Stageplays - American Comedy Plays

Waiting Women

Silvia Gonzalez S

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 8 Female

Pearl Hart takes the West by its horns in the Arizona Territory of 1869 The play begins in Buffalo Bill's Famous Wild West Show where Pearl claims to be the Bandit Girl and answers to the name of Beauty...

$9.99

The Young Girl and The Monsoon

James Ryan

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

Growing up is hard to do-particularly if you are a pre-adolescent girl in Manhattan living with a photo-journalist father reeling from a messy divorce Constance is a thirteen-year-old torn by life and st...

$13

The Biggest Thief in Town

Dalton Trumbo

Dramatists Play Service

2 Female

In a small town, the undertaker and the doctor plan to steal the body of the town's wealthiest citizen. That gentleman, a crook, has just passed out of the picture and the undertaker, who has led a quiet and...

$13

Exact Center of the Universe

Joan Vail Thorne

Dramatists Play Service

1 Male 4 Female

"An amiable comedy about a classic Southern dragon-lady mother...sharply written...flawlessly elegant.. .poignantly evokes the passing years." - New Yorker. "A sweet-sour shot of Southern comfort...nattily w...

$13

Bait and Switch

Richard Dresser

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 2 Female

Doug and Gary own a restaurant on the boardwalk which is fast going under because stinging jellyfish are keeping customers away from the beach And because the brothers are less than adept businessmen Plus,...

$8.99

The Underpants

Carl Sternheim adapt Steve Martin

Hyperion Books

Steve Martin brings his comic genius and sophisticated literary style to Carl Sternheim's classic 1910 farce His hilarious new version was staged by Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, and opened in March 200...

$15.99

Dracula Rides Again

Jeff Goode

Broadway Plays

5 Male 6 Female

The Count arrives in Tombstone (where else?), to free the town from the clutches of a dirty sheriff, who is controlled by a nefarious doctor . . . Dr Frankenstein The showdown is played out with hilariou...

$12.99

Movie of the Month

Daniel Meltzer

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 0 Female

A television programming executive is anxious to bolster his network's sagging ratings His eager beaver assistant has a script he is sure can be made into a hit "Movie of the Month" in this one act play It...

$8.99

The Omelet Murder Case

Tim Kelly

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 5 Female

As the author describes: Imagine what would happen if the tragedy of Hamlet were played like a story in a trashy detective magazine! The bard would never be the same and neither would your audience. Shy...

$13

The Marriage of Bette and Boo

Christopher Durang

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 5 Female

As the play begins Bette and Boo are being united in matrimony, surrounded by their beaming families But as the further progress of their marriage is chronicled it becomes increasingly clear that things ...

$13

Democracy

Romulus Linney from Henry Adams

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 5 Female

In the presidential society of Washington in the spring of 1875, two beautiful American women are courted by two dashing American menMadelaine Lee, a wealthy widow from New York, and Esther Dudley, an agnost...

$13

The Mermaids Singing

John van Druten

Dramatists Play Service

9 Male 5 Female

A delicate and amusing adult comedy about a playwright with whom a young woman falls in loveThe young woman believes that his rather easy philosophy of life, as outlined in one of his plays, is actually the ...

$13

Dry Rot

John Chapman

Josef Weinberger

6 Male 4 Female

This highly successful farce deals with a crazy, but very likeable gang of bookies who, in order to be near the racecourse, are staying at a country hotel run by a retired colonel and his wife and daughter ...

$15.99

How Much How Much?

Peter Keveson

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 3 Female

Set in a shabby apartment on New York's West Side, the play centers on an attractive teenage boy who is rescued from a possible mugging by the very nice young daughter of shiftless parents and brought hom...

$13

Cash Flow

D.B. Gilles

Dramatists Play Service

4 Male 1 Female

Things are not going well at the Gallagher Publishing Company, an old-line textbook house which is faced with mounting losses because of the failure of its latest publishing venture Staving off financia...

$13

Breakfast in Bed

Jack Popplewell

Dramatists Play Service

6 Male 3 Female

Joe Henderson, a hard-working but rather close-fisted widower, lives with his daughter, Mary, in the grimy, English mill town of BrimleyJoe's two married sisters, Alice and Jane, also reside in Brimley, as h...

$13

Away from Me

Susan Champagne

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 2 Female

A nerdy shrink is losing control of a group therapy session. Angry, self contained Harold baits highly strung Mandy until she beats him with her Mabel doll. Shy tree surgeon Victor befriends lonely, pregnant...

$10.99

The Establishment at Arles

Barry L. Hillman

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 6 Female

Based on characters created by Guy de Maupassant, this one act comedy gives a vibrant glimpse of life in a French "establishment" of 1888 which is both sad and humorous Candice comes to rescue her friend Yv...

$10.99

Interurban

Dorothy Allensworth & Carl Allensworth

Dramatists Play Service

Although he was one of the best salesman the paint company ever had, Fred Diefendorf has given up the road and settled down on the farm which he has bought outside of Cleveland He hopes to make a living f...

$13

Playing Doctor

William van Zandt & Jane Milmore

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 3 Female

Rob Brewster's parents are very, very proud of their son the doctor. What they don't know is that Rob has used all the money they gave him for medical school to live on as he has pursued his fledgling writin...

$10.99