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1:28 p.m.'s 350 Stage Plays Challenge

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ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

Rank Title Author Added

1

by William Shakespeare

31,528 members

287 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

2

Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

27,466 members

268 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

3

by William Shakespeare

25,069 members

217 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

4

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,025 members

170 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

5

by William Shakespeare

16,359 members

128 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

6

by William Shakespeare

13,279 members

169 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

7

Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

by Samuel Beckett

12,544 members

156 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

8

The Importance of Being Earnest

10,488 members

178 reviews

4.2

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

9

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams

6,460 members

69 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

10

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

by Edward Albee

4,545 members

69 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

11

The Misanthrope

1,541 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

12

Arsenic and Old Lace : A Play in Three Acts

by Joseph Kesselring

640 members

6 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

13

by Arthur Miller

14,853 members

154 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

14

by William Shakespeare

14,480 members

143 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, awerling

15

Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

11,756 members

114 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

10,944 members

109 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by William Shakespeare

10,323 members

104 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

18

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

10,236 members

92 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, awerling

19

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

7,774 members

91 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams

7,717 members

92 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

6,369 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

22

5,289 members

63 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

23

A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

5,223 members

78 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

by Christopher Marlowe

4,919 members

71 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, awerling

25

by Thornton Wilder

4,851 members

67 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

26

The Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare

4,587 members

58 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, awerling

27

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

by Tennessee Williams

2,854 members

30 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by William Shakespeare

2,667 members

49 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, awerling

29

Titus Andronicus

by William Shakespeare

2,577 members

44 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, awerling

30

Inherit the Wind

by Jerome Lawrence

2,286 members

30 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, awerling

31

by Peter Shaffer

2,097 members

21 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

The Duchess of Malfi

by John Webster

1,124 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

by Henrik Ibsen

827 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

Doubt: A Parable

by John Patrick Shanley

740 members

15 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

35

Oedipus at Colonus

524 members

16 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

36

You Can't Take It With You

475 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

37

by Noël Coward

311 members

10 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

38

307 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, awerling

39

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

8,397 members

84 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

40

by William Shakespeare

7,222 members

71 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

41

by George Bernard Shaw

6,478 members

77 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

42

The Tragedy of Richard the Third

by William Shakespeare

5,942 members

86 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

43

by William Shakespeare

5,775 members

50 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

44

Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

5,278 members

57 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

45

Henry IV, Part I

by William Shakespeare

4,834 members

39 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

46

by William Shakespeare

4,000 members

51 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

47

Long Day's Journey into Night

by Eugene O'Neill

3,389 members

36 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

48

The Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare

3,206 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

49

A Man for All Seasons

2,990 members

28 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

50

Murder in the Cathedral

2,987 members

31 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

51

by Aristophanes

2,824 members

41 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

Henry IV, Part II

by William Shakespeare

2,436 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

53

Love's Labour's Lost

by William Shakespeare

2,309 members

38 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

54

by George Bernard Shaw

2,239 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

55

All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

2,129 members

29 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

56

by August Wilson

1,719 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

The Miracle Worker [play]

by William Gibson

1,702 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

58

by William Shakespeare

1,672 members

29 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

59

She Stoops to Conquer

by Oliver Goldsmith

1,506 members

22 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

60

Six Characters in Search of an Author

by Luigi Pirandello

1,368 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

61

by Eugène Ionesco

1,358 members

17 reviews

3.9

Member: awerling

62

An Ideal Husband

1,343 members

32 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

by William Shakespeare

1,334 members

21 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

64

Timon of Athens

by William Shakespeare

1,311 members

21 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

65

by George Bernard Shaw

1,139 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

66

Arms and the Man

by George Bernard Shaw

1,056 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

67

The School for Scandal

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1,012 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

68

by Harold Pinter

979 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

69

by Anton Chekhov

889 members

18 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

70

by Jean-Paul Sartre

873 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

71

by Aristophanes

786 members

16 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

72

741 members

17 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

73

by August Strindberg

667 members

10 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ahef1963

74

The Reduced Shakespeare Co. presentsThe Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr

577 members

11 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: awerling

75

by Michael Frayn

573 members

16 reviews

4.2

Member: awerling

76

The Birds [in translation]

by Aristophanes

565 members

12 reviews

3.2

Member: ahef1963

77

Crimes of the Heart

510 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: awerling

78

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

482 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

79

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

by August Wilson

451 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

381 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: awerling

81

Torch Song Trilogy

by Harvey Fierstein

374 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

82

Brighton Beach Memoirs

374 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

83

Mourning Becomes Electra

by Eugene O'Neill

341 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

84

The Boys in the Band: A Play in Two Acts

by Mart Crowley

285 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

85

Private Lives: An Intimate Comedy in Three Acts

by Noël Coward

281 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

86

The Man Who Came to Dinner

by George S. Kaufman

226 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

87

176 members

5 reviews

3.2

Member: ahef1963

88

155 members

1 review

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

89

Plaza Suite; a Comedy in Three Acts

130 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

90

Witness for the Prosecution: A Play in Three Acts

by Agatha Christie

125 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: ahef1963

91

by Patrick Hamilton

118 members

1 review

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

92

The Mousetrap: A Play

by Agatha Christie

93 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

93

81 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

94

The Seven Year Itch

by George Axelrod

55 members

1 review

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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Started: Nick_H
September 2022
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