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This document lists the 100 top plays as determined by some selection criteria. It begins with Waiting for Godot at #1 and ends with Present Laughter at #100. Many of the top plays were written by renowned playwrights like Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, and Samuel Beckett. The list covers plays from the 20th century and represents a variety of genres, styles, and countries of origin.

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100 Top Plays English

This document lists the 100 top plays as determined by some selection criteria. It begins with Waiting for Godot at #1 and ends with Present Laughter at #100. Many of the top plays were written by renowned playwrights like Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Harold Pinter, and Samuel Beckett. The list covers plays from the 20th century and represents a variety of genres, styles, and countries of origin.

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The 100 Top Plays

01 - Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett 02 - Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller 03 - A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams 04 - Look Back in Anger - John Osborne 05 - Long Day's Journey into Night - Eugene O'Neill 06 - The Crucible - Arthur Miller 07 - Private Lives - Nol Coward 08 - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard 09 - Angels in America - Tony Kushner 10 - The Caretaker - Harold Pinter 11 - Saved - Edward Bond 12 - The Homecoming - Harold Pinter 13 - Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw 14 - Racing Demon - David Hare 15 - Juno and the Paycock - Sean O'Casey 16 - Top Girls - Caryl Churchill 17 - Heartbreak House - George Bernard Shaw 18 - Playboy of the Western World - J.M. Synge 19 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee 20 - The Deep Blue Sea - Terence Rattigan 21 - The Birthday Party - Harold Pinter 22 - An Inspector Calls - J.B. Priestley 23 - Arcadia - Tom Stoppard 24 - Loot - Joe Orton 25 - The Norman Conquests - Alan Ayckbourn 26 - Translations - Brian Friel 27 - The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams 28 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams 29 - The Entertainer - John Osborne 30 - The Voysey Inheritance - Harley Granville Barker 31 - The Plough and the Stars - Sean O'Casey 32 - Glengarry Glen Ross - David Mamet 33 - No Man's Land - Harold Pinter 34 - Saint Joan - George Bernard Shaw 35 - Journey's End - R.C. Sherriff 36 - Our Country's Good - Timberlake Wertenbaker 37 - Road - Jim Cartwright 38 - The Browning Version - Terence Rattigan 39 - Absurd Person Singular - Alan Ayckbourn 40 - The Vortex - Nol Coward 41 - View from the Bridge - Arthur Miller 42 - The Weir - Conor McPherson 43 - The Iceman Cometh - Eugene O'Neill 44 - Endgame - Samuel Beckett 45 - Nicholas Nickleby - David Edgar 46 - Roots - Arnold Wesker 47 - Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie 48 - Serjeant Musgrave's Dance - John Arden 49 - What the Butler Saw - Joe Orton 50 - Blithe Spirit - Nol Coward 51 - Comedians - Trevor Griffiths 52 - Pravda - David Hare and Howard Brenton 53 - Master Harold and the Boys - Athol Fugard 54 - A Taste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney 55 - Dancing at Lughnasa - Brian Friel 56 - Betrayal - Harold Pinter 57 - The Front Page - Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur 58 - Cloud Nine - Caryl Churchill 59 - Oh What a Lovely War - Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop 60 - The Madness of George III - Alan Bennett 61 - Entertaining Mr Sloane - Joe Orton 62 - Plenty - David Hare 63 - Jumpers - Tom Stoppard 64 - Sizwe Bansi is Dead - Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona 65 - Closer - Patrick Marber 66 - Murder in the Cathedral - T.S. Eliot 67 - Absolute Hell - Rodney Ackland 68 - The Royal Hunt of the Sun - Peter Shaffer 69 - Oleanna - David Mamet 70 - Equus - Peter Shaffer 71 - Man and Superman - George Bernard Shaw 72 - All My Sons - Arthur Miller 73 - Waste - Harley Granville Barker 74 - Skylight - David Hare 75 - Insignificance - Terry Johnson 76 - The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd - D.H. Lawrence 77 - Faith Healer - Brian Friel 78 - Bedroom Farce - Alan Ayckbourn 79 - Serious Money - Caryl Churchill 80 - Noises Off - Michael Frayn 81 - When We Are Married - J.B. Priestley 82 - Time and the Conways - J.B. Priestley 83 - Forty Years On - Alan Bennett 84 - Family Reunion - T.S. Eliot 85 - Dead Funny - Terry Johnson 86 - The Sea - Edward Bond 87 - Copenhagen - Michael Frayn 88 - The Daughter-in-Law - D.H. Lawrence 89 - Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme - Frank McGuinness 90 - The Lady's Not for Burning - Christopher Fry 91 - Plunder - Ben Travers 92 - Amadeus - Peter Shaffer 93 - Good - C.P. Taylor 94 - Home - David Storey 95 - Run For Your Wife - Ray Cooney 96 - Hay Fever - Nol Coward 97 - Design for Living - Nol Coward 98 - Old Times - Harold Pinter 99 - Travesties - Tom Stoppard 100 - Present Laughter - Nol Coward

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