Plays by Nation - American Plays

Brotherhood

Douglas Turner Ward

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 2 Female

A liberal white couple, entertain a sophisticated black couple in their rather strange, sheet-shrouded living room The whites, filled with hypocrisy, and the blacks, concealing their contempt, put on a s...

$13

The Designated Mourner

Wallace Shawn

Dramatists Play Service

2 Male 1 Female

The Designated Mourner tells the story of three people; Howard, a poet, essayist and intellectual who comes from a privileged background but who nonetheless has been at odds for many decades with the righ...

$13

The Crimson Thread

Mary Hanes

Samuel French Inc

0 Male 6 Female

This lyrical three act drama is a story of love, loss and survival told through three generations of Irish sisters. The play spans the years from 1869 to 1911 Scenes shift from a poor farm in Ireland to the...

$10.99

Eleanor Sleeps Here

Michael John LaChiusa

Dramatists Play Service

0 Male 3 Female

The final piece of the Suite, the melodic Eleanor Sleeps Here, is a heart rending examination of the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok as they're being flown over Washington by Amel...

$13

The People vs Ranchman

Megan Terry

Samuel French Inc

$10.99

Class Dismissed

Craig J Nevius

Samuel French Inc

$10.99

Dear Ruth - A Comedy

Norman Krasna

Used Copy

First Printing - Random House 1944 - The Hyman & Hart production directed by Moss Hart - with d/j

$55

Brecht on Brecht

Bertolt Brecht - arranged by George Tabori et al

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 3 Female

Readings and enactments from the works of Brecht provide an unusual revue that earned critical acclaim Off Broadway The first half showcases Brecht's philosophical musings on such matters as book burning, ...

$10.99

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...

$10.99

Stephen Phillips Collected Plays

Stephen Phillips

Used Copy

Signed by the Author to Lady Martin Harvey - pub 1921

$49.99

A Cup of Coffee

Preston Sturges

Samuel French Inc

Set in the lower Manhattan offices of Baxter & Sons, a coffee company, this hilarious comedy focuses on an energetic young salesman who feels stifled by Baxter & Sons' lack of creativity Not till he wins a ...

$10.99

Karlaboy

Steven Peros

Samuel French Inc

6 Male 2 Female

Winner 1994 Drama-Logue Critics Award - Outstanding Achievement in Writing Biographer Bill Lauder has penned a ruthless tell-all about Karla Daven, a long dead legendary 1950s starlet As a result, he i...

$10.99

The Moon Away

Edward Crosby Wells

Cyberpress

3 Male 1 Female

Based on a true story, this powerful and intense drama takes place between September 1984 and April 1985 Joe, a photographer in southern New Mexico while grappling with his identity as a gay man, is sudde...

$7.99

Meet My Husbands

Fred Carmichael

Samuel French Inc

4 Male 5 Female

This comic look at advertising and the media finds Elaine Scott - an advertising executive whose position is in jeopardy - in Florida to meet the Mulgrews, European clients to whom she must sell her agency's...

$10.99

Shogun Macbeth

John R. Briggs

Samuel French Inc

This brilliant adaptation of Shakespeare's classic tragedy was produced by Pan Asian Rep in New York to great acclaim In 13th century Japan, General Macbeth is victorious in battle and awarded the title of ...

$10.99

A Few Stout Individuals

John Guare

Grove Press

This addresses ideas of history and memory, fame and ignominy, reason and insanity with the trademark Guare imagination In a Fifth Avenue brownstone in 1880s New York, Ulysses S. Grant is penniless, dying o...

$14.99

Sex Please We're Sixty!

Michael Parker & Susan Parker

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 4 Female

Fast-moving farce set in Mrs Stancliffe's Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast where her Guests - nearly all women - return year after year Her next door neighbor, the elderly, silver-tongued, "Bud the Stud" Davis ...

$10.99

The Swan Song - A Study in Terror

Mike Johnson

Samuel French Inc

3 Male 4 Female

A depraved tale of mystery, murder, magic, madness, and hideous revenge, The Swan Song details the events of a single day from early afternoon to midnight Olivia returns with her fiance to the creepy family...

$10.99

Finger Painting in a Murphy Bed

David L. Paterson

Samuel French Inc

2 Male 1 Female

Myra Smuldanski, a hardworking secretarial temp from Queens, has done the unconscionable in her brother Ludlow's opinion: she has accepted a date with a dashing young executive Not prone to dating because o...

$10.99

Plays and Playwrights 2006

Martin Denton - ed

New York Publications

This is the Seventh in this annual series of plays of emerging playwrights, offering the full scripts of twelve plays produced during the past season in New York City It also includes biographies of the...

$17