THE BEST 50 PLAYS OF 20th CENTURY

1. Waiting for Godot (1953), Samuel Beckett
2. Mother Courage and Her Children (1939), Bertolt Brecht
3. Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956), Eugene O'Neill
4. Death of a Salesman (1949), Arthur Miller
5. The Cherry Orchard (1904), Anton Chekhov
6. The Bald Soprano (1940), Eugène Ionesco
7. Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), Luigi Pirandello
8. A Dream Play (1901), August Strindberg
9. The House of Bernarda Alba (1936), Federico Garcia Lorca
10. A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Tennessee Williams
11. The Man Outside (1946), Wolfgang Borchert
12. Look Back in Anger (1956), John Osborne
13. The Threepenny Opera (1928), Bertolt Brecht
14. A Clinical Case (1953), Dino Buzzati
15. Private Lives (1930), Noel Coward
16. The Crucible (1953), Arthur Miller
17. Three Sisters (1901), Anton Chekhov
18. Marat/Sade (1963), Peter Weiss
19. Kaspar (1967), Peter Handke
20. Major Barbara (1905) George Bernard Shaw
21. The Last Days of Mankind (1922), Karl Kraus
22. Rhinoceros (1959), Eugène Ionesco
23. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966), Tom Stoppard
24. The Caretaker (1959), Harold Pinter
25. Pygmalion (1912), George Bernard Shaw
26. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962), Edward Albee
27. Death and The King's Horseman (1975), Wole Soyinka
28. The Balcony (1955), Jean Genet
29. Andorra (1961), Max Frisch
30. The Investigation (1965), Peter Weiss
31. Endgame (1957), Samuel Beckett
32. Murder in the Cathedral (1935), T. S. Eliot
33. The Lesson (1951), Eugène Ionesco
34. Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970), Dario Fo
35. Hoppla, We're Alive! (1927), Ernst Toller
36. Master Harold...and the boys (1982), Athol Fugard
37. The Physicists (1962), Friedrich Dürrenmatt
38. Noh Plays (1950-60),Yukio Mishima
39. The Ghost Sonata (1907), August Strindberg
40. Our Town (1938), Thornton Wilder
41. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1937-43), Bertolt Brecht
42. The Homecoming (1964), Harold Pinter
43. The Iceman Cometh (1946), Eugene O’Neill
44. Man and Superman (1903), George Bernard Shaw
45. Angels in America (1993), Tony Kushner
46. The Chairs (1952), Eugène Ionesco
47. The Cocktail Party (1949), T. S. Eliot 
48. Antigone (1944), Jean Anouilh
49. The Madman and the Nun (1923), Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
50. The Satin Slipper (1929), Paul Claudel
51. Juno and the Paycock (1924), Sean O'Casey
52. Caligula (1944), Albert Camus
53. The Captain of Köpenick (1931), Carl Zuckmayer
54. Ping Pong (1955), Arthur Adamov
55. The Marriage (1965), Witold Gombrowicz
56. Krapp's Last Tape (1958), Samuel Beckett
57. The Good Person of Setzuan (1943) Bertolt Brecht
58. No Exit (1944), Jean-Paul Sartre
59. Pandora's Box (1904), Frank Wedekind
60. Electra (1937), Jean Giraudoux