The Seven Plays You MUST Read In Order to Be an Actor on BROADWAY!

7. Dinner Party Disaster by Danielle Doozy

Doozy's dramedy about two bickering couples at a dinner party took Broadway by storm in 2012 when audiences and critics were stunned that people could disagree over both politics and religion. The powerful script features such original lines as, "He doesn't really believe that!" "Can I get anyone a drink?" and "Are you sleeping with my wife?"

6. Death of the Kitchen Sink by Joe Stale

Stale's 1991 play reinvented the "kitchen sink" drama when the patriarch of the Highboy family decides to remodel the kitchen and put in an island. Gripping and imaginative, pay special attention to the wife's heartbreaking second-act monologue about losing her floor space!

5. Overlapping Dialogue by Su/sie Cleever

The most recent title on this list explores the themes of two people constantly talking over each other in this 90 minute play about their relationship. Cleever captivates with all the highs/lows one might expect and all performed without an intermission.

4. Pullover! The Tire's Flat by Henry Borman

Henry Borman's comic masterpiece takes place on the side of the highway where Stephen and his wife Bunny get stuck after having a flat tire. Hilarity ensues in this slice-of-life when the couple discovers that... you guessed it, the spare is missing!

3. Enemy of Everybody by Oscar Hammelschmidt

Hammelschmidt made his name with this play about a drifter who winds up in the wrong town at the wrong time. His crime? He has no idea. This searing masterpiece will have you enthralled for every moment of its three plus hours as you watch the townspeople grow angrier and angrier at some stranger until it reaches its shocking finale.

2. Somebody Shot the Minority by Terrence Filmmoker

Emmy Award winning HBO screenwiter, Terrence Filmmoker (known for The Best House) tried his hand at playwriting to enormous success with this 1999 courtroom drama about an out of town military lawyer who uncovers the truth about the Army's one person of color who is mysteriously killed in the dead of the night.

1. The White Male Lives: The Life and Times of the John J. McWhitman Family Parts 1, 2, and 3

This epic drama cycle by Nobel Laureate John J. McWhitman traces his ancestral roots from the founding of the McWhitman's Mississippi plantation all the way to the present. Critics hailed it as the cleanest, most distilled version of American history ever to grace the stage.