Key Shows
As thespians, it's important to have a wide variety of both plays and musicals in your arsenal of knowledge. Here's an organized list of shows to know!
Classic Plays
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Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
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Electra (Sophocles)
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Antigone (Sophocles)
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Cyclops (Euripides)
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Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
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Agamemnon (Aeschylus)
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Medea (Euripides)
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Othello (Shakespeare)
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Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)
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The Tempest (Shakespeare)
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The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare)
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As You Like It (Shakespeare)
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Hamlet (Shakespeare
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Macbeth (Shakespeare)
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King Lear (Shakespeare)
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A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
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The Mandrake (Niccolo Machiavelli)
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The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
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Spreading the News (Lady Augusta Gregory)
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Our Town (Thornton Wilder)
Musicals
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Avenue Q
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West Side Story
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The Wizard of Oz
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Cabaret
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Oliver!
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Guys and Dolls
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Mary Poppins
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Grease
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An American in Paris
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Hairspray
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Les Miserables
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Chicago
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Annie
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Sweeney Todd
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The Wiz
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Kiss me Kate
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Evita
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Aida
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The Book of Mormon
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Hamilton
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The Lion King
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The Addams Family
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A Chorus Line
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Matilda
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White Christmas
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
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Anything Goes
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Into the Woods
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Showboat
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The King and I
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Oklahoma!
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Miss Saigon
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The Phantom of the Opera
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CATS
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Seussical the Musical
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Rent
Modern Plays
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Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
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Angels in America (Tony Kushner)
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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee)
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Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov)
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Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
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A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)
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The Birthday Party (Harold Punter)
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Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee)
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A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry)
