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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerThe Crucible by Arthur MillerWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward AlbeeThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Best American Plays
250 books — 367 voters
Just the Sexiest Man Alive by Julie JamesThe Love Theorem by Camilla IsleyThe Bodyguard by Katherine CenterFriends Without Benefits by Penny ReidHeaven, Texas by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Romance with Actors/Actresses/Acting/Film
300 books — 244 voters

Will in the World by Stephen GreenblattShakespeare by Bill BrysonA Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James ShapiroShakespeare by Harold BloomShakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber
Best Books About Shakespeare
262 books — 167 voters
The Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons by Sophie NevilleThe Warner Loughlin Technique by Warner LoughlinFilm Directing Shot by Shot by Steven D. KatzWithout Empathy by Mk RaghavendraActor for Life by Connie de Veer
Acting and Cinema
75 books — 63 voters

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John GreenEyes Like Stars by Lisa MantchevPerchance to Dream by Lisa MantchevMeet Me Under the Lights by Cassie MillerDramarama by E. Lockhart
YA Theater
71 books — 59 voters
Meet Me Under the Lights by Cassie MillerRoomies by Christina LaurenWill Grayson, Will Grayson by John GreenAnd The Next Thing You Know... by Chase Taylor HackettSimon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Performing Arts Fiction
185 books — 39 voters

What a Woman Desires by Rachel BrimbleSomewhere I'll Find You by Lisa KleypasBecause You're Mine by Lisa KleypasDarling Beast by Elizabeth HoytScandal in Scotland by Karen Hawkins
Best Historical Romances with Actor Heroes and Heroines
77 books — 35 voters
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryFences by August WilsonDutchman & The Slave by Amiri BarakaPorgy and Bess Fantasy for Two Pianos by George GershwinFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake Shange
African American Plays
43 books — 34 voters

Dr. Faustus by Christopher MarloweEdward II by Christopher MarloweThe Complete Poems by Ben JonsonThe Complete Plays by Christopher MarloweThe Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
Shakespeare's Contemporaries
106 books — 28 voters
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LerouxThe Ghost in the Third Row by Bruce CovilleThe Dark Behind the Curtain by Gillian CrossGhost Song by Sarah RayneGreasepaint and ghosts by Peter Haining
Haunted Theaters
59 books — 26 voters

The Tragic Death by Lewis J.A. CorbettWaiting for 2000 by Zack LoveTurtle Tears by J. Suthern HicksFrankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley by Nick DearThe Tempest by William Shakespeare
Plays/Scripts/Theatre
85 books — 22 voters
Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole BroyardHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanThe Gift of the Magi by O. HenryAnother Country by James Baldwin
Greenwich Village
127 books — 18 voters

Games for Actors and Non-Actors by Augusto BoalWhen Life Gives You Risk, Make Risk Theatre by Edwin WongActing Class by Milton KatselasTowards a Poor Theatre by Jerzy GrotowskiThe Stanislavsky Technique by Mel Gordon
So You Want to be an Actor
19 books — 13 voters
The First Paper Cut by Camille CabreraGirls in the Picture by Melanie BenjaminThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins ReidThe Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-GarciaDazzler by James Shooter
Best Hollywood and Theatre Fiction
28 books — 13 voters

Dr. Faustus by Christopher MarloweThe Duchess of Malfi by John WebsterEdward II by Christopher MarloweThe Jew of Malta by Christopher MarloweThe Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
Best non-Shakespeare Renaissance Drama
15 books — 9 voters
Kick Kennedy by Barbara LeamingStories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob LoweStanwyck by Axel MadsenClara Bow by David StennI Just Kept Hoping by Gloria Stuart
Tinsel and Glamor
40 books — 8 voters

L'avare by MolièreDon Juan by MolièreTartuffe by MolièreThe Misanthrope by MolièreLe Malade imaginaire by Molière
Best of Moliere
96 books — 6 voters
Ship of Theseus by J.J. AbramsHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCain's Jawbone by E. Powys MathersThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternCaraval by Stephanie Garber
Immersive, Immersive Theater, ARG, and Immersive-adjacent books
22 books — 6 voters

O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note by Amanda Eubanks WinklerDances of Vice, Horror, and Ecstasy by Sebastian DrosteLatest Rage the Big Drum by Annabelle MelzerEdward Gorey's Dracula by Edward GoreySelected Plays of Alphonse Allais by Alphonse Allais
Private Theatricals
125 books — 5 voters
Two's Company by Sherryl WoodsGypsy in the Night by Sophie WestonDreams of Glass by Brenna ToddTake Two by Tracey Cramer-KellyOn The Air by Mary Burchell
Action: Directors in Romance
28 books — 5 voters

Smoke and Shadows by Tanya HuffValhollywood by Christopher E. AppelAll That Glitters is Gold by S.T. JonesCountess Dracula by Guy AdamsBride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly
Speculative Hollywood
59 books — 3 voters
Jack & Louisa by Andrew Keenan-BolgerJack & Louisa by Andrew Keenan-BolgerJack & Louisa by Andrew Keenan-BolgerMy Life by Maryrose WoodThe Chance to Fly by Ali Stroker
YA Books Written by Former Broadway Performers About Kids Obsessed with Broadway
9 books — 2 voters

'night, Mother by Marsha NormanGetting Out by Marsha NormanMarsha Norman, Vol. 1 by Marsha NormanThe Secret Garden by Marsha NormanMarsha Norman Collected Plays by Marsha Norman
Best of Marsha Norman
13 books — 2 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareCome From Away by Irene SankoffFiddler on the Roof by Joseph SteinSIX by Toby MarlowThe Tempest by William Shakespeare
Stage Productions to See After COVID-19
42 books — 2 voters

Amid Our Lines by Zarah DetandThe Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King by Harry TrevaldwynPort in a Storm by Rhys FordB-Mine by Ava Olsen
M/M Performing and Visual Arts Books 2024
4 books — 2 voters
If We Were a Movie by Zakiya N. JamalThe Performance by Claire ThomasSetting the Stage by Lindsay ChampionMurder at the Royal Ruby by Nita ProseUna película para cada año de tu vida by Alejandro G. Calvo
Theater Seats
5 books — 2 voters

Acting by Kurt DawStanislavski by Jean BenedettiActing by Richard BoleslavskyThe Stanislavsky Technique by Mel GordonAn Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavski
Acting: Thought into Action Recommended Reading
38 books — 1 voter
Watchfiends and Rack Screams by Antonin ArtaudArtaud's Metamorphosis by Jay MurphyComparative Encounters Between Artaud, Michaux and the Zhuangzi by Xiaofan Amy LiMarthe and the Madman by Jean de BosschèreSpectral Hieroglyphics by Will Alexander
Artaud For The Gangrene Of The Dead Leg's Bone
94 books — 1 voter

The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam by Angela VanhaelenAnimated Display by Allan PlowmanMy Ivory Cellar by John Nash OttDiscovering Lost Films of Georges Méliès in Fin-De-Siècle Fli... by Thierry LecointeDisplay Animation by Ira Lee Cochrane
Analog Thirst Mirage And The Mechanics
99 books — 1 voter
A Flowering of Ink by K.L. Noone
M/M Performing and Visual Arts Books 2023
1 book — 1 voter

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