Stageplays - American Comedy Plays

Love Town

Lauren Gunderson

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

Sea Spray is a charming beach town, perfect for romantic getaways and cliff-side proposals While tourists walk around with stars in their eyes, the locals take their lumps and watch their relationships fray...

$10.99

How Does a Thing Like that Get Started?

Pat Cook

Samuel French Inc

7 Male 4 Female

In this wonderfully convoluted, hilariously funny play, Pat Cook presents us with the anatomy of a rumor What starts as a simple exercise in the psychology of rumor-passing quickly develops into small town ...

$8.99

The Traveling Sisters

John Kirkpatrick

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

At the travel bureau the two old ladies were considered a bit eccentric in this one act comedy Twice a year they came to plan an extended summer vacation or an elaborate winter cruise They could not afford...

$8.99

Incorruptible

Michael Hollinger

Dramatists Play Service

5 Male 3 Female

Welcome to Priseaux, France, c. 1250 A.D. The river flooded again last week. The chandler's shop just burned to the ground. Nobody's heard of the wheelbarrow yet. And Ste. Foy, the patron of the local mo...

$13

Stage-Stricken

Burton Crane

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 3 Female

An Attack of Hysterics Backstage in what should be called Gremlin Little Theatre, since it's obvious extra little hands are at work to wreak havoc When the villain drinks all the cold tea in a prop decante...

$8.99

The Party

Robert J. Flaherty

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 3 Female

This thoroughly charming one act play is about a successful woman executive who is planning to retire and move into a beach front community Old friends are planning a party for her and she has some surprise...

$8.99

Belles

Mark Dunn

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 6 Female

This is a play in 2 acts and 45 phone calls ... The six Walker sisters hail from Memphis, but now they are scattered all over the country - only Peggy still lives in Memphis, where she cares for Mama When ...

$10.99

A New Sunrise

Herman Coble

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

Two charming, eccentric elderly ladies arrive on the porch of the local funeral home with the intention of dying there by drinking wine laced with poison "We thought the town could drive by and pay their r...

$8.99

Learn Me Somethin'

Michael Schneider

Dramatic Publishing

6 Male 6 Female

Learn Me Somethin', a hilarious, provocative satire, tells the story of Jameson Jones and his mother, who earnestly believe in school as a place to learn But they nonetheless find themselves propelled th...

$9.99

Good Help Is So Hard To Murder

Pat Cook

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 7 Female

Convinced that the maid "knows too much" about her family's shady past, Delilah conspires with her younger sister to kill her A visit from Elmira, the local psychic, warns them that a tragedy (and most cert...

$10.99

The Colorado Catechism

Vincent J. Cardinal

Samuel French Inc

1 Male 1 Female

Ty Wain, is at the bottom of his life in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Colorado He meets Donna Sicard, a teacher in rehab for the third time; if she fails this round she may lose her child to f...

$10.99

What the Bellhop Saw

Billy van Zandt & Jane Milmore

Samuel French Inc

8 Male 4 Female

A nice fellow checks into an expensive suite in New York City's finest hotel, precipitating a fantastic nightmare involving a Salman Rushdie type author, an Iranian terrorist, a shrew like woman, a conniving...

$10.99

The Last Leaf

William Glennon from O. Henry

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 2 Female

Sally and Beth, fresh out of art school, live in a crowded attic in Greenwich Village Determined to break through the barriers of a male-dominated art world at the turn of the century, they share their g...

$9.99

The Lady in Question

Charles Busch

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 4 Female

This hilarious spoof of trashy damsel in distress vs. Nazis movies packed them in Off Broadway, where the irrepressible author starred as Gertrude Garnet, renowned pianist and world class hedonist On tour i...

$10.99

Pure as the Driven Snow or A Working Girl's Secret

Paul Loomis

Samuel French Inc

5 Male 8 Female

On a dark and stormy night Purity Dean, a working girl with a secret, seeks shelter in a Vermont inn She's been forced to give up her canning factory job as she can no longer endure black hearted Mortimer F...

$10.99

Allocating Annie

Rick Abbot

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

When Cliff Tucker inherits an orphan on the eve of his wedding to wealthy Bobbi Ralston, he figures he can handle matters until the foundling turns out to be full grown and gorgeous with an infant in her arm...

$10.99

True West

Sam Shepard

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 1 Female

This American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script Aust...

$10.99

Goodbye Freddy

Elizabeth Diggs

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 3 Female

On the occasion of Freddy's funeral and, at his behest, six of his friends gather at the home of Hank and Kate in Kansas City, where five of them grew up Hank and Kate were childhood sweethearts whose ap...

$13

The Sugar Syndrome - DPS ACTING EDITION

Lucy Prebble

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

A blackly comic and bravely provocative play that explores the relationship between a troubled teenage girl and a child abuser she meets over the Internet Despite the dark subject matter, this is a funny ...

$13

Ladies First

Robert Gerlach & James McDonald

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 9 Female

In this comedy by the authors of Something's Afoot, Jackie Kennedy is very nervous on an afternoon in January, 1962. She has completed the restoration of the White House and has invited Eleanor, Bess, Mamie,...

$10.99