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You can break it down by eras or genres or whatever.

My favorite Shakespeare is Richard III.

My favorite other play is Arcadia by Tom Stoppard.

My favorite play originally written in a language other than English is a tie between The House of Bernarda Alba by Frederico Garcia Lorca and The Memorandum by Vaclav Havel.

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. I hate most of Miller's other plays though. ):

Re: Miller: Me too! I still have nightmares about when my high school (advanced placement) English class did The Crucible.

Re: What is your favorite play?

(Anonymous) - 2012-09-25 23:22 (UTC) - Expand

ginainthekingsroad - 2012-09-25 23:26 (UTC) - Expand

Does Sweeney Todd count?

ginainthekingsroad - 2012-09-25 23:28 (UTC) - Expand

biohazardgirl - 2012-09-26 00:06 (UTC) - Expand

Tie between Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth. (I've seen so many adaptations of these from live stage, to movies to television productions that it's basically a hobby of mine to seek them out and watch them.)

My favorite Shakespeare is constantly changing- looking forward to checking this post when I get back from my nerdy Shakespeare evening event, actually! But I'll always have a soft spot for Hamlet.

My other favorite plays are Total Eclipse by Christopher Hampton, Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams, Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh by Joel Gross, and Anne of the Thousand Days by Maxwell Anderson.

ginainthekingsroad - 2012-09-25 23:46 (UTC) - Expand

murderershair.livejournal.com - 2012-09-26 03:26 (UTC) - Expand

ginainthekingsroad - 2012-09-27 18:16 (UTC) - Expand

A Midsummer Night's Dream will probably always be my favourite, just because I find it absolutely hilarious. But then, I find a lot of Shakespeare plays funny, even the ones people often label tragedies. The man had a way with words.

For me it's a tossup between A Man, His Wife, And His Hat by Lauren Yee and Peter And The Starcatcher by Rick Elice.

This doesn't mean I don't like a lot of other big plays like Wicked and The Wiz.

My favorite Shakespeare play is probably MacBeth. For non-Shakespeare, I'd have to say Sweeney Todd.

I love The House of Bernarda Alba! Another of my favourite non-English plays is Antigone.
For English-language plays I like My Fair Lady and The Crucible (though I seem to be alone in that!)

Another vote for A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Either The Understudy or A, My Name Is Alice.

(I like comedies, alright.)

Hamlet, hands down. One of the best things ever written.

For musicals: Little Shop of Horrors, Avenue Q, and Book of Mormon never fail to make me smile.

Hamlet. I know, I know it's so...everyone always says Hamlet. But I read it as a teen and something about that play just made an impact and stuck. I re-read certain parts pretty regularly.

Edit: I realized I read this as asking what is your favorite play to read, not to watch or listen to. I have many favorites if you include that. Favorite musical would be Jesus Christ Superstar or Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. I think JCS wins by a smidge but I adore both. Among many others.

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Non-musical: either Bug by Tracy Letts or Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer, although admittedly I've only seen the filmed version of the latter.

Musical: GOSH I REALLY LOVE MUSICALS, IDEK. Lately I've been into Wicked but my all-time favorite is probably... West Side Story? maybe? or A Little Night Music? or...

Angels in America by Tony Kushner. It's one of the most moving things I've ever read/seen.

Hamlet and Hedda Gabler

Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee.

Probably have to go with 12 Angry Men. ♥ Fave Shakespeare...that's tough. Though I like Twelfth Night a lot, and definitely Henry IV/V.

12 Angry Men or Macbeth.

My favourite play by Shakespeare is Troilus and Cressida. For all others it's a tie between Private Lives and Design for Living, both by Noel Coward. Although Tartuffe comes in a close second. Or third, I guess it would be, since the first is a tie.

I can't really choose from Shakespeare's works, but I really like Hamlet, Machbeth and The Tempest.

And there's Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" too.

And of course, there are the "local" plays from my country, for example "The Tragedy of Man" (Az ember tragédiája) by Imre Madách, a great journey through time and being human.

But I think my most real (true) experience came from a play that wasn't even staged properly, it was only one single "read-through rehearsal"(?) I had a chance to attend to. It was amazing.

If musicals count, it's a toss between Phantom of the Opera and CATS. >_>

I think you nailed it with your icon, there--Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is the bee's knees.

(Anonymous) - 2012-09-26 15:45 (UTC) - Expand

Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams. None of the other plays I ever read seems to live up to that somehow.