Stageplays - American Comedy Plays

Moose Mating

David Grae

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

The play follows the romance of Betsy and Michael, a pair of twenties/early thirties, bright, ambitious downtowners who meet at a play and experience instant, overwhelming chemistry - the magic and misery...

$13

Connie and Sabrina in Waiting

Sandra Marie Vago

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

As this unusual, warm and winning comedy begins, Sabrina, a woman in her fifties, is at a funeral home to play her respects to her dearest and oldest friend, Connie. A flashback moves the scene to the 1960s ...

$10.99

Once is Enough

Jack Sharkey

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

Authoress Erika Linden is writing a manual on man-snatching. Erika's secretary, unwilling to expose her fiance to Erika's charms, finds substitute Brian Merrick to aid Erika in her research Brian is actuall...

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Moon over the Brewery

Bruce Graham

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2 Male 2 Female

Miriam Lipsky, unmarried and living with her thirteen-year-old daughter, Amanda, works as a waitress to pay the bills, but it is her painting that really matters to her Good subjects are scarce in the dr...

$13

The Whole World Over

K. Simonov

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7 Male 3 Female

Translated and rewritten for the American stage by Thelma Schnee Produced successfully in New York A delightful comedy about the housing shortage

$13

Found a Peanut

Donald Margulies

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6 Male 2 Female

This strikingly imaginative and perceptive play uses seemingly minor events in the lives of children (played by adult actors) to foreshadow the more crucial demands of the "real world" which they will inhabi...

$13

For the Use of the Hall

Oliver Hailey

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2 Male 4 Female

The time is winter, the place a chilly summer house on Long Island, where Allen and Charlotte, after twenty spendthrift years together, are "hiding out" While burning bogus art works for heat and raiding ...

$13

Winter

Claudia Allen

Dramatic Publishing

1 Male 3 Female

Winter is a funny, lyrical, yet harrowing look at old age For five years since his stroke, Mark has been confined to a wheelchair Miriam, his wife of 50 years, has worn herself out caring for him Th...

$9.99

The Tricky Part

Martin Moran

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1 Male 0 Female

A true story of sexuality, spirituality and the mystery of human experience, The Tricky Part is one of the most heralded one-man plays in recent memory Between the ages of 12 and 15, the author had a sex...

$13

Landscape with Waitress

Robert Pine

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

Arthur Granger, an unsuccessful novelist who lives a Walter Mitty like fantasy existence, is dining in an Italian restaurant with only one waitress and one customer - him, in this one act comedy As he selec...

$8.99

Fine Line

Janice van Horne

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 2 Female

Two classy ladies make the fur fly (literally) behind the scenes of a Park Avenue party in this one act play Dody and Zee - inseparable since they first confronted each other across a sandbox - strain the l...

$8.99

The Chinese Prime Minister

Enid Bagnold

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

"Shimmers on the stage" ~ N.Y. Herald Tribune "A lovely play.... A comedy that is adult, spirited, tender and humorously wise" ~ N.Y. World Telegram & Sun

$10.99

The Hiding Place

Jeff Whitty

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3 Male 3 Female

When Myra, an aspiring playwright and waitress, meets Karl, a well-regarded (and married) novelist, a romantic and imbalanced relationship begins As their exchanges move beyond letter-writing to the beginni...

$13

Marie and Bruce

Wallace Shawn

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5 Male 4 Female

As the play begins Marie and Bruce, a young married couple, are still in bed, he sleeping soundly, she excoriating him and vowing that she will put an end to their marriage It seems that she had thrown a...

$13

A Shot in the Dark

Marcel Achard & Harry Kurnitz

Samuel French Inc

A good hearted, guileless child of nature is hauled before the magistrate on a charge of murder, having been found unconscious, nude, and clutching a gun, with her lover dead beside her What is most shockin...

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Southern Fried Murder

Billy St John

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 5 Female

Way down south in Dixie, there's something's rotten in the cotton! Wealthy family matriarch Magnolia Capote has summoned her kith and kin to dinner in a fancy restaurant to discuss her will But when Mrs Ca...

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Cotton Girls

Scott Tobin

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 3 Female

Can three girls survive their graduation night stuck on a Ferris wheel? Set in 1959, the Dream Wheel breaks down with Miss, Berry, and Colleen at the very top The girls are forced into states of sheer terr...

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Anniversary Waltz

Jerome Chodorov & Joseph Fields

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7 Male 5 Female

On their fifteenth anniversary, a happy husband makes one wine-inspired mistake. He announces to his in-laws the romancing he and their daughter enjoyed before they were legally bound The information is ...

$13

Men's Singles

D.B. Gilles

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3 Male 0 Female

Every Tuesday night, Rob, an advertising executive in his late twenties, gets together with either Larry, a salesman in his mid-thirties, or Kurt, a psychiatrist in his early thirties, for a tennis match ...

$13

Great Solo Town

Thomas Babe

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5 Male 4 Female

The play is comprised of two distinctly separate yet interconnected acts, in which a group of high-spirited young people learn first of the shooting, and then the death, of Robert Kennedy The action begi...

$13