Plays by Nation - American Plays

The Beginning of August

Tom Donaghy

Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 2 Female

The Beginning Of August is the story of Jackie, a man whose wife has abruptly and mysteriously left him and their infant daughter Confounded by his wife's unexplained absence and unable to pay for daycare, ...

$13

Phantasie

Sybille Pearson

Broadway Play Publishing

2 Male 4 Female

"PHANTASIE, by Sybille Pearson, is about something -- something that, even if it does not affect you directly, you can care about.... PHANTASIE (which is German for `daydream,' and complexly relevant her...

$12.99

Claptrap

Ken Friedman

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 3 Female

"Claptrap is a farce in the very best meaning of that word. It has two heroes, one a failed writer who never manages to get beyond page one, and the other an actor who never manages to get an acting job.... ...

$10.99

Hunter

Nuba Harold Stuart

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 2 Female

This moving and, at times, very humorous drama is about Jerri, a Black mother, and her new boyfriend, Jake. He has spent the night with Jerri. Jerri fixes him a good down home breakfast and introduces him to...

$10.99

Cold Storage

Ronald Ribman

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

An investment advisor in fine art encounters an Armenian fruit and vegetable merchant in the roof garden of a New York hospital Through intensive probing, the cancer stricken Armenian unravels the paralyzin...

$10.99

Scooter Thomas Makes It to the Top of the World

Peter Parnell

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 0 Female

Dennis receives a call from his mother telling him that his best friend from boyhood, Scooter Thomas, has died Shaken, Dennis packs for the funeral and recalls their relationship in brief, poignant scene...

$13

How I learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 3 Female

A wildly funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival as seen through the lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man How I learned to Drive is the story of a woman who l...

$14

Fat Men in Skirts

Nicky Silver

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

After their plane crashes, Phyllis, and her son, Bishop, are stranded on a desert island for five years. During their stay, Bishop is transformed from a stuttering, Katherine Hepburn-obsessed little boy, ...

$13

First Love

Richard Vetere

Dramatic Publishing

2 Male 2 Female

Dot, a well-preserved middle-aged woman, has been a widow for over ten years Her best friend, Sunny, has been made a widow recently. The two neighborhood women speed-walk, try different diets to stay fi...

$9.99

Witness to a Conga

Stewart Lemoine

NeWest Press

The Sterling Award-winning author of At the Zenith of the Empire and A Teatro Trilogy returns with a new collection of charming, heart-warming comediesOriginally written for the Edmonton Fringe Festival, the...

$19.99

Honey Fungus

Victor Ciuccio

Cyberpress

4 Male 2 Female

This is a sci-fi story told to a reporter in a bar It's about the largest organism in the world, a giant underground fungus - Honey Fungus Researchers Beppe, Qacha and their crew discover that Honey Fungus...

$7.99

Delilah

Len Cuthbert

Cyberpress

1 Male 3 Female

Jade has a history of being the victim of abandonment As a result, she struggles with her relationship to Delilah, Mick and 12-year old Dee-J - the people she is closest to Her survival mechanism is to be ...

$7.99

Long Before Wendy

Katie DiPietro

Cyberpress

"Everyone knows the story of Peter Pan, the courageous young man who ruled over Neverland with a band of lost boys, fought the evil Pirate Captain, and fell in love with Wendy This story is wonderful and ex...

$7.99

Esther and Vashti

Carolyn Gage

Cyberpress

A romantic drama set against a backdrop of war in ancient PersiaA young Hebrew woman and her former lover, the Queen of Persia, struggle against their personal and political differences to form an alliance a...

$7.99

About the Author

Sky Vogel

Cyberpress

1 Male 1 Female

Alleyway Theatre of Buffalo - Best New Play of 2005 / Top-Three Finalist A woman mentally blocked, emotionally stuck encounters an inquisitive stranger, a man full of questions At first resisting, then de...

$7.99

Divorce Me Darling - a Comedy

Alex Gottlieb

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

This is the story of Amelia Conway, a highly successful divorce attorney in San Francisco who has insisted on using her maiden name while married for 15 years to a highly successful construction engineer He...

$10.99

Shoes

Sky Vogel

Cyberpress

2 Male 1 Female

Best New Play 2000 ~ The Playwrights Theatre of Denton In the midst of dealing with her troubled marriage, Jackie, a schoolteacher, is out for an afternoon of diversionary shopping Dave, a commitment-avers...

$7.99

The Goddess Tour

Carolyn Gage

Cyberpress

0 Male 7 Female

It's a dark and stormy night at a remote inn on the Burren of Western Ireland, as six American women -- strangers to each other (or are they?) -- gather for a tour of ancient goddess sites A murder mystery ...

$7.99

The Stand In

Sky Vogel

Cyberpress

2 Male 1 Female

Betty, an up-and-coming film actress, is skilled, talented, driven But while rehearsing a pivotal scene in a romantic drama she hopes will propel her to the A-list, Betty finds herself more than a little ...

$7.99

Save the Pier!

James Harris

Cyberpress

Tear down the iconic Santa Monica Pier? Who would ever want to do that? In the early 1970s it almost happened when the City Council voted to demolish the Pier and replace it with a man-made resort island ...

$7.99