What are some of the best known plays, excluding Shakespere?

Answer 1

'Our Town' by Thornton Wilder
'The Glass Minagerie'
'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'
'A Streetcar Named Desire' (all 3 by Tennessee Williams)
'The Crucible'
'Death of a Salesman' (both by Arthur Miller)
'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde
'Medea', 'Oedipus Rex', 'Antigone', etc. (ancient Greek plays)
'The Three Sisters'
'Uncle Vanya' (both by Anton Chekov)
'A Doll's House'
'Hedda Gabler'
'The Wild Duck' (all 3 by Henrik Ibsen)
'Miss Julie' by August Strindberg
'The Misanthrope'
'Tartuffe'
'The Learned Ladies' (all 3 by Jean-Baptiste Moliere)
'A Raisin in the Sun' by Lorraine Hansberry
'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' by Edwad Albee
'Waiting for Godot' by Samuel Beckett (as well as a lot of other pieces by both Beckett and Albee)
'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' by Tom Stoppard
'No Exit' by Jean-Paul Sartre

Answer 2

In addition to the playwrights listed by bilocation, you might also want to check out some classic authors such as
1.)Henrik Ibsen (A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, etc...)
2.)Anton Chekhov(Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The wood Demon, The summer People, etc)
Moliers, the great Restoration playwright(The Misanthrope, School for Scandal, School for Husbands, etc.)

Eugene O'neil
Tennessee Williams,
Samuel Beckett
Caryl Churchill
Edward Albee
Tony Kushner
George Bernard Shaw...
The list goes on and on, most of them authors who, if not well known by name have written things that are easily recognizable.
David Henry Hwang

Answer 3

Long Day's Journey into Night
Death of a Salesman
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Glass Menagerie
Waiting for Godot
View from the Bridge
The Iceman Cometh

Concentrate on O'Neil, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams.

Answer 4

Oedipus Rex -Sophocles, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible-Arthur Miller, Our Town-Thornton Wilder, The Importance of Being Earnest-Oscar Wilde
There are also books adapted into plays: Christmas Carol, Oliver-Charles Dickens

Answer 5

The Phantom Of The Opera, Cats, Rent, Chicago, The Color Purple, Wicked, Mamma Mia, Jesus Christ Superstar, Madea's Family Runion, etc.. there are many.

Answer 6

The only Play I know of excluding shakespear is

Our Town
I was in it 2 years ago.

Answer 7

The Mouse Trap was the longest running Broadway play for years.

Answer 8

By plays i take it that you do not mean musicals. Our Town is very famous, Arsinec and Old Lace, The Crucible (and more Arthur Miller shows)

Answer 9

cats, phantom of the opera, a Christmas carol, peter pan, rent, mama mia and fiddler on the roof

Answer 10

There are many famous greek plays.
As well, I think Death and the Maiden is quite well known.