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ⓘ About Matthew Lopez
Matthew Lopez is a critically acclaimed playwright and screenwriter best known as the author of “The Whipping Man.” The work is one of the most produced plays in the United States in recent times. The play made its debut at the Montclair, NJ, Luna Stage and was also acted out at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. Starring Andre Braugher and produced by Doug Hughes, it had sold out performances and its production was extended four times. The play would ultimately win the Lucille Lortel and Obie awards and ran more than 100 performances off Broadway. The New York Outer Critics Circle awarded Matthew Lopez a John Gassner Award. The play has also been critically acclaimed abroad and been produced more than forty times across the globe.
All Book Series by Matthew Lopez
The Suppliant Women(464)Description / Buy at AmazonThe Complete Dramatic Works
Series opener · book 1 of 59 · published 1961 Anthology · Aeschylus
Theatre for Children
Book 6 of 59 · published 1999 Anthology · David Wood - UK,Janet Grant
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
Book 14 of 59 · published 2011 Anthology · David Greig
Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays
Book 15 of 59 · published 2012 Anthology · Samuel Beckett
Impro for Storytellers
Book 18 of 59 · published 2014 Anthology · Keith Johnstone
Shakespeare in Love
Book 19 of 59 · published 2014 Anthology · Tom Stoppard,LeeHall,Marc Norman
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
Book 23 of 59 · published 2015 Anthology · LeeHall
Mametz: with a Welsh-language translation
Book 31 of 59 · published 2017 Anthology · Owen Sheers,Ceri Wyn Jones
My Country; A Work In Progress
Book 32 of 59 · published 2017 Anthology · Carol Ann Duffy,Rufus Norris
The Mentor
Book 33 of 59 · published 2017 Anthology · Christopher Hampton,Daniel Kehlmann
The Lie
Book 38 of 59 · published 2017 Anthology · Christopher Hampton,Florian Zeller
Christmas Eve
Book 40 of 59 · published 2017 Anthology · Christopher Hampton,Daniel Kehlmann
The Rockingham Shoot And Other Dramatic Writings
Book 45 of 59 · published 2018 Anthology · John McGahern
The Short Plays of Harold Pinter
Book 50 of 59 · published 2018 Anthology · Harold Pinter
The Height of the Storm
Book 52 of 59 · published 2018 Anthology · Christopher Hampton,Florian Zeller
A Very Very Very Dark Matter
Book 55 of 59 · published 2018 Anthology · Martin McDonagh
When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other
Book 56 of 59 · published 2019 Anthology · Martin Crimp
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Matthew Lopez?
Matthew Lopez is a critically acclaimed playwright and screenwriter best known as the author of “The Whipping Man.” The work is one of the most produced plays in the United States in recent times. The play made its debut at the Montclair, NJ, Luna Stage and was also acted out at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. Starring Andre Braugher and produced by Doug Hughes, it had sold out performances and its production was extended four times.
Which Matthew Lopez series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Faber Drama series, the earliest of Matthew Lopez's multi-book series: it opens with The Suppliant Women(464)Description / Buy at AmazonThe Complete Dramatic Works (1961) and runs to 59 books across 1961–2020, ending with The Inheritance (2020).
How many books has Matthew Lopez written?
Matthew Lopez has 62 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1961 and 2024. 59 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Faber Drama series with 59 books — and 3 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Matthew Lopez's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Matthew Lopez's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Faber Drama (1961–2020, 59 books).
How are Matthew Lopez's books organised into series?
This guide splits Matthew Lopez's 62 books into 1 named series and 3 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Faber Drama (59 books, 1961–2020).