Stageplays - American Comedy Plays

The Canterville Ghost

John Vreeke from Oscar Wilde

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

A free spirited American family moves into a grand English manor house and is charmed to discover that it is haunted The ghost however is alarmed. Accustomed to being regarded with fear, he determines to sc...

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Only Kidding

Jim Geoghan

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 0 Female

In this Off Broadway hit, an over the hill comic who is desperate for a shot on a late night TV show has invited a hip young writer to his cottage in the Catskills to help him update his act. They might as w...

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Peccadillo

Garson Kanin

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

Maestro Vito De Angelis, an egomaniacal but charming conductor, is under contract to a major publisher to deliver his autobiography The publisher has paid a huge advance and Vito has just fired his fifth gh...

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One Toe in the Grave

Jack Sharkey

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

Jason Kingsley is treasurer of a billion dollar patent medicine corporation that requires its officers to be married. Jason claims his wife has a rare disease that prevents her from entertaining or attending...

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The Tale of the Allergist's Wife

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

The Tale of the Allergist's Wife is a radical departure for the well known author of extravagant spoofs like Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach Party. Marjorie Taub, the wife of a philanthropic aller...

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The Snow Job

George Eastman & Jack Perry

Samuel French Inc

4 Female

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Mrs Harper's Bazaar

Babette Hughes

Dramatists Play Service

0 Male 8 Female

Reveals the exciting amusement incident to a charity bazaar presided over by Mrs Harper, who has enough troubles this one evening to keep the audience laughing for a long time Most of the action centers ...

$13

Chicken Every Sunday

Julius J Epstein & Philip G Epstein

Samuel French Inc

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Now that April's Here

James Reach

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 4 Female

Justine Harris is having her first romance with Craig Porter, who she met at the prom in this one act comedy They'd seen each other only that once, but it was love at first sight Now, it's Easter vacation ...

$8.99

Dog Lady & The Cuban Swimmer

Milcha Sanchez-Scott

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 8 Female

In Dog Lady, the setting is a barrio street in Los Angeles, where a young Hispanic woman is in training for a marathon sponsored by a local church Egged on by a dogged suitor, she is unable to achieve he...

$13

Play Rough

Ivan Borodin

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

An out-of-work actor and a married woman have an intense affair in modern day Los Angeles REVIEWS " ... links sex to issues of emotional and financial entrapment, revenge and personal history. The claustro...

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Tartuffe - Born Again

Moliere trans/adapt Freyda Thomas

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 5 Female

This modern adaptation casts Tartuffe as a deposed televangelist who rooks Orgon and his family of their money and property and nearly compromises Orgon's wife The action takes place in a religious televisi...

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Klondike Kalamity

Gary Peterson & David Byrne

Dramatic Publishing

6 Male 3 Female

The Great Yukon Blizzard of 1888 sets the scene for this hilarious romp over the fields of melodramatics Included in the cast are: the fair and lovely maiden; the poor, crusty, but honest freelance lumbe...

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Rock a Bye Daddy

John P ODonnell

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

The Considine home appears to be calm, American and middle class, until Mrs. Considine takes off on a national campaign for Women's Lib, daughter Peggy decides to get her own apartment for reasons only known...

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Social Life

Nancy Oliver

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

Two high school girls, one popular and one a recluse, come together to realize that their lives and concerns are actually quite similar Crisp dialogue and clear, well-developed structure showcase the young ...

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Drop Dead!

Billy van Zandt & Jane Milmore

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 3 Female

A cast of has-been actors hope to revive their careers in Drop Dead!, a pot-boiler murder mystery directed by "Wonder Child of the Broadway Stage" Victor Le Pewe - a psychotic eye twitching megalomaniac At ...

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Everybody's Girl

John Patrick

Dramatists Play Service

8 Male 2 Female

As the critic of the Miami Times describes Everybody`s Girl and its central character: "Vivian Vance is the key to the plot. She plays a kookie 'widow' living in a town called Harmony Her activities r...

$13

Get Witch Quick

David Rogers

Dramatic Publishing

6 Male 1 Female

Craft College is a finishing school for witches, though it looks normal But draperies open and close mysteriously, books fly through the air unaided, and a student is believed to have turned into a cock...

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Love and Kisses

Anita Rowe Block

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 4 Female

As George Oppenheimer described: "The Pringles, mother, father, engaged daughter and eighteen-year-old son, inhabit a comfortable house in a pleasant suburb of Detroit The approaching nuptials of the daug...

$13

James Skipworth and the Catfish Colonel

Cy Young

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

A playwright has vowed to shoot himself unless someone agrees to option his play immediately. He appears at the office of producer Helen Osborne, an attractive and highly theatrical woman who is the reigning...

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