The most popular play books of 2025

A play is a story written for the stage. On the page you get the dialogue and the bare directions, and your imagination supplies the rest. Tragedies, comedies and modern dramas are all here, from the classics to work first staged last year. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.

Cover of Restoration Women's Drama Four Plays, 1662-1677

Restoration Women's Drama Four Plays, 1662-1677

Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Katherine Philips, Frances Boothby

Published 2025

420 pages

Cover of Theatre and Censorship in France from Revolution to Restoration

Theatre and Censorship in France from Revolution to Restoration

Clare Siviter

Published 2025

270 pages

Cover of The Merger

The Merger

Adriana Locke

Published 2025

310 pages

Cover of Macbeth

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Published 2025

141 pages

Cover of Glass Hours

Glass Hours

Susan Molyneaux

Published 2025

328 pages

Cover of Go Solo, Volume 2

Go Solo, Volume 2

The Playwrights of YouthPLAYS

Published 2025

118 pages

Cover of Manuela The Difficult Art of Being Happy

Manuela The Difficult Art of Being Happy

Abdenal Carvalho

Published 2025

476 pages

Cover of The Tattered Doll (a Haunting)

The Tattered Doll (a Haunting)

Jo Anna

Published 2025

30 pages

Cover of With Promises to Keep

With Promises to Keep

Ellie Dean

Published 2025

400 pages

Cover of Five Plays Solitaire ; Washed in the Blood ; The Journey ; Ashes Ashes ; A House Divided

Five Plays Solitaire ; Washed in the Blood ; The Journey ; Ashes Ashes ; A House Divided

Joshua Crone

Published 2025

310 pages

Cover of Change in Fortunes

Change in Fortunes

Sonny Anthony Tucker

Published 2025

124 pages

Cover of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

John Wright

Published 2025

88 pages

Cover of Tesla's Opera The Opera

Tesla's Opera The Opera

Mir Seidel

Published 2025

126 pages

Cover of The Professor's Outline A Screenplay

The Professor's Outline A Screenplay

Jason Holt

Published 2025

56 pages

Cover of David Williamson's Aria

David Williamson's Aria

David Williamson

Published 2025

78 pages

Cover of The Wildcard Workbook A Practical Guide to Jokering Forum Theatre

The Wildcard Workbook A Practical Guide to Jokering Forum Theatre

Liz Morgan, Sulu LeoNimm, Katy Rubin

Published 2025

210 pages

Cover of The Wrong Husband

The Wrong Husband

John D. McCray

Published 2025

222 pages

Cover of Orchestra of Stillness

Orchestra of Stillness

ASHLEY. CULLEN

Published 2025

142 pages

Cover of Beyond the Sunset

Beyond the Sunset

Lawrence Joshua

Published 2025

54 pages

Cover of The Girl in the Window

The Girl in the Window

S. Lee Davis

Published 2025

328 pages

Cover of The House That Broke Me

The House That Broke Me

Kate Lariscy

Published 2025

282 pages

Cover of Dragonfly Down

Dragonfly Down

Annette Masters

Published 2025

322 pages

Cover of I Can't Even

I Can't Even

Jenn McKinlay

Published 2025

335 pages

Cover of Even Thoughts Hurt

Even Thoughts Hurt

Patricia Grigg

Published 2025

244 pages

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