, \u2018C\u2019” tries to convince \u2018A\u2019 that she must concentrate on the matters at hand. In \u2018A’s\u2019 beautifully appointed bedroom, she prods, discusses and bickers with \u2018B\u2019 and “C,” her captives.\u201d – Dramatists Play Service<\/span><\/p>\n

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23.\u00a0How I Learned to Drive<\/i> by Paula Vogel<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. \u201cA wildly funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival as seen through the lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man. <\/span>How I Learned to Drive<\/span><\/i> is the story of a woman who learns the rules of the road and life from behind the wheel.\u201d – Dramatists Play Service<\/span><\/p>\n

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24.\u00a0Proof<\/i> by David Auburn<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cOn the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father’s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father’s madness\u2014or genius\u2014will she inherit?\u201d – Dramatists Play Service<\/span><\/p>\n

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25.\u00a0Anna in the Tropics <\/i>Nilo Cruz<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cSet in Florida in 1929 in a Cuban\u2013American cigar factory, where cigars are still rolled by hand and “lectors” are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration, but when he begins to read aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics and the American dream prove a volatile combination.\u201d – Dramatists Play Service<\/span><\/p>\n

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26.\u00a0Doubt, a parable <\/i>by John Patrick Shanley<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cIn this brilliant and powerful drama, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students.\u201d – Dramatists Play Service<\/span><\/p>\n

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27.\u00a0Ruined <\/i>by Lynn Nottage<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cSet in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, this powerful play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life?\u201d – Dramatists Play Service<\/span><\/p>\n

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28.\u00a0Clybourne Park <\/i>by Bruce Norris<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cCLYBOURNE PARK explodes in two outrageous acts set fifty years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as white community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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29. Disgraced<\/i> by Ayad Akhtar<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cAmir Kapoor is a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly moving up the corporate ladder while distancing himself from his cultural roots. Emily, his wife, is white; she’s an artist, and her work is influenced by Islamic imagery. When the couple hosts a dinner party, what starts out as a friendly conversation escalates into something far more damaging.\u201d – Dramatists Play Service<\/span><\/p>\n

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30.\u00a0The Flick <\/i>by Annie Baker<\/h4>\n
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Summary: <\/b>Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. \u201cIn a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen.\u201d – Samuel French<\/span><\/p>\n

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