By Tony Kushner

A Pulitzer Price-winning play set in 1985 about gay men and AIDS.

By Tennessee Williams

Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play has captured both stage and film audiences since its debut in 1954. One of his best-loved and most famous plays, it exposes the lies plaguing the family of a wealthy Souther planter of humble origins.

By Bruce Norris
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

“Presents a satire that explores race and property in a Chicago neighborhood first in 1959 and revisited in 2009 (From the Publisher).”

By Arthur Miller
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

As a wave of anti-communist investigations swept across American society during the 1950s, Miller exposed the horror of such witch-hunts by retelling the story of the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts in 1692.

By Arthur Miller
Recommended By Josephine Amoia, Children's Librarian

“The story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness… A thrilling work of deep and revealing beauty that remains one of the most profound classic dramas of the American theatre (From the Publisher).”

By Donald Margulies

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for drama, Dinner With Friends examines the lives of two couples and the repercussions of divorce on their friendships. With wit, compassion and consummate skill, playwright Donald Margulies weighs the cost of breaking up and of staying together.

By Henrik Ibsen

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882 as a response to the public outrage over his play Ghosts. Part comedy, part serious drama, the play looks at Dr. Thomas Stockmann's struggle to uphold the truth in the face of intolerance and willful ignorance, as his entire community turns against him. Branded an "Enemy of the People," Dr. Stockmann can only take solace in the idea that "the strongest man in the world is the man who stands most alone."

By August Wilson
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

"During the 1950s Troy Maxson struggles against racism and tries to preserve his feelings of pride in himself (From the Publisher)."

By Jack Thorne
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.

By Jack Thorne
Series Harry Potter

As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus, finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.

By Stephen Sondheim

A baker and his wife journey into the woods in search of a cow, a red cape, a pair of golden slippers and some magic beans to lift a curse that has kept them childless.

By William Shakespeare

King Lear depicts the gradual descent into madness of the title character, after he disposes of his kingdom giving bequests to two of his three daughters based on their flattery of him, bringing tragic consequences for all.

By Thorton Wilder

The author's Pulitzer Prize–winning drama portrays life in a small New Hampshire town during the early 1900s.

By Tom Stoppard

The play in which two minor characters from "Hamlet" offer a novel view of the melancholy Dane, but do so in a world where ...reality and illusion intermix, and fate leads our two heroes to a tragic but inevitable end.

By William Shakespeare

This controversial comedy--the inspiration for such modern works as Kiss Me, Kate and 10 Things I Hate About You--follows the tumultuous courtship and marriage of Petruchio and the headstrong Katherina.

By William Shakespeare

“Delightfully comic tale of mistaken identities revolves around the physical likeness between Sebastian and his twin sister Viola, each of whom, when separated after a shipwreck, believes the other to be dead. Filled with superb comedy, this entertaining masterpiece remains one of Shakespeare’s most popular and performed comedies (From the Publisher).”

Became the movie: She's the Man.

By Reginald Rose
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Courtroom drama revolving around the trial of a boy accused of killing his father, where one man stands between him and capital punishment (From the Publisher).”