Plays to Read During Women’s History Month

by

Caroline Austin

March 27, 2026

For Women’s History Month, we asked Alley Staff Members for their favorite plays by women about women.


Amber D. Gray, Artistic Associate
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding by Jocelyn Bioh
Pride & Prejudice by Kate Hamill, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen
Little Women by Marisha Chamberlain, adapted from the novel by Louisa May Alcott
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Steffin
Confederates by Dominique Morisseau
Waitress with Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles, book by Jessie Nelson, based on the movie by Adrienne Shelly


Charlize Tabrizi, ECE Administrative Coordinator
Top Girl by Caryl Churchill
The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman


Abigail Langlais, Development Assistant
Fade by Tanya Saracho
Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm


Mak Secrest, Individual Giving Associate
Infinite Life by Annie Baker


Caroline Austin, PR & Communications Manager
John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower
Toni Stone by Lydia R. Diamond
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh
Home, I’m Darling by Laura Wade

 

Lauren Pelletier, Digital Marketing Manager
Jane Eyre by Elizabeth Williamson, adapted from the novel by Charlotte Brontë
Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

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