Theater Books to Read Free Online

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Pick fiction or non-fiction, then a genre, then a topic inside it. A book can sit in more than one genre.

The full library classification — every book has exactly one, more granular than Genre. Different counts for a same-named bucket here vs. Genre reflect two different systems, not an error.

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Saint Joan

George Bernard Shaw

1924

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

1929 ★ 3.7

Othello

William Shakespeare

1622 ★ 3.8

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

1600 ★ 4.0

Morality play

Barry Unsworth

1995 ★ 4.0

Leben des Galilei

Bertolt Brecht

1958 ★ 3.7

All about Ellie

Callie Barkley

2013 ★ 5.0

Hag-Seed

Margaret Atwood

2016 ★ 3.8

The Mystery on Stage

Gertrude Chandler Warner

1994 ★ 4.0

Okay for now

Gary D. Schmidt

2011 ★ 4.3

The Marvels

Brian Selznick

2015 ★ 4.7

Drama Queen (Candy Apple #5)

Lara Bergen

2007 ★ 2.7

Smile

Raina Telgemeier

2010 ★ 4.5

The Berenstain Bears (1986) Get Stage Fright

Stan Berenstain

1986 ★ 3.5

Melissa

Alex Gino

2015 ★ 4.8

Stage Fright on a Summer Night

Mary Pope Osborne

2002 ★ 5.0

The Rehearsal

Nicole Arumugam, Eleanor Catton

2008 ★ 4.0

Milton's Poems

John Milton

1779 ★ 3.4

Will Grayson, Will Grayson

David Levithan, John Green

2009 ★ 3.9

The 12 Screams of Christmas

Robert Lawrence Stine

2014 ★ 3.7

Will in the World

Stephen Greenblatt

2004 ★ 4.6

Shipwrecked

Barbara Park

2004 ★ 4.6

Phantom of the Auditorium

Robert Lawrence Stine

1994 ★ 4.6

Jacky Ha-Ha

Chris Grabenstein, James Patterson

2016 ★ 5.0

Arms and the Man

George Bernard Shaw

1905 ★ 4.0

Tartuffe

Molière

1824 ★ 3.3

Drama

Raina Telgemeier

2012 ★ 4.4

Sanford Meisner on acting

Sanford Meisner

1987 ★ 4.1

Aloha-Ha-Ha!

Denise Brunkus, Barbara Park

2006 ★ 4.1

Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn #2)

Ngaio Marsh

1963 ★ 3.8

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