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The Great Plays: A Stage Director's View

After 40+ years in the theatre, and directing and acting at all levels from high school to Off-Broadway, I take a personal, idiosyncratic, and certainly NOT definitive look at plays that matter. These are plays that make the Live Theatre valid and necessary, and that are still worth mounting, seeing, hearing, and reading. I have restricted myself to plays; Musicals are their own form, and deserve their own list. The order after the first 10 is as the plays occurred to me, and should not be taken as a strict order of merit. The first 10 are what I consider to be the greatest of the great.
[2/7/23 Since compiling this list I've reconsidered 1-10. I now would put "Our Town" at no. 7 and "Long Day's Journey" at no. 11. I have come to realize that "Our Town" is the greatest American play yet written.]
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Hamlet
Hamlet
1
Oedipus Tyrannos
Oedipus Tyrannos
2
King Lear (King Lear)
King Lear (King Lear)
3
The Oresteia
The Oresteia
4
MacBeth (MacBeth)
MacBeth (MacBeth)
5
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot
6
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Long Day's Journey Into Night
7
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night
8
Othello
Othello
9
The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard
10
Medea
Medea
11
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman
12
Tartuffe
Tartuffe
13
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest
14
Endgame
Endgame
15
Mother Courage and Her Children
Mother Courage and Her Children
16
A Doll's House
A Doll's House
17
Woyzeck
Woyzeck
18
Lysistrata
Lysistrata
19
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire
20
Henry IV
Henry IV
21
The Duchess of Malfi
The Duchess of Malfi
22
The Way of the World
The Way of the World
23
The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh
24
The Tempest
The Tempest
25
The Trojan Women
The Trojan Women
26
Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus
27
Ionesco's "The Killer".
Ionesco's "The Killer".
28
Everyman
Everyman
29
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
30
The Servant of Two Masters
The Servant of Two Masters
31
Our Town
Our Town
32
Fifth of July
Fifth of July
33
The Caretaker
The Caretaker
34
The Misanthrope
The Misanthrope
35
Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya
36
The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
37
She Stoops to Conquer
She Stoops to Conquer
38
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Man Who Came to Dinner
39
Krapp's Last Tape
Krapp's Last Tape
40
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